Show D f 1 of Wales Wales' Shot v by Jealous Jealous' Corporal Corpor l j Pr Pretty tt Wife Enrages Soldier by Her At Attentions to British Staff Officers t. t PARIS Sept 28 by messenger to New York York Last Last week Prince Princ Albert of Vales Wales while white taking tea in an inn at a a British outpost near Ypres pres was shot in the arm by a French corporal The attendant at the inn is an attractive looking young woman who was passing passin as an unmarried girl under the name of but as a matter m of ot fact bhe he I is married to a corporal in a French hussar regiment named amed Huguet Mile Mlle had many admirers among th the British staff start officers among among whom the inn became a popular pop popS ular resort for tea or other refresh refresh- ments when any of the staff start had to visit this part of the British lines N I pews of this state of ot affairs V reached the husband who became furiously Jealous Huguet wrote to his wife we to say that stories about her flirtation with British officers had reached him and if he lie found out that these were true and that she had been unfaithful to him he be would Shoot her and then shoot himself As a matter malter of ot fact the stories that reached Huguet were grossly exaggerated One Officer Proposed The British staff starr officers tr treated Mile lIe properly and between none of them thorn and the pretty Bretonne Bretonne Bre Bre- tonne was vas there any levity of ot conduct con duct or undue familiarity One young officer on the tho staff indeed I who had fallen very much flinch in love with her proposed to her ber and had i ceased after her refusal to marry him to visit the inn On Saturday last the husband obtained ob tamed twenty four hours hours' leave from the trenches and he unexpectedly turned up at the inn where his wife was employed at about 6 5 in the aft aft- The prince of ot Wales and another staff officer were having haying tea In the inn at the moment Fires on Prince It appears that Huguet watched his wife talking to the prince and his companion for some minutes and then was seized with a blind bUnd rage He lie rushed into the room and without without with with- out a word of ot warning fired tired two shots in rapid succession one at athis athis athis his wife and another at the two staff officers Then he turned the weapon on himself The prince and his companion sprang at him but the corporal fired tired ber before re he could be seized and wounded himself m rn the neck The prince of Wales Vales was wounded in his liis arm just above the wrist The corporal was taken to a field hospital by the prince of Wales Vales in his motor car where the prince also had bad his wounds dressed To Drop Charges Tho The prince then proceeded to headquarters and reported the whole incident to the commander in chief The corporal under military law is liable to be shot but no official notice notice no no- tice will probably be taken of the incident Tho The corporals corporal's re ire almost Immediately immediately Imme imme- after the incident left the inn and went to the hospital where her husband was taken and is lookIng lookIng look look- Ing after him herself |