A PARISIAN SENSATION

Waipawa Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 781, 26 May 1885, Page 4

A PARISIAN SENSATION

The Figaro and other papers published details of the following most sensational drama which they alleged has just occurred in Paris in the family of a wealthy and wellknown American residing near the Avenue du Bois de Bologne. The married couple lived most happily together for several years, but recently the husband discovered his wife guilty of clandestine relations with the gardener. Ten days later ho found in one of his wife’s dresses a letter from the gardener, containing tho following sentence: “ Poison your husband, and we will ilee together to New York, where we will live happily.” The husband said nothing. In silence ho awaited the moment for a terrible revenge. On February 22, as tho husband and wife placed, according to custom, two glasses • of sugar and water, one for herself and one for her husband, on tho dress-ing-table, near tho bed—the wife, as she had always done, putting the sugar iu the water. The husband, watched tho operations, betraying no unusual expression. Just as tho wife was about to drink the husband asked her to band him a silk handkerchief that was hanging on the back of a chair. As his wife turned to take the handkerchief her husband adoitlv reversed

the tray upon which were placed the two glasses, so the one intended for him stood in place of that intended for his wife. The husband and wife drank at the same moment. As the husband, after emptying his glass, calmly replaced it on the dressingtable, his wife fell to the floor shrieking in agony. She had swallowed the dose of strychnine* that she had with her own hands, prepared for her husband. The affair caused a great sensation. The wife is not dead vet, but is suffering terribly. An official inquiry is being instituted, and the husband and gardener are both under arrest.