An Extraordinary Suicide.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 7

An Extraordinary Suicide.

A woiiKMAN and his wife, named Ardouin, living in the Avenue Farmentier, Paris, recently lost one of their children (a little girl of six) with croup. Her brother, eighfc years of age, on his return from school, seeing the little girl extended lifeless on the bed, was greatly affected. Fora long time he was quite inconsolable, and his parents were obliged to remove him to an adjoining room and soothe him with kind attentions ere they could bring the poor child to himself. On the following morning^ the boy asked to bo allowed to see his sister once more for the last time. He was taken into the death chamber, went softly up to the bed, and, imprinting a kiss on the face of the little corp&e, said, "We shall soon meet again, dear sister." The child returned to his room, and his parents, busy with preparations for the funeral, lost* sight of him for .some moments. His mother, going to the room an hour afterwards, found him hanging from the window, quite dead. The child had tied a towel to the handle of the window, had climbed om a bench, and then, passing the towel round his neck, had kicked the bench aside. Nofc a cry or groan had escaped.him. There can be no doubt that the poor child's mind was affected by the shock of his little sister's death, but the resolution he displayed and the manner in which lie carried out his fatal determination were extraordinary for a boy of such a tender age.