FATE’S GRIM PRANKS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1929, Page 8

FATE’S GRIM PRANKS

CHEATS A BRIDE FOUR TIMES

For the fourth time in her life Miss

edge Gunner, a Birmingham governess, has been thwarted of married Happiness by tfie sudden death olf her lover on the eve of her wedding day. “I am giving up all idea of marriage lor good.” Miss Gunner declared. “1 have been engaged four times, and on each occasion my fiance has died. I m beginning to wonder if there is something unlucky about me. I seem to lie a sort of fatal woman. Miss Gunner’s family also have a tragic history. Her father and mother who were in Australia have both died miring, the past twelve months, while yr only brother was drowned at sea.

I first became engaged to an officer

•ring the war,” Miss Gunner said. 11 On his last night in the trenches before he was due to come home on leave to get married he was killed by a rifle grenade. My next fiance was an airman. He was killed in a crash on the Saturday before the Monday on which we were to have been married.

“Four years later I became engaged to an engineer. Two days bdfore the dated fixed for our wedding we were having lunch together when he said he would have to go and look at some buildings that were under course of con tr notion.

“1 never saw him again. A crime fell en him and lie was crushed to death.”