“COWARD!”

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 221, 26 January 1928, Page 2

“COWARD!”

JILTED GIRL’S REVENGE. It is impossible to sue a man for breach of promise in Italy when thegirl’s feelings only have suffered, but there’s other ways of punishing the man as a woman, now 36 years of age, has punished the soldier who captured her affections during the war. He wrote her impassioned love-letters, and the course 'of true love ran smoothly until two years ago, when the man found that his feelings had changed and the engagement was broken off. The inconstant man's name is Theodore Boschetti, and he believed that the word finis had been placed to his sentimental episode with a girl named Esther, until he received a postcard which he had himself sent to Esther during the war, and on which he had written: “The thought of thee lovingly waiting for me is my only consolation. I send thee ardent kisses—Thy Theodore,’’ The card had been redirected by means of a slip of paper pasted on one part of it. Although it was annoying to think that the postman, the janitor of his flat, and his servant must have read this silly effusion, .Signor Boschetti appeared to hike no notice, even when the first card was followed by others of the same nature. Sometimes a few unflattering words in Esther's handwriting were inserted between the lines, “Coward-’’ or “Villain! ’’ Signor Boschetti's patience came to an end wit ft the arrivel of the seventeenti postcard, with loving words in his own handwriting, and unloving words added by Esther’s hand. He must have felt astonished at the warmth of that now extinguished Are. Esther’s hatred, he had reason to believe, was animated by jealousv, and he had recourse to the law, that last resort of the prudent citizen. Esther; who has asked that her surname should not be disc inset’ in the Press, has pleaded guilty to writing defamatory words to her old sweetheart, but tho case has not yet been heard in court.