ATTEMPTED MURDER
DORN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. GIRL’S PITIFUL LETTER. HAMILTON, Jan. 27. Roy Charles Dorn was committed for trial on a charge of attempted murder of Muriel Tetzlaff. Bail was refused.' The Justices regarded the charge as more serious than attempted murder by violence. Dorn subsequently was charged with stealing a quantity of cutlery, the property of Fow and Co., auctioneers, by whom he was employed. lit was shown in evidence that Dorn said ho could not marry Tetzlaff because he loved another girl in' Gisborne. After being told this, Tetzlaff wrote the following note to Dorn : “My darling boy. Alter what you told me last night I can’t go on. 1 Jove you, dear, better than life itself, and, for that reason, I am going to leave you free. Please Roy, in the years to come, do not altogether forget the little fool who loved you not wisely, but only too well. I know you would never be happy if you married ire, when you loved someone else just as much as I love you. So good-bye, and God bless you dear Your loving and brokenhearted, Muriel.”—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11013, 28 January 1926, Page 5
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188ATTEMPTED MURDER Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11013, 28 January 1926, Page 5
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