FATE'S GRIM PRANKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)

FATE'S GRIM PRANKS.

CHEATS A BRIDE FOUR TIMES.

SUCCESSION OF TRAGEDIES,

For the fourth time in her life Miss Madge Gunner, a Birmingham governess, has been thwarted of married happiness by the sudden death of her lover on the eve of her wedding day. "I am giving up all idea of marriage for good," Miss Gunner declared. J. have been engaged four times and on each occasion my fiance has died. 1 am beginning to wonder if there is some, thfng unlucky about me. I seem to be a sort, of fatal woman." Miss Gunner's family als Oj have a tragic history. Her father and mother who were in Australia, have both died during the past 12 months, while her only brother was drowned at eee. "I first became engaged to an officer during the war" Miss Gunner said "On his last night in the trenches before he was due to come home on leave to get married he was killed by a rifle grenade. . tt. "My next fiance was an airman. He was Tilled in a crash on the Saturday before the Monday, on which we were to have been married. nna »t>i\ "Four years later I became engaged to an engineer. Two days before t* date fixed for our wedding were having lunch together when he said .he would have to go. and. look some buildings that were under course of construction. . .„_. f p ii «I never saw him again. A crane fell