The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-07-04 00:00:00

THE SAD SUICIDE NEAR VIENNA.

11XTR.

lAOILDIN.

Larrsa.

A distreming statement penned by Maria Hameln-
Delmont, one of the two young esteem who committed
suicide near Vienna remit?, republished be ths per.
recision of her executor. It will be remembered that at
en early hour of the 14th inst. the geld de efirseabre of
Count Henry C tudenhoven, then slaving oe his tamer's
chateau of t),mostielm, new Lies, came u the
deed bodies of two headman and wsll'drseeed young
women in the costs garden. Tee corpses mem
Identified shortly alter their discovery as those of Mire
Demain.Dainiont sod Allis. de Henneville, French.
women r., birth, who hod arrivad in Lies from Vienna
the previous moraine, aud iuirlCil examin Won of their
reaming showed that they had shot themselves with
revoker.. In the Chas of Malls de Resneville death
probably ensued instanteneoesly ; but Mane Damele's
dress showed signs of a long death &roe,. A packet of
letters, male{ with black wax and sellreesed to the
Chancellor of the French &abeam, his been found at
the Vienna Jolting' of the decaued girls. oontaining •
will signed by Marie Domain, letters to her mother, hin.
eon, and two of her (Heeds, and a written narrative of the
circumstances promoting her to the tragical meolverwhieh
the carried out within hearing . ( her betrayer. To this
narrative ai appended the following touching declare.
tree, signed try Aline de Ranieri& :—" Neither my friend
/feria nor any one else has urged me to do this deed. I
am about to die by my own free will, simply because I
cannot live • About my friend Marie." In a loud docu.
went, dated June lath, written by Mary Haman.
Dalmost, she ears :—" Since April last You I have been
ieeimady iunnecteil with Count Henry Coadenhoven.
Eirly in July I felt I was • mother. That was the ruin
of my exitence. lam fee from c weplaining of the well.
earned p inishment for me weakness. . Whit /
have to reproach C mat Henry with I. ate subsequent .
conduct torn, whidi has driven mete take this desperate
step. .. . Is wee cruel of him to prevent me from
returning to Francs, where I wining to go through the
hooey trouble ewalting me. This is what be said
to me, • 'You have no right to leave the father of
your child. I will never abandon you. The link binds
me to you for ever. We will never part and I will
make you my wife as soon as circumstances will
posit me into IJpon thee I dimmed it my duty to
remain. I believed that he would do his duty to the
mother of Vile child, but I have mace found out that ell
he wonted vise to keep me for him for his own gratification.
I swear that this la the truth. Then he wrote to me—'! ,
pledge legal( heforaband to do everything that means will
cornpaes to Nerve your future. 1 aweer this to you upon
my word of tion,,ur se • gentlemen. Keep this litter be I
documentary evidence of my WOMIle: It will be found
amongst my gainers, • lth many Ohm of • similar char-
acter. Towirls the end of September he lef tme to return
to bill fattier. I remained behind at Deeding, where we
had been living mother. I von obliged to sell everything
emeewet, e„n to my Wapiti But for the help of two
Mends, 'h.. stood be me in my utmost need. I must have
died of v-tion. Hie father had me summoned before the
Dobbee p.,os„so.wery of Polio*, who insulted me so cruelly
that! was c impelled to appeal to a lawyer for protection ;
and enheeu.iently in Vienna, before the Prefect or
Police, who wise politer to me in matters of form, but
more cruel to me is fact and deed. He offered me 4,000
,r.l„, oocborme for • written declaration thet Count
Henry Coudenhovee wee not the father of my child. This
proposal I indignant? rejected. Throughout the whole
affair neither
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woman mar fall without meting to be honest Illy companion
Aline whose attachment to me knows no bounds, will not
combat her resolve: but she loves me better than aught
upon earth
ore the follow* geseartil:— Linn,. nothing
me in but toy focally- loved child. quitting
it, et I Doe .1., niy.o2 nt,ro in for him- I wieh him to
teateis in me dear .0 140 d ettLia Afth or gob yem
—Wit he shill Issrm 7"Riab' and, if
nemesia thoroughly . Italian orona„,g—e tt-taldillitish. only to be
taught music if he shall manifest conspicoons musical
talent I earnestly implore that, later owi so °wow,
don shall be exercised neon him with resprot to
the choice of a mem. I am • beheld= °swam but /
will not have my iwin brought ule be the 3asulti He shall
be confirmed, however, 1.. r I would not have him believe
in nothing like so many of lay uontemporeyiee I. his
education Imelda ewer shall be laid epee bodily exercises
—gymnastic., riding, and isadeßi These exercises,
equally owirei to body and mind, are nowadays too fry.
quaintly Deselected in favour o' intelbotual Mathes. With
respite' to rue boy's natimutlity. Prince is undeniably the
fatherland ..1 my heart Ha Name sat my data, hi Nary
de seen e•air), bat he msy adopt that of Us father if moved
thereto by p-etiiiiletiOCl or coariettac. I beseech Count
Henry to fulfil thoa lest wishes of mine. If, try his
whole future life and by his behaviour to our dad, he
will woos himself willing to make the boy hew. I
forgive him wlth all my heart If my son should by any
chance come to know the manner of my death make him
believe that int:amble disease promoted meto im=
suicide. It wield be hard urn the child Oak he
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