PAINLESS DEATHS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3792, 10 September 1883, Page 4

PAINLESS DEATHS.

Tho danger that may arise from sleeping in an atmosphere laden with tho perfume of flowers has, wo are told in the Standard, just received a fresh illustration of a very painful nature. Two young people residing in a Parisian suburb, who had been married but a few weeks, went to pay a visit to their grandparents on their return from their honeymoon trip. After dinner the elder folks retired to rest, leaving the young couple in tho garden. The following 'morning their non-appearance at the breakfast table excited some surprise, which was increased when, on the room which they were supposed to havo occupied being visited it was found empty. A search in the grounds was immediately nade without leading to any result; but ultimately an undcr-gardener opened the door of the conservatory, and drew back in consternation. The bodies of the two young people were found there, reclining in a couple of garden chairs, in a perfectly natural position as though asleep. On a doctor being fetched, however, he stated that life had" been extinct for some hours, death having evidently been occasioned by the poisonous odors which the flowers gave out during the night. It is surmised that lho_ deceased entered the conservatory to obtain shelter from!a passing shower, that they had unintcntially dropped asleep there, and thus painlessly passed from life to death.