The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-09-08
A SUICIDE.
A Russian Lady and her
Strange History.
She Ends her Life in the
Mississippi River.

l 1D6 OebdilS Oh Tic Sell ueStTuCilO1 OF Il
woman at Hannibal Mo-, which event oc
sad history of human life including a birth
| in high life and ending in the common lot
of drowning in the Mississippi river.
| The suicide was one of the nobility of
| Russia, but through political intrigue her
| father was banished and her lover likewise
received notice to quit the Imperial realm.
| He came to this country, and while seek
| ing his fortune in the far west, died of
aplopexy on the cars. not great distance
| from Rock Island
HIS YOUNG WIFE
found herself penniless and reached this
city in that condition. She went to Du
buque and after visiting Rock Island again
she visited Muscatine, and was on her way
from that place when her resolve to end
her existence was carried into effect at
Hannibal.
THE DETAILS
as given by the Muscatine Zeitung are as
follows
>"Kathinka de P, born on the 9TH of
September. 1859, was the only daughter of
Count de P, great land -owner in the vi
cinity of Warsaw. In the bosom of a low
ing family she spent the first twelve years
PLY as it had begun. In October, 1871,
little Kathinka was sent to a boarding
school in the vicinity of Stuttgart, and she
afterwards completed her education at
Lyons, in France. and at the University of
Zurich, In the summer of 1878 the young
Countess returned to her fathers castle,
fully developed in mind and body, an orn
ament to her sex and the pride of her fam
lily. The next autumn she gave her hand
to her lover, Victo de F. Victor was fully
equal to his bride in mental and material
advantages, and the felicity of the young
couple appeared to be secured from all at
tacks from without"
BENIsHMENT.
The old Count de P. and his wife had
been involved in political controversies
which ended by both of them being ban
ished to Siberia. Victor de F., who had
PLAYED role in the unfortunate move
ment, fled in time to the United States,
and succeeded in finding situation in
Baltimore which gave but wretched sup
port to himself and his wife. At the end
of May he set out to find another situation,
and on the 9th of July, provided with very
slight means, they started for the far
West. The journey was fortunate until
they took the railroad between Chicago
Central railroad the unlucky man was
struck with apoplexy and died at once
Deprived of all means of help, the miser-
able wife with her child six months old,
arrived in Dubuque, where with the aid
of charitable persons, she was able to
give her beloved husband proper bur
ial.
TO ROCK ISLAND.
hi Oh Il
Louis, but her money only sufficed to take
she was helped on to Muscatine. Here our
acquaintance with the unlucky lady began
On July Goth Madame de f., an elegantly
dressed lady of great beauty, came into our
office and explained to Us her situation.
Tears flowed abundantly and the deepest
grief was printed upon every feature of her
Without reserve she related
to us the history of her life. We succeeded /
in Egetting her ticket to Burlington. |
Before her departure she handed us severa-
family papers, gold ring set with dia-
monds, her wedding ring, and letter to |
her parents. She also made the request |
that, after receipt of more particular direc- |
tons, these articles should be sent to the |
address which she had given US. 1t was |
On Friday last that we received the follow
ing lines:
NEAR KEoKUK, August 9.-Respected
SIR: When you receive these lines your
Drotege and her innocent child will no !
onger be among the living. They have |
sought and found eternal repose. / beg
you earnestly to fulfill my last request in
regard to the articles confided to you
Think kindly of an unfortunate one, whose
asst years of life were a long series of dis
and privations. Farewell, |
ny happiness, farewell
KATHINKA DE L.
On receipt of these lines we sought for
Information whether the unfortunate lady
lad actually committed the rash deed of
uicide and child murder, and we received
rom Hannibal, Mo-, the answer that on
Friday last the corpse of woman whose
lress and appearance answered our descrip
ion had been brought ashore, Of the
'ody OF the child nothing had yet been dis
overed. The various articles confded to
IS were sent on the same day to Russia by
Iorris' European Express, accompanied by
letter and certificate of death
Educated in splendor and riches, this
aughter of one of the most aristocratic
antilles of Europe ended her life in the
Taters of the Mississippi.
Rheumatic Diseases.