The Poole Telegram. — 1882-06-30 (Poole, Dorset, England)

THE SAD SUICIDE IV'EAR VIENNA.  EXTRAORDINARY LETTER.  A distressing statement penned by Marie DamainDaMont, one of the two young %Linen who committed suicide near Vienna recently, is published by the per. mission of her exrc..tor. It will be remembered that at an early hour of the 14th inst. the valet de chambre of Count Henry Coudenhoy.n, then sal bag at his father's chateau of Ottensheim, near Linz, came upon the dead bodies of two handsome and well-dressed yo mg women lu the castle garden. Tie corpses were identified shortly after their discovery as those of Mime Danuain-Dalmont and Alders de Item:my:lle, Fiench• women hy birth, who had arrived in tins from Vienna the previous morning, and eurgie sl examination of their remains showed that they had shot themselves with revolvers. In the ease of Melte. de Rennevitle de sth probably ensued inatantanecmaly ; but Marie Damsdn's dress showed signs of a long deeth agony. A packet of letters, sealed with black wax and gathers d to the Chancellor of the French Embassy, hue been found at the Vienna lo leings of the di ceased glee containing a will signed by Marie Domain, letters to her mother, her son, and two of her friend., and a wi itten narrative of the circumstanci s prompting her to the tragical resolve, which She carried out within hearing f her betrayer. To this narrative vas appended the fo"o wing Mucning (helmtion, signed by Aline de n :---" 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 cannet live without my friend Mn'." In a long docu• runt, dated June 10th, written by Mary Damain• Delmont, she save Since April 'sot year I have been intimetely connected with Count Henry Coudenhoven. early in July I felt I was a mother. That was the ruin of my existence. lam far from e implaining of the wellearned punishment for my weakness. . . . What I have to reproach Grunt Henry with is his subsequent conduct to me, which has driven me to take this desperate step. . . . In V/.13 cruel of hint to prevent me from returning to France, where I wished to go through the heavy troirlile awaiting me. This is what he said to me. • Yee 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 put. and I will make you my wife as soon as circumetancos will p,rmit ma to do c.,' Upon that !deemed it my duty to remain. I believed that he would do his duty to the mother of the child, but I have since fumed out that all he wanted wee to keen me for him for hie own ;clarification. I swear that this is the truth. Than he wrote to use—' I pledge myself beferaband hide everything that means will compass to serve your future. I swear thia to you upon my word of how ur as a gentleman. Keep this letter as documentary evidence of my promise.' It will be found amonget my papers, with many others of a simi'ae charicier. Towerds the end of September he left me to return to hie father. I remained behind at Dobling, where we had been living together. I was obliged to cell everything I possessed, even to my bonnets. But for the help of two friends who stood be me in my utmost need, I moat have died of starvatien. His father had tue eummoned before the Dobling Commies iry of Police, who insulted mean ciuidly that I was compelled to sore altos lawyer for protection' and subeequently in Vienna, before the Prefect of Peke, who was polit r to me in matters of form, but more cruel to me in fact and deed. He offered me 4,000 fiorMs in exchange for a writt•u declaration that Court Henry Coudenhoven was not the father of my child. This proposal I indignantly rejected. Throughout the whole affair neither fattier nor ens ehnee to underatand that • woman may fall without ceasing lobe honeet My companion Aline, whose attachment to me knowe no I outride, will not part from me men in dervh. I have done all I could to combat her resolve ; but she loves me better than aught tiptoe earth, roll Verefore will die with me." In the will are the following paesogra:—"l leave mothing behind me in this world hot my fondly sheoved child. Quitting it, as! now do, my wily e rre is for him. I wish him to remain in mv dear natiee land unt,l his fifth or sixth year —that he al all learn Fr. tech, German. English, and, if necessary, Deli sii thormighly well. Ile is only to be trught music if ho 'hall manifest conspicuous musical talent. I earnestly implore that, later no, no compul. non shall be exercieed upon him with reap ct to the choice of a career. I mu a believing Catholic, but I will not have my son biontht up by the Jesuits. He shall be confirmed, however, f r I would not have him believe in nothiug like so many of my contemporaries. In his education speciaterress shall be laid up or to lily exei °Nee —gymnastics, riding, and fencing. Tame exerc:see, equally useful to body and mind, are nowadays too frequently neglected in favour o' Intel dual etudes. With reinet to my boo's eatimatitv. F mune is undeniably the lath, rland ef my heart (la France et sans donate la patrie de nson cur), but he m y adopt that of his (a' her if moved thereto by predilect'on it conviction. I beseech Count Henry to fulfil tho e last wishes of mine. IU, by his whole futuie life and by his behaviour to our child, he will prove himself willing to snake the boy happy, I forgive him with all toy heart. If my son should by any °hence cones to know the manner of my death make him believe that incurable disene prompted me to commit suicide. It would Le hard unon the child that he should be forced to Late his fatht r."  THE EASTER MONDAY VOLUNTEER ItEviEw.—General Princa Edward of S xe•Weimar, in protecting the reports el c aumanding oftee,9 on the VoMIA r Review at Portsmouth on Reeler Monday remarks thst not • single complaint of the condoie of the volunteers in Portsmouth had been brought to h:s notice. The General speaks of the miliia, y appearance and conduct of tho Volunteers In tering of high wail.%