TWO LOVERS DEAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3105, 24 December 1921, Page 5

TWO LOVERS DEAD.

MAN'S BODY IN FIT. GIRL TAKES POISON. SYDNEY, Dee. 16. Miss Marv Mae Goldsmith, aged 13 who lived in Redfern street, Redfern, swallowed poison at her home at 6.30 p.m. yesterday. She died in the Royal South bydnoy Hospital a few minutes after admission. \ letter addressed to the mother of the c irl was found beside her. It read:— ''Goodbve. mother. This is the end I cou ld not live without Harry.' \ou don' know how much I loved him •, and to thin,-. he did it all through me. Ihey all saj it W as mv own fault, and perhaps it was. 1 am better out of everybody« way.(Siiniedl MAE. xxx. Tell Gladys I said ! Good-bye.' Also, mother, keep that brooch llari'v gave me." , ~, There was a copy of a newspaper beside her. 'On one of the pages was a paragrapii to the effect that a youth named Henry Charles Knight, aged 174, who lived- ui Wellbank street, North Strathlield, but been found dead floating in the water m Iho Vulcan Brick Pit, Barwon Park road. AI SeS- Clover (Redfern) has .received informal,),, that the girl and Kmglu m been keeping company, but had quaireUert and parted. , „, . The body of Knight was found on Jed nesdav morning. It had evidently been in •the pit for five days.