A Pathetic incident.
That was a very pathetic incident Which the Waikato Times gives the bare details of in its last issue* It appears that a young man named Bridgeman "has been engaged for spme. time to a young lady named Fitzgerald, ot Cambridge. The at< taohment wa's a very devoted one on both sides and when the voting lady showed signs of tha£feU disease bonsumptipn/her lover was dlstraoted. The disease rapidly ran its courga and the young. lady died' on Saturday. The blow had such an effect on young Bridgeman that an hear in,g thssad ngvto he, wits seized, with coQVufßlftft aiWg^^atiiwcame injured t« sugh an #»fcent that it could not perform Its work, and he died on the foliating Tuesday. He really died of » broken heart. How the poets would have revelled in a theme like this ia n more romantic age.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 September 1895, Page 3
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144A Pathetic incident. Manawatu Herald, 14 September 1895, Page 3
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