SUICIDE OF A LOVER.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1792, 30 September 1874, Page 3

SUICIDE OF A LOVER.

.;,,,. A, most remarkable and romantic suicide of a member of one of the first families has just occured here (says th© •New York World). Tke prevailing opinion is that the death was accidental, but it is known to the friends of the family to hare been a suicide... Last winter a beautiful and highly accomplished young girl removed to this city from Natchez. Her parents were in moderate circumstances. She entered 'heartily into the social gaieties of the season, and at the terminrtion thereof found '■ she- had won two lovers. One was a young clerk, handsome, gay, and fascinating; the other a merchant of extensive means, but some years older than his rival. Society generally believed that the young man had won the maiden's heart, but her good sense prevailed over her sense of romance, and she accepted the hnad of the mer«

chant. A few days ago they were married. Among tlie guests present at the ceremony was the rejected lover. He was in excellent spirits, and never shone to bettor advantage. The guests having departed, the bride retired, and the groom and a few friend.* gathered in the supper room to drink a parting toast. Just as the champagne-cork, popped and flew to the ceiling, the young man entered, approached the groom, and, without angry word or a warning, felled him to the floor. The friends interfered and prevented an immediate encounter. The groom, much excited, insisted on a prompt settlement. The house was searched high and low for weapons, and nothing but an old pair of rusty foils found. The buttons were broken from these, and the men placed in position, and in a moment more were engaged in mortal combat. The young man was the better swordsman, and by a quick, . sudden, pass disarmed his apponent, threw him on his back, and was in the act of thrusting his foil through the struggling man's throat, when the door flew open, and the bride, clad in her night dress, rushed in, threw herself between the combatants, and begged her husband's life from his rival's hands. The young man, with an oath, threw his foil upon the floor, and rushed from the house. The next morning he was found in his room with a bullet through his brain. The facts, through the influence of the parties engaged were suppressed, and the shooting pronounced accidental.