THIRTY YEARS’ REMORSE
“Received.” An amazing drama of real life lies behind tne insertion of this single word in the “Agony” column of a newspaper in England. For some unknown person is meant release from a 30 years’ burden of remorse. This is lhe story. A small parcel was delivered in a Derbyshire village addressed to a man wno had long since left the place. It was handed to his brother, who found it to contain a roll of notes. With the money was a noli' saying that the sender took this money 30 years ago and had since suffered endless remorse. The note asked I hat the. receipt of the m-noy should be acknowledged by inserting the wd il Received ” in a newspaper. The man to whom the money \s:is sent was one of the b'st known men in a Northern rily. He ii'lired and now lives in a village in I si Anglia, from which place lie h;i‘- k,iow I'Mlgi'd the receipt of Ihe •’»>»)<•< .
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 285, 2 December 1933, Page 7
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166THIRTY YEARS’ REMORSE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 285, 2 December 1933, Page 7
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