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Show A MonKey Felo De Sc. Not long ago the authenticated case of the suicide of a dog from grief at being beaten by its master was chronicled, chron-icled, and now wo read of a monkey destroying de-stroying itself under very remarkable circunistnnces. The facts of tho case, which are positively vouched for by a correspondent writing to a Paris contemporary con-temporary from Montrichard, in the department de-partment of Loir-et-Cher. are as follows: A learned monkey, named Bertram, was deeply attached to lis owner, who, among other tricks, had taught it to tire a pistol while galloping on tho back of a dog. The master of tho animal, it seems, lately met with certain domestic troubles, and, in a dejected frame of mind a few days ago, ho sent a bullet through his head, death being instantaneous. The monkey wa present at the death of his master, nnd orobablv took in everv Dar- ! ticular. In any case, when a doctor was i called in to bee if lifo was extinct in the ! man, ho was astonished to find himself In presence of a doublo suicide, the j monkey's body being stretched beside j that of his master, with the revolver I clasped between its fingers. It is stated ; that the animal picked up tho pistol I after his master had blown out his .brains and imitated what he had just : 'seen done, sending a bullet through his head precisely as tho man had done.-r-i London Standard. |
