EXTRAORDINARY MURDER CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10836, 20 August 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTRAORDINARY MURDER CASE.

A DRAMATIC SCENE AT ALGIERS iNm-SKLv dramatic (says a Paris correspondent) ,he case which has just been brought before the Algiers Assize Court, a business man m » very good position having been tnec for the murder of his sister undiverv mating circumstances. Mdlle.Lucie Hugues being an orphan, had lived for years with brother Ajo.phe, who married some time ago.. Considerably older than herself, he had paid great attention to her education, „d w thoroughly devoted to her. What was his horror to ascertain one day, fro some to neighbour,, that the sister of whom he ™ so proud was engaged in a lata, with a otoy, who also resided at Medeah and had a yife Mid several. children. At first M. called on hZ Lan P ? ducm e a revolv «- Am* °r u an of his coneluded wS n C k"i had J Scarcely ™- S3S§fß3s fvasrtruckbyherbrothe^d^tteHn 6 w, who, moreover ™t „<v •■, sister -mThe notary "Sucnrlf 16r S,l^en tesescom? ». U'w *i at once » and so overKsissiH^S revolverS XaW tt T«. If his left alone 2?!' B °nnet withdrew. Adolphe ovSS at€r * ft his lister, and D IS LV^\ l <" her majority/Si& he had attaine d ■ he became i SSSffIS? a '??.« his revolver hS * - ? at ' snatc % «P lias fust taken nlnn. X M ' lle tnal «*«* a word otvsF SSf? to after conducted thef pro'eciinl ° cat \ General ' who sured the SSS *#&& ceninstead of giving lid 3 e . ne l gh T bour8 < who, fgued.thaf theyfid wf,S J ' UC e ' as h ° her brother abouVheritei 6 ' had ,° ld a<» verdict of acquittal ■/* tml " resulted