A FRENCH LOVERS’ QUARREL

New Zealand Mail, 8 February 1900, Page 16

A FRENCH LOVERS’ QUARREL

terrible reveugeon the RITJ Frejean, a musician (says the "Te graph's” Paris correspondent), lately;* vised horrible scheme for liming rever on a rival who had taken his wife.awi Nothing more awful is assuredly record in the annals of French husbands’id! retaliation. The man is said to bawp posely starved two big Danish dogs, 1 then he took them out and incited tli to- tear his rival to pieces. Such is t drama in brief, as reported front;:! suburbs, but the details are j 'Vi FULL OF HORRIBLE REMISHc Frejean had married a ) reify woman i acted in suburban theatres. SheJfUfj much admired, both on and olf therti that her. husband became rabidly jemot For a long time, jujeording*stce;4fP? Madame Frejean remained,.;.in- spijfj temptations, a.model wife, innocent as "Besdemona.” VvaffllSß last by the continued and unfounded s picions of the musician whom she ® married, the actress accepted the adorns of the walking gentleman in the il* ea S company to which sho belonged. this person, a young man of 27, .M® Bouchardy, she went fo live at LevalK Perret. Her husband ferreted the p* out after some time, and took a rebffl ®j posite their lodgings, in order to them, and to NURSE HIS PROJECT OF REVE® Having bought the dogs, he kept reals without food for a few days, an “V evening took them out just as n° nc “ was leaving his lodging with Modajmjjan on his arm. The musician set tu j loose and whispered them towsi® : actor, who was soon on the-growm I of the hungry animals sprang at and the other, when the unfortuiiais was down, gnawecl at his fac A s* y calmly lighted a cigarette and ing on with fiendish exultation the dogs tearing at the head of trate actor. The woman whose ow the cause of this monstrous and the dogs were still tearing # yj victim, having left his face when policemen came up iVj AND BEAT THEM with their swords. Bouchardy f is not expected to recover from injuries. Frejean exulted im and cynically told the police* .lojptj thoroughly satisfied with the Wf -y ;.,r| his clogs. . v • s

Petroleum-drinking is a ve Parisian habit. _ . • A water famine is begum itself felt at Tauranga (says , Plenty Times”), and people. more discussing the necessi sort of public supply, ideas Jwy'qjjgggf the full £12,000 scheme, down to a couple of and, storage tanks.