The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-19
: Remarkable Case o. Suicide.
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Ernest Pasqua, a Wurtemberger by
birth, forty two years old, married,
and the father Of three living children,
a'I boys, had served for eight years in
tie Imperial army, where he distin-
cuished himself alike for good con
duct and bravery, and obtained the
great silver medal for valor. In 1856
be received his conge and entered the
service Of the General Gas Company
IN Pcsth, which he quilted in 1859,
for the engineering department of
tle Southern Railway. In 1860 the
Southern Railway reduced its staff,
and Pa-qua was dismissed from his
employment, and compelled to seek
his bread elsewhere \ gentleman
whose family he had saved from death
.Iv @ courageous act at the risk Of his
.0wn life, promised to get him a place
.in the Franz Josef Railway, other
hopes were held out to him-for he
Twas known and spected-but moth
.ug came Of them. His savings, and
Il small sum Of money resulting to him
from q lawsuit which he gained last
.May, gradually melted away, and it
appears that a few days ago his whole
worldly wealth consisted of two or
tbrce forins On Sunday evening. at
d @ clock, he came home, after an alb
knce Of some hours, i'm eXtravagant
splrjts, and informed his wife that at
lcngth he had obtained employment
81 tho CgbaIIapI F., rI7;I, ATcr,,c,yto
b.
! He further declared his determina-
tiou to celebrate his good fortune by
D little feast, and sent his wife to pur-
ehase beer and the materials for a
brew Of punch The two elder boys.
Pasqua, and his wife ate and drank
togcther, laughed, joked, and were
merw. At nine o'clock the father
a. his sons went into the bedroom
VII the ayowcd intention of retiring
to rest, but Pasqua declared he would
nav one more glass of beer before
gpng to bed. She at first refused, but
at length went out, brought out the
Dec, and then went into her sleeping
room- where the youngest child, ba-
BIZ four months old, was CRYING, and
endcayored to soOth it to sleep. The
edo boys had already undressed, and
Nere in bed. Presently she fancied
that She heard her son Frederic "a
ehild Of scyen( gasping. Taking the
ha y in her arms, she rushed into the
adoming room, and asked her hus-
pan what was the matter. Let him
alone,' " answered Pasqua; "It is all
oYer My children are already cared
lIe had given both boys strong
dos Of poison, mixed with beer, to
drink. Taking his wife's hand, he
invited her to drink with him, saying,
IL is all over with me; nothing can
saw me. Our feast to-day was not
eng of JOY, but of death" She strug-
gled with him to get loose her arm,
and snatch the half empty glass from
hls hand but he frightened his grasp
and swallowed the rest of the poison
as draught. He then sat down on
tae bed, and tried to undress himself
but the poison was sudden in its effect
ant he fell back dead The two boys
Mere already lifeless, and the poor wo-
mar was so Mortified by the terrible
spectable offered to her eyes, that she
vas seized with convulsions, and the
saerament was administered to hel
dEring the night, no hope being en-
tertaned of saving her life All that
Has found in the apartments were two
orthree ten-kreuzer notes, the empty
poison bottle, a table, two beds, and
few old clothes