LONDON LOVE TRAGEDIES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1682, 25 May 1904, Page 59

LONDON LOVE TRAGEDIES

..... . Inquests were held the other day n two London girls, one of .whom committed suicide, while tlie other died of excitement, in both case.? shortly before they were to have been married. Louise Gardiner. 20, a packer in Messrs De la Rue's stationery works, threw herself in front of a locomotive at Einsburypark. station. Deceased’s sister went with lier as far as the door of the works, and then missed her.. On the way she had said, “I don’t want to get married, and yet r do.” Henry John. Veils, whom she was to have married, had prepared a home for her Her manner had been ‘Tunny.” “Suicide whilst temporarily insane,” was the verdict.

. Annie Louise Bungard, 26, a tailoress, living at Follbrig-st., Bethnal-green, was of an excitable nature. Late on tlie previous Saturday night sue arrived home with her sweetheart, a private in the Sbuth Essex Regiment, who was to have married her on tlie" Monday. After smashing some of her wedding presents, and giving her young man the engagement ring, she ran out of the house. She fell in Coventry-st., and died before admission to hospital. In accordance with the medical evidence the jury returned a verdict that death was due to cerebral hemorrhage, accelerated by excitement.