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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 234, 13 December 1888, Page 3

Here is a pretty “stiff” yarn from A Wellington paper: those who like to believe it can, and those who don’t can please themselves —we don’t: —Duele are kept very quiet, but they are still fought in Germany. A sadder thing though happen* d lately to an officer who, with some other young fellows as reckless as he, sat after mess talking of refigion, in which they professed to have no belief. “Indeed,” said the first named, “I would fire at the crucifix ou side the town to show what esteem I hold it in.” They all egged him on wi h one fertor other, until in the o ear moonlight they sallied forth, and reaching the spot he carried his wild words into execution. As he raised his pistol a friend Standing close by saw a l< ok of awful horror, almost as if he saw hell opened, on h's face, and barely was the report heard before he tottered and fell down dead. He was otty six and twenty and his widowed mother had no oti er child* This Was told to a Wellington resident by the one who stood neatest, and Who, it need not be said, Altered hiu viewdi