SUICIDE OF THE MARCHIONESS DE ROYS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1496, 2 March 1887, Page 3

SUICIDE OF THE MARCHIONESS DE ROYS.

The Paris correspondent of ai exchange gives the following particulars of the tragic end of the Marohionesß da Roys, brief mention of whioh was made m a recent Ibbuo :— On the 23rd December last her husband, a man m the prime of life, a Deputy, and a colonel of militia, died of heart dißeaße. At noon, after dejeuner, he eti joyed a game of blind man's buff, ! with his four children, the eldest; aged fourteen ; feeling fatiguod, he retired to , his bedroorr, and at three o'clock was dead, In oonformity with his wish, hie wife had him dressed m hia regimentals for grave clo'has, the tri-color for winding Bhre f J She superintended the ar rangemenis for the burial m the family vault, near Fontainebleau, remarking that it was satisfactory to find there was an empty niche beside her husband, On returning homo she ordered the mortuary chamber to be arranged for her decupation. From that moment she refused to eat, drink, speak, or to receive her children or relatives. The doctors ordered her to be most carefully guarded ) two nuraea were engaged, but during the momentary abseiics of both m the next room, called there by the doctor to receive instructions, the unfortunate lady rao to the window, opened „the sashes, unbolted the thutters, and threw herself from the fourth storey. Tho doctor heard thebuitlo, divined the cause, rushed into the chamber, and waa able to touch the dress of the rmrohlones3, as with a wild shriek, nhe sprang from the window* la her fall ehe whirled round and round on he'salf, striking a fanlight, and bounding therefrom into a court yard, where her coaohoh m an waa grooming her favorite he rao. tho was p : oked up dreadfully shattered, md Btrange to say she survived for sorre minutes. She was an exceedingly hanc/Bomo woman, agsd thirty-four, and one of tho Isadora of fashionable society.