SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 21, 25 January 1913, Page 15

SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENT

GIRL STARVED TO DEATH IN A FOREST. A tragic sequel to a romantic elopement has (states a Paris message dated 10th December) been revealed by the discovery in the Forest of Fontainebleau of the body of a beautiful young woman of 25 who had died of starvation. Two months ago Mile. Jeanne Eudp, the daughter of a retired Army doctor, left her home in Versailles to pass a fow days with a relative at St. Quentin. In the evening she telegraphed to her father from Paris that she had missed the train and would not start for St. Quentin until the next day. After that nothing moro was heard of her, and on being notified of her disappearance the police 'discovered that Mile. Eude's telegram to her father had been handed in at the telegraph ofhee by a young man whbse description corresponded to that of a lieutenant who had been stationed at Versailles and who had recently resigned. It was also ascertained that a couple resembling Mile. Eude and the lieutenant had been seen at La Rochelle. Tho obvious conclusion was that the doctor's daughter had eloped with the military Don Juan, and the police investigations consequently ended. On the 9th ult. two soldiers belonging tc th« Fontainebleau' Garrison .were hurrying through the forest, and fat a spot where the. winding road dominates the valley of the Solles they found near a deserted quarry the young woman's body lying between two huge boulders. Gendarmes were summoned and conveyed the body to the town, • where a doctor found that the young woman had v died of hunger. She had been dead five Or six day b before the body 'was discovered.. There were no papers to assist the police in discovering the young woman's identity, but they soon solved the mystery, and M. Eude went from Versailles to Fontainebleau to claim the body of his daughter. It is hot known how Mile. Eude reached the lonely spot where she died, but the pOhce believe that after eloping with the officer Mile. Eude was abandoned by him, and, not darihg to return home and face her parents, and having no money left wandered about aimlessly until death ended her sufferings.