A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8004, 24 October 1887, Page 3

A PARISIAN TRAGEDY.

A VERY exciting drama was enacted at house in Rue Haxo, Paris. Its occupant, a wealthy manufacturer, had married his daughter to the son of a large landowner, living in the Rue de Tournelles. He bad great difficulty in inducing the girl to consent to the match, for the reason that, unknown to her father, she had for two j ears been enrrying on a desperate flirtation with his cashier. Nor did the matriage put an end to the intrigue. On the afternoon after the wedding the bride met her lover, and afterwards almost daily accompanied him to a small hotel in the Rue de Belleville. The lady always declared that she had merely gone out to see her father, but on Monday something in her manner led her husband to entertain suspicions as to her conduct, and on Tuesday afternoon when she left him he followed her. She proceeded to her father's bouse, and finding that he was not at home, she went into the office, where the cashier wos sitting alone. Soon afterwards the husband entered the room, and seeing that bis worst fears were confirmed, produced a revolver, and fired on his wife's lover, inflicting a severe wound in the nape cf the neck. He then took to flight, ard, returning to his own house, hanged himself in his bedroom. He was, however, cut down era life was extinct, and although he is still in a critical state, his recovery Beems probable. - As for the cashier, he is hovering between life and death.