ARMS AND THE WOMEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 20 December 1919, Page 5

ARMS AND THE WOMEN.

VAR’S TRAIL OF LOVE INTRIGUES.

TRAGEDY FOLLOWS TRAGEDY.

STORY OF JEANNE AND THE MAJOR.

LONDON, Dec. 2. The papers are commenting on the dieother noted preachers pessimistically declare that the expeng of war has loosened the conventaonal res^ tions. and others point out Uiat Uie cases include the result of live years dismtegra. lion of social Uf* k v A strange case was brought to uglit / the coroner’s inquest at on the ix>dv of Major Sydney Douglas Stewart lormer Town Major at Arras. He marrieu and went to the front early m the wax. Ho became infatuated with a French gul cle k, Jeanne Piguon, and m March, , brought her to London, where they men together at various hotels and resorts, and finally telephoned to his lodg11The,Major replied, sobbing. “I want to U Jeanne’'replied, l come home quick.” Tho Major replied. “Ton 11 bo too late.. Jeanno hurried round m a taxi, and found the Major dead in bod, with a revolver m hi Jea»nt who is pretty, petite. and red. haired, gave her evidence m broken Lug* S, ending, “ He much loved me, and I m Mi l S^. h rrdcpo«d .ttrt l« was greatly changed owmg to his hairow ing war experiences. He- was throe times uriod alive at the front, and when the Germans broke through he suffered a fortnight’s sleeplessness. She was aware that ho was living with Jeanne, and made an ineffective remonstrance. ~ . A friend deposed that Stewart said to him “ I’m in the soup. _ The War Office has warned me against living with Joanne. Tho deceased left a short will bequeathing ' Th’e MU of unsound mind.