EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2055, 31 July 1885, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

; 4 n extraordinary suicide ivds committed on May 11 in the. Protestant Chapel in the Rue Madame, Paris, Immediately after the sermon a man roso, and saying deliberately in a: loud voice: « The pastor alone tells the truth," drew a-revolver and blew out -his brains. Women screamed affrighted, and rushed to the door. Two doctori were -fetched, but could on y certify that, doath had taken place, A wild letter of great length, pWy indicated 1 in-, tjamty. The writer, Heraan Kellar, a uerman-Swiss, a native of Zurich, sajd. that when in 1871 the army of Bourbalci, took refuge in Switzerland, he alone, showed sympathy for Frtncj by offering 1

tho soldiers, cigars. He came toFiaalo and desired no hing so much as to;b8&J : French soldier, and to fight for tfia recovery of Strassburg. He had beeft Hying for six years ip a boarding-housi JYitli relation?, but lie could not reconcile}.] himself to abandon his'ljk • and live for, mere eating and He had ,/ wished to marry a Frisnch woman, and two girls had paid court to him, and,;-; ultimately jilted him. He had broken hiai arm, which a French quack doctor had ; badly set, and so his clearest wish to serve in the Trench army was frustrated. ■ He gave notice that he would kill him-' - ...self in 'he Protestant Chapel to show :that lie thought the pastor a hypocrite, 'He desired no superstitious cross Over his [grave, but hoped every patriotic French- J man would' attend his funeral; or he would like better that his. body, might be i' 'given up for dissection, sojhat the moat ! scientific doctors might say what ought to : have been the proper treatment for the i accident which had rendered him a j cripple, In a postcript he said, "My uncle owes me 250 francs, of which I wish to subscribe 100 francs to the Gambetta monument." : i.