The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-07-23
THE END OF. PARAD0L.
FULL PARTICULARS OF TEE
TRAGEDY.

FULL PARTICULARS OF TEE
TRAGEDY.
- 80, A Deliberate Suicide.
The telegraph has briefly announced the fact
that n. Lucien Anatole Provost Paradoi, the
new French minister, committed suicide on
wednesday last, having shot himself shortly
after midnight, in bis own room, at the newly
established quarters of the legation. In wash
ington City. A Washington letter OF "eones-
day gives the following particulars connected
with the rash act: 4...e- - =.
The circumstances attending it show that it
yvas a cool, premeditated act, even In the pur-
chase Of the deadly weapons early on yester-
day, and In the writing OF note several days
aince to his valet, which was not to be opened
TIL 8 certain time,i and In mere memoran-
dumaeft on his table last night, the latter
reading thus: ~ kill myself.a lie me ten. }
ssM. Berthemy, come back and stay"
After q brief visit to ths Secretary OF State
Yesterday, II. Paradol returned to his resi-
dence, and, lying down, complained OF the e2,
cesstve heat. Soon Afterwards ne rose ana
went down to a hardware store on Pennsyiva-
MA avenue, near Tenth street, where he pur-
chased single -barrelled cartridge pistol, being
the mate to another which he had purchased
there In the forenoon, about II o'clock. Bis
conversation with the clerk was IN English
and entirely rational, and related simply to the
pfice Of the pistols on each occasion. The
the way with him when he called last, or when
he came with q companion the first time. From
this store he returned at once to his residence,
and retired between and 10 O'clock. The
only inmates Of the house besides himself were
French servant man and his housekeeper,
Mary Walters. The latter states that at the
latter hour she retired, and in going to, her
the minister and said. ssMonsieur, is there any
thing that you needy He replied "Nothing.
stfhope you will rest well, then" she added,
and he said, ~ hope 3d."
DISCOVERY OF THE DEAD.
Everything seemed quiet In the house till
few minutes past one o'clock this morn
ing, when the quick, sharp sound OF pistol
came nom the minister's room. It brought
Both ot the servants at once to his apartments,
on lhs second noor 'front.', when ghastly sight
Of the room on his back, with his right hand
back; OF his head. and his right leg drawn up.
hfs might. .shirt-the only garment he had on.
being crimson with blood, which was also
running over his person on the carpet He
was addressed by the! frightened attendants,
but tmade no reply, having died In o moment
afteThel had fred the shot. An exploded
pisto3a9 ON tho faoor1 and ON the bureau WAS
ftS fS6te, With q Cartridge beside It, The two
frightened servants being total strangers
In the city, knowing no one, and hardly
the street they lived on, did not give the
alarm for some time; when physician was
summoned, who, 0fcourse, could do nothing
mere than to examine the wound, which ~as
hAlten inch above the heart, and necessarily
inttautly fatal It appeared that he had not
sf6I6 retired TO bed, but bad merely laid down,
:aaa then sat on its side, as If he had been in q
,Mh0ttSttng mood. He must have shot himself
,Whfa S1nfling In the centre of tho room, with
hiaaaHktp the ne place, and facing bis bed.
,fhaa1sna1nss hare been embalmed, and win
aytxts the wtshes of d. Berthemy, the late
IRON Nsws York, while on hiB return to Europe.
"A dispatch, with details Of the event, was sent
during the forenoon to Grammont, the Minis
:tefof fR@eign Affairs at Paris. =
PaosaBLE CAUSE OF SUICIDE.
SE6e direct csuse Of this terrible tragedy is
n1sts5eAnitely; ;knawn; but Is ascribed quite cor.
YtE many sources. Il was stated In these
dispatches on Monday that II. Paradoll vas 81
ftqm the extreme heat or the weather to which
.hFHa8 nnaccnstome6, and to which he had
exp1Se6 Mm6elt Q good deal. But he persisted
shMHekeepef, who warned, him against such
e1po6ufe: But his mind seemed i'll at ease.
TfR E0dden.Yar In France, which country he
a8peacefnl July I'd; his ine1perience In
diplomatic matters; the fear that he had made
q Aa9f6uAe error in praising to q senator Mons.
ThierA only to learn the next dav that the lat
1er,huu cume out h deHnnciatlon Of Napoleonu
coeysei The fact that he had been understood
& Tie. White House to say that ne had odc1a