A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1099, 12 June 1882, Page 3

A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

A man died recently, at the launatic asylum at Olermont-sur-Oise, in France (says the "Standard,") who lost his reason under very dramatic circumstance. Six or seven years ago M, Leprince was a prosperous tradesman resident in the village of Montzeron with his handsome wife. Circumstances occurred which suggested doubts as to her fidelity; proofs were soon forthcoming to corroborate suspicion, and the unhappy man determined to take revenge in a terrible manner. He was aware that during his frequent absence his wife received the visits of a young man living in the same village, and that the interviews took place in the dining-room. He knew also that there was only one hiding-place in this room, a cupboard, through which the stove funnels passed, and that the funnel being out of repair, anyone shut up in the cupboard when a fire was lighted must necessarily be suffocated. Returning unexpectedly one day when he was thought to be a long way off, what he anticipated occurred. The young man waa concealed in the fatal cupboard, and he had nothing to do but to carry out his plan of vengeance. He requested his wife to light a good fire in the stove — insisted when she demurred ; and finally, the fire being kindled, sat down to await the result. The young man hidden in the cupboard met his fate herocially. Rather than betray his presence he allowed himself to be suffocated. Madame Leprince only survived him a week, and her husband his vengeance satisfied, delivered himself up to justice. Before he could be tried, however, he went raving mad and was sent to the Clermont Asylum, where he has just died.