PATHETIC LOVE TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 381, 22 February 1908, Page 3

PATHETIC LOVE TRAGEDY.

Medical Student Kills Himself by his Sweetheart’s Body.

Paris, February 17

A tragic ending to a romance of two young French people of good family occurred at Nice yesterday, when M. Georges Hucher, a medical student, and the son of a well-known official of one of the Government offices, killed himself at the bedside ofhis dead fiancee, Mile. Juliette de Raymond. Mile, de Raymond had been under treatment at the private hospital of Dr Poireir, in Paris, where M. Hutcher the student fell in love with her, but his parents would not hear of a marriage owing to the girl’s delicate- state of health.

The pair finally eloped. They went to Nice, where they took a beautiful ground-floor flat, with a large garden overlooking the Promenade des Anglais, and M. Hucher hoped that the warmth of the climate would cure his sweetheart and enable them to marry. But Mile. Raymond grew worse, and died in her lover’s arms’ on Friday morning. Hucher was frantic with grief. Yesterday he stripped the garden of all its flowers, roses, arum lilies, and white lilac, and ordered large quantities from Nice. He went into the bedroom where his, fiancee was lying, and covered her with the , flowers until the bed was one large floral bank.

Then he stretched himself at the girl’s feet and shot himself through the head.