Love at first sight, a secret mar- [ riage, separation, and a fortune of £-11),UUO on his wife's death-bed, are events that have been crowded into the laist six months cf the life of Sylvanus Grao ('2l), a messenger for Sylvanus Gray ('2l), a messenger for a telegraph company in -North Carolina. Six months ago Gray was sent to deliver a telegram addressed to Miss Lulu Johnson, a pretty young woman, who was visiting relatives in Durham. The couple fell in love with one another, and planned an elopement. Six days after Gray and Miss Johnson first met she drove to a village where she met Gray. They were quietly married, and, returning to town, immediately separated, keeping their wedding a secret.' The bridegroom neither saw nor heard from his bride again until a telegram to hurry to her home in Lynchberg, Virginia, where she lay dying. Just before her death an unele left her £40,000. By a will executed on her death-bed she left this fortune to her messenger husband,
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Mt Benger Mail, 8 April 1914, Page 4
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