MISSING STUDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 52, 2 March 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

MISSING STUDENT.

ONE HEAVENLY NIGHT. DRAMA OF LOVE AND PHILOSOPHY. When idealism comes info conflict with human passions, which shall prevail? This Question has been raised by the disclosure of a tragic love drama between a girl and two boys. It is one of those pulsating heartbreaks which, although set in the pine forests of the Austrian mountains, seems to be characteristic of the youth of the world. Early last summer Wilhelm Dass, a gifted medical student, the son of a Berlin schoolmaster, won a scholarship to Tubingen University. There he studied medicine, while his great friend, Joachim Schmidt, studied philosophy. They both had a serious bent of mind, and at the university they joined an association of undergraduates, boys and girls, which cultivate high ideals. They eschewed alcohol and tobacco, and were pledged to a life of rigid chastity. Among the members of the association was a girl, Lucie Gramlich, who was two years older than Wilhelm and Joachim. The three became inseparable. Last autumn they went on a walking tour in the Austrian Alps. They pooled their money, bought goods and a portable tent in which to puss the nights. In the loveliness of the mountains, Wilhelm, hardly knowing what it meant, felt that Lucie had an attraction for him which was different from the moral and intellectual attraction which up to then had been the basis of their friendship. And Lucie, not knowing what Wilhelm was feeling, felt an attraction for Joachim. One heavenly night the three pitched their tent at Parkennen, and Wilhelm strolled into the pine forest to be alone with his thoughts. When he returned he saw in the candle light through the opening of the tent Lucie and Joachim in a passionate embrace. He looked at the two with great sadness, and turned round and walked into the 'darkness. Since then ha has not been seen. Lucie and Joachim waited—so they say— a whole day and night for Wilhelm's return. But he did not come, so tbey went to Bregenz, where they parted. Lucie went to her parents near Ulrn, and in October went to Paris to study philology at the Sorbonne. Joachim went to his parents in Berlin. It was seven days after the drama in the mountains that he told Wilhelm's parents of what had happened. Wilhelm's father has now accused unknown persons of murdering his son. A member of the Berlin criminal police has Kone to Paris to examine Lucie Gramlich. .Joachim Schmidt is being examined at the headquarters of the police in Berlin.