EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AT NOTRE DAME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6566, 2 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AT NOTRE DAME.

Somk particulars regarding an extraordinary suicide of it young girl a; Notre Dame are given by the Paris correspondent of the Daily News. A love disappointment is believed to have been the cause. At nine in the morning she v.'.is observed impatiently walking round the aisles, watch ing the doors as if expecting somebody who had appointed to meet her. She occasionally went into the close, and often wistfully looked round. At eleven o'clock the verger saw her still in tho church, and noticed he: - getting into conversation with nn old woman. Independently of her refined beauty, there was something in her manner that excited his curios'ty, aud he called the attention of tin; Kngb'sh cicerone to her. She asked the old woman to accept a <lvji:<i:i?v from her in n restaurant hard by. They both lunched together, and at two o'clock returned to sec Paris from the tower. When they ascended then , was a heavy downpour. Both went to t;ikc shelter in the watchman's sentry-bow When they were there, the young girl suddenly rin out, and, after climbing on'the para pot, Hung herself forward. She fell on the railing, the spikes of wfcich have the form of chisels. They cut the. body in two, near the waist. The lower part fell backwards on the (lags of the porch, and the upper part .stuck on the rails. A policeman ran to tho Morgr.o to fetch the dead cart. The hoaii, on which a round hat remained, and the chest, wen , not disfigured, but quite blenched. The old woman said deceased talked at breakfast a , -out sa.ir.ts who devoted themselves to charity, and did not appear demented or even excited. There were GOf. in her pocl;et, but no paper of any kind.