SHOT GIRL’S LOVE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1926, Page 4

SHOT GIRL’S LOVE

HONEST WOOER AND THE DASHING IUA'AL. BERLIN, Oct. 10. \ plot for a novelist was unlulded yesterday in a Berlin Court. The hero was Bernard, a young workman cnarg■ed with attempted murder, ami the heroine Lucy, a sweet-faced girl Ho sister of Bernard’s best- Iriend at the works in which he was employed. Heie is the plot. , Bart I - Bernard’s mother die.-, ami 'is iiuon.xola.ble and leaves home. For four years he works as a kibourei

on a peasant's farm. _ . p ilr t 2.—Bernard decides to improve his position, and goes to Berlin to get ~ j o ], He becomes friendly with a voiing' workman, and falls in love with his friend’s sister. Lucy. AT ill the approval ol tin*, parents, the .' OUI, S couple are engaged. . Part A.--Enter the villain- a dashin"' vmmg workman who spends lux moiiev in cafes and kincmas instead of saving it to set up a household, as Bernard does. Lucy is fascinated In him. and. in spite- of Bernard » protests walks out with 'him. Bernard has thoughts of murder and stncioe. but Lucy’s brother brings him to uason, and he seems reconciled to Ins laU ' A LOVER’S REMORSE. Part 4 —.Bernard’s friends brings him homo, and at the door they see j Lucv and her lover saying a tender j good-night. Bernard reproaches his ri- j val who laughs at Idm. Lucy and the , two friends go into the t she goes to the window and kisso- hot hand to her lover below Bernard draws a revolver, fires at Lucy throe times and rushes out of the- house. Ht wanders about the streets halt mad with the thought that he has killed J the girl he loves. , t Then he learns that she is alive a»j . was only slightly wounded m the ha 1 He goes to her. His violence ban j convinced her of the depth of his oro and she savs that she will mailt h' m - | The family agree to say nothing about | tlm shooting, blit the rival goes to the j tool ice. Bernard .is arrested on . , charge of attempted murder. judge and jury toil the rival bv binding Bernard over foi . three years'. The verdict given yestm- | dav brings the tale up te date but wedding bells seem to be m the an. j