Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-06-30 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

THE SAD SUICIDE NEAR VIENNA.  EXTRAORDINARY LETTER. A distressing statement penned by Marie DamslnDaimont, one of the two young women who committed suitable near Vienna recently, is publiobed by the permission of her executor. It will be retni-mbered that at an early hour of the 14th inet, the valet an ehambre of 1 Count Henry Coudenhov n, then leaving at his father's ' chatetu of Ottensheim, near Linz, came upon the \ dead bodies of two hand iome and well-dressed young women in the castle garden. Tee corp les trees identified shortly after their discovery as thee° of M iris Damain-Delmont and Alline de Bonneville, Frenchwomen 1.1 birth, who had arrived in tins from Vienna the previous moraine, and surgical examination of their remains showed that they had shot themselves with revolver's. In the case of Melte. de Rennevllle death probably ensued instantaneouely ; but Marie Damain's dress showed signs of a long deeth agony. A wicket of letters, sealed with black wax and adiresse.d to the Chancellor of the French Ecubtesy, his been found at the Vienna to it logs of the d, ceased girls, containing a will signed by Marie Domain, letters to her mother, her soil, and two of her friend., and a written narrative of the circumstances prompting her to the tragical resolve, which she carried out within hearing of her betrayer. To this narrative eat appended the following timeline driCaration, signed by Aline de R.nneville :—" Neither my friend Marie nor any one else has urged me to do this deed. I am about to die by my own free will. imply because I canni t live without my friend Marie." In a long document, dated June 10th, written by Mary DomainDelmont, elle says :—" fence April heat year I have been intimately conn •ctati with Count Henry Coudenhoven. Early In July I felt I was a mother. That was the ruin of my existence. lam far from complaining of the wellearned punishment for my weakness. . .. . What I have to reproach (Lunt Henry with is his subsequent conduct to me, whilt has driven me to take this desperate otep. . . . . In was cruel of him to prevent me from returning to France, where I wished to go through the heavy trouble awaiting ma. This is what be said to me, 'Yon have no right to leave the father of your child. I will never abandon you. This link binds me to you for ever. We will never pert, and I will make you my wife as soon as circnmstances will p emit me to do so.' Upon that I deemed It my duty to remain. I believed that hi wont! do his duty to the motber of the child, but I bate since fcuad out that all he wanted was to keen me for him for his own gratification. I sw. ar that thin is th r truth. Then he wrote to p.(3—'l pledge myself befcreband to do everything teat means will Compass to serve your future. I swear this to you upon my word of honour as a gentleman. Keep this letter as documentary evidence of my promise.' It will be found amongst my papers, with many others of a strew character. Towards the end of September he left me to return to bit father. I remained behind at Dobling, where we had been living toeether. I wee obliged to sell everything I pastime', even to my bonnets. But for the help of two friends, who stood by me in my utmost need, I must have died of starvation. His father bad me summoned before the Dobling Commissary of Police, who insulted me so cru ,Ily that I was compelled to Row at to a lawyer for t retraction ; and subsequently in Vienna, before the Prefect _of Po Ice, who was polit-r to me in matters of form, but more cruel to me in fact and deed. He offered me 4,000 florMs in exchange for a written declaration that Count Henry COudenhoven was not the father of my child. This Premien indignently rejected. Throughout the whole affair neither father nor son ehive to understand that a woman may fall without ceasing lobe honest. Me companion Alias, whose attachment to we knows no Loomis, will not part from me even in death. I have done all I could to combat her reselve ; but she loves me bettor than aught upon earth, and ti erefore will die with me." In the will are .the following pass ig,s;—"l leave nothing behind me in this world hot my (”n11"-1,e'oved child. Quitting it. an I talw do, my only c .re is for him. I wish him to remain in my clear notice land until his filth or sixth year —that he shall learn Preterite, German. English, and, if secoesary, Italian therenghly well. He is only to be taught music if he shall manieast censeicuous musical talent. I earnestly implore that, later on, no compulsion shall be exercieed upon him with reap ct to the choice of • career. I am a believing Catholic. but I will not have my eon b,ouht up by the Jeanette He shall be confirmed, however., for I would not have him believe in nothing like so many of my contemporaries. In his education special stress shall be laid upan Im lily (.X4lcises —gymnsettiee, riding, and fencing. There exeresaa, equally useful to body and mind, are nowaleys too feequently neglected in favor o' intell Cavil studiee. With asip:ct 10 Mr boy's natinnalltr, France Is undoniablv the hatherlsod of my heart (la France e 4 sans clouts is pat tie demon mar), but he my adopt that of his father if moved thereto by peedilection or conviction. I beseech Count Newry to fulfil tho e lest whiles of mine. If, by his whole futute life and by his behaviour to our chili, he will prove himself willing to make the bey happy, I forgive him with all my hart. If my son should by any °benne coma to know the manner of me death make him be ifve that incurable dieetae prompted me to commit miriade. It would he bard upon the child that he should he forced to bate his father."  THE EASTER MONDAY VOLDNITNUIt RILYIEW —General Prince E lewd of 8 xe.We mar, in prinent;ng the reporte t.l c .mmendinii office-a on the Vo!untor Review at Portatnonth on Rioter Monday temorits that not a deals censtilaint of the eonduct el the volunteers In Portemonth had been twoneht to hie notice. The 0 1 "eh of the mliite.,v ePPeetanoe and conduct of the volualsen La toms of nigh wales.