A WIDOW S GRIEF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 227, 18 September 1908, Page 4

A WIDOW S GRIEF.

. DROWNS IIERSKLF AFTER ~ HUSBAND'S SUICIDE. •Marie von Bourbach. a young widow whose husband, Louis von ISourbach. [■l'ljiinitt-ed suicide ill Melbourne recently, drowned herself at St. Kilda on the sth ill-it. The husband was found dead in his bed at the Council ('lull .Hotel on Mond iv morning last, and a bottle of cyauni'b- of potassium was.found in tho room, lie left the following letter to a iriend—"My dearest friend in the world, will you forgive me, and you will have a dying mail's luve, and I will .-■■ l' it i ter you in another world. Do, do fni'ghe me. (Signed) Louis. She does own to it; can see me at the morgue iu the morning." Two lads walking on the beach at S.. Kilda saw a woman walk to the end of a small jetty and' throw herself into the sea. They rushed to her assistance, and kept her above water til! other help arrived. The woman was unconscious when lifted out of the water, but animation was restored, and she was sent to Alfred Hospital, whore she died the same evening. Iler identity was still unknown when the body was removed to the cilv morgue, but when it arrived there Constable Watson immediately recognised it as that of Mario von Rourbach, who hail identified the body of her husband at the opening of tho coroner's iiu|uest.