The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-30
THE NEWS FROM ABROAD.
Public Sympathy for Nine. Hughes, the
Slayer of MOrin.
General WOlseley Calls for More Troops and
0ficers-GOrdOn's Dangerous Posi-
tion-General Foreign News.
THE FRENCH TRAGEDY.
Public Sympathy for Mime. Clovis Huguea
Eurtber Tnfansi6ed.

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Further Intensified.
PARIS, Nov. 29..-Public sympathy for Madame
Hugues, who shot her traducer day before yes.
terday, is intensified by the fact that both
Hughes and his wife devotedly nursed sufferers
from cholera during the prevalence of the epi-
demic at Marseilles. NJ. Paul De Cassagnac, ed.
itor of the LIE Paris, considers the lady heroine,
and urges that the entire press uphold her.
Hugues says his wife proposed to partake of
lovers breakfast" before going to court She
was in excellent spirits during the meal Before
leaving her home she prepared a bundle of
clothes for use during her stay i'll prison, She
has asked the prison authorities that che may be
provided with material for modelling in clay
Hugues. in an interview. expressed confidence
that his wife will be triumphantly acquitted by
the court. Nine. Hughes has a daily receipt on
at St Lazaire prison. Hundreds of cards from
members of all the political sections of Paris and
a large number of floral offerings are sent her
Her two young daughters are permitted TO visit
her. Hughes states that his wife kept him in
ignorance of the cause of the tragedy explaining
her absence from home by telling him she was
preparing bust for her salon. Public interest
in the affair overtops for the time even political
question.
The murder is a development of the Clovl.
Hughes Lenormand scandal. which was the
great excitement in Paris in 1883, and when NJ
and Nine Hugues figured as plaintiffs against
Nine Lenormand. M. Clovis Hughes acted
upon information received in a letter from the
Baron de la Pleize to the effect that Nine LIE
normand was procuring a private detective
named Vandal to obtain false evidence against
Nine. Hugues Vandal was the head of a pri.
vate detective agency and formerly chief of the
secret police. NJ Clovis Hughes had, with
loaded revolver, sought in vain to find Vandal
to kill him. He had made threatening speech
to an admiring crowd gathered around him.
There is no justice in France" roared the dep.
uty; Il know for certain that Nine Lenormand
has paid 20, 900 francs to obtain false witnesses
against My wife and are followed about
hourly by private inquiry agents but say here
once for ali, that if they overstep the bounds up
to which modern French law permits them TO
outrage family life, | will blow out the brains of
one of them" After fruitless search for Van
dal, Hugues returned home only to find that his
wife had also started out with q loaded revolver
to kill Nine. Lenornand, of whose calumnv she
had been made the object She failed in this
and then made the following statements After
having read the letter of Baron de la Pleize and
after my husband had gone out to shoot the de-
tive Nandal, took a revolver, loaded it. CON
ceaed it under my robe de visite and drove to
the residence of Nine Lenormand, determined
to kill her Having entered the apartment
walked straight to the bedroom of Mn Lenor-
maud. just as | was about to open the bed room
door, NJ Du Tillet came out of Nine Lenor-
mand's room and sprang between me and the
door. L then made an effort to throw NJ Du
Illlet aside and force myself into the bedroom.
a struggle euSueu, and made another attempt
TO force an entrance, but NJ Du Tillet was too
strong for me. The gendarmes arrived, and
gendarme sprang forward Taking off his hat
he invited me to accompany him to the commits
saire de police There | was courteously treated
and after having made my declaration was in.
formed that might return home
M. LenOrmand was Partisan advocate in
1875. He married fascinating and friskv
widow. The domestic felicity of the twain bare
ly outlived the honeymoon. Lerormand was
suspected of infdelity, and in July, 1888, Nine
Lenormand sought for preteXts which to nave
an action for legal separation She had recourse
to the detective agency already named and soon
all the mechanism of the renowned Tlicoche ct
Cacolet type was set in motion against the hus-
band Among the many victims whose domestic
hearths were assailed by these social vpers were
NJ. and Nine. Clovis Hugues. There was
brought 10 Nine. Leuormand an utterly truth
less story, of the incidents Of which was that
Nine Clovis Hughes, previous to her marriage
had been the mistress of NJ. Leuormand. The
scandalous report reached the ears of NJ Hughes.
Sober judgment prevailed, and a trial for
SANDER was instituted. In tho progress of the
case public sympathy was entirely on the side
Oh NJ and Nine Clovis Hugues NJ MORN,
man of very shady reputation iugged into
the case on Nine. Lenormands side He pro
puced what he asserted were proofs of young
ladys intimacy with NJ Lenormand in the shape
of letters, which were afterward proven TO he
forgeries. NJ. NORM, it is said was not aware at
the time that the young lady and the wife of the
Deputy Clovis Hughes one and the same
person. An action was then taken by NJ and
Nine Clovis HugueS against NJ. NORM for for
gerry. He found guilty of the charge ard
sentenced to two years Imprisonment He
managed, however, to carry the from court
to court, in the meantime roallirming the caum
MES.
Under these circumstances. Nine Hughes will
not be considered so much to blame in Paris in
her action, seeing that there was every chance
of NJ. Morin being able 10 eude punishment