The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1874-07-25


by jumping from height as We shall
show presently. She could have no
clear idea OF committing suicide from
that particular house, but chan cling to
see Julius Lappcll open the street door,
the easy access to the upper floor must
have flashed across her, aud she stcalthi
ly followed him. She wa. horribly
prompt in her action. Placing her neat
little parasol in tho corner of the Iare,
rude room, opening the middle window
it was low aud near the ground, she
stepped over tho sill, extending her
hands as it were, suppllcating toward
heaven, and then fell crushing down
wards through the morning air to the
mercilcss stones beneath. SO much was
seen ofthc black horror by men working
on the lcvce by the boats.
A PREVIOUS ATTEMPT.
On the morning before, Sunday, her
desperate coalition had we'll nigh
tempted her destruction. She rose at
about B o'clock and passed onto the
ear roof Of Mr.. Gullozs premises aud
i'll doing SO awakened the cook, who
watched her. She passed up an inclined
roof, looked into an alley, then crossed
to an adjoining roof and pecrci into
the street from Il dizzy height of so or
GO feet. She might lave ended her
weary wandering thcn, but she detected
the cook in very scanty night clothes
watching hcr-so intimately does the
ludicrous chime iu with dusky death
and she went back to her room.
L'AMour
A Republican reporter visited the
room which Marie Daron occupied by
the courtesy Of Nine. Guilloz. There
was n small common trunk, scantily half
filled with superior under. clothing, every
thing being embroidered, not mark ed ,
with NJ. d. in red there was heavy
black silk skirt and blue rcdingote
hanging on the wall aud small.variety
Of fine underclothing on the be |, and on
the taolc there were odds of woman's
sewing pa,aphernalia and writing MA
tc'als. There were two books. a
small French lexicon and GLAMOUR"
10y Michclet. In this last there were
slSnIlic mt marginal notes which served
To show how fascinated she was with
the thoughts Of death. At the chapter
headed "Dc Famour par dclu M Mort
she hal written "Charn,unt chuptrc,"
and Ut another bearing the caption "Lo
Mart ct t. DcrH," she had written in
pencil "-ilmIaLhc." On the fly leaf of
the work Was written these words, winch
serve to identify her; July, 1871.
Read coming from Paris on board the
steamer Washington The word July
is in the French chioyraphic FORM but
other words seem t. be written by al
American or an Englishnnan They
were probably not written by her, but
may have been somebody accompa nying
her
a fcv wcrds dropped AS to her watch
induced our reporter to visit watch
maker on Third street 1t serve as the
key to the mystero Of Marie Dlron
She had her watch repaired there in
May or April, and on Saturday last she
went there again and asked the .proprie
tor to buy it 1t had been stamped up
on, he thinks, and he declined to pur
chase She persisted, and at last he of
fcrtd her S12 1t was small gold
double cased Geneva, No 352, and she
declined to receive it She went away
and then returned, still wanting him to
take the watch and sell it, which he re
fused to do She seemed to be excited
and left wildly, and that is the last he
saw Of her The matchmaker describes
her as woman of superior abiity-a
lady Of distinguished manners; and with
the accomplishments for which she
could find no market on earth, Marie
Daron has gone where there is but one
language heard; but one accomplishment
needed but one great Master.
Tho force of habit is fully ilIustra.