DISTRESSING CALAMITY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2006, 9 June 1875, Page 2

DISTRESSING CALAMITY.

A shocking accident occurred in Paris some time ago, which has thrown the Rothschild and other Jewish families into mourning. Madame Anspach, with her. son and daughter, Mdlle Hclene Anspach; —a young lady of considerable beauty, well known- in. the fashionable world.of Paris—were returning home towards midnight from the Theatre Frances. Crossing the Boulevard opposite the New Opera, Mdlle. Anspach was run. over -by an omnibus, two of the wheels passing over her body. When picked up she was insensible, but as consciousness re- 1 turned she said she felfcno pain, and was! borne without apparent suffering to a cab. In the vehicle she placed-her head on her, mother's shoulder and, took hold of her, hand, whichshe pressed again*' her chest— Madame Anipach "giving utterance all the while,to expressions of thankfulness for what seemed to her the miraculous preservation of her child's-life. But on, reaching the house she found she had only a corp»e in her arms. A heartrending meeting took place when the young • girl Fas" carried, into the drawing-room between Madame Anspach and her husband, who had been absent from Paris on business for three weeks previously; and had' arrived^ an hour before the accident." 'To surprise agreeably his family he did not give notice .of Jais coming. A magnificent set of pearl ornaments, which he bought when away for his daughter, were set out on the table in such a way as to catch her eye the moment she entered. M. Anspach, on hearing the wheels of the carriage in the courtyard of his hotel, ran to hide behind a door, in order' tcTenjoy the astonishment and giriish'delight "which the sight of the jewels would elicit. His agony can well be cenceivedrwhen the cry, •' the's dead, she's>dead ! " reached him. Mdle. He!<ne An3pach was niece of an eminent judge of tl.e Court of Cassation- of the same name, the granddaughter of M. Anspach, of.Mclz, who wrote the Jewish liturgical-servicein use in France.