TRAGIC END OF LOVE AFFAIR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 143, 9 August 1911, Page 3

TRAGIC END OF LOVE AFFAIR.

A taxi-cab was the scene of a tragedy in Paris, on June 20th, which caused terror and confusion at the very same hour in the Rue c!e Rivoli. People who were walking along suddenly beheld the door of the vehicle open, and a smartly dvessel young woman emerge therefrom in so precipitate a manner that she lost her la'a nee, and foil prone on ibe paveu,cut. A moment later, two reports of firearms resounded Irom Die taxicab, - ynd when the police misled •ip, they found a man reel brag; ut;

conscious, with a couple of fiu.T is i* bis body. As the wounded man was being conveyed to the Charite Hospital, hi.companion was taken to the- Hallos Police Station, where she said she was 27 years of ago, that Hie was an actress, her stage name being Madame Stylitc, and that ,tho man .who was of Peruvian origin, and worked for a publisher in Paris, bad irnvellod with her on several of her tours, but that ho had become .so frantically jealous and had ill-treated her to such' an extent, that three months ago she If ft him, and had sought refuge in England, where she had been playing in a theatre. A week ago she returned to Paris,'and was touched by a piteous letter, in which tho man hogged rei to grant him one last meeting. They met as ho suggested, :.ad, as he appeared very calm, she consented to

take a drive with him. They wore scarcely in the taxi-cab, uowever, ■when he implored her to 1 ve with him again, and on her firm refusal lie pulled out a revolver, exclaiming savagely: “Then die; it is ad year own fault!” She opened the door and slipped out somehow, re jo l ’• ig at her escape.