LOVER’S TRAGIC END.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2107, 15 June 1907, Page 3

LOVER’S TRAGIC END.

Two young Austrian visitors, Gustave Pfiffer and Flora Kulm, have met with a tragic end in Rome. In tho latter days of March the Austrian Consul received a heart-break-ing letter from Frau Pfiffer, who lives in a small town in Bohemia, asking the Consul to trace her son, who had written telling her ho intended to throw himself into the Tiber, together with his fiancee. The police were informed by the Consul and supplied with photos, of the young Austrians. The most exhaustive and anxious enquiries were made all over Rome, but were fruitless. On April 12th a telegram from Fiumicino, a small village near Romo, at the mouth of the Tiber, announced tha» the bodies of the missing couple had been found in the river bound together with strong ropes and with heavy stones tied to their feet. Their features were terribly distorted by the agony of death. It has been ascertained that the young couple, after taking communion in St. Peter’s, in Rome, walked to Fiumicino, where they spent two days. On the third day they took a boat and went up the river, landing after a little time and disappearing in a small wood near the shore. During the . night, after binding themselves neck and waist with strong ropes and tying heavy stones to their feet,tho couple walked calmly into the river, and were soon carried towards the sea by a strong current. Before committing suicide they sent all their money and small souvenirs to their parents in. us tria.