St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-14
A LATE PARIS SENSATION.
The Proprietor of the Magasins
du Louvre Shoots His Wife.

The Proprietor of the Magasins
du Louvre Shoots His Wife.
Paris Dispatch to London Telegraph.
Paris is still agitated about the drama
in which M. Heriot, principal proprie-
tor of the Grands Magasins due Louvre,
and his wife were the actors. Never
theless, the greatest mystery en-
velops the affair. 1t Is now, however,
certain that Nine. HeriOt was really
wounded. but not severely, by her hus-
band, who, it is alleged, had been show
ing signs of mental arrangement for
some time. M. Heriot came unexpect-
edly, owing to the sudden death of his
brother, into magnificent property and
responsible position. Before that
event he had been retired officer on
half-pay, but the bound from comparative
poverty to Overfowing oppulence did
not seem to have changed his habits or
MS character. For several years past he
carefully superintendent the business at
the big Louvre shops. The work
or control and organization suited
his military tastes, and after his
labors at the Louvre he usually
retired to his town house in the Rue
Euler, or to his suburban seat at LIE
Vesinet, where he received his friends
with the greatest hospitality. Latterly,
however, M. HeriOt had notably altered
In manner and appearance. He be-
came morOse, tacitErn and avoided
society. He enlarged his place at
LIE VeSinet on colossal scale. He
his grounds and had marble stables for
his horses. Then he began to give up
his daily routine of work at the Louvre
until the directors and shareholders re-
placed him by some one else. For some
months the commandment slipped out
of peoples minds, until yesterday,
when the news of the tragedy
was circulated diligently through
cut the city. According to M. Honore,
who directs the electric lighting and the
engineering in the Grands-Magasins
the domestic drama occurred at La BOis-
siere, where NJ. Heriot has another villa.
The commandment went into his wife'S
room at o'clock on Monday morning,
talking loudly to himself and gesticu-
lating. He carried a revolver i'll his
hand and fired one shot from it at Nine.
HeriOt who was asleep, and three shots
before him at random. Nine. Heriot.
who was only grazed, was able to get
out of bed and run away. M. HeriOt
then turned the weapon against himself
and inflicted a slight flesh wound under
his left breast, having evidently intend
ed to shoot himself through the heart.
This statement is borne out by NJ. ROS-
seau, the brother-in-law of Nine. Her
lot, who is one of the principal direct
Ors of the Louvre shops. Some of the
newspapers, however, still persist in
spreading rumOrS as to the serious con-
ditiOn of Nine. Herliot. Gen. BOu-
LANCER. who is the bosom friend of M.
Herliot, left for the villa of La BOissiere
yesterday on hearing of the tragic oc-
currence Which has caused so much SEN
sation i'll Paris for the past two days.
villa at La Boissiere, and, according to
kilograms received here tonight, he is
in state of intense cerebral excite
ment, which will probably result in in
sanity. He is continually calling for
pen, ink and paper, and has to be
watched closely by attendants.
Nine. Heriot is to be interrogated
by the prOcureur de la repub-
lique tonight as to the melancholy cir
cumstances, which have already been
detailed. 1t is again stated that Nine.
Heriot was in Paris yesterday and that
she had not been in any way injured.
Nevertheless, she escaped by
miracle, and it is reported that
ucI HuSDdllu ldu lItQutllly GHTedC-
ened of late to blow out her
brains and those of her Children. M.
Heriot was sometimes in the habit of
jumping out of bed when asleep and
crying out that 'the ghost of his first
wife" was in his room. The sense of
being haunted made more impression
Oh him than anything else, and he used
to say, when talking of the apparition,
in which he firmly believed, even in
his lucid moments, that things would
turn out badly with him, and that he
would do something terrible. The
present Nine. Heriot lived with her hus-
band some time as chere Annie, and her
children were born out of wedlock. Her
marriage, which took place last year,
caused much jealousy among her
former companions at the Louvre shops,
and it is stated that she had the i'm
prudence to keep in her possession
some letters which she had received
from a former lover. These epistles
were discovered by her husband, and
this, it is said by the gossipers led to
the scene on Monday.