Please wait. Contacting image service... loading

Article text

AN AUSTRALIAN SHOP-GIRL.
nra m "gavpabee."
a beatmpol 800uhdbel.
Advices from Paris relate some extraor
dinary ooonrrences In connection with the
married life of a Miss Elizabeth Smith,
formerly a shop-girl In Melbourne.
£ Some time ago Miss Smith was married
to a Frenoh bank- clerk named Peltier.
On settling In Paris she discovered that
he was an escaped criminal.
8he indignantly refused to listen to hie
suggestion that she should earn a living
by prostitution.
Thinking that she had betrayed him to
the police the rnffian stabbed his wife In
the back and decamped.
Mrs. Pelller la now sheltered by an
English family at Pnsssy, a suburb of
Paris. .
$