WOOING BY DYNAMITE
ROMANCE OF A SYRIAN VILLAGE. Last summer, in a little Styrian village, a young miner of the Christian name of Peter stood before the inn in which his beloved one had her room on the first floor (says the Vienna correspondent of the Observer). He made sounds to rouse her attention, but she was fast asleep. Having drunk too much ins-, refer, alter waiting a long time in vain, became desperate. He hurried to me uynamite stores of his mine, seized two cartridges, ran back to the inn, and honoured the lady of his heart by the strangest sort of serenade in hurling them against the window. A nerve-racking explosion followed, six windows were smashed, and the inmates were panic-stricken. For this fiery wooing the young miner was sued by the innkeeper. Peter admitted that on the critical night he committed his act of folly in a state of perfect intoxication. The innkeeper, confirming Peter's state, added that he had threatened to blow up the house if the girl would not open the window. The girl has since married him, but Peter has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment all the same.
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Southland Times, Issue 18965, 13 June 1923, Page 13
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195WOOING BY DYNAMITE Southland Times, Issue 18965, 13 June 1923, Page 13
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