ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5324, 7 March 1879, Page 2

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

The London Times' Geneva correspond dent writes under date Oct. 17 : _"A = romance in real life, ending in what is nofc 1 unlikely to prove a tragedy, is reported I from Berne. A good many years Bince a r man named Bohren left his wife and his k native commune and went to America. 1 For a long time nothing was heard of ; him, and his wife, thinking her husband 4: dead, and being confirmed in this belief T by information she received from a I Switzer, who had returned from America, % accepted an offer of marriage from Herr '% Zumbrunn, President of the Tribunal of t Wimmis (chief town of a district of the $ Canton Berne). A few weeks since, Boh- - ren, to the surprise of everybody, came ■: back and claimed his wife ; but, according j to the law of Berne, it was not clear that "'•■• Frau Bohren, or Zumbrunn, whichever may be her light name, was his wife. M The President declined to give her up, andshe 3 on her part, decidedly preferred the husband she had to him who had so long deserted her. So the lady became the subject of a lawsuit, and the matter is now before the courts. Unfortunately, , however, Bohren. does not seem to have brought back with him from the United States any great respect for the laws of his native land, and on Saturday last he endeavored toput a summary end\athe dispute by taking the life of his adversary. He shot the President with a pistol, seriously wounding him tin the arm and chest. Immediately after this exploit, Bohren gave himself up to the; police. Thus, while a civil court is engaged in. ascertaining to which of these two. men Frau Bohren, or Zumbrunn, is legally i wedded, a criminal court will be occupied with the trial of her first husband for the" attempted murder of the second, and in the event of being declared the wife of Bohren, and if, as is likely enough, he should be condemned to imprisonment for life, she will be in the singular and unfortunate position of having lost her second husband, and found her first only to lose him, and without possibility of marrying another so long as the latter may live. But divorce is easy in the Protestant can-,, tons, and should the lady find herself in so unpleasant a matrimonial fix, it is not likely the courts would refuse her relief.