EX-CAPTIVE'S ROMANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 15

EX-CAPTIVE'S ROMANCE.

YOUNG OF.PIO»R AND AMERICAN ( LADi'S JKWKLS. , A romantic story has born disclosed by ; the attempted suicide of a young Kruicn ( officer who recently returned from cap- | tivity in Germany. 1 The lieutenant was rwiipcrntinc his Jin- - paired health at Ihix, where lie fell in love , with a pretty American woman. The , flirtation had pone on for pome lime, when \ Mrs. W decided to return to Pnrls. | Lieutenant D— - accompanied her, and on arriving eald he would look after tbc !»« t gage. The following day Jie went to tea wltn j the fair American, and seemed surprisea j when she t"ld him that her luggnge, in- j eluding £24,000 worth of Jewellery, had not 1 yet been delivered. "Oh," he said, "1 will ,SO at once and make Inquiries.' , He lett her, and never returned. Two days later .Mrs. W received a pitiful letter from the officer, confessinß that be had taken her luggage In a fit ol madness and beeping to be forgiven. He ' gave her an address at which, in a cellar, ' she would find her lost property. At the f same time he declared that when sne ! opened his letter he wouW be deiid. f The American communicated, with the ' police. Seareili was made, and Mrs- ' W- '9 trunks were found. They were in * an anthiuarlan's storehouse. The same « evening Lieutenant D was found in his room unconscious and bleeding from a tonllet wound. He liad discharged a revolver in his mouth. f Mrs. W declares that the yonng|l officer was Incapable of a vulgar theft, ana|g she bellevPH that hie mind, being unhinged n ■by his passion for her, be eoDceived tne v idea that If he could gain possession of her|b jewels he could induce Jicr to run a-way g •with hhn, as he tad co often asked ier to d do. P