TRAGEDY IN HIGH LIFE.
There wai a tremendous excitement or> January 5 m the Bug do Vnrenoes, a most fashionable atreot m the Faubourp Saint Germain, Paris. The excitement was caused by tho (suicide of the Marquise de Boys, a charming blonde of thir tyfour years of age, and a fashionab't beaut}. Dressed m a mauve silk tobe d< ohambre, trimmed with point d'Alecon lace, she jumped out of a window of he> &p*rtment on the third storey of No 36 Rue de Yarednes. In her fall she struck against the top of a larnp-po.it, breaking her tbigh and smashing the glass panes of the lamp into a thousand pieces, She then oamo d<>wu with a crash upon the stone and her skull was fractured. This terrible suicide was due to over-excitement from which Bhe had been suffering s'neo the death of her husband the previous week. Tug Marquis de Roya had been deputy for the Department of Aubo since 1872 The Marqu'se le.ves four children 'Am eldest of whom is fourteen years old
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1493, 26 February 1887, Page 3
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174TRAGEDY IN HIGH LIFE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1493, 26 February 1887, Page 3
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