GIRL THAT LOVED A SOLDIER.

Evening Star, Issue 14688, 4 October 1911, Page 3

GIRL THAT LOVED A SOLDIER.

The pathetic romance of “a lass that loved a soldier” had its termiiu.i.iou in a Berlin court the other day. when Magdalene Hermann, of Gronau, Saxony, was ordered Io be. .removed. io an asylum for. Ihe nven-i-ally diseased. Twenty years ago, durin the Imperial manoeuvres, a smart arlrlie: regiment was quartered in flronau. -As i customary during the manoeuvre biilet-ings, sergeant began to flirt with Magdalene, au promised her marriage. Tho promise wt not seriously intended, but. poor Magdalen look it all iu camcsi, and from that day i this site has never ceased to meet trains b night or day coming from the scrgcanl’s ga risen town. Some yea its ago, as her b. loved Sergeant Albert had still not arrive • Magdalene jumped to the cone iu.-ion that tli War .Office opposed the wedding, and she ha since bombarded-the military authnriiks will petitions for permission to marry the sc. gcaul. After a time the authorities eeas. to answer her letter-!. M.-i<-<!;d‘iv t'nr-vm.o concluded that the Post Office was now sup pressing them, altd ever .-u.ee has waned . miles daily to post her letters in a mi,',lib,ing town.

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