A SAD STORY.
“Truth” tolls the following:—" The wife of an officer on duty in Egypt was in an exceedingly delicate state of health, having recently been confined, and was, of course extremely nervous about her husband's safety. Down the street one night came a brace of leatherlunged news vendors, bawling out—- “ Another great battle I “ Slaughter of the Guards!’ ‘’Eavy British losses! 1 ‘Many officers killed!’ &o. Terribly frightened, the unfortunate lady sent out for a paper, aod at the same moment a loud ring at the frontdoor announced the arrival of a telegram. The message was from her husband, assuring her of his safety, but believing that a terrible catastrophe had overtaken the Guards’ Brigade, she—on seeing the telegram—at once concluded that it contained the news of his death. She swooned away, and died a few days later, literally from the shock. It is needless to say that the slaughter of the Guards was a pure invention, improvised because the bawling newspaper criers knew where the house was.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3790, 30 May 1885, Page 3
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170A SAD STORY. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3790, 30 May 1885, Page 3
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