ROMANTIC SUICIDE.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1126, 6 September 1882, Page 2

ROMANTIC SUICIDE.

♦ A romantic suicide of two young ladies is reported from Linz, in Austria. The bodies were found the other morning in the park adjoining the house of Count Coudenhove at Ottenshaim, a small locality situate about an hour's distance from Linz. The circumstances attending the discovery left no doubt as to suicide in both cases, One of the bodies has been identified as that of Mdle. Marie Damain, a young and promising French actress, ,\ve\\ known in London where, during several seasons, she performed in private circles and had been encouraged to come out on the stage. The other was Mdlle. Aline Rennevile, a friend of Mdlle. Damain, who had been travelling with her for the last eighteen months, and who would not survive her. Mdle. Damian performed in small pieces at different private houses the two winters she spent in Vienna, and, among others at the French Embassy. One of her many admirers was a young count an officer in the army, between whom and Mdlle. Damain relations of intimacy were contracted. Marriage was contemplated by the unfortunate girl, and the young count meant honourablp by her, but was not of age, and his family were strongly opposed to th£ match. The liaison was broken off some months ago, and in. October last Mdlle. Damain gave birth to a child. All efforts to effect a reconciliation with the count proving fruitless, Mdlle. Damain formed the fatal resolve which which she carried out. Having packed up their belongings at the lodgings they had taken in Vienna, she and her friend proceeded to Linz, vithin an hour of which town is situated the chateau of the count's father. They at first put up at a small hotel in I inz, and next proceeded to the Chateau of Ottersheim. After lingering about the precincts for a couple of hours, they entered the park and there, in the dead of night, on a bed of roses, the two unhappy women put an end to their existence. Thair bodies were discovered by a servant the next morning. At Mdlle. Damain'a lodgings several letters were found, written prior to her departure, explaining the cause of her terrible end and that of her friend. Nothing, she says, would have prevented the latter from following her example, such was the attachment existing between them.