The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-30 00:00:00

EXTB.LORDLNLEY TILtGEDY IN PLEIS

murder, of an essentially Parisian chancier, tee
taken plies In the students' quarter of the gay city. An
Inland husband, Count Anthony Dubourg, trued hia
wife sad her paramour to a house In the Rue des &soles,
and fouled them together In an attic; the man escaped
through • window to • roof, and the busbend, turning
his fury ea his wffe,stabbed her Eve times with &sword
stiek, lilt bee weltering in her blood, locked her In,
took the key with him, and drove away. The follow•
bog sesouat of the tragedy is given by the Paris corres-
pondent of • oontemporury :—About four o'clock In the
afternoon of April 23, a woman with dishevelled heir
and disordered dress appeared at the sixth Boor window
of 1::.11.1,tue des Kaolin, and cried "Help, help I I
am ted r Two firemen who were in a wine.
shop opposite immediately snatched up their sabres and
rushed into the house, calling on the concierge to
follow them. On arriving at the door of tho room
where the mime had been committed, it was found to
be locked within were to be heard Wiled ories of
"Open • lain dying !" but it was in vain that the fire.
men triad to break open the ponderous door, and the
cournerge had to demand for an Instrument to form
the loot. When the chamber was at last entered, a
pretty young woman about 22 years of age war found
lying in a pool of blood; ate was groaning for help Lod
owes "Re has killed me l' The unfortunate worrier
was foamed to the hospital of La Pitie withort
toes of time, and it was found she bad re-
ceived three wounds In the breast and onin e
the thigh with a cane-sword, which wa, found
lying on the floor beside the victim. The assaniu Is
Count Dabourg, who, having (Resented that his wife
entertained criminal relations with • medical stederit,
M. Premeds' drove up to the elate of meeting, and,
finding the guilty couple together, rue his wife through.
The medical student appears to have made good his
snaps by a skylight. The count, after the deed, shut
the dace, and, going downstairs, jumped tato hi, serape
and drove away, sa he soy., to fetch a madman for his
wife. In the evening he gave Ininself up as • prisoner.
M. Dubow.' stated to the examining magistrate that
he did not intend to kill Ida wife; It was only when he
saw her before him, half-naked, and as though about to
go to bed, that he was seized with ungovernable anger
and indignation. He struck his wife repeatedly, he
said, without knowing what he was doing. The mime
aacerapjghod, be remained for half an boor .1.
ball-mad, sad for la con,iderable time ran about the
streets like a tensile. It was wail that the °onetime,
who had only boon married • couple of tears, was
violently is love at the time with • young man whom
she wee en the point of espousing, bat her parents
suddenly broke off the mateh and gave her to the emit.
A short time ago the countess mother former admirer
in Paris, her plosion revived, she bosoms his relatreu,
and the guilty pair used to meet in the Rae des Ea
Madame Dubourg died at midnight on Friday. To post-
mortem ..x•mination showed that the molt 1 wounda
were inflict-4 not with a sword-otne, but with a Cat ilea
dagger. N. de Prtoorbin, who hai voluntarily given
himself up to the police, will soon be diasharged.
Madams Deibourg's funeral took place on Saturday.
A crowd had gathered. The softie wee of the plainest
kind, and the hearse devoid of trappings. Crowda of
well-dremed psoele have bees for the last few days
sjto seethe window wham De Presorban took his
oas le&P. It Is senated Madame Dubow' met
this wittier foe the first time at • wired in Parte.
H.lsstallflnelookisgm.a. He was la the tax-odic*
at the Hotel de %Ws,. where he rescind • salary of
fee, than, £lOO • sterling. Dubow; la • velar mut-
ewe& man, addieted to striped ablate, sporting buttons
groom's trousers, heavy watch-chains, and wide-swidu;
Eat& He Is a 'boa thiciireet fellow, with bushy busk
bout low foreheed, and the empurpled tionmiatioa so
somata is tte neighbourhood of Tours. is wee not
mewed I. Paris, but was to have retired to to VendOses
Is Skies peeks' time. It appean that Madam.
Daboug, In tattoo up with De Prtoorben, wasted to
&Weep the bested usage she habitually received from
ker keleand, nod the nay sappers whit* he pee ho
Yew calapaakes Is eaposidre rallassaals,