POUNDS, SHILLINGS, PENCE.
IXms_rß POVERTY DBIVEB A BARONESS TO DESTAIB. The W*ed-n snbnrb of Vfe____ hsa been thrown into excitement (says a correspondent) by the attempt at suicide of one of the aristocracy. This was the young Baroness HUdegarde yon Urban, who arrived a few days ago from Pola, in the hopes of arranging a marriage with her betrothed, a major on the Headquarters StaffShe was staying at a hotel, and It is supposed that an interview which she had with ber fiance, in which he declared that for financial reasons it was impossible for them to marry, threw her li»to such despair that she determined to put an end to herself. Having written her farewell letters, she gave them to a messenger, and he had hardly left the room when a shot was beard, and immediately afterwards the door opened, and the unfortunate baroness staggered out, to fall in the passage. On medical aid being called it was found that she bad lodged a ball In her left breast, but though the wound is serious, it is pronounced not to be necessarily fatal.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 10 February 1906, Page 13
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