SUICIDE ENDS ROMANCE
FRENCH LOVERS' END. AFRAID OF DRIFTING APART. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. Anril 12. Two Englishmen, walking in the grounds of an old chateau at Hyeres, near Toulon, suddenly came on two bodies, a man shot through the heart, and a woman tlirough the temple. Search of the woman's handbag disclosed that they were lovers, and came to Hyeres for a three weeks' holiday. They exhausted their money, and decided to commit suicide. The girl's letter, addressed to her parents, said: "Edouard and- I leved passionately. We were unable to marry, and wore afraid of growing old and perhaps drifting apart, and decided, to die together." In a diary under the date April 10 was the laconic entry, "Dead."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 9
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