A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2126, 15 January 1880, Page 3

A SENSATIONAL SUICIDE.

i. ' Moscow Society, says the Loudon “Daily Telegraph,” would appear to be just now considerably exercised by the suicide of one of[its brightest ornaments the young and lovely Countess Vera Koscheleff, who a short time ago suddenly disappeared from her place, iu the old Bussian. Capital, only two days after her solemn betrothal to Count Heimann, which had been celebrated with festive rejoicing upon an unusually magnificent scale. No one could imagine whither she had gone until her steward received a letter from her, written at her chateau in the Crimea, wherein she informed him that “ she was going to bathe in the river running through her estate, and should not return alive from her bath.” She also described the exact spot near which her body would be found iu the water. Search was of course made with all possible promptitude, and it resulted in the discovery of the beautiful young countess’s corpse sewn up in a large straw sack, and sunk in. the river. The scams were found to be in the interior of the sack, proving that Vera Koscheleff had deliberately sewn herself up in The sack :on the river bank and then cast herself into the stream. In another letter, addressed to one of her uncles, and received by him some time after her death, she gave as her reasons for enclosing herself in a sack previously to drowning herself her extreme fear of crayfish and wiiter-bcetles. Few strange and more fantastic suicides have been recorded even in Russian annals of self-destruction, which arc exceptionally rich in grisly stoi’ics of this particular description.