THE CRIME OF A SHREW

With a broomstick, she kills her sleeping husband

LYON, October 8. - The Piana couple had lived for several months at 7, rue Alexandre-Boutin, in Villeurbanne. The husband, a factory worker, was hardworking and generally respected; the wife, jealous and cantankerous, made continual scenes with him. Yesterday evening, at 9 o'clock, a more violent quarrel broke out during which Piana, rightly irritated, jostled the shrew a little. The wife's fury seemed to have subsided, Piana went to bed, but when he was asleep, the wife, armed with a broomstick, dealt him a terrible blow. The husband, getting up, tried in vain to defend himself; the wife struck like a madwoman with repeated blows until Piana fell bloody and lifeless.
However, the neighbors, attracted by the victim's cries for help, alerted the police. Piana, transported in a coma to the Hôtel-Dieu, succumbed shortly after to a fractured skull. The murderer, slightly injured, was hospitalized in Villeurbanne.
Following the interrogation of the police commissioner, the woman does not appear to be in full possession of her mental faculties; she will probably be interned in the Bron lunatic asylum.

A jealous man

Jealous of seeing the hairdresser Drier preferred by Miss Yvonne F...., eighteen years old, daughter of a cafe owner on the rue de Chalon, an Italian, about twenty years old, known only by the first name of Julio, beat him up in front of the bar, then stabbed a dog that was defending Drier to death.
The culprit fled with four compatriots pursued by seven officers. During the pursuit, the latter were shot at by revolvers that did not hit them. Julio was able to disappear. Only Sylvio Caloniatto, aged twenty-nine, and Pietro Vernoski, aged nineteen, were arrested.

Assault after the ball

At a ball on rue Victorien-Sardou, in Saint-Cyr, Miss Marguerite Barret had danced until quite late in the night. Accompanied by two of her dancers, she was about to return home when a stranger, whose advances she had rejected during the evening, jumped on her and stabbed her in the left temple. The wound was serious and it was feared that the victim would lose her eye. As for the culprit, whose name is René Descortis and who is aged twenty, he has been arrested.

A murderer accuses himself

SAINT-ETIENNE, 8 October. Jean Ferreol, twenty-six years old, minor, confessed that he was the author of the murder committed Sunday evening. in Monplaisir, on the person of Mr. Regis Serayet and that the woman Tranchant had taken no part in the crime. The latter was released.

MINOR FACTS

A collision of cars occurred on rue du Faubourg-du-Temple. Mrs. Magnier and Mrs. Legris, residing on rue Ramey, were quite seriously injured.

The car of Mr. Roussy-Lesalles, 17, rue du Colonel-Malles, was stolen from him on avenue Velasquez; it bore the number 4736-1-7.

A fire broke out last night in the apartment of Mrs. Charin, 61, rue Miromesni!. Significant damage.

Assistant supervisor E. Farineau, aged twenty-nine, busy at his work in the sidings of the Valenciennes station, near Saint-Saulve, was electrocuted.

Mrs. Rey reported to the judicial police the disappearance of her husband, aged forty-seven, who, having lost his job, believed himself to be persecuted and had expressed thoughts of suicide…

The painter worker Legall, arrested in Saint-Brieuc on charges of the murder of Mrs. Gamma, in Rotheneuf. was transferred to Saint-Malo. He was unable to give his schedule on the day of the crime.

Officers from Colombes picked up a dead drunk man on Tuesday at around 1 p.m. At midnight, it was noticed that the unfortunate man, who, in the evening: had seemed to want to wake up, was wheezing, suffering from congestion; he died while being transported to the hospital. He is a man named Ramon Escambrio, thirty-nine years old, a Spanish subject.