A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 4853, 14 November 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

By an extraordinary fatality a woman residing at Paris has been stabbed to death by her lover at the very moment when a reconciliation was on the point of being clfected. The couple had lived together for 10 years, when the loss of two of their children led to some estrangement, which was aggravated by the jealous character of the man. He particularly resented the woman's innocent friendship with a youth whom she had known from childhood Driven to despair ty his ill-humour, she took their surviving children with her and went to live in a dwelling by herself. After a while her brother, who also resides in Paris, conceived the praiseworthy idea of reconciling the couple with a view to their marriage. Having ascertained that the man was not unwilling, ha took him |to hia sister’s abode. “You will dine { there,” he said, as they walked along together, “with Jeannie and the children. Y'ou will embrace each other like two lovers, and the past will be forgotten.” The brother had intended this visit as a surprise to his sister, so he had said nothing to her about it; but fate spoilt it all, and worse. The woman had gone out that afternoon with her sister-in-law, and they had met the youth, who is “doing ” his terra of service wth the colours, and happened to be on furlough. After a chat they invited him to join them at dinner. They were seating themselves at table when the brother appeared with the man who was to be reconciled to his sister, but who, jumping to the conclusion that the young soldier had taken his place, snatched up a knife and stabbed the young woman, who sank dead on the floor. Then he fled, carrying one of the little children with him, and nothing has been seen of him since.