The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-05-02 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

DOUBLE SUICIDE  IN PARIS. The correspondent of the Daily News, writing a few days since, furnishes the following details concerning the mysterious suicide of an English couple in Paris i—" The suicide of a young EngIlish couple at the Hotel St. Pstersturg, 35, I:ue Caumartin, has teen the talk of all Paris to-day. I have just returned from the Morgue, where the bodies, as is the French custom, are exposed to public view for identification. Immense crowds congregated about the door of the Morgue, many people not hav in g nerve enough to go in, but eagerly asking questions outside. 'she sight, indeed, was not one which it might have teen thought anybody would have eared to look upon from mere curiosity. The man's age appears to be about 30. He is of short stature, with very smell hands and feet, great muscular development of the arras, shoulders, and chest, short brown beard and moustache, Altogether he has the air of a fashionable English athlete. His clothes, which together with those of his companion were hung above their heads to assist in their identification, were a morning suit, well cut, and of the first quality. I heard a Frenchman say that he looked as if he fever had had a care in his life. His companion, presumably ls or 19 years of age, looked as though not in the same station of life, though her clothes were good and her linen fine. Her hair is singularly long, and dressed with curls turned up in Victoria bands, as was the fashion twenty years ago. Her height is 5 feet; plump in form. menacing stoutness. An Englishman present said be was familiar with the man's face, which he had seen for years in Rotten row. The silver plates on the dressing. case have no mark or cypher. This unfortunate couple arrived at the hotel on Wedaesday week, each carrying a small valise in hand. The gentleman asked for a geed room. Being told that there was only one, on the fourth floor, the lady said, 'Never mind; we can change to-morrow.' They did not come down for dinner, which provoked notice, though not alarm ; but the following day, no response being made to knocks, the door was broken open, and the strangers, half undressed, were found dead in bed, locked in each other's arms. On the o unterpane was an empty phial, which had contained prussic tacid. A full bottle of laudanum was on the night table. The police report states that, whereas the woman had been dead ten hours, the lbody of the man was warm when found. Hence the conjecture that possibly the murder led to a remorseful suicide. The marks on the linen of both were clumsily cut our with scissAts and the rags burned in the fire-place, but a ticket in the man's hat showed that it was bought of MacCarthy and Co., 30, Ludgate bill, and 30, Gresham street. , This is the only clue to the identity. Telegrams to the London police have not yet produced any ' information. The woman had no wedding-ring, ' but a turquoise ring reversed to simulate one. She ' was in an advanced state of pregnancy." A Birmingham contemporary remarks: —lt is strongly suspectoi that the bodies of the Englishman and montan who committed suicide at H the Hotel St. Petersburg, Paris, ,re those of an absconding bankrupt jeweller and publican of thip town, and of a respectably connected young lady from Wednestury, with whom he eloped three weeks ago. The bankrupt's wife and the lady's relatives feel convinced as to the identity. To ' clear up all doubt the brother and brother-in-liw -,of the lady have gone to Paris, and photographs of , both parties have been sent by the man's wife to the Paris police. , I  PROCEEDINGS IN rut