The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1886-04-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN PARIS.  A startling attempt to murder, connected with which there are mysterious circumstances and a suicide, were committed on Monday night, in the Rue de BAC, at the highly respectable and quiet hotel, La Croix de Geneve, which is kept by a Madame Akermann. In the evening a lady and gentleman of good appearance, who had often previously lodged in the house for short periods, arrived there from Fontainebleau, as they said, and asked for the set of rooms they habitually occupied. They had always passed for husband and wife, and the husband inscribed himself in the guests' book as a manufacturer, travelling on his own account. After they were shown to feleir apartments, Madame Akermann herself went to Ike them candles, but as the door was fastened aside, she left them on the lobby table, and called rat to them to say that she had done so. Half an hour later she returned, and found the candles , where she left them, and as they were in ft strong draught and wasting, she knocked to apprise her lodgers of this fact. As she was knocking shei heard four reports, which rapidly followed each other. She rushed downstairs crying "Murder," and a waiter ran to a policestation hard by. The sergens-de-ville armed with loaded pistols, and a locksmith were sent for. When they got in they traversed the sitting-room without seeing any untoward sight, but in the bedroom the body of the man was lying on the floor, and his wife, sighing and groaning, was on a seat near the window. She was wounded in three places. Her companie.n was idiot through the right temple; as the woman is wounded in the throat and chest she is unable to speak, and is too weak to write. She has just been able to scrawl, "Warn my husband," and "Can I be saved ?" When inquiries were made she was found to be the daughter of a M. Cadet, an exdeputy, and now Mayor of the Eleventh Arrondissement. He is a man of considerable means. She was married, it appeared, through the agency of a matchmaking friend, as young French girls so often are, to a M. Renouf, an art decorator and manufacturer of artistic wall paper, who has a business house in the Faubourg St. German. The person with whom she was at La Croix de Getibve is a pharmaceutical chemist named Musset. Her relations with him were of old date, but nobody suspected them until about lien days ago, when, after a stormy altercation, M. Renouf turned his wife out of the house. But, as she had two children, she went back to look after them ; and she has since slept every night in their room. M. Musset made her aoquaintance soon after he was married, and his wife gave birth to a child eight months ago. The poor woman learned of the tragedy fr.orn a reporter, who on hearing of it went to interview her.  An ingenious man is said to be making a fortune in the prohibition States of America by a very crafty sort of pump. Worked by barmen, beer comes out; but should an officer of the law take a hand at the purap, the only moduct is water.  PORTLAND */- Rims of news and notices of forthcorninc events for insertion in the Telegram will be received by Mr. J. Royal, jeweller and silversmith, Fortunes ell; or by Mr. W. T. Wallis, The Library, Easton rmmunications should be sent not later than Wed :medal, at noon. MR. TALI3O7, painter, Easton, obtained the £lOO appropriation at the drawing in connection with the Portland Starr-Bowkett Building Society on March 24th.  A 1.1012516 belonging to Mr. Jonathan Lano, of Fortune's-Well, died on the evening of March 24th. It was attached to a trap in which sat a man when it wax seized with a fit, commenced to plunge, pitched out the man, turned the trap over, and died almost immediately.