The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-11
TRAGEDY OF A TELEPHONE
Husband Uses Wire to Force Wife's
Confession and then Shoots Her.
New York World.)

One of the most unusual and most
appalling real dramas of modern life
one of those dramas which prove that
the greatest, the strangest, the most
tragic of human tragedies are not de-
vised by authors of fiction, poets or
playwrights. but by the hand of fate
comes from Paris, telling of an Incl
dent in villa at Versailles.
NJ. Pierre Delancel, distinguished
engineer. 46 years of age. killed his
wife under circumstances which he
himself related in the Assize court.
Here are the very words of NJ. Delan-
eel used before the tribunal when Civ
ing his account of the drama:
-Four years ago l married Mile. Luz
Gle Giraldet She was then &c; I, AZ.
We were happy, very happy, until last
October. 1t was-I remember it only
too Well-On the 14th of October, at a
ball. that we were introduced to a NJ.
VialOt-Jean VialOt, sculptOr-young
and handsome, a man of about go with
a stalwart and muscular frame, known
as 'COurreau des occurs (masher of
hearts,. l had at once-I could not
explain why-the consciousness that
this man would ruin my life and hap
piness. He had a way of watching
Nine. Delancel-my. wife was a very
beautiful wOman-which was well nigh
unbearable. She seemed dazzled by the
sculptOr's handsome features, his WIN
ming ways and mellif1uous voice.
My wife and NJ. Vialot danced sew
eral times together. We left the louse
of our friends rather early and took a
train back to Versailles. In my COM
partment-we happened to be alone
my wife asked why l had taken her
away so abruptly from place where
she was enjoying herself. She leased
me about my dawning jealousy, and we
had a quarrel-the first serious quar-
rel
'As the days passed by, 1 noticed
serious changes in her attitude toward
me. My wife avoided me when she
could. was often late for meals,
dressed with renewed elegance and
care. and altered the style of her Golf
fure, all of a sudden. as if obeying
some order or yielding to a suggestion
She. who used to be so buoyant, care
less and optimistic, was now. quite
often, nervous, irritable. inconsequent
Il adOred my wife and ] suffered
deeply. A great black cloud had fallen
over my wife. The expression of nv
tenderness made my wife more nerv-
GUS or gloomy. and more than once she
gave headache, neuralgia or some sud-
den weakness as a pretext to retire to
pany. For the first time she encour-
aged my going to clubs or Joining nv
friends in Paris.
Il loved and trusted my wife. And
yet I felt as if she was slipping away
from me.
I'VE met the young sculptor on sew
eral occasions, and he called from time
to time. / could not find anything to
say against his presence in my house
or his behavior toward my wife
In January I heard strange rumors
about Lucie in connection with NJ. Via
lot. l was told-One always has friends
to give one that sort of information
that my wife had been seen in the Bots
de BoulOgne, in the Pare Monceau and
also in the park at Versailles, with the
sculptor. They were speaking in an
extremely friendly manner.
Il fatty refused TO believe these ac-
cusations and treated rather badly the
friends who made them. Surely nv
wife was loyal and faithful All the
same lived weeks and weeks of acute
misery. My wife was now happy, very
happy and bright, and seemed. as il
were, quite irresponsible. ! realize to-
day that in the early period of her ac-
quaintance with the artist she had
some hesitations and remorse, she was
worried by her conscience; hence, OBJ