ATROCIOUS BRUTALITY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7066, 19 January 1891, Page 3

ATROCIOUS BRUTALITY.

At Clichy, one of the suburbs of Paris inhabited by working people, there has occurred a tragedy worthy of the worst imaginings of the r-cnsational novelist. A laundrcßß who had lived with a drayman left him on account of his brutality. She took her two children with her, and went to reside in a tenement hired for her by her mother. Thither the drayman dogged her and found her in bed early one morning, when he attacked her ferociously. The woman's cries attracted the attention of two female neighbours, who looked into the room but retired, thinking that the squabble between the laundress and the man was of the ordinary domestic kind. They had seen, nevertheless, the woman between her two children, struggling with her assailant. Later on another female neighbour, of a more courageous mould than the others, entered the room, and found the laundress on her knees, holding on by the handle of the door, and a knife sticking in her breast. When the weapon was taken out she sank inanimate on the floor. The police were sent for, and it was discovered that the woman was stabbed in the mouth and in the bosom, one of the thrusts being through the lung and nearly touching her heart. She was taken to the hospital, where no hopes were entertained of her recovery, and her aggressor was arrested.