A MISERABLE END.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1545, 26 August 1886, Page 4

A MISERABLE END.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily News An English notoriety of Impartial France, Emma Crutch, better known as “ Cora Pearl,” died' on Sunday in the houss in the which she retired when poverty came upon her. She was attended by of f . relief, at the request of the concierge of the tenement in which she lodged. What little furniture she had scarcely sufficed to pay the quarter’s rent, which will bo due in a few days. Her memoirs did not sell, l&Mshe was paid something not to give a«-pl«ce-in them-to a few gieat personages of the Empire. The mala'djr of which she died was ;ancer. One' realises now |wi|h ? (difficulty (how a? woman so utterly Aulgstr and vnlg ir-looking could occupy as a notoriety the position she took up here shortly after the Crimean war. Her last victim was Duval, the son of the butcher who founded the cheap andl)wbooin the two years that eptsinscppn his father’s death spent on her stables and lapdogs seventeen-millions of francs. When he got to the for tune refused to see him^Mdd- r he a ,4'orcing-his way intoher presence, discharged a pistol at bis temple, intending to blow his brains out, but his hand slipping he bis face badjy,. Cora’s solicitude was,not for thb prodigal, but for a new carpeV'ch* - which ! he : fell bleeding. The abseifce thus' shown made her an object 1 of ’ general repulsion, and she tt-oul«Hh&9d been 7 forgotten were it not v for the litigation in which she was frequently engaged. - In her memoirs she represented herself; as being* the daughter, of 'iliS;; i: poefc«-"4»ho-v-wr-ole-Kathleen MavoiirheetiV’ 1