STRANGE DOUBLE LIFE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9007, 21 November 1907, Page 1

STRANGE DOUBLE LIFE.

AN AMERICAN’S SECRET REVEALED BY FRENCH DISASTER. A story of a “double life,” led by an American which was revealed only by the hand ot death, is told in Truth in “Madge’s” letter. This gentleman crossed to Europe on business, leaving his wife in America. While travelling in France he was among the victims of a terrible railway accident. Beside his body in the mortuary' was placed the body of another victim, a handsome woman, whose satchel contained some of his visiting cards. The authorities, suspecting nothing irregular, cabled to the family in America to inform them of the two deaths. The widow cabled bach merely ordering them to send his body to the States for burial. A second cable was accordingly sent from France to say that a lady had been travelling with him, -that one of his cards was found upon her, and that her bag contained letters signed with his name. A description of the lady and the name written on envelopes in her bag'were also wired across the ocean. Prompt was the reply to this. The authorities were instructed to bury the husband at once, in Franco, but nothing was said about the unfortunate woman. They were buried in French graves, side by side. Then the sad story came out. 11 This woman, ’ ’ says Truth, ‘ 1 had been -a life long friend of the bereaved family. No one dreamed of anything between the two, but the facts pointed to a carefully arranged meeting in Europe. The letters from him found among her belongings afterwards fully proved that the liaison had been going on for years. ’ ’