DU BOIS TRAGEDY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 63, 26 February 1935, Page 5

DU BOIS TRAGEDY

DEAD GIRLS’ LETTERS Jane’s Sway Over Sister DEVOTED TO ONE ANOTHER ißy Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 26, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON. Feb. 25. At the inquest into the death of the Du Bois sisters the jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. The father gave evidence ol Jane s dominating personality and said that her sitter frequently gave way to her. Jane was very fond of Flying-Officer John Charles Forbes. The coroner read the letters found m the plane. In them the sisters wrote alternate paragraphs. The first letter, addressed to “Darling Coert” the lathers Christian name, read: "You have forgiven us so much, will you forgive us this, as you must leel a little ol what did when wc heard of the living boat crash.’’ The letter continued iu different writing. “Charles was engaged to another girl, but intended breaking it oil. We probably would have been married this summer There will never be anyone else for me.’’ The second letter read: "Mother darling, don’t think we have done anything wicked. You must have known the flying boat crash would pull us over the line, whisch was never very well defined lor us. 1 think you knew that Charles and 1 were going to spend outlives together and 1 must keep my part of the bargain. We have spent the day loaded down with half-crowns for the proletariat to drink to him.” Both letters were signed "Hetty and Jane.” 'The coiuner commented that the girls were inseperably devoted to one another. The younger girl was infatuated with Flying-Officer Forbes and undoubtedly Elizabeth agreed with her stronger-minded sister to jump from the plane.