A HAMILTON SENSATION

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2991, 28 January 1926, Page 2

A HAMILTON SENSATION

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.

GIRL’S PATHETIC LETTER

Hamilton, Last night

Koy Charles Dorn was oommitlei for trial on a charge of the attenjp ted murder of Muriel Tctzlaff.

Bail was refused, the Justices stating that they regarded the charge as more serious than one of attempted murder by violence. Dorn was subsequently charged with stealing a quantity of cutlery, the property of Fow and Co.’s Auction Mart, where he was employed.

It was shown in evidence that Dorn said he could not marry the girl Tetzlaff, because he loved another girl in Gisborne. After being told this, Miss Tetzlaff wrote the following note to Dorn: — “My Darling Roy,

“After what you told me last night, I can’t go on. I love you, dear, better than life itself and for that reason ] am going to leave you free. Please, Roy, in the years to come, do not altogether forget the little fool who loved you not wisely but only too well. I know you would never be happy if you married me when you loved someone else just as much as I love you, so good-bye and God bless you, dear. Your loving and broken-hearted, MURIEL.

[Dorn is alleged to have supplied the poison which the girl took, making her critically ill, and to tiavje written thanking Cher “for what she was about to do for lint.”]