WOMAN'S EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 200, 23 August 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE

BURIED ALIVE.

An extraordinary case of suicide is reported from Evreux, In the department of the Eure, by the "Telegraph's" cor-

respondent,

A Breton woman named Marie Morvan, aged 35, dug a grave^by £he side of that of her sister, and then buried herself elive. Morvan was an exemplary servant, employed by a farmer near Evreux. Recently one of her married sisters died, and on her death-bed extracted from Marie a promise. This was to tne effect that the latter would faithfully marry her brother-in-law when he was left a widower. After the death of her sister Marie Morvan thought of the promise. As she haa no desire to wed, and no liking for her brother-in-law, the widower, she resolved to die. She would then, she considered.join her sister in the next world.

and make matters all right with her. The ■woman, it appears, lifted, up the gravestone over her sister, and after she had excavated a tomb for herself brought the slab down over her. Part.of Marie Morvan's dress was seen protruding from the headstone by another sister, a Madame Ledu, who went to visit the grave. Surprised, the woman called for helD from people near at hand, and, the slab being raised, Marie Morvan was fount! dead in the grave dug by her own hands. She was suffocated soon after the headstone had closed on her. Her hands and face were not covered by the earth, which she bad managed to pile over her body.