The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-04-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FRENCH ROMANCE IN REAL  LIFE.  The sensation caused at Paris by the trial of Nfd Biere for attempting to shoot her lover has barely begin!: to subside before another case, equally extraordinary, but far more painful, is on the point of coming before the Paris Assizes. The origin of the story dates as far back as the summer of 1869. In that year a young man named Alfred Gilbert fell in love with a young girl of the name of Gabrielle Goren. They both belonged to poor families, and both lived in the neighbourhood of the Palais Royal. After courting in secret for some months, the young man demanded the hand of his sweetheart, but her father, who was an ardent Bonapartist, and occupied a stall in one of the public offices, refused his consent, on the ground of the Republican lopinions held by Gilbert. The young couple , then rrsolved to run away together, and one night the girl disappeared from home. After a week's *carob the father found them living together in &suburban retreat. On the promise of forgiveness and consent to their marriage the girl returned home to her parents, bat the father declined to keep his word, and began to look out for another son-in-law. Driven to despair, Gabrielle Coran again eloped with her lover, and the two determined to commit suicide. For this purpose they hired a room in a small inn at Plessis Piquet. The youny man bought a revolver, and the young woman a packet of lucifers matches. Gabrielle Coran first of all tried to poison herself with a decoction of the matches. This failing, she told her lover to fire a bullet into her heart. Alfred Gilbert fired, and without ws.iting to see the effect of the shot, discharged a second bullet into his own head. Neither wound was, !however, fatal. Both were I taken to the hospital, where they remained , two months. The bullet in the girl's body was extracted, but the other bullet still remained in the skull of the young man, where 'it has ever since been. Gilbert was about to be tried for attempting to about his mistress, when the war broke out and put a stop t 3 the sitting of the Assizes. As the Germans marched into Paris and the siege became imminent, the authorities, wanting all the able-bodied men possible to, defend the city, consented to let him out of prison, for the moment, on the condition of his enrolling himself in some active corps, and promising not t) ii-ek after Gabrielle Corso. He joined the sharp- •  shooters of the Teruel, •Quartier, and di-s-tinguiehed himself so much in the Buzenval sortie that he was mentioned on the military ,order of the day. The war over and peace proclaimed, he returned to the hands of justice to undergo his trial, but once more fate stepped in and postponed it. The Commune arose, and all the public powers having withdrawn to Versailles, the city I was left in the hands of the insurrectionists, who opened the prison doors and enrolled the inmates, among them Alfred Gilbert. The young man does not appear to have taken a emspicuous part in the insurrection. However, he was tried by court-martial in 1871, and sentenced to transportation to New Caledonia, where he remained till a few months ago, when he was amnestied. lle.has jubt arrived in Paris, and given himself up to the legal authorities to go through his trial for the 'acted he committed at Plessis Piquet ten years ago. But the painful part of the story remains to be told. Caron is now the wife of a well-to-do merchant, with several children, highly respected, and of irreproachable character. Forgetting the folly of her tender years, and believing Gilbert dead and burt.ed, she married, and kept the tragic) love-drama of 1870 a secret from her husband. The sad consequences f this unexpected resurrection of the young men can be more easily conceived than described, and everybody is looking forward to the trial to see what will I be the result of it.