SHE WAS SO SWEET

Northern Advocate, 7 April 1927, Page 7

SHE WAS SO SWEET

SOMEHOW THE PISTOL WENT OFF,

i Thea Wittner was tried at Berlin for | attempting to murder her lover. The jsweet child who stood in the dock to J answer the charge did not look 24, which she really was, and did not look in the least like a murderess. Evidence was given to show that the shot from an old pistol which she had acquired was still embedded in the skull of her lover. The judge, as is customary in Germany, let her talk. It was, she explained in a child-like voice, during a voyage between Denmark and Germany that she fell in love with a boy of 24, who played the violin in the ship’s orchestra. They met again in Berlin, whore the boy played in popular resorts, and she announced to her parents that she had become engaged. THE OTHER MAN. | The girl’s parents were in a good position, and did not wish their daughter to i marry a poor musician, but she loved him, | and so she marched out of her home, took ja furnished room, and with the money they 'earned the two managed to have quite a I good time. But one day the fiddler saw her arm-in-arm with another man, and told ■ her that all was over between them.

| Then, so she said, she determined to comjmit suicide. She borrowed a pistol used Jin the Franeo-Gennan War, bought some i ammunition, and a bunch of roses, and 1 went into the forest on the outskirts of ; Berlin to die. Then she changed her mind, : and thought she would go to see the (fiddler, who had told her to bring back j a white fox stole which he haul given her. I He met her. ami sonmhow the nistol went ! off—really she did not know how.

‘ She told her talc so re'eldi 1 '". and loohed ■so sweet. 11l id irdiody in Court was snr- . prised wlien the Puh'ic Prosecutor reduced | the charge of attempted murder to lon/', of commit timr tv-dily injury. The { judye passed a sentence e-t lour months’ ! imprisonment, if she is called on to serve , it.