WHAT SOME FRENCHWOMEN SUFFER.
Why Frenchwomen rush headlong into matrimony, when they are so ill-protected (writes the ' Telegraph's' Paris correspondent), must be a mystery to many calm onlookers, as they start with all' the odds against them, often, moreover, putting down a round sum of money for the honor and glory of hearing themselves styled " Madame." Now, from the environs of Paris comes a ghastly story of the torture to which a young wife of twenty has been subjected by her husband, who, unjustly suspecting her of infidelity, bound her hand and foot, gagged her, and then injected sulphuric acid into her skin, coolly telling her that if she lodged any complaint against him he would blow out her brains. It is added that the man has been arrested at the denunciation of his mother-in-law, and that his wife is at the hospital in a very precarious condition. This^ happened it is said, some weeks ago, i but the' case was kept quiet by the authorities through the fear. that, other husbands might adopt 'this, partidb.hr mode of torturing their unlucky spouses. ■ *
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Colonist, Volume XLIV, Issue 10137, 27 June 1901, Page 4
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182WHAT SOME FRENCHWOMEN SUFFER. Colonist, Volume XLIV, Issue 10137, 27 June 1901, Page 4
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