SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY
MURDER IN FRENCH GOURT HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE BEFORE JUDGE’S EYES. SHE WOULD NOT RETURN. Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aii*”‘ai;au and N.Z. Cable Association (Received January 28, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, January 28 The “Daily Express” Paris correspondent reports a sensation in a city court. A policeman, sued for divorce and shot his wife dead before the eyes of a judge. After the wife had described her Bufferings, the husband admitted his faults. He added: “I. changed and promised to treat her kindly. 1 did not know before what it was to be lonely.” The judge asked: “Will you give him a chance, madame?” “No,” replied the woman, “I cannot live with him again.” She turned away, the husband put his hand into a pocket and drew a revolver. There was a flash, and the wife fell with a wound in the throat, Before he couhl be overpowered the husband fired two bullets into his own head and fell across his wife’s body. She is dead, but the husband is expected to recover.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11739, 29 January 1924, Page 7
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