LOVED THE SAME MAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

LOVED THE SAME MAN.

f TfrO SISTERS' DEVOTION.

The story of the two sisters at Bourgea who committed suicide by drowning because they were both in love with the same man. who could not choose between them, recalls to "Dagonet" a story of the same kind, which he tells in the Referee.

A young soldier was on his trial for murdering a woman on the cliffs near a seaside resort. A verdict of 41 Not guilty " was returned. " A week after the verdict of the jury had been delivered," says 'Dagonet,' "I received a letter from a woman at Pretoria, with which was a letter to the young man who, when the post left Pretoria, was lying under a charge of murder. "The writer asked me to read the enclosure and* implored ma to do my best to arrange that it should reach the hands of the accused man. "This was the letter that I was asked to forward :— "' Dear —— , —We haw read of the terrible charge that has been brought against you. In this dark hour let it be «orae solace and comfort to you to know that J,; wo women who loved you too well for their own peace of mind lie in each other's arms at night and pray ' to God to lift this black shadow from you. ' " ' For they Jove.you still, and, loving you, they believe with all their hearts and with all their souls that you are innocent.' " The girls who lay in each other's arms and prayed to God to save the man they lovedUfrom the gallows were sisters. "They had left England and gone to South Africa, together, because the same man had broken both their hearts."