Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-08-18
A Fresh cincinnnti Trnrodr.

Cincinnati has been unusually free from
"terrible tragedies in real life" of late, but the
Gazette of the 18th records one in which a
man shoots his wife in the public street and
attempts suicide. Thomes Eugene De Marbais
a young man who has been engaged in the
negro minstrelsy business, had a wife named
Blanche, supposed TO be French, living in a
house of assgnation, whom he married when
aware of her abandoned life From his papers
and from his declarations to the Coroner, il
appears that he had five times attemI ted to
kill both himself and his wife The Gazette
says
The following note on him, shows his desire
TO see her last evening:
"Send me word by the boy. May | come and
see you await answer on the corner.
cannot exist without seeing you. Let me
eome-must see you very soon. Oh, Blanche
Blanche Blanche Blanche | am very re
pentant. Come !" come l cannot live with.
out seeing you.
We can't say whether he sent a duplicate of
it. About II O'Clock last night he called at the
house on Plum street and desired TO see her
She was up stairs IN bed She came down to
see him and he told her he wanted to walk out
with her, and said he, " / am going to kill you -
She said she wasn't afraid, and they went out
Tue next known of them, the Reserve Corps
of Policemen in the Ninth Street Station House
were startled by two pistol reports at the cor
ner of Plum and Eighth streets
They Immediately ran to the corner. and
there saw De Marbas and Blanche at the door
of Brookfeld's Marble yard Blanche was sit
ting up quietly, while be was stretched at full
length upon the pavement, apparently dead
Mr. William De Beck of the County Audi
tors Office, who accompanied the police, caught
a young man by the shoulder saying I've
got you, SIR De Marblis spoke up: "There
Is no one to blame but me. did it," Police
man McGraw went to Blanche and assisted
her to rise. She said Il came out of the
house TO die " Then she exclaimed in agony,
Oh my daughtcrl Oh my daughter Mr..
McGraw asked her where her daughter wos --
She said she was with the Marsh Troupe, and
upon being removed, rs she was forthwith, to
to the Ninth Street Station House, she took of
a splendid jet cross, tipped with gold, kissed it,
and desired 1t to be sent to her daughter Adele
Upon examining them at the Station House.
twas found that she was shot in the left breast
just above the nipple, and that he was shot in
the right ear The policeman took from him
two three inch pocket pistols, of Aliens patent,
which he said he had purchased yesterday
morning and loaded for this express purpose.
As he was lying in the Station House Doc
tor Carey informed him of the probability of
his recovery. He said, " If ! live | want you
to hang me for this damnable deed-for shoot.
ing the wife love SO we'll
They were removed to the Hospital, where
he said that before they came out of the house
they had taken 30 grains of Morphine divided
it into two portions, dissolved it in water, and
drank it,
7. S.-At halfpast two o'clock this morning
the physicians thought it possible Blanche
might recover but had no hopes that De Mar
bais would