A REVENGEFUL MOTHER-IN-LAW.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1690, 26 January 1888, Page 3

A REVENGEFUL MOTHER-IN-LAW.

Mothersin-law will always no doubt, continue to be the sport o£ the novelist, but it does not always happen that they are dangerous in real life. Ah exception, however, must, be made in the case of a Russian mother-in-law, Mdme, d’Elson, who has just endeavored to murder her son-in-law, a Paris painter. M. Favardt, the victim in question, was travelling in Italy, when he met Mdme. d’Elson and her daughters, one of whom, Mdlle. B6nedicte, he wooed and won. The marriage was not, however, a happy one; there was a divorce suit at Nice, and judgment was given in favor of the husband. An appeal was made at Aix, but rejected, and the ladies then went before the tribunal of Nimes to which the parties had been sent by the Court of Cassation. The husband had to appear at Nimes, and won his cause once more. This so enraged his mother-in-law that she armed herself with a big revolver and went to the hotel where M. Favardt was staying. “ I have a letter here from your wife,” said the irate lady to her son-in-law, and as he was reading it under a lamp she fired fomr shots at him from her pistol. One only of the bullets took effect. It hit the man in the jaw, but, although weakened by the loss of blood, M. Eavardt was able to seize and disarm the infuriated woman and to shut her up in a room before she 'could effect any more mischief.