The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-09-14 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MURDEROUS AFFRAYS IN PARIS.  Madame van Romeo, wife of a tradesman in the Rue du Temple, fired six revolver shots at a man named Bourchanain in her shop last week and wounded him severely. According to the Paris correspondent of the Telegraph, the Van Rossens keep a cardboard manufactory, and Blurchanain was their principal hand. While M van !lessen was absent, before the early breakfast hour, his wife, with a revolver in her hand, went into the shop,where her emplay,i was at work with a young apprentice. Stealthily approaching Bourchanain, Madame van Rossen fired straight at him, wounding him near the right eye. The man fell off his seat, and while he was on the ground she discharged the remaining shots at him, hitting him in the jaw, shoulder, breast, and side. Madam,: van Rossen, alter having finished her murderous work, withdrew quietly to her room, where she waited until the arrival of the police. In her first statement to the commissary of the district she said that she had thought of shooting Bourchanain several days ago, as she was determined to get rid of him. He was an Anarchist, she added, and hated her so much that he inflicted a wound on her forehead last Saturday. Bourchanain, although in a weak condition tram his wounds, made a statement in the hospital to the effect that lie and Madame van Rossen had been very intimate for several months past, and that alio was jealous of him as he refused to break with his wife and family for lisr sake. From the same source it is understood that twn murderous affrays, in which about SD persons are implicated, have taken place in the bormigh of Clichy, outside Paris. The quarrels were begun by a Madame Reuoux, who, meeting her daught-r's suitor in the street, accused him of bad intentions. and clapped his face. The man—remembering, no doubt, that discretion was the better part of valour —took to his heels with a celerity which would have enabled him to gain a price easily in athletic sports. Some of his friends, however, hearing of the attack made upon him in public by the irate Dame Renoux, resolved to take his part. Madame Renoux's friends, on the other band, formed themselves in line of battle, and a desperate engagement was fought, in the course of which a man employed by the Western of France Railway Company was severely wounded. Later on a new encounter of a more formidable character took place. M. Henri, a friend of Madame Renoux, was threatened with instantaneous death by the partisans of the aspirant to the hand of Mdlle, Renoux. Henri's eon ran to the rescue of his father, and dealt one of the opposite faction a terrible blow on the skull with a knuckle-duster. The foes of the Renoux family then rallied en mer Ase, and delivered a combined attack on Henri's shop, which was pillaged from top to bottom. Another railway - man was grievously injured in the course of the affray, and Henri, senior, fell to the ground with four revolver bullets in various parts of his body. He was removed to the Beaujon Hospital in a dying condition. The railway-man was conveyed home. Two of the prominent ringleaders in the affrsys have been locked up, and the local commissary of police has commenced an investigation, which ill lead to the arrests of the other persons connected with this veritable faction fight or family feud.