The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-19
LOVES TWO GIRLS;
ALSO SHOOTS THEM
Hotel EmpIOye Murders One
Maid and Seriously Wounds
the Other
THEN HE TRIES SUICIDE
Caught by Gendarmes and Taken
TO Hospital in Pitiable
Condition.

Paris. Nov 1S.-Truly shocking is
the crime which has been committed
at a hotel at Fontainbleau by a young
man who had been employed there
for about half a year to look after
the cellar. AS the landlord noticed
that he took advantage of his visits
TO the cellar TO sample its. contents
on his own account, and that he also
prosecuted the two servant maids
with his attentions, he told him on
Wednesday that he must leave in a
week.
In the small hours OF yesterday
morning the landlord and his wife
heard the report Of firearms resOund-
ing from the attic, and, on going up
stairs they found one of the maids
in the passage with her face fractured
and on proceeding further. they dis
covered her companion lying dead at
the door of her room. The landlord
went off TO the gendarmerie, and soon
several police officials were at the
hotel the tenants of which had risen
from their beds and We're in a state
OF utter CONSERVATION. The landlady
took the wounded girl to her own
chamber where she was examined by
doctor, who found that the lower
part Of her face had been fractured
by a bullet which had lodged in her
throat As for the other girl death
had been instantaneous, as she had
been struck IN the heart
Shoots the Maids.
The investigation which followed
led 10 the discovery that the cellar
man. who occupied a room adjoining
that of the two maids, had, about
midnight, gotten up and knocked at
their door and on receiving no reply
had broken a pane OF glass in the
door. Then, turning the key in the
lock inside, he had entered the room
and, without uttering a word, had
shot one of the maids through the
heart and then had fired on the other,
fracturing her face. Lying on the
floor was razor. which the miscreant
had brought with him TO use if his
revolver did not suffice for his pur-
pose. His own door was locked, so il
had To be broken in but, when the Of
flcials entered the room il proved to
be empty. As however. there We're
traces of blood about the chamber,
and as the man had cut his hand
when breaking the glass in the girls
door. it was evident that he had re-
turned To his room after committing
the horrible crime
The authorities having now arrived
at the hotel. twelve gendarmes were
posted around the block OF buildings
with which it was connected. it be-
ing believed that the man must have
clinbed onto the roof with a view 70
escaping, and presently a captain per
ceiVed a figure crouching close 70 a
chimney The captain fired two blank
shots as a warning, and Immediately
afterwards two reports resOunded
The miscreant had lodged a bullet in
his forehead. and he then fell from
that height onto a roof in the court
yard.
He was taken to the hospital in
pitiable condition and when he had
sufficiently recovered TO be questioned
by the authorities he said that he had
been in love with one of the maids
and had been unable to bear the
thought OF parting with her.
Later on, when he learned that the
girl was dead, and that il was i'm
possible to extract the bullet which
had lodged in the throat of her COM
panion. he burst into tears and cried.
Il must have been mad 1 loved
them both"
He had been through his term of
military service and had done some
work in Paris, where his mother is
settled, when he got the place at the
FOntainbleau hotel