Rutland Herald

Love and Suicide.—An extraordinary event, a few evenings since, excited a great commotion in one quarter of Brussels. About 8 o'clock the report of two pistols was heard proceeding from room on the second floor of a tavern in the Rue de la Madeleine, which had been occupied for four days by a lady and gentleman who came from Paris. The person who went into the room on hearing the report found two persons lying dead on the floor, they having killed themselves with pistols, which they still held in their hands. It appears from a passport which the young man had about him, that his name was Vandeputte, a medical student, 20 years of age, born and settled at Paris. The name of the female, who seems to be about 20 or 22 years old, is not known. It seems that since their arrival at Brussels, these young persons had repeatedly expressed their intention of committing suicide. It is said that the immediate cause of their executing their intention was the arrival at Brussels of another female, formerly the mistress of the young man, who had followed him from Paris. Though the unfortunate young persons were decently dressed, they had no clothes but those they wore, and in the young man's pocket there were only a few five centime pieces and a pawn ticket for a waistcoat of the Monte de Piete at Paris. The pistols were quite new small brass pistols, one of which burst in the explosion.—French paper.