Twelve years ago, Mr, C. Hall, of Bath, became a
clerk in the London and Westminster Bank, but two years ago he hurt his, knee and resigned. He then married Miss Howarth, a ward of his father's, and daughter of Mr. Howarth, a local musician, who had died, leaving seven orphans. After their marriage, Charles Hall and his wife went to Ilfracombe, where they attempted to poison themselves with opium. The attempt failed, and Charles Hall was imprisoned for three months, during which time his- wife was delivered of a child. On his liberation, Hall assisted his brother, a gaselier manufacturer, while the wife obtained, six weeks ago, a situation in London. He announced that he should go to London also, joined his wife, and with her started for Paris, where they took a room in the Hotel de Petersbourg, and were in the morning found dead, clasped in each other's arms. They had taken prussic acid. They were devotedly attached to each other, and there is no suspicion of murder, though the husband pro- bably took his dose later than the wife. Double suicides occur every day, but we never remember one before as to the cause of which conjecture was so utterly at fault. The only conceivable theory is that the wife was aware of her husband's fixed decision to commit suicide, and resolved not to outlive him.
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