TRAGIC ENDING OF A LOVE STORY.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1159, 26 September 1882, Page 2

TRAGIC ENDING OF A LOVE STORY.

A BiNGULxttLY painful scene was wit. nessed at the Now-street Railway Station, Birmingham, on a recent night. An Irish girl, whose lover, an egg merchant, named John Moran, had been killed in a street accident during the week, persisted in accompanying the corpse to the London and i North Western Station, whence it was to be taken to Ireland for interment. The formal wake had been held upon the body throughout the previous | night, and about 2,000 Irish people marched with the coffin to the train, The girl, whose wedding-day with the deceased had been fixed, gave vent to a heartrending scream as the coffin was placed in the railway car ; and, declaring she would be buried with her lover, she broke away from her friends, and, rushing to the booking office, re. turned frantic, waving a ticket for Dublin which she had obtained. Upon being prevented from entering the train she went into hysterics, and was removed to tho waiting-room amid most painful excitement. Her father implored her upon recovering consciousness to return home, but learning that the Irish train for Holyhead had left the station, she again went into convulsions, and was in that state placed in a vehicle under the sister’s care, and driven off. Her life is now despaired of. The immense statiou was crowded, and until the departure of the train the uproar was deafening. About 6,000 persons were present,and the building resounded with sobbing and groaning cries for the deceased and his sweetheart until the departure of the train.