MATRIMONIAL DRAMA.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12682, 29 October 1909, Page 4

MATRIMONIAL DRAMA.

Too old at 50, runs the motive attributed to her husband by an unlucky wife in Paris, who had attained that age, for his desire to sever the nuptial bond. The man, who is 28, had put in an application for a divorce,' and, as is usual under these circumstances, the couple had been convoked by the magistrate who is seeing to the case, with a view to an attempt at reconciliation. The meeting, however, far from producing tho wisned for result, had a tragic eliding. Every effort at persuasion having proved ineffectual, the pair were leaving the office when the woman, in a frenzy of despair, whipped out a revolver and fired point blank at her faithless partner, wounding him in the arm. The man bolted down tbo staircase, while she was seized and led off to another office, that of the police commissary, who asked her what had induced her to behave in such a manner. Sobbing, she replied, "I married him before he started for his military service, ajid I never let him want for anything. Now he finds me too old. He wants to leave me and to obtain a divorce. I have avenged myself, and I do not regret what I have done." The bullet was extracted without difficulty at the infirmary at the prefecture, but the wife is detained at the depot, with leisure to ponder on the misfortune of being united to a man who is now little more than half her age.