From Our Own Correspondent.
Paris April 26.
(Delayed).
The mystery surrounding the death of Capt. Robinot-Marcy, the young officer who was found dead in his bedroom with a bullet through his head, has been cleared up by the evidences of the only witness of the tragedy, Mme. Dhotel wife of a Paris medical man. It appears that she and Capt. Robinot-Marcy were among the guests invited to a fancy-dress ball. The captain intended to go as a Calabrigand, and he asked Mme. Dhotel to come to his rooms to see how he looked in his costume. Part of the outfit was a large pistol, and in the course of conversation he remarked that this weapon was much less effective than his own automatic pistol, which ho produced from a drawer, to the great alarm of Mme. Dhotel. She begged him to put it down, but he laughingly assured her that there was no danger and, to prove this, he committed the foolish act of pointing the pistol to his head, and pulling the trigger. As so often happens in these cases, the pistol, which was supposed to be unloaded, contained a cartridge. There was loud report, and the young officer fell dead.
Mme Dhotel did what most women would have done in such 2 sudden crisis. She fled the scene, her one desire being to escape as soon as possible from the sight of the body lying on the floor. took refuge with a friend, Mme. Rickling, whom she induced to yo the house and find out whether Capt. Robinot-Marcy was really dead. It was this friend who went to the flat, viewed the body with unconcern and: went away after giving a false name, in the hope of not being mixed up in the affair. She was not sufficiently tale address, andthe police had If-possessed, however, to give a little difficulty in tracing her. As for Mme. Dhotel, on the very evening of the tragedy she went to a ing about Capt.—Robinotfancy-dress ball and said Marcy's death. She and her husband thought this was the best way to avoid publicity. They did not reckon sufficiently with the Jove of the romantic and mysterious which is part of ordinary human nature. A woman living in the some house as Capt. Robinot Marcy had heard a sound like the report of a fire-arm, followed by a stifled shriek. The mystery _of the un-}mown woman in the officer's flat and the other who came to the house to make inquiries, required clearing up, and it was no longer possible to throw a veil of silence over 1t-The remains of the young officer were exhumed, and as the nature and position of the wound wereing the circle, consistent with Mme. Dhotel's story of accidental shooting, the investigation was closed. It has revealed some curious human types, such as the officer trained to the use of arms who does the most foolish thing possible with a pistol, the lady who goes to a fancy. dress ball with her mind full of the horror she has seen only a few hours before, and the obliging friend who shares the secret.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.