Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1886-04-02 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

PARIS. i!re, connected with  oir(umstsnces and Iday night, in the Rue I. and quiet hotel, La . Croix de Geneve: winch is kept by a Madame Aker- ' L 1161211. In the evening a lady and gentleman of good appearance, who had often previously lodged in the house for short periods, arrived there from Fontainebleau, as they said, and asked for the set of rooms they habitually occupied. They had always passed for husband and wife, and the husband inscribed himself in the guests' book as a manufacturer, travelling on his own account. After they were shown to their apartments, Madame Akermanu herself weut to t ihe them candles, but as the door was fastened naide, she left them on the lobby table, and called eat to them to say that she had done so. Half an hour later Bhe returned, and found the candles where she left them, and as they were in a, strong draught and wasting, she knocked to apprise her lodgers of this fact. AS she was keockini she heard four reports, which rapidly followed each other, She rushed downstairs crying "Murder," and a waiter ran to a policestation hard by. The sergens-de-ville armed with loaded pistols, and a locksmith were sent for. When they got in they traversed the sitting-room without seeing any untoward sight, but in the bedroom the body of the mar; was lying on the floor, and his wife, sighing and groaning, was on a seat near the window. She was wounded in three places. Her companum was shot through the right temple; as the woman is wounded in the throat and chest she is unable to speak, and is too weak to write. She has jubt been able to scrawl, "Warn my husband," and "Can I be saved ?" When inquiries were made she was found to be the daughter of a M. Cadet, an exdeputy, and now Mayor of the Eleventh Arrondissement. He is a man of considerable means. She was married, it appeared, through the agency of a matchmaking Mead, as young French girls so often are, to aM. Renouf, an art decorator and manufacturer of artistic wall paper, who has a bustness house in the Faubourg St. German. The person with whom she was at La Croix de Geneve is a pharinaceutical eheiniat named Musset. Her relations with him were of old date, but nobody suspected them until about ten days ago, when, after a stormy altercation, M. Raouf turned his wife out of the house. But, as she had two children, she went back to look after them ; and she has since slept every night in their room. M. Musset made her acquaintance soon after he was married, and his wife gave birth to a child eight months ago. The poor woman learned of the tragedy from a reporter, who on hearing of it went to interview her.  An ingenious man is said to be making a fortune in the prohibition States of America by a very crafty sort of puinp. Worked by barmen, beer comes out; but should an officer of the law take a hand at the pump, the only poduct is water.  PORTLAND Inats of news and notices of forthcominr events for insertion in the Telegram will be received ky Mr. J. Royal, jeweller and silversmith, Fortunes Well; or by Mr. W. T. Wallis, The Library, Easton Communications should be sent not later than Wed nesday at 1:10013. Ma. Teraurr. painter, Easton, obtained the £lOO appropriation at the drawing in connection with the Portland Starr-Bowkett Building Society on March 24th.  A- Roast belonging to Mr. Jonathan Lano, of Fortune's-Well, died on the evening of March 24th. It was attached to a trap in which sat a man when it was seized with a fib, commenced to plunge, pitched out the man, turned the trap over, and died almost immediately.