The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1882-07-04 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE SAD SUICIDE NEAR VIENNA.  11XTR.  lAOILDIN.  Larrsa.  A distreming statement penned by Maria HamelnDelmont, one of the two young esteem who committed suicide near Vienna remit?, republished be ths per. recision of her executor. It will be remembered that at en early hour of the 14th inst. the geld de efirseabre of Count Henry C tudenhoven, then slaving oe his tamer's chateau of t),mostielm, new Lies, came u the deed bodies of two headman and wsll'drseeed young women in the costs garden. Tee corpses mem Identified shortly alter their discovery as those of Mire Demain.Dainiont sod Allis. de Henneville, French. women r., birth, who hod arrivad in Lies from Vienna the previous moraine, aud iuirlCil examin Won of their reaming showed that they had shot themselves with revoker.. In the Chas of Malls de Resneville death probably ensued instanteneoesly ; but Mane Damele's dress showed signs of a long death &roe,. A packet of letters, male{ with black wax and sellreesed to the Chancellor of the French &abeam, his been found at the Vienna Jolting' of the decaued girls. oontaining • will signed by Marie Domain, letters to her mother, hin. eon, and two of her (Heeds, and a written narrative of the circumstances promoting her to the tragical meolverwhieh the carried out within hearing . ( her betrayer. To this narrative ai appended the following touching declare. tree, signed try Aline de Ranieri& :—" Neither my friend /feria nor any one else has urged me to do this deed. I am about to die by my own free will, simply because I cannot live • About my friend Marie." In a loud docu. went, dated June lath, written by Mary Haman. Dalmost, she ears :—" Since April last You I have been ieeimady iunnecteil with Count Henry Coadenhoven. Eirly in July I felt I was • mother. That was the ruin of my exitence. lam fee from c weplaining of the well. earned p inishment for me weakness. . Whit / have to reproach C mat Henry with I. ate subsequent . conduct torn, whidi has driven mete take this desperate step. .. . Is wee cruel of him to prevent me from returning to Francs, where I wining to go through the hooey trouble ewalting me. This is what be said to me, • 'You have no right to leave the father of your child. I will never abandon you. The link binds me to you for ever. We will never part and I will make you my wife as soon as circumstances will posit me into IJpon thee I dimmed it my duty to remain. I believed that he would do his duty to the mother of Vile child, but I have mace found out that ell he wonted vise to keep me for him for his own gratification. I swear that this la the truth. Then he wrote to me—'! , pledge legal( heforaband to do everything that means will cornpaes to Nerve your future. 1 aweer this to you upon my word of tion,,ur se • gentlemen. Keep this litter be I documentary evidence of my WOMIle: It will be found amongst my gainers, • lth many Ohm of • similar character. Towirls the end of September he lef tme to return to bill fattier. I remained behind at Deeding, where we had been living mother. I von obliged to sell everything emeewet, e„n to my Wapiti But for the help of two Mends, 'h.. stood be me in my utmost need. I must have died of v-tion. Hie father had me summoned before the Dobbee p.,os„so.wery of Polio*, who insulted me so cruelly that! was c impelled to appeal to a lawyer for protection ; and enheeu.iently in Vienna, before the Prefect or Police, who wise politer to me in matters of form, but more cruel to me is fact and deed. He offered me 4,000 ,r.l„, oocborme for • written declaration thet Count Henry Coudenhovee wee not the father of my child. This proposal I indignant? rejected. Throughout the whole affair neither nfeda: het:: therefore son will otb doneut dce..ar • lt a a dI could idawtnitoial woman mar fall without meting to be honest Illy companion Aline whose attachment to me knows no bounds, will not combat her resolve: but she loves me better than aught upon earth ore the follow* geseartil:— Linn,. nothing me in but toy focally- loved child. quitting it, et I Doe .1., niy.o2 nt,ro in for him- I wieh him to teateis in me dear .0 140 d ettLia Afth or gob yem —Wit he shill Issrm 7"Riab' and, if nemesia thoroughly . Italian orona„,g—e tt-taldillitish. only to be taught music if he shall manifest conspicoons musical talent I earnestly implore that, later owi so °wow, don shall be exercised neon him with resprot to the choice of a mem. I am • beheld= °swam but / will not have my iwin brought ule be the 3asulti He shall be confirmed, however, 1.. r I would not have him believe in nothing like so many of lay uontemporeyiee I. his education Imelda ewer shall be laid epee bodily exercises —gymnastic., riding, and isadeßi These exercises, equally owirei to body and mind, are nowadays too fry. quaintly Deselected in favour o' intelbotual Mathes. With respite' to rue boy's natimutlity. Prince is undeniably the fatherland ..1 my heart Ha Name sat my data, hi Nary de seen e•air), bat he msy adopt that of Us father if moved thereto by p-etiiiiletiOCl or coariettac. I beseech Count Henry to fulfil thoa lest wishes of mine. If, try his whole future life and by his behaviour to our dad, he will woos himself willing to make the boy hew. I forgive him wlth all my heart If my son should by any chance come to know the manner of my death make him believe that int:amble disease promoted meto im= suicide. It wield be hard urn the child Oak he be I mei to MO kb tab=