DOULE SUICIDE IN PARIS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7410, 12 August 1895, Page 4

DOULE SUICIDE IN PARIS

The Standard's correspondent wired as follows on June 25th :— A most dramatic double euictde has been the subject of convoiaation in Parisian society to-day. It is that of M. Eugene Carrtf, the wellknown and highly-esteemed barrister, and hia wife. M. Carre" blew out his brains Ttith a revolver, and Madame Carre\ *n»tching the weapon from his hand , before he had fallen to the floor, followed his example. The tragical event took place in M. Carry's magnificent apart- - moot in the Faubourg St. Honore. M. Clemenceau, who was an intimate friend ■, 'of the family, says no attempt will be made to conceal the cause of the drama, but that the name of the lady who was its real author would never be disclosed. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon, M. Carrd had returned home from the Palais de Justice, and was working in his office when his wife entered, after receiving visitors. The last person with whom shu had conversed was a lady who : had remained till all the other visitors ' had left, on purpose to speak to her alone ," of a secret which concerned herself and Madame Carre". She said : — "Your £ husband has been my lover for the last three years. My husband has recently I.*" discovered the liaison, and was challenged [j your husband. The duel is to be fought .'" on Fridny. I come to warn you of it,, so r that you, on your side, may seek to prevent it, as I, l>y all possible means, am frying to do oo my side." Directly after

Madame. Carts' heard this she want into her husband's Office. After repeating to him what she had just been told, a violent quarrel arose between them. Suddenly M. Carre" exclaimed, " Then there is nothing left for us to do bub to kill ourselves." Madame Carre. — "No, nothing. Let us kill ourselves." Those words were overheard by M. Bonhoure, M. Carre's secretary, who was in an adjoining room. He at once came out to seek to prevent the catastrophe, and followed Madame Carre into her dressing-room, where she had already seized a bottle of poison. M. Bonhoure snatched it from her, but at the same moment he heard the report of a pistol in M. Carre's office. He and Madame Carre rushed in. M. Carre, deathly pale, stood erecfc with his revolver in his hand ; blood was, however, pouring from a bullet wound in his temple. Madame Carre, bending over her husband, who had fallen into his.secretary's arms, wailed piteously : " Come back ! come back ! I forgive you." While M. Bonhoure was trying to stop the bleeding with his handkerchief, Madame Carre seized the revolver, and, returning to her dressing-room, stood before the looking-glass. Thus taking deliberate aim, she shot herself through the head, and died instantaneously M. Carre died about an hour later. M. Cl&nenceau states that ho and M. Bernard Derosne were to have acted as M. Carry's seconds in the projected duel. M. Carre" had asked that it should be deferred till Friday, in order to enable him to put his affairs in order. M. Carre was 54 years of age, and his wife 44. His wife, who was passionately fond of her husband, was an intelligent woman of charming manners, who delighted all the numerous notabilities of the political, literary, dnd artistic worlds who frequented the brilliant soiries given by her husband and herself in their apartment, which was noted for its elegance. Their marriage, celebrated in 1885, was, rather romantic. M. Carre made the acquaintance of his future wife in the exercise of hi 3 profession. When the wife of M. Balitzer, a banker in Vienna, she came to M. Carre to ask him to plead for her in a divorce suit she had com* menced against her husband. M. Carre accepted the case, and obtained a decree of divorce againsb M. Balitzer. Shortly afterwards he married his client, with whom he had fallen desperately in love. Thoir position in Parisian society was an enviable one. They were nob only highly respected, but M. Carre had made a large fortune by his profession, and his wife had a considerable fortune of her own. The faot of M. Bonhoure acting as his secretary is an additional proof of the high position held byJM. Carre. M. Bonhoure was the secretary of M. de Lanessan during the whole time he was Governor General of Indo-China. The remains of M. and Madame Carre are to be buried in the same grave in a country village near Troyes, where they possessed an estate.