Extraordinary, if True.

Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8618, 24 March 1897, Page 2

Extraordinary, if True.

The Bulletin's Loudoncorrespondent writes: "A mau of high professional standing told me this strange tale, the truth of which he vouches for. There were tw« students attending the Glasgow University. One was English, and the other was American.- Ihey were inseparable chums, and painted the ancient City of St Mungo bright red on many occasions. Then they were jointly seized with a gloomy and awful religion, and swore off wassail and festivity. Later, the American set out with his mother and sister for a season in Paris. They were very wealthy, and the women folk excessively fond of frivolty, but the son's drab-colored creed was to them a wet blanket that twines round the neck, aud drips down the spine. He sat heavily on their joys, and talked to them in a nasal monotone about their souls—until he fell bodily ill. He grew worse, and suddenly better; much worse, and again much better. The doctors were puzzled completely. He died amidst the love and lamentations of his broken-hearted relatives, and there is now little doubt that it was a case of systematic poisoning. To-day the sister resides in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, and is known to the world as 'that much wronged woman', Mrs Maybrick, doing a life sentence for the alleged murder of her husband. My informant says he was the other student. He has lost his drab-colored creed, and takes a moderate amount of wassail in his respectable middle-age, and he isn't one of tho Maybrick band of sympathisers—not by any means."