GIRL’S PITIFUL FAREWELL LETTER

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3256, 28 January 1926, Page 9

GIRL’S PITIFUL FAREWELL LETTER

Loved Better Than Life Itself

DORN COMMITTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER

[Per Press Association.] HAMILTON, Last Night,

Roy Charles Dorn was committed for trial on a charge of the attempted murder of Muriel Tetzlaff. Bail was refused, the Justices stating that they regarded the charge as more serious than on e of attempted murder by violence. Dorn was subsequently charged with stealing a quantity of cutlery, th e property of Fow and Go’s. Auction Mart./where he was employed. I It was shown in evidence that Dorn said ho could not marry the girl Tetzlaff,, because he loved another girl In Gisborne. After being told this. Miss Tetzlaff wrote the following note to Dorn;— "My Darling Roy,

“After what you told mo last night, 1 can’t go on. I love you, dear, better than life itself and for that reason X am going to leave you free. Please. Roy, in tb. e years to come, do not altogether forget, the littiq fool who loved you not wisely but only too well. I know you would never b, 2 happy if you married me whan you loved someone else just as much as I love you. so good-bye and God bless you. dear." Tour loving and broken-hearted, TMiJli Muriel.

[Dorn Is alleged to have supplied the poison which the girl took, making her critically ill, and to have written thanking her “for what she was about to do for him.”]