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Show KILLS INVALID WIFE Oi HER 01 DEill I " French Judicial Official Puts Theory- of Euthanasia Into Tragic Practice. Special Cable to. Tho Triburfe.. PARIS, Dec. IL Tho last; few days produced a couple of crimes 'which might well engago the attention oftho sociologists. sociolo-gists. M. Bmlle BegueVy, at one lime a Judicial official, killed his wife at San-nols San-nols In order to put an end. to her sufferings. suf-ferings. Tho poor woman was a victim of cancer and half paralyzed. Several time3 alio begged her husband to .take ' her life and threatened to commit suicide. As M. Ueguory could not withstand hlB wlfo's supplications. -lie llred three shots Into her brain. When" ho gave hlm.self til) to the pollco ho declared ho had only done . his duty according to I1I3 con-science con-science " ills wife's sister. Mmc. Bouon, approved of his act and when ho was taken by the gendarmes "to his house she said: "JSmllc, you arc a good man; on havu dono wdft 1 know what she- has suffered and what you havo endured. You aro a saint and for a week I havo been praying to God that ho might glvo you courage to do what you have done." Following on this case is another domestic do-mestic tragedy in the Hue Delannay. Mine. De Mours, a victim of consumption, had been bedridden for many months i and was unable to perform any housohold I duties. Her husband, alleged to havo ' benii a selfish man, expected her to work Jand becamo angry when thero was delay l in preparing Ills meals. 7n the courso of a violent scene the man Is -uald to have reproached his wife for not dying quickly enough. This was too much for Mmo. De Mours. She shot her husband dead during dur-ing his sleep. To tho question put to her by the pollco po-llco the woman declared that she do-slrcd do-slrcd to die in peace, and that ivith hor husband this was not possible In consequence con-sequence of the woman's condition she has not been arrested. |