“COWARD!”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 January 1928, Page 11

“COWARD!”

JILTED GIRL’S REA 7 ENGE,

POSTCARD TORMENT FOR A FAITHLESS LOVER.

It is impossible to sue a man for breach of promise in Italy when the girl’s feelings only have suffered, hut there’s other ways of -punishing the man as a woman, now 36 years, of age, lias punished the soldier who captured her affections during tins war. He wrote her impassioned love-letters, and the course of true love ran smoothly until two year® ago, when the man found that his feelings had changed, and the engagement was broken off. The inconstant- man’s name is Theodore Boschetti, and lie believwd that the word finis had been placed to bis ■sentimental episode with a girl named Esther, until he received a postcard which Ire 'had himself sent to Esther during the war, and on which, he had written: “The thought of thee, .lovingly waiting for me is my only consolation. I send thee ardent ’ kisses Thy Theodore.” The card had been re-directed my means of_ a slip of paper posted on one part of it. . Although it was annoying to think that the postman, the janitor of -his flat, and his servant must have rpad this silly effusion, Signor Boschetti appeared to take no notice, even when the first card was followed by other® of the same nature. Sometimes a few unflattering words in Esther’s handwriting were inserted between the lines, “Coward!” or “A illain !” Signor Bdsehe-tti’s patience came to an end with the arrival of the -seventeenth p-ostfard, with loving words m his own handwriting, and unloving words added hy Esther’s hand. He must have felt astonished at the warmth of that now extinguished fire Esther’s hatred, he had reason to W 'ieve. was -animated bv jealousy, and he Vn-1 recourse to the law. that last resort of the prudent citizen. Esther rrbo had asked that her surname should v.ot k- disposed in the Press, has -m.-,,i o d n-nilfv to writing defamato’-v words lo her' old sweetheart, hut- the hl<; not T-ofc