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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A French tragedy. (search)
A French tragedy. --The other day an extraordinary affair occurred at Montmartre. A married woman, named Lucius, met a workman named Bartholomy, with whom she and her husband had been intimate several years before, and he accompanied her home. After chatting a little time the man asked permission to send her servant to buy him some tobacco, and she consented; and shortly after she went to her chamber to fetch something, leaving him in the sitting-room. On coming out of her chamber she saw him standing at the door with a poignard in his hand, and without saying a word, he plunged it into her breast. He was about to repeat the stab, but she resisted him and a violent struggle ensued. At length she wrested the poignard from him, and reaching the sitting room broke a pane of glass and cried for help. The man, in order to get the poignard from her, stabbed her several times with a small dagger. Hearing some persons enter by the door, he ran up stairs to a garret, intending, pro