Sunday 8 November 2009

Joy causes Death

1903

The joy at seeing her husband, who had been absent from home, has been the cause of the death of a young wife named Veyre living at Thonon, on the Lake of Geneva. M. Veyrem, who is in the employment of the Sultan of Morocco as an engineer, recently learned the news of the birth of a son, and hurried home to see his heir.

His wife, who was only twenty years of age and had been married eighteen months, was waiting with her baby at the station as the trained steamed in. The husband ran towards his wife, who, pushing the baby in front, fell into the arms of her husband - dead. The post mortem proved that Mme, Veyre had died from excess of emotion.

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