Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-11-25 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HUSBAND'S CRIME.  A very dramatic case is now occupying the attention of the Assize Court of the Department of the Nord, France. The prisoner is a man of independent means, long resident at Roubaix, and 45 years of age. Nearly a quarter of a century ago Joseph Delarue married the woman of whose murder he stands accused. They had seven children, the eldest of whom is now 22, and until a comparatively recent date theirs was a very happy home. The husband, however, became possessed by the fixed idea that his wife was unfaithful to him, and latterly he would hardly allow her to stir out of the house. There were repeated and vi:-.Tent scenes of jealousy, during which he bade her reveal the names of the lovers, who existed only in his morbid imagination, and two months ago he brandished a razor before her, declaring that he would kill himself. For a brief time Delarue appeared to be reassured, but the old fit came on him again, and one day, after a vain attempt to induce his wife to bring some accusation against herself, he dragged her into an adjoining room. In this chamber, before x fable which he had covered with a black clo'h, and on which he had placed a large crucifix surrounded by 12 candles, he forced the poor woman on her knees, and again enjoined her to confess and to mk pardon for her guilt. She had nothing to confess. She was perfectly innocent, she repeated. "You swear it ?" inquired Delarue. "I do! " was the answer, and the husband was satisfied for a time that his suspicions were unfounded; but, yielding again to his morbid fancies, he betook himself to a fortune-teller for the purpose of ascertaining whether his wife hal spoken the truth. What the reply returned may have been has not transpired so far, but soon afterwards, seeing Ilia wife in conversation with a girl who lived next door, he imagined that she was sending a message through this person. That night he killed the poor woman as she lay asleep, and, rushing out of the house, he proceeded to the nearest police-station and gave himself up. The tragedy created a great sensation in the town, where Madame Delarue was much respected, and considerable interest is taken in the trial,there being especial curiosity regarding the answer returned by the fortune-teller to the question of the jealous husband. The prisoner's counsel intends to plead the theory of "suggestion" ii explanation of the crime with which he is charged.  A Catholic seminary at Madisor. Wisconsin, was discovered to be on fire early on Friday morning, In spite of all efforts, two pupils were missing, and were subsequently found to have been suffocated. while four others wero badly injured in making their escape.  The Chinese Ambassador at Berlin' who is also accredited to the Czar, has returned to St. Petersburg to resume the negotiations with regard to the Pamirs. It is doubtful, however, says the Berlin correspondent of the ..tandard, whether they will come to anything, as China is still resolved not to cede one square inch of territory that legally belongs to her. She is ready, at the IMMO ti/be, IS allow Russia the utmost freedom of notion in the rest of the Pamirs.