The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-06-10 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DOCTOR MURDERED BY A MAD LADY.  AWFUL DISCOVERY AT AN HOTEL.  A young doctor, practising near Corbeil, eighteen miles from Paris, has been the victim of one of the most terrible acts of evidently maniacal vengeance ever perpetrated Late the other evening an elegantly-dressed lady, about twenty-two years old, entered an inn in the village of Crosnes, kept by a M. Preisach. She took a room in the plaoe, slept there the same night, and the next morning complained of being very ill. At her request it was decided to send for a doctor. The nearest physician was at Montgeron ; but she said that she did not want to be attended by a rural practitioner, and asked if a young doctor, M. de Plouzoles, a married man, had not lately arrived in the district. Having been told that such was the case, she desired that Dr. de Plouzoles should be called in. A messenger was accordingly despatched for the gentleman in question, who arrived at the inn about ten o'clock in the morning, and was shown up to the lady's room. The visit was so long that the landlord of the hostelry became uneasy. At the expiration of about an hour he went to the room, knocked at the door, and receiving no answer opened it. The sight that met his view temporarily unnerved him, and caused him to  RUSH DOWN STAIRS LIKE ONE BEWITCHED or overcome by a great calamity. On the floor lay the body of the young doctor, his throat showing a ghastly and gaping wound, which extended from ear to ear. Prei,Ach, in his hurry to get away from the horrible spectacle, did not see the lady, who was lying dead near the body I of M. de Plouzoles, her right temple pierced by a revolver bullet. Pulling himself together as soon as he descended to his bar and had had a stimulant, the landlord sent for the gendarmes of Villeneuve-Saint Georges, who visited the scene of the tragedy and .made the necessary investigations of the mystery. So far as is known at present, it appears that the lady was a Madam Delagrange, of Belgian origin, who was about to be divorced from her husband, and was recently living with one of her uncles, a landowner at Olianville, in the Department of the Seine et oiSe. Owing to mental excitement, brought on by her domestic troubles, she had been detained for a while in a private asylum at Ivry, a suburb of Paris, where she met Dr. de Plouzoles, who was then attached to the establishment, and fell madly in love with him. On her return to the house of her uncle at Chanville she SENT SEVERAL LOVE LETTERS TO TFLE DOCTOR, who never answered them. When she heard of M. de Plouzoles' marriage her frenzy exceeded all bounds, and her uncle accordingly resolved to send her to a quiet little place which he owned near Chartres. He accompanied her on Friday morning to the Versailles railway station, and it is supposed that she left the train after it had arrived at the first place of 1 stoppage, returned to Versailles, bought a revolver, and then went to Crcemes. A letter was found in one of the pockets of her dress which enabled the marerhal de 1091:8 of the gendarmes to find the clue of the terrible affair. The bodies remained in the inn for a day, and after the judicial enquiry that of the doctor was sent to his sorrowing widow, while the other was conveyed to the house of a relative, whence it will he taken to Belgium for burial. Doctor de Plouzoles was only thirty-two years old, and was' from Marseilles.