The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14 00:00:00

DOUBLE MURDER BY A JEALOUS

LOVERI -
A man named *ei-sci;ne-idefias tried for murder
at Paris on Friday. He is a native of Vienna, and
has been for some time employed as a waiter in Paris.
A few years ago M. Leonard, a general broker,
bought a wine-shop in the Rue de la Tour, and placed
it under the management of his mistress, Madame
Genest, a young widow. She took Wegschneider into
her service as a sliopman, and between them not long
afterwards an improper intimacy sprang up. In
July last year the shop was sold, and Leonard and
Genest went to live 'together i the Rue cle Mar-
seille. Wegschneider remain-ed in tlio eiv „f the
purchaser of the shop. The departure of the widow,
however, irritated him very much, and he compelled
her by violent threats to continue to receive his visits.
She at length declined to have any further intercourse
with him. He then accused her of having stolen a
gold chain from him, and followed her in the street
with a revolver, threatening to shoot her. He also
attacked Leonard and assaulted him in a cafe. For
those offences he was tried in the police-court and
condemned to four months' imprisonment. On being
liberated on the first of May last he made a charge
against Madame Genest of having stolen his chain,
but there was no evidence, and it was dismissed. He
then spent almost his whole time in watching the
house in which Leonard and Genest lived. On the
27th of May, at six o'clock in the evening, the
latter resolved to go out, but the concierge warned
her that Wegschneider was watching outside.
At nine o'clock she, however, ventured into
the street in company with Leonard. They
were proceeding along the Rue de Marseille
when Wegschneider, who had been concealed in a
doorway, crept up behind them with a knife in his
hand. He stabbed Genest twice in the back, and she
Bank down at once, screaming out, "He has killed
me." Leonard turned round to strike the aggressor,
but before he had time to deal a blow he was stabbed
in the abdomen. Wegschneider ran off, but was
stopped resolutely by M. Collet, a concierge, who had
heard the screams of the wounded man and woman.
He received four fearful wounds in the breast. A
number of persons then rushed on the murderer, and
with great difficulty he was put into the hands of the
police. On the following night Leonard and Collet
died of their wounds. Genest has since recovered.
Wegschneider was condemned to imprisonment, with
bard labour. for life,

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