Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — A Tragedy of Paris. [ARTICLE]

A Tragedy of Paris.

The tragedy of an artist’s life had R melodramatic denouement in a Montmartre case in Paris recently. Some yean ago a pianist named Margay married a girl of great beauty against the advice of his friends. She deserted him and, though he constantly besought her to return, preferred a life of less restraint. Brooding over bis loss,Margay fell on evil days, and sank lower and lower, living in an attic and being sometimes arrested for drunkenness and vagabondage. The other night as he wandered aimlessly past the door of a case oh the Boulevard de Clichy he saw his wife eater with a man. Margay followed, clad in rags, and in spite of the waiters went to a piano which stood in the center of the room. Seating himself, with his eyes on hla wife, hb played <'funeral dirge and then -the “Dead March;” No one tried to stop him. A deep sob broke from him as he struck the final chord. He rose to his feet, staggered through the> room and at the door drove a dagger through his Heart.