"EGREGIOUS SIR"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 262, 1 August 1919, Page 3

"EGREGIOUS SIR"

ITALIAN GIRL'S PKOBLEM I'OB LONDON MAttiSTKA'i'E. Tho following is nn exact copy of a lettor received l>y Mr. Hay iialkett at Woolwich Police Court irom n young woman in Itiily, names of persons and places omitted:— "Egregious Sir, City Magistrate, England of Woolwich, S.E.— Kindly excuse, eir, if also this time I write to you, but at I lmve had the proof of your exquisite gentility, when in the 8 January, 1919, I lmve again taken tho liberty of write- to you for information of Hie Sapper that for you mid I have had its news properly froiu Himself from -— in the what he was recovered for a seriously illness. . , "After that, I have been knowing that He has left this Hospital, but thenceforward 1 have not known' nothing bevon. So, sir, I pray of your courtesy (if this is possible) a some news of Him. I am displeasing to disturb you but as I know not his precise address, and knowing that lie is from Woolwich, have taken, the courage of write you, and I hope that you will be so gen eel ot answer a short lino to this regard. . "Believed not, sir, that I may have a adventurer whatsoever, and that I made this inquiry for motive not Roods, but I assure you that is only, and merely, for tho sincere friendship that I have always kept for Him, again from he December. 1917, when I with my family were to the Front, and I cannot understand tho reason, because He not may have given me its news of health again. , , , "Now I ask to you sincerely pardon ot my liberty, and with the my infinite thanks, I remain for ullways of you, sincerely, grateful and obliged-—.