TRAGIC SUICIDE.
Tiro ladles, aged respectively 69 and 52, committed suicide on Saturday, July 2, under the moot tragic cireamatineM. The younger of the two was married and loot her husbind some years ago* She then begged her tlder unmarried sister to live with her. In the course of time, the grief of tha widow turned her head, and she beesme mad, and was placed la an asylum. Last Christmas she was ra* leased as perfectly cured. On Saturday morning tbe two sisters took a cab and drove to the foot of the Kablenberg , where it rlßes abruptly out of the Danube. Having dismissed the cab they were seen sauntering along the bank. Shortly after a railway guard saw a female figure floating on the water. He took a boat and succeeded In getting it out. He then discovered that a second woman was fastened with cords to the baok cf the first. The woman at the top waa only unconßolous, and soon reoorered, bat the other was dead. While this was being ascertained, the woman who had been saved ran to the river and threw herself m again, but was agajn reioaec}. The woman saved was the. mad plstefr $hi shock has again affected her brain, ana she has been nent back to the asylum*
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1649, 30 August 1887, Page 2
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216TRAGIC SUICIDE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1649, 30 August 1887, Page 2
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