Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1879 — A Parisian Tragedy. [ARTICLE]

A Parisian Tragedy.

Paris is constantly edified by domestic tragedies. One of the latest is thus recounted: Six months ago a newlymarried couple took up their residence on the fifth story in the Rue Condorcet. The husband, who was of Swiss origin, was employed in a bank. He was 26 years old, and of a sad, taciturn temperament. His wife, four years younger than himself, was, on the contrary, of a very gay disposition. The couple appeared to live happily together. On returning home one night the young man found his wife dead on the bed. A letter on the table announced that she was about to poison herself. Struck with horror and despair, he seized hold of a revolver which he kept in a drawer, and, after discharging four shots into his breast without fatal effect, fired the remaining two bullets into his head, the last scattering hjs brains over the room.