A LIFELONG TRAGEDY.
FEBNOH OFFICER'S ROMANCE ENDS IN SUICIDE.
A snloide taok place In Paris in Maroh in the Eao Marboeuf under extremely painful circumstances, with a strong tinge of romance attaching to them.
M. Jean de Fourtou was the youngest of the three sons of a former Minister of the Republic, and some years ago came into a large fortune at the death of his father. When a very young mau, it appears, he was madly In love with a beautiful girl, whose parents would not bear of the matoh owing to th* 3 than un* satisfactory state of young de J-urtou's financial prospects. The young lady, much against her will, was married to another man, and Jean de Fortou went ont to Afrioa, where he served as an officer in tbe foreign battalion, and contracted a fever, from the effects of whioh he never entirely reoovered.
About three years ago, by the death of bis father and other unforeseen events, M. De Pourtou suooeeded to a large fortune, and retarned to Franoe, too late, however, for marriage with the woman of his heart's desire. To turn his mind from her tw threw himself into a course of the wildest dissipation, and in a very short time succeeded in utterly dissipating the fine fortune he had inherited,
A few days ago the husband of the lady whom de Pourtou had hoped to have made his wife nnder happier ciroumstaices died af influenza, and de Fonrtou, pennilesß again and moreover with a bad record, knew that hia ohanoe was more hopeless than before. He had a little flat in the Sne Marboeuf, where he was aoonstomed to reoeive his friends of both sexes, and on the Saturday afternoon in question, after writing a long letter to bis mother, confessing his hopelessness, and asking ber pardon for the pain he was about to inflict upon her, he shot himself through the head with a revolver, death being InstgataneQ-Qs,
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11217, 6 May 1899, Page 6
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327A LIFELONG TRAGEDY. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11217, 6 May 1899, Page 6
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