LOVER'S FIGHT ON BALCONY

Evening Star, Issue 19142, 8 January 1926, Page 1

LOVER'S FIGHT ON BALCONY

SHOT BOW BY MOTHER'S ORDER ROMEO AHD JULIET IN BEAL LIFE Public sympathy all over France is focussed just now on a pair of young lovers at Lyons, whoso romance has coiuo to a sudden end in bloodshed (says a ‘ Sunday Chronicle ’ writer!. While the weeping girl lies closely guarded in her homo, her lover is dying in hospital of wounds sustained through his courageous wooing of her. The hero ami heroine of the interrupted idyll are Louis Seux, a twenty-niae-ycar-old commercial traveller, and Mtllle. Denise (filet, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a very wealthy dyer, wlio recently inherited a fortune of over a milliard francs from his father. It is the old story of two young people who foil in love at first sight, but who found stern parents barring the way to their garden of golden dreams. Seux first mot his Juliet about two months ago at a social event, and was immediately struck by her beauty and charm. A second meeting occurred a short time afterwards, and ho then opened his heart to the girl and found that her sentiments were the echo of his own. They were desperately in loro, these two young people, and told each other so. i t seemed that nothing could stand between them save the barrier of the girl’s wealth, which her lover neither coveted nor needed.

Tho young man sought an interview with her father, and asked for his consent to their betrothal; but he met with the cynical reply that a young man does not ask tor the hand of a girl whom he has met twice only* further, he was forbidden to speak to the girl again. OVER THE GARDEN WALL.

Ro our Romeo did as other true lovers have done throughout human historyi Since ho was not allowed either to meet or to correspond with his Juliet, lie went one' night to her home, climbed over tho garden wallami called her wit to tho balcony of her room. He went again and again by tho same route, and the two young lovers laughed at locksmiths. Juliet’s English governess, however, discovered what was happening, and that was the beginning of the tragedy, Tho parents, duly warned that their daughter was slid meeting her lover, set a guard about her, and the garden was watched by the gardener, his wife, and his oighteen-year-old son and % footman, who had orders to capture the) young lover whenever he appeared. Hut our Romeo was clever. He had passed the guard and actually reached the balcony of his lady’s room one night when ho was discovered. It was lT o’clock at night when the gardener, on watch down below, heard sounds of a terrible straggle on the balcony, and, looking up, saw tho foot* man at grips with the young lover, FULLED WITH GOLF CLUB. Madame Gilet, tho girl’s mother* arrived on the scone just ns Sens was about lo throw the footman over the balcony, and she cried i “Bring a gun.”* The gardener came armed with a carbine, but hesitated lo fire bn the intruder. Then a golf club was thrust into the hands of his son, who felled poor Romeo like an ox with a blow on the back of his skull. The lover was up in an instant, and rushed at tho gardener, who struck Roux full in the face with the butt of ]iis carbine, breaking the hones of his nose and making a terrible gash in his forehead. A. sharp report rang out and the young lover fell again, the bullet having fractured his skull over the left car. Ho then hogged for mercy, but the man who had shot him down stood over him, saying: “If yon move again' I will kill you.” The police were sent for, and they carried young Sens to the hospital, dying of* terrible wounds inflicted by a golf r 'club, a bullet, and the butt end of a carbine. His lady, meanwhile, Jay in a dead faint upon her lied.