DOUBLE SUICIDE NEAR VIENNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1156, 19 August 1882, Page 2

DOUBLE SUICIDE NEAR VIENNA.

L j..;-, ■j ■ ; (London /Telegraph':)' -'/ • Another, terrible illustration of the old, old story of womau'B credulity and man's -perß(!ioußiie«B has been supplied by the - -hear-rending iv-.olaiiom wMnni'ted to paper by Marie Damain-Daliimnt a few • • ■hours'before she shot herself under.her | ; heartless-'seducer's' window. ; It-will be I remembered that at an early hour of the I 14th lost the valet de chamber of Count I , Henry Ooudenhoven, then staying at his - I ' father's; chateau of Ottenaheim, near ■ I ' Lina,'cijme upon the dead bodies of tW'i, ; I handsome;iindwell-droaaed ynung.women I in the"castle garden, lying i.Vi either aide I ■: door leadini; from'the'Krounda I intoOouritiHenry Oondenhoveu's private I ■ apartmeriis..The "corpses were indentified . I shortly after their discovery as those of- 'B Mario Damain-Daiinont and Aline de I Benneville, Frenchwomen by birth, who I had arrived in Linz from Vienna the I previous morni m, and surgical examina- I turn of '.heir remains established the fact I they had cn'mniitted-auida in,an uncom- I monly deliberate and resolute manner. ■ 1 Eaoh L'irl, had bared her left breast, I pointed ilie muzzle of a revolver at her I heart, and discharged 'th» .weapon with I .fatal effect. In the case : of Millie de ■ Benneyille, wljo was fqund lyiijg on her H back stretohed out a full length, death fl probably bnsued-instantaneously ;bi)t I Mario Damain's dreaa showed snjns of a H : deat'li.agdny, endured by its wearer H upon ihe damp soil, an 4 in> her hands H ' were tightly clutched tufts qf grass, whicl) H ,ihe unfortunate uhi had tqrn up hy the H '.. roots whilst writl)ing witl) intolerable H When on the Thursday the H suicide, the Atwria-i (minorities toqtitu- H ! ted an invest igatioq nnq tiie uroperty of H .the deceased "iris Vienna lodging H a oaclfeoof) i", s'>ii»!j wi ii Mask wax H andiiT'iM.-! j- \\.< !]'iin....)! .f, fi f -j'.ig ■ ; French Emb isny; vaine to liljht, t)-id '■ being opened,;by the Commusary of H Police in the presence of a iiohry.pu.blic, 1 was found tq contain a will signed by: Hj ' Marie; Dump,; (ettgrs .to her'iqother, H her son, imd' two of her .friends, aqd a • writien mrratiye: of the ciroiHqstancel 1 proraptirigjhqrtq the tragical resolve,^B 1 whichsl)ccamß'i out wiibin hearing of^fl j her betrayer, ij,nd as it. yeuy {^| •;hreshol(} ofihjs fairer/a.,doiTr!\To this ■ narrative appended tl)e following H '' tducljing declarntioq, sjgqod by .Alii)o^de"B ' Rennevjllei— my fi'iend ifan^^B nor anyone else h.is me to do this deed. lam about to die of my own free^| ; will,.simply bjoauiej,cahoot live with>^H 1 ' out my friend Marie." .I 1 '.;.- ;'■'