, 1874-05-24
DOUBLE SUICIDES.

DOUBLE SUICIDES.
Buicide in Paris is not such novelty tn.
it should attract much attention. Tbs s7sa,,
Pari.ian, when the world goes wrong, u HI
mistress proves nnfaithful, or he finds hirs.f
without sou in his pocket to buy sbGnshs,
takes to the charcoal-brazier OF the Sens, nd
the eyent creates no more Of = ripple than to
fact that the late deceased had been Accustomed
to 60 to bis dinner at = certain hout. Ihe m
world OF Paris takes it Is q matter ot coune
when one Of its members drops out thai
he has made sudden journey to ete1n;J:
by some fast-express route, rather than s7
tho old-fashioned slow-coach route OF ustun
1t gives the matter no further thought, ua1ez
the deceased has been unusually ingeninu
bizarre in the manner OF his going, in NIL
case it accords his memory the need Of respst
full admiration: The latest fashion Of suiaa
however, il beginning to attract somo attaotia
even among the 6ldse Paris1ans. Instesdd
going alone, as heretofore seats arc now ordeza
for two, and the curiosty Of The fashion Is TIT
it has been eet by the English. Recs7aJ
an English couple, q Miss Leyison ID
Mr.. Brown, drowned themselves in 1t
Seine, in consequence, it is supposed, Of 3 loTb.
quarrel. Their bodies we're placed in the Ao1gus
in such dilapidated and unpresentahls l1sps
that they would hardly hare committed tia 1t
if thoy had known what spectacle they YER:
destined to present to fastidious public. In
mediately following this double suicide cars
another one. The parties were also Eng!ish, tts
hero being Mr.. Charles Hall, who had be.1s
bankers clerk, and the. heroine, his Fas
the daughter OF q musician at Bath. BefGs.
marriage the husband WAS hearty st9dt.s
and IN extraordinary gymnass, Having iniasat
his knee in the7synnasinn be gaze rp b.
clerkship, and coon after married. The hapE
pair went to lfracombe in July last, and es!s"
bratod their honeymoon by trying to commit
suicide at hotel with laudanum. They r.
about their work in the coolest possible macatz
On the previous evening they packed q -
whole Of their parcels and luggage, neat1yfaa&
their clothes, directed letters to their fdRndz.
set apart sufficient SUM to compnss
the 1andlady for the extra trouble III
were about to make, and thon kept diaf56
their experiences during the operation. tn
laudanum. however, did not do its work, sod
both recovered The hero WIS thersupon sa
to prison. After he Was released tie two uea
to reside with brother Of the husband 4fa
q short residence here the wife Eent To Ios~
don to take situation in u1illins11.
establ1shment. 4 week later her hus-
band followed her. Then they dis1f
peared, and, tho next heard OF sheac,
they were found dead ut the Hotel st. Petefs~
burg, in Paris, locked in eacl others a11ns- u
the causes OF this joint ereunt nothing ia knoEa'
and, as nothing p1cases PaEisian more thsa
dense mystery with suicide ut the core o. y
all PARIS is in 1aptures over the afair: 30 faaea
80 that it has hardly given heed to the s1beo"
quent suicide OF Octave Tasgaert, ths celebra'so
French painter, who guffocated hlusen 7ns
charcoal fumes because no Was too old to psla'
any mora. The mysterious bank clerk and na'
sician's daughter are the lions CT 'os
hour in Paris, and ne may efpe'
9re long to sec them dished up =
poetry, served up in thrilling JeulQefo"'' sn4'
slaborately produced upon the stage in that cf'!'
md stolen from thence to be reproduced In "
ltagglod costumes in New York. Whether ~
Psrisians, with their proverbial dislike o' t''
English, will adopt tho fashion, remains ID -.
Ieeu, but it will at least be q sore temptation
unique and recherche. Should Is
.dopted double suiciding will become TUG ns'''
nd sad havoc will be made anous the P:e11'a'
nd Clochettcs. As the mortality RTE IN fiass
, already 80 largo, and the birth rate 80 a1'.4+'
hat the population is diminishing, the don'a
uicide practice has = gloomy look to hoI'0''
uta Partisan.