TRAGEDY OF LOST BEAUTY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9090, 9 March 1908, Page 4

TRAGEDY OF LOST BEAUTY.

Bucharest, January 15. Baroness von Schwitzer, a millionairess, and once a famous Roumanian beauty, committed suicide yesterady at Orajroa, because she realised that she was beginning to look old. The Baroness was the daughter of a small shopkeeper, but her extraordinary beauty captivated the heart of a wealthy Russian Count, who married her when she was sixteen years old. When she was forty the Count died, leaving ner a fortune of over £1,000,000. Shortly ’afterwards she married Baiou von Schwitzer, an Austrian nobleman.

The Baroness, who recently passed her fiftieth year, had always been proud of her remarkable beauty, and of late had become very melancoholy owing to the fact that the ravages of time were becoming more and more evident. Sjj greatly did the loss of her on her mind that few days ago she attempted to poison herself. The effort failed, but she was determined on selfdestruction, and yesterday obtained a revolver, with which she blew out her brains.

She left a letter stating that she could not bear to survive her good looks.