The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1892-05-28 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

ANOTHER MATRIMONIAL TRAGEDY IN FRANCE. --A JEALOUS WOMAN'S REVENGE.  A terrible tragedy resulting from jealousy was enacted in Paris on Saturday evening. Me.darne R., the wife of a gentleman well-known in Paris clubs, suspected her husband of infidelity in consequence of his intimacy with her friend, Madame L, the wife of a personage occupying a high administrative post in a department adjoining that of the Seine. Her suspicions reoeiving confirmation, Madame R. swore to be avenged, and on saturday evening she succeeded in surprising her husband and Madame L. at their rendezvuus, .11 an apartment in the Quirtier de l'Europe. Tat- injured wife immediately drew a revolver end fired five allots at her rival, inflicting wounds in the body and arm, from which Msdatne L. enticed a lee flours afterwards. Madame R. immediately et.ve herself up to the police, and is now detained in custody. Another correspondent says the wife'a name is Mdme. Claire Reytnond, and the person whom she shot Mdme. Yvonne LAssinionue. lie gives the following account of the affair :—An elegantlydressed ad dark•complexioued lady went to N. 35, Rue Roches, and quieby asked the coucierge whether a lady and gentleman were not in the firet floor petit appartemeht. she was told that they were. Going upstairs, site rang at the door. The gentleman, her husband, opened it, and cried, "What! You here! But, mind, don't make a scandal !" Passing by him, she made her way into an inner bedroom, and finding there a lady, discharged at her three balls from a revolver, mortally wounding her. It was all , done in a momellb. The lab where the murder took place is what is known in Paris as a gareonniiTe, and was hired and furnished by M. , Redmond unknown to his wife. Madame Lassimonne nee Delaporte, is the daughter of a barrister, , and wife of the Councillor of the Prefecture at Blois. She and Mdme. Redmond were brought up together. The latter in ISBB . married business man, and the other, a year later, H. Lassimonne, the famous couturiere, whom Princess Metternich and other grand ladies used not only to patronise but to treat as a friend. On the day of the murder Madame Reyinond went to visit Madame Laasbnonne. She seemed overjoyed, telling how she and IL Reymond had made up their quarrel, and that he had appointed to take her to the Salon and to lunch at a restaurant in the Champs-Elysks. A porter then called with a note from the husband to say that business obliged him to put off to another day the visit to the Salon. She at once suspected what the business was, went home, received the intimation from a friend about the gareonniere, found the letter and bills, and, only thinking of vengeance, went to shoot Madame Lassimontie, for whom her friendship had been enthusiastic. What particularly enraged Mdme. Reymond was, she says, that her husband 10 days previously had come to her to ask for money to pay a commercial debt. She at once gave him her most taluable jewellery to sell. It was with the mtmey he thus raised that he bought the furniture. It seems that after shooting her rival Madame Reymond took a oab 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 Lasaitnonne. They then drove round to Mhdame Raymond'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 riot have killed her, but she smiled con- , temptuously at me, and I then fired distractedly, . and stabbed her as she threw herself back half . undressed upon the bed, trying to protect herself I with the eider-down quilt. I was mad with jealous I rage." Certain scratches and bruises on the body of the victim show that a struggle took plasm. Since the sad tragedy M. Raymond has been absent. It appears that M. Reymond and his wife, who were married in romantic circumstances, did not live happily together. M. Lasehnoune, the husband of the victim, arrived in Paris the next morning. Their little girl, who is only 18 months old, has been given up to its grandmother. 1