LOVER'S TRAGIC END.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13453, 1 June 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

LOVER'S TRAGIC END.

Two young Austrian visitors, Gustave Pfif- I fer and Flora Kulm, have met with a tragic end in Borne. In the latter days of | March the Austrian Consul received a heart- l breaking letter from Fran Pfiffer, who * lives in a small town in Bohemia, asking the Consul to trace her son, who had writ- J ten telling her that he intended to throw himself into the Tiber, together with his g fiancee. , The police were informed by the Consul and supplied with photos, of the young . Austrians. The most exhaustive and anxious inquiries were made all over Rome, but were fruitless. On April 12 a telegram from Fiumicino, ? a small village near Rome, at the month J of the Tiber, announced that the bodies of 1: the missing couple had been found in the river bound together with strong ropes and s with heavy stones tied at their feet. Their I features were terribly distorted by the i agony of death. r It has been ascertained that the young couple, after taking communion in St. i Peter's, in Rome, walked to Fiumicinc, r where they spent two days. On the third t day they took a boat and went- up the river, landing after a little time and dis- I ;appearing in a small wood neai the shore, la I During the night, after binding them- a selves neck and waist with strong ropes it and tying heavy stones to their feet, the in couple calmly walked into the river, and were soon carried towards the sea by a b strong current. Before committing suicide p they sent all their money and small souve-jv airs to their patents in Austria. ■ [e