MODERN CRUSOES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 11

MODERN CRUSOES.

FOUND DEAD ON ISLAND. The discovery, reported from New York a few months ago, of the bodies of a. white couple on the beach of an uninhabited island in the South Pacific, is believed to be the end of tho romance of two modern Crusoes. It is four years since a sensation was caused in Germany when it was announced that a forty-four-old doctor, Karl Ritter, had gone with twenty-six-vea.r-okl Frau Loerwin to Charles Dardin Island, a minute speck of land in the Galapagos Group. They intended to live in back-to-nature style in their Garden of Eden. Their bodies, according to a wireless message from the pearl-fisher Santoamara, had evidently been lying on the bea- li for a long time. T o man had died first and the woman had covered his body with a greatcoat. Nearby a small skiff was lying on the 1 each as well as the carcass of a seal, which had evidently been hacked about by the Imnger-craztd victims. "Some baby’s clothing was also found, but there was no trace of the infant. Dr. Ritter was a dietetic expert who tiad successfully treated, in Berlin, Frau Loerwin. When he decided to escape from civilisation she accompanied him. Dr. Ritter’s only clothing was made if coarse linen, which he stitched together. They proposed to wear no clothes on the island.