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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 373, 5 November 1889, Page 3

A murder has been committed under extraordinary circumstances in the neighborhood of Alencon. A builder who had hitherto enjoyed an excellent character went home a few evenings ago and coolly informed his wife that he (intended to kill her. Ha then sat down to supper. At the conclusion of ths meal he told the poos woman to lie down, and she,-thinking tha whole thing was a joke, quietly obeyed. She had with her their youngest child, a baby in arms, Her husband, however, fetched his gun, and, placing the muzzle close to her head, blew out her brains. The man did not make the

slightest attempt at .‘resistance when he was arrested. The people of the district, who were well acquainted with the couple, are utterly st a loss to account for a crime perpetrated under such unusual conditions, and the more so as the builder and his wife lived together on excellent terms.

There have been many oases of “ vitriol throwing” at one time or another, but the fate which has just befallen a painter on porcelain, named Monnerie, is about the most ghastly thing in this kind pf atrocity on record, Monuerie had a mistress, and some months ago he took an apartment in the house in which she dwelt. Fie soon noticed that the woman was in the habit of receiving a number of visitors, and accordingly he determined on breaking off all relations with her. The couple separated quietly enough, but a month or two ago Moniierie’e mistress begged for one last interview. The painter on porcelain, moved by her entreaties, acceded to her request, and early in the morning, while her lover was still sleeping, the woman stole out and bought a bottle of vitriol. Approaching Monnerie stealthily, she emptied all the contents of the phial on his face, and then hurried out of the room and left the house as fast as her legs would carry her. The shrieks pf the unfortunate man—whose face is one large wound, while be has been totally blinded by the corrosive liquid—brought the neighbors to the spot, and he was removed promptly to the nearest hospital. So far nothing has been heard of the perpetrator of this fiendish deed.