SUICIDE FOLLOWS THEFT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17662, 24 December 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)

SUICIDE FOLLOWS THEFT.

DREAD OF BEING ROBBED. There has been a tragic sequel to a recant Paris jew til theft. Mile. Elsie Soubeyra.nd Moreville, living in Pass}, iix September last, was victimised by a clever and unscrupulous adventurer, who disappeared with all her jewels. The theft preyed upon tho mind of Mile. Moreville. j Sho refused to see visitors, and lived in eonstancr dread of some other form of spoliation. Ihe servant became alarmed, especially | when Mile. Moreville's Pekingese poodle, which was in her mistress' room, began hov. img end scratching at the locked door, j An entrace to the room having been j the police found the faithful dog j b-mg jost inside the door iu the last stages of exhaustion from hunger, while the woman lay dead on the floor, having apparently killed herself in a fit of madness. Mile. Moreville, it was clear, had first sought to kill herself in her bathroom. With a, carving knife she had attempted to open an artery in her left hand. She made several deep incisions, but only ! severed a vein. She tried the right arm,.' but with no better success. Realising, probably alter hours of intense agony, that her injuries were not mortal, she struggled to the bedroom. There, having washed and bound up her lacerated arms, she cut her throat with the knite. The doctor stated that Mile. Moreville had been dead two davs. The dog was given some fooc£ and at once nestled close to its mistress' body, md hnd pQ ha Sswe&Jy