A MODERN ROMEO AND JULIET.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 66, 14 September 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

A MODERN ROMEO AND JULIET.

An extraordinary love tragedy, recalling the story of Romeo and Juliet, is reported from Altfoldt, Irma (says a Vienna despatch). Sometime ago the daughter of a highly respected family made the acquaintance of an employe of the local administration, whose uncle is one of the princes of the Hungarian Church. The two fell deeply in love, and often met by stealth, as the young man's parents could not forget a lawsuit they had had with the girl's family, and which was decided against them. The girl's father, who was once a millionaire, but whom speculation had reduced, tried to persuade his daughter to marry a rich landowner who was anxious to make her his wife. The young man succeeded, however, in getting a dispensation through his clerical uncle, and a secret marriage was performed. A week ago the girl's parents again made a violent scene to induce her to marry the landowner. She took their words so much to heart that she took a large dose of opium, and next morning was found unconscious in her bed. The young husband hearing the news ran to the house, and in the general confusion entered her room. Seeing her pale and motionless, and believing her to be dead, he blew his brains out with a revolver he had brought with him. The report woke the young woman, whom the opium had held in a trance. When she saw her lover lifeless on the ground near her, she took the revolver, from his doad hand and shot herself.