The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1891-08-29 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

HUSBAND POISONING ON THE CONTINENT.  A Paris correspondent, telegraphing on Tuesday night, says an alleged barbarous attempt to murder a husband by pouring molten lead into his ear has come to light this evening. The victim is a vintner aged 30, named Lombard. Five years ago when he made the acquaintance of his wife he was a coachman, and she was then living with her adopted father, Frangois Bornet, who is well-to-do, and agreed to give his adopted daughter £7OO to set her and Lombard up in business. Bornet followed them to Paris, where they had set np a wine shop and restaurant. Later criminal intimacy sprang up between him and Madame Lombard. Two years ago Lombard fell ill, and the doctor said he had taken arsenic or had been dosed with it. He suspected his wife, but would not denounce her. All he did was to prepare his own food, and by doing this he recovered. It is alleged that this did not suit Bornet and Mdme. Lombard, and that the latter determined on a more expeditious way of getting rid of him. On the night of the 16th inst. Lombard went to bed early, leaving his wife and Bornet to attend to the shop and eatingI bone's. , fie was awakened by a fearful pain in the right e and rolled screaming in agony on the ha wife was standing near with a pannikin lit hell beast, and sharply asked him whether he was mad. She then left the room locking the door behind her. Lombard fainted several times during the night, but next morning he went downstairs to attend to his business and continued to do so for four days. The pain getting unbearable' however, he consulted a chemist, who told him that his ear was frightfully burned inside, and that he must go to a doctor. After a difficult and delicate operation the latter extracted a piece of lead the Ale of a pistol bullet from the ear, and Lombard then understood what his wife had in the pannikin on the night of the 16th. It was only last night, however, that he resolved to denounce his wife, and that because one of his waiters found her with the pannikin again at work over a spirit-lamp, and Olvter teaspoon being melted in it. The waiter *id that if Lombard did not denounce his wife he should, and induced him under the presence of this threat to go to the Commisaaire de Police of Gros-Gaillou. Bornet and the woman Lombard, after the doctor and chemist had been examined, were taken into custody. Lombard this evening strove to get them released on the condition that the wife was never to ask to see him or their only child. He was told that justice must now take its course. Madame Lombard is fairly well educated and a belle in her neighbourhood. Bornet is a tall, fine-looking man, and was asked a short time ago to pose as a model of Moses striking the rock in the desert, Madame ' Lombard figuring as Miriam in the same picture. A Vienna correspondent telegraphs :—At Szent Tanis; in Hungary, a mere chance has led to the- discovery of quite a series of poisoning oases, and four women have been arrested, while it is probable more captures will follow. A widow named Pivninski entertained relations with one Legyenski, whose little boy secretly hated her. Some days itgo the child was alone in the woman's house and improved the occasion by searching all her cupboards in the hope of finding something to eat. He found instead boxes and bottles labelled " poison " and carried them to the police. The house was searched and quite a collection of poisons arsenic among them, was found. A:Missing arrested the woman Pivnineki confessed to having sold poison to the married women of her acquaintance, who wished to rid themselves of their husbands. On being examined she named all those to whom she remembered having sold poison, among whom are women of good position in the 'clattrict. In Szent Tames, where the woman lived, three bodies were exhumed, and proof was found that the persons buried had been poisoned. A large number of bodies are to be exhumed without delay in neighbouring towns.