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Show DEATH ENDS SAD AND TRAGIC LIFE Youngest Daughter of Victor Hugo Dies in a Suburb of Paris. Paris April 22, 5 :25 a m. Adele Hugo, youngest daughter of Victor Hugo, died yesterday at her residence In Suresnes: a suburb of this city, at the age of 85 years. The sad and tragic life story of Adele Hugo many years ago aroused the sympathy of the entire world As a girl she was kidnaped at Guernsev an English officer. All Europe was searched by her parents, but they obtained no trace of her whereabouts Found In New York. Several months later a girl found wandering alone in the streets of New York, apparently demented, declared de-clared "1 am the daughter of Yiclor Hugo." This was the only statement i-hc ever made. She was sent back to France to her parents but her lips remained sealed until the end. and the tragic story of her life never was revealed. She failed to entirely recover her reason and. after the death of her fathr, lived a solitary existence In her villa, morose mo-rose and seldom speaking When she did consent to converse It never was of the past. Madamoiselle Hugo's only nppear-ance nppear-ance in public was when she went to Paris to witness from the back of a darkened box the reproduction of one of her father's plays Apparently Appar-ently she had no friends and ovpr received visitors. no. |