The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-01
From the Boston Times
A TRAGEDY IN FRANCE-MOST SINGU.
LAR DISCI OSJJRES

LAR DISCLOSURES.
An event has just occurred, says the Courier
des Etats Unis, in small town in the department
Of the Tarn which has struck the whole population
with horror, and carried mourning and desoation
into an amiable family. Mr.. -, who was mar
red, about three years since, to young and charm
ing wife, by whom he has two children, had become
jealous of one OF his most intimate friends. This
friend had, however he supposed, succeeded in
removing these suspicious from the mind of Mr..
-, partly by his strong expressions Of abhor-
renee of the baseness and reachery imputed TO him,
and partly by making him the confdant of his deep
attachment for young Creole lady, resident of
the town. Thus the clouds which had begun to
gather round the unhappy -- seemed to be dissi-
pated; and nothing announced the storm which was
to burst in blood and horror him, and all
within his sphere.
Mr.. - became suddenly again gloomy and
morose. His friends (and they were numerous,
from his many excellent gualities) perceived the
change with regret and anxiety. Some of them
begged him to make them the sharers of his griefs;
but his answers, at first evasve, soon became
threatening and strange to such degree, that they
began to suspect insanity, and communicated their
suspicious to the family. His wife, naturally
alarmed at these eccentrictes had already several
times proposed TO him to call in physician; but he
rejected these proposals. and he, in general so kind
afectonate, caressing, even repulsed his gem
tie companion with harshness At last this conduct
was carried so far that after consultation with her
father, the lady determined to send to Paris for a
celebrated physician; and the friend who had been
the first object of Mr.. IS jealousy, undertook the
mssions In the mean time, the poor young wife,
agaiL likely to become a mother, supported with
resignation those thousand understandable nothings,
which, combined, go to form such mass Of suffer-
ing for woman so loving, and heretofore 30 fondly
loved; and she waited, with -conceaed Impotence,
for the arrival of the doctor When she presumed
that the travellers must be near at hand she went,
two or three times day, to the woodman's hut,
situated in small wood at short distance from the
town, where it had been settled she was to meet
them--ncver suspecting that, by this innocent pro-
ceeding, she was fixing in her husbands mind the
most atrocous calumnies.
During all this time, Mr.. - was daily becoming
more reserved and gloomy, and had been heard to
utter words of dark and sinister import Suddenly
long cry of horror resounds through the town
crowds of people hurrying towards the
wood; every mouth is filled with the news of some
terrible event. 1t is said that Mr.. - had been
found gashed with wounds, and weltering in his
own blood, and that Of his wife and friend, whom
he had murdered IN paroxysm of madness, and
then committed suicide. The next day it became
public that, before expiring, Mr.. - had made the
following statement: that for month past, he had
oeen constantly receiving anonymous letters warn
ing him that his wife betrayed him; that at first he
attached no credit to them, but that having observed
the frequent resort Of his wife to the wood after the
departure OF his friend which he now began to be-
'.O'o suspicious returned, anu ne
determined TO watch herr and that at last, when he
saw this friend arrive at the rendezvous and rush
eagerly towards his wife, his rage knew no bounds
with single spring, he threw himself between them
and stabbed them both to the heart and afterwards
turned the dagger against himself. All this took
place in the sight of the strange physician, whose
cries alone saved from his rage his eldest child and
its nurse.
| He had scarcely finished this statement with a
falling voice, when young man, pale and horror
stricken, rushed into the room. He said but these
words: al mad with love for the young Creole
and, hoping to excite her jealousy, and thus cause
her to partake my unhappy passion, was base
enough to descend to the abject character of an
who listen TO me; and above all, you whom have
so fatally abused and may my death serve as an ex-