Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-05-28 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DOMESTIC DRAMA IN PARIS.  Details are at hand of a murder of the most dramatic and sensational character, affecting people in prominent positions in Paris. It appears that in January, 1889, Mdlle. Yvonne Delaporte, the daughter of M. Delaporte, a wellknown Paris solicitor, and niece both of M. Casimir and M. Pouyer QUertier, was married to M. Lassimonne, the son of Madame Lassimonne, the well-known ladies' outfitter, whose establishment is at the corner of the Boulevard de la Madeleine and the Rue Cambon. The young wife was beautiful and highly accomplished, and as she was influentially connected she succeeded in obtaining the position of Councillor of the Prefecture at Blois for her husband. The newly-married couple lived happily enough, and a little girl was born to them. N. Lassimonne, however, became of a jealous disposition, and as his wife seemed over-fond of admiration violent scenes took place constantly, ending with the departure of Madame Lassimonne and her little girl, Germaine, to a Dominican convit at Auteuil. Here she followed the light rule fixed for lady boarders, and receiv2d the visits of a friend, Madame Oahe Reymond, the daughter of M. Deflys, a retired Haiti merchant, and her husband M. Paul Reymond, a landed proprietor in one of the South American Republics. The husband frequently accompanied his wife to the convent parlour, and once or twice called alone. The nuns hinted that this could not be permitted, and the visits were dropped. By the regulations the lady boarders are allowed out twice a week, and on Saturday afternoon Madame Lassimonne left the convent for an apartment in the Rue du Rocher, which had been hired as a place of rendezvous by M. Paul Reymond. Suddenly a knock was heard at the door, and a voice imploringly said, "Paul, Paul, open the door. Yvonne's husband is coming here." Suspecting nothing M. Reymond opened the door, and found himself face to face with his wife, who urged him to escape, as M. Lassimonne was coming up by the servants' staircase. He had hardly reached the courtyard when he heard several reports. His wife rushed down the staircase with a revolver in her hand a moment afterwards, and asked to be arrested. An alarm was raised, and it was discovered that Madamo Yvonne Lassimonne had not only been shot, but repeatedly stabbed by the enraged wife. She was taken off to Dr. Pozzi's establishment, in the Rue d'Armaille, where she lingered till Sunday evening, and then died after receiving the last sacrament from one of the priests of St. Ferdinand des Ternes. After shooting her rival, Madame Reymond took a cab to Madame Lassimonne 's residence, where she arrived in a state of great agitation. "I have killed your daughter-in-law," she said, "because she made my husband unfaithful, and robbed me of his love." "You have done right," said Madame Lassimonne. They then drove round to Madame Reymond's mother in the Rue Tocqueville, and both ladies accompanied Madame Reymond to the police-station. In her narration of the tragedy Madame Reymond said, "I might not have killed her, but she smiled contemptuously at me, and I then fired distractedly, and stabbed her as she threw herself back half undressed upon the bed, trying to protect herself with the eider-down quilt. I was mad with jealous rage." Certain scratches and bruises on the body of the victim shew that a struggle took place. Since the sad tragedy N. Reymond has been absent. It appears that M. Reymond and his wife, who were married in romantic circumstances, did not live happily together.  Two hundred Soudanese were recently seized at Cairo and registered as being available for military service. This qestionable step was taken by the English authorities because there is a scarcity of recruits for black regiments. About 200 members of Parliament and officials accepted the invitation of the First Lord of the Admiralty, and proceeded to Portsmouth on Saturday to inspect the Arsenal. The party were first shewn over the Royal Sovereign, and the working of its huge guns and the modern appliances with which .this powerful ship is provided were watched with keen interest. The ships of the Fleet Reserve were afterwards visited, after which the party witnessed ; some torpedo operations.