The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-09-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

REIGN OF CRINIF:. FRENCH MURDERS AN!) :41(11E3.  Dom Ali,. dramas succeed one anotle.r with ma,- I vellous rapidity in the feverish world of Paris. A 1 1 day or two ago a youw.: farmer Paired blutril, whilo re:Awning lionie in his ca • t to che y in the Depar',.., . went ef the Venn.', saw two pera.ris—a man and a , womaii—l)iug as it asleep in a corner cdf the high I road. A the rani was faint); heavily at the time, 1 Duteil, surprised at what he imagined to be the I , , carelesness of the pair, jumped out of his cart and i ; went to wake them up. On closer examination, I , says the it ,ily feofroph ratio eorrespondt•nt, he ,I,IW that 1110 two pers ,ne were all but dead. The ' man was in his shirt sleeves aed the WO111:03 had : thrown her mantle ovtr la e• lopes. Bleed owed ,fr in wounds in their tee pli a. Close by was the di's it, anti under it the darn. r bun,! 3 purse ! conta iv •• a small sum of money an.l a monorail! duin ha,,S7 (hi one if the leaves of the book were scribbled ii,.' vi ords " Sept. 20th,, '92.—We hive both voluiaarily killed ourselves. anu we ask to be buried treether in the cetned.ry t.f the place in will, li we have died." Th n followed directions for rho it, sitar li of two tel.-rants to tie found in his pock, t-bo, k and some initials. The telegrams were addrrssed, one to M. Rig it, of the lbw Tecqueville, Paris, the hushaiel of th.• woman, and the other to M. Lehreton, of Clictly, father et the man. Ditteil informed the gendarmes ..t the matter, and a magi's'. terial investigation was held. From the position el the bodies it was conjectured that the two persons hail sat down, and that the man first tired it the woman and then turned the weapon against Minself. The womau had been slit t through the left temple, while lwr companion had put a bullet through I,ii brains. Ile iilso had marks of a wound an his rigle jaw. !testate his injuries the man was still breathing slightly when the magistrates and a doctor arrived, but lie soon ceased to live. This mouthful affair was the tragic termination of a love episode which recalls the Chambige and Vladimireff cases. Madams Bigot was an exemplary wife and mother until her acquaint ance with I..breton, a friend of her husband, and who mas also married. The parties lived in the Datignolles . listrict, and were fairly well of I. A mysterious murder has been committed at 1 Fontenay-sous•ltois. M. Plista, a commercial traveller, who has a villa in that sulmrb, had been absent with his wife in Switzerland for a nemith's holiday, lie wrote to his housekeeper, a middle aged woman nom d Maria Molles, to state that In would return. The latter, who could not read, shewed the letters to some neighbours. On Saturday AL Plista found his house robbed, and the bony of his housekeeper. who had been strangled to death, in a fowlhouse at the bottom of the garden. N. Goren, the chief of the detective service, is endeavouring to and a clue to the perpetrator of this new crime. . A lady named Merino, living in the Avenue the Villiers, Paris, committed suicide, on Saturday, under very painful circumstances. Madame Merino, whose maiden name was Alexandrine tiorska, was, a Daily Chronicle correspondent says, married some years go to NI Jose Merino, ihe son of N. l'edro Merino, of the firm of Merino and ions, Lcadenliall-buildings. The union was strongly disapproved of by the husband's family because tactile. 6orska had been an actress. It appeare, however, that an allowance was paid to N. Jose Merino on the condition that he should keep away from London and Paris, in both of which capitals he had relations. The husband died lately, and Madame Merino whose mind seems to hay.• been affected, accused Dr. Voisin, whowttended him, of poisoning him. The Proeureur of elle Republic fornially declared the complaint unfounded. When Madame Merino received the news she went. upstairs, and after having written several letters blew her brains out.  A few days ago it was announced that Dr. Allied Leach, of Belgrave-road, London, was dead, lie was an important witness iu the Earllett case (known as the "Pimlico Mystery") in 1888. His death, the Manchester Courier says, was due to the inhalation of sewer-gas while investigating the cause of a patient's diphtheria. It was wonderful he did not kill himself in his Bartlett case experiments. Noticing the dead man's tongue was of a peculiar white he searched for the significance of it by experimenting on himself. Ile took three and a half drachms of chloroform in his mouth, swallowed 20 to 30 drops, ejected the remainder, and produced on his tongue the tell-tale whiteness on the dead man's. He rel,•..d this in evidence an being quite a matter of course. u ply act•A tl. 6(111(1 was recent' witnessed at 'a tiivaitip of the Town Council of Richmond, New South Wales. During a discussion two of the Aldermen indulged in a fierce altercation, which culminated in blows. The Mayor and the Council Cl, rk endeavotaref to soparate the combatants, who finally adjourned outside, where hostilities were renewed. The belligerents returned to the chamber, and for some little time things were quiet, but another scrimmage soon ensued. Chairs were smashed, and a manlier of papers on the table were set fire to by the upsetting of the candles.