GONE FROM TROUBLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2233, 28 July 1891, Page 3

GONE FROM TROUBLE.

A sad ending to a runaway marriage is told in a Vienna telegram dated May 23, which states that Frau Alexandra Cserna, the daughter of an aristocratic family in Pest, who ran away with a poor lover to Racz Keve, on the Danube, has just committed suicide in a sensational manner, taking with her to another world her four children. Her hnsband, who turned out to be a drunkard, had left her and her four children unprovided for a month ago, even robbing her of the little money which she had earned by hard labour. The delicate constitution of the wife was unable to withstand the strain put upon her, especially as the husband had been in the habit of beating her and her children, when money was not forthcoming. On May 22, Madame Cserna, was seen on the bank of the Danube with her children. She was seen to fold her eldest child, five years old, to her breast, while she placed the baby in a hood hanging over her shoulders. Then taking the two others by the hand she rushed into the water, before the eyes of a number of people, who were helpless witnesses. The bodies must have gone right to the bottom of the river, and got entangled in the weeds and moss, for none of them rose to the surface.