THE SHOCKING DOUBLE SUICIDE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1771, 5 September 1874, Page 3

THE SHOCKING DOUBLE SUICIDE.

; A Paris correspondent, ;thus describes the scene at the Morgue, a public deadhouse of Paris, where the bodies of a young Englishman and woman were exposed for recognition, they having committed suicide in »n hotel:—" The horrors , of the sad scene at the Morgue to-day

wore niado yet more horrible by the remarks of the mob. The spectators wore far more "sickening in the living pollution than the poor corpses at which they lerelled theirfoul jest«., Had. the beautiful English girl known before her rash act that she would be laid there naked before a coarse multitude; had her companion ,known the fate which had awaited the • woman whom he loved, who had died with him and for him, both would have taken, perhaps, someotber means of self destruction. Death has long familiarised us with its grim features during the war and the Commune. - We stood between the living »nd the dead j we were accustomed to tho whistling of bullets in our ears, and were lulled to sleep by the wild shriek of tho shells rushing through the air; we galloped about the fields stovwed with the ghastly slain, and gazed unmoved on rows of Communist*, and looked on with careless indifference as their corpses were toiscd over the fortification walk; but the constant companionship of death is neeeg;C>to keep alive this indifference. When'we cease to see him for awhile he is abhorrent. Custom had made it with us a property of our business to walk about amongst slovenly unhandsome corpses ; but when the grim row lay before .us to-day, I turned from the hear trending sight with all the horror which Dante ascribes to him. who treads with naked

foot upon a slimy, snake. The beautiful dead girl lay there, lovely as if in fulj and lusty life Decay's effacing- fingers had not as yet touched the lines where beauty lingers. Her countenance bore the bloom of youth and beauty. Her long black hair was carefully parted ahdjplaited in bands, which were laid over her boso ". Death seemed loath to touch such loveliness, but just below the loft breast the streaks of commencing putrefaction were plainly visible. The poor girl was enciente. The man had a noblo aspect; a black hi ard and moustache fringed the face, on which sat deep resignation fearfully portrayed ; cold obstruction's apathy was there mingled with the traces of intense ibut stern sorrow and .dread determination. By their side lay a toothless old crone, over whosrt withered features

waved her gristly grey hair ; and on the next slab reposed a man whoso countenance was marked with the impress of scowling villany."