The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-04-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MONTHS' MARRIAGE. The murder by a M. Lucas, a professor of the i Rollin Lyceum, of his young wife, followed by 1 1 his suicide, creates great excitement. She was . only 18, and the daughter of an off eor's widow„ who kept a tobacco shop in the Avenue Trudaine, Iwhere, in buying cigars, he fell in love with her. She was pretty and winsome, but had uo fortnue. , 1 The marriage, owing to his jealous temper end I also to inebriety, did not promise happily, and 1 the honeymoon Was not over when the husband began to beat the wife. On Monday he ',..2.713,3 Ihome from the Lyceum two hours before he was ! expected, and met on the landing Madame ILucas, with a basket on her arrn, going to I market. The concierge heard high wards, and I then a scuffle- and the slamming of a door, 1 followed ny more scuffling and cries of "Hein" i from a fifth-floor haltsmy. • Running out to I see what was the matter, the concierge j saw Madame Imeas_ with .9. gash in her ' throat, hanging on to the top rail to the ballo'ny, I and Lucas trying to push her 'vet. She held on 1 with out hand, and had the other fastened in her ' husband's cravat. A rush was: made by seine of 1 1 the spectators • upstairs to help her, but ere they teonld climb the five flights Lucas had complotKl I his murderous work. She fell on to the footway, i and he almost immediately after vaulted over the 1 balcony. He fell on his head, and was instantly ' killed. The whole scene from the time he met Iher on the stairs until he was a corps' beside , her did not last tAli minutes. Lucas had taken elre to pock the door on the lauding inside. Neigh. I hours living on the same storey were thus unable Ito come to ins victim's help. She was not dead I when taken up.• She survived her injuries fiai I and it-half hours. The pair haa only been 1 untried three months. Lucas a Al.ftek after the Iwelding called his wife mimes be:iint:e she Was dowerless. Three days after the- wedding he Ibeat her eamolly. Her mother was warned by the neighbours that he would kill her, . ! and strove to get her away, Under 'the pretence that she herself was too . 1 , 1 ill to attend to the tobacco shop and • household affairs, and needed help. The wife intereeded for Lueas, representing . thst he WaEl i violent be...tinge he WAS exasperated at their !poverty. She could not be persuaded later to 1 leave him, because if she did she said be would , I avenge himself by shooting her mother and si ;ter. She never went anywhere without him unless to ! market, and went all her days embroidering ' chair covers. The Rector of the Rollin Lyceum Isays Lotus was for 1.5 years a faultless Irlflse:* in i his conduct towards his pupils. He was kind I and "yet firm. He began about six months ago . to take "nips" of absinthe, and it Was remarked that he grew in oonsetplence touchy and to:.  At a complimentary dinner given lw tinPteyet Meteorologmal Society ree....aitly to -Mr Henry Perigal, in celebration of his Ithid birthilay, and of the completion of forty years' service as trea.turer, the Pri-sident, Dr. C. Theodore Williams, in proposing the toast of the evening, gave sane interesting. particular; of the Perigal fanidy, tracing their lirinny hack to smte time-before the Norman Conquest. Tt appears that the family have been remarkable for longevity. Mr Perigarsfather, who was t& years of aire when he diea, was one of thirtem children nine of whom attainedrwipectivelytheir 646, 07th, rah, 89th. Mth, 50th, 94th, 97th, and 100th year, the last five averaging 93 years 100 days. Their father and mother died in 1824, the former being nearly 90 and the latter upwards of 80 years of age. Mr Hinny Perigal was the cldest of six children, aloof whom lived to the iltTe of 145, and the yonnge4, Mr Frederick Per, now in his fitlnd year, was prwient at the dinner. Mr Perigal briefly responded to the toast, thanking the compa.ny for their uougratulations and kind wiahea  - -T,