A Woman Kills Herself.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 220, 23 September 1901, Page 3

A Woman Kills Herself.

A HE ARTLESS ADVENTURER. Paris, August 10.

Xho suicide ut Monaco of Baroness Helen Kameneff, at the age of thirty-nine years, lias dumbfounded the American colony. lie hanged herself in her bedroom" three days ago. Every American familiar with Paris or the l\iviora knew that strange character well. Once she was just a pretty Irish girl employed as a laundress in the Hoffman House in New York city. She married Rufus Eodingtou, a Western lawyer, who saw her there and fell in love with her. After his death in I’aris she wedded Earon KamenclY, an old Russian general, who died three days later, leaving to her nil his fortune. The baroness remained absolutely ignorant of society usages, but she was tolerated because of her prettiness, natural wit, and generous employment of a vast fortune. Besides, her freaks and bad “breaks'' amused society. The newspapers ascribe this surprising suicide to disappointed love. The Soir says she recently had grown fond of a handsome fellow under thirty, named Trivelli. who passed himself off as an Italian officer : tiiat the baroness had expected to marry him, but that a fortnight before the appointed day Trivelli disappeared with ail jewels and a lot of negotiable bonds, leaving a cruelly sarcastic letter, mocking the woman's illusions. The baroness sent for a niece to live with her at Monaco, but evidently was unable to recover her wonted spirits.