A Parisian Tragedy.
TO GRATIFY CURIOSITY ABOUT THE HEREAFTER.
Paris, Dec. 30. Laura Corbeil, an accomplished girl of twenty-two, committed suicide to gratify her curiosity about the great hereafter. This is the second suicide from the samo cause within a month. The first was that of a boy of twelve who hanged himself because of his hankering to partake of the joys of heaven as described in a religious book he had just road. Mile Coi'beil had been brooding over tho ease of the boy till she determined to do likewise. She used a carving knifo while reclining in bed and plantod it squarely through her heart. In a letter to her parents she said that between the teachings of her religious mother and her materialist father her mind was in such torturing doubt that she couldn’t withstand her curiosity longer. What a boy had done she could do. She was going fq ascertain what was on tho other side of life and meet her God if there was o,ne, and.ioin the millions of departed mortals wherever they had gone.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 20, 25 January 1901, Page 2
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