The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-01
DESCRIBES HIS FEELINGS.

Paris Clerk Leaves Behind Remark
 able Letter After Killing His Wife
 and Himself.
 One of the most horrible murders that has been committed for con- siderable time was perpetrated recent ly at Pare Saint Maur near Paris when M Edouard Leroy, head clerk in La Peletier, killed his wife, nee Ma chefer.
 M and Mme Leroy sent their son Robert young man of about twenty years of age, to the opera When he came home, at about one o'clock in the morning, he found the corpse of Mme Leroy, clothed only in nightdress and covered with blanket, lying in a small porch near the house door The body had been stabbed several times with cobbler's awl and the throat had been cut from ear to ear Upstairs, lying on the bed, was the body of M Leroy, He had blown his brains out.
 Before killing himself NJ Leroy had written two letters. one to his son and one to the commissary of police.
 In the latter he described his sensa- tions while committing the murder. It is a strange piece of morbid psycholo- sy. The writer appears to regret his act once he has begun it. but is obiig- ed to put his victim out of pain. This Is the "document:'
 Tt is terrifying, stabbed once, first of all, she resisted and then took ref uge on her bed. In the struggle l had to stab her again to give her a death wound
 Thinking her. nearly dead, l remain ed near her bed, and she there asked my pardon; but she was not mortally wounded
 'I could not leave her like that. Sud denly she had strength enough to start up and rush out into the garden, cry ing, pardon, pardon!
 Then she opened the garden gate leading out to the river side, the gate not having been locked. But she had only strength enough to remain stand ing near the wall I made her come back into the garden. T then procured razor and was forced to cut her throat to end her martyrdom. And stiH she asked my pardon.
 Then she lay still She was dead, I was myself wounded in the struggle.
 What a terrible thing is murder I am still trembling at the horror of it. It is atrocious, fearful. I threw the weapon, which had been made hy Robert. into the Marne, as also the razor"
 It appears that NJ and Mime, Leroy had lived in a detached house, No. D Avenue du Nord, for some years past, and the neighbors say they did not agree very well.
 Mme. Leroy reproached her husband for his uncompanionahle character while he accused her of being too CO., quettsh, and looked with disfavor on her liking for bicycle riding.
 M. Leroy was 52 years old, and his wife 41 He had recently resigned his position in the Rente Fonciere on the pretext that he was tired out and did not wish to mork any more As d clerk he was always exact and consci- entious and had never incurred re- proach.
 It is said by the neighbors that M. Leroy had often threatened to kill his wife.
 The Petit Parisien says that another letter written by M. Leroy after the murder read as follows:
 q killed my wife to punish her for the long martyrdom which she has made me undergo for twenty years past. I kill myself through disgust of society and to escape from the too severe punishment that would certainly be inflicted upon me."-New York Her aid