The Herald of Wales. — 1890-01-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

RLER.  Louisa Hughes, 21, respeetably dressed and dmcribed as a clerk, of Weetbourne Park-villas, Paddington, has been charged at Marlboroughstreet, witb attempting to commit suicide. , A constable said that about eight o'clock on lifonday night, he saw the prisoner walk on to the bridge which spans the Serpentine.. She stopped, looked into the Inter, and threw something into it. She then got:over the parapet, and was just about to leave go, when he rushed forward and seized hold of her before she bad time to drop into the water. The solicitor who appeared for the defence said the accused was • highly respectable young woman, and was engaged to ba married to a young manemployed by a firet-class,Weetemid firm. His salary was not, however, at reemt sufficient to enable him to , and consequence was that the parents of girl Aecired that the engagement sh,tild be broken off. The young couple appeared to be very devoted to one another, aml after the accused left  her sweetheart on Monday night she lose her senses, awl In • St of taupe got over the wok] pet of tiw),Fidern She was now vary awry for i orbojectio.nen&_o4iflet co bar raw, , i,,,,,za ifiw, h., Sakta Of WY. P nay said he won'd discharge the --..... if someone became surety in the sum of £IO for -- her good behaviour in the future. -.....--A horrible drama lias been enacted at Canfilly, outside Paris, wherea Madame Christophel , killed her husband—a butcher—in his sleep and then committed suicide. The pair were both 1 Deaum, and had lately failed in business. 1 e Christopble bad two bullets in the s . ~... , temple, ono of which in its passage tore out an The Highgate police have Lad brought under ; eye. Her husband's brains had been blown their notice • very sad case of sucide. At ' out Under the woman's body the Bottom Wood, Highgate, early on New Year's , ' police-inspector found a letter which morning„ w__ ,___, ,_ ,__,_ _, _ ___ ,_,__ was worded as follows : "I have juet ..etle Tell'en""";ev`"ees" body of aide was .111 I killed my husband. Poor fellow! I regret it, ''''" bottle and a coo. Dr. Fletcher, on examining , but it was necessary ; our credit was gone. Out the body, ,ouna that the men had taken a large , ;of the money on the mantlepiece please give 10 quantity of laudaniun and was then quite in, franca to our assistant and the restto the driver,sensible. He was placed in an ambulance, and The but expired on Good-bye all !" Below this was written in a 'feeble hand : "J have just put a bullet into my „rem_oreave'ddleciteklystaltioP°2, deceased was head but it did not kill me. It has blown out "''' wearing a tramway conductor's badge, and upon I an eje, but I am now going to finish niyaelf 17 him were found two bundles of tickets, the pro' theaide of my husband. Good-bye everybody, curly of his employers (the London Streets ; and pardon !" So ran this mournful nsidkive, The inspector vramwaya Company) showing that the poor ' penned between life and death. fellow had come straight from Ids work, and ' Oaks that the woman evidently did einleavour ended fhisou.lidfeuipon t,:ae hwimoo,diromA number letters to drag herself over near her husband, in order ,to give herself the terrible coup de pram which were_ that the deceased was jealous of his lug t. la:l°h aherthinth....ithe nemmtm".,,,,,rldiait.ewrdsh; appear that was much troubled in his mind in iedo6oice . Thnee isnamaboeutof3Bthve.d.ocessedof .g., was : terr—gibie deorrer of Iliad—earn' —a diria—topii-le —wiiii, di-.71: r°T3' ' fated not through fear of poverty, but owing to , bad been living at 24, Regina hoed, Tolliugtort , jealousy. Her hu.hapd "4 a reputation for Park, Holloway, London. ' gallantry in the neighbourhood, sad it is averred that his demeanour towards two young women who patronised his shop had frequently ; raised the ire of his wife.