SAD LOVE STORY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9079, 21 February 1908, Page 2

SAD LOVE STORY.

Love that proved in a sense stronger than death, though it was miserably inadequate to prevent the approach of the King of Terrors, has, a London correspondent wrote on January 3rd, just induced a young French medical student named Hucher to commit suicide beside the corpse of his sweetheart, a girl whom he had met in a Paris hospital where she was a patient. The pair were devotedly attached to each other, young, good looking, and Wealthy, but the girl, Juliet de Raymond, was already dying of consumption, when her lover, unable to obtain her parents’ consent to their marriage, persuaded her to elope with him to Nice. Here 5 he hoped that she might be restored to health by the warmer climate. They had determined to marry when this should be the ease; but on the contrary, the girl grew daily weaker, and to the intense grief of Hucher died.. The young man, after spending the next night in the came room with the dead body of his lost love, on the following day procured a wealth of lovely flowers wherewith to cover her, and then shot himself, falling dead by her side. Like her hapless namesake in “Romeo and Juliet” Mdlle. de Raymond has seemingly reconciled her own and her lover’s family by her death, and they have joined amicably in arranging a grand double funeral for the ill-fated pair.