BURIED HERSELF ALIVE.

Western Star, 26 August 1902, Page 3

BURIED HERSELF ALIVE.

An extraordinary ease of suicide is reported from Evreux, in the department of the Eure, by the ‘ Telegraph’s ’ correspondent. A Breton woman named Marie Morven, aged thirty-five, dug a grave by the side of that of her sister, and then buried herself alive. Morvan was an exemplary servant, employed by a farmer near Eveux. Eecently one of her married sisters died, and on her deathbed extracted from Marie a promise. This was to the effect that the latter would faithfully marry her brother-in-law when he was left a widower. After the death of the sister Maria Morvan thought of the promise. As she had no desire to wed, and no liking for her brother-in-law, the widower she resolved to die. She would then, she considered, join her sister in the next world, and make matters all right with her. The woman, it appears, lifted up the gravestone over her sister, and after she had excavated a tomb for herself brought the slab down over her. Part of Marie Morvan’s dress was seen protruding from the headstone by another sister, a Madame Ledu, who went to visit the grave. Surprised, the woman called for help from people near at hand, and the slab being raised, Marie Morvan was found dead in the grave dug by her own hands. She was suffocated soon after the headstone had closed on her. Her hanos and face were not covered by the earth, which she had managed to pile over her body.