SUICIDE AS SEQUEL TO AN ALPINE ACCIDENT.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3874, 16 May 1906, Page 4

SUICIDE AS SEQUEL TO AN ALPINE ACCIDENT.

“ I am going to join one of my friends and explain to him that it was an accident,” was the message left behind by M. Sangy, who committed suicide by shooting himself at bis home at the village of Parey, near Chateau d’Oez, yesterday, stated a Geneva telegram of March 21st.

This is the sequel to one of the most pathetic tragedies in Alpine history. In September last, M, Sangy and two friends went on a shooting excursion in the mountains above Chateau d’Oez.

During tbe shoot an extraordinary accident happened. M. Sangy fell down a precipice, and while in the air involuntarily discharged bis gun, killing one of his friends, named Haellen, above him, on the spot. M. Sangy was severely bruised by the fall, but no bones were broken. When he found that he had killed his friend his grief knew no bounds, and be wished to kill himself. He was arrested, but released after an enquiry. Continual brooding affected his mind, and recently he complained of being haunted everywhere by the. face of his dead friend.