TRAGIC REUNION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 226, 24 September 1927, Page 23

TRAGIC REUNION.

DEATH SEPARATES BROTHERS AT MEETING. PARTED FOR 55 YEARS.

Sudden emotion aroused by a meeting with a brother from whom he had been parted for over half a century is believed to have contributed to the death, under tragic circumstances, of Mr. George Ransome, of Epping, England. _ Mr. Raneome was a boot repairer, 80 years of age. Hie brother, Mr. George Raneome, is a fruiterer at Colchester. For 55 years they had not niet. At last James made up his mind, to eaek the brother from \fchom he had been parted for so-long. . .He travelled by car to Colchester, and went direct to his brother's shop. He found his brother, but a few moments later the two who had been parted for so long were again separated—this time by death. Shaking Hands. Aβ the stranger entered the shop, George remarked, "It is never James — it cannot be!" "It is." said James. "I had made up my mind to come and see you." Then came tragedy. While the two brothers were actually shaking hands James fell dead in the shop. He had suffered long from heart disease, and the excitement of the meeting proved too great a strain on his enfeebled system. As he had been attended by a doctor at Epping the coroner did not deem it necessary to hold an inquest.