CRYPTIC MUSIC.

Shannon News, 27 August 1926, Page 2

CRYPTIC MUSIC.

UNKNOWN LOVER’S LETTER CAUSES TRAGEDY. NEW YORK, June 25. A love letter to which a mysterious line of music was attached was the unexpected (evidence produced at the inquest to-day on Mr and Mirs Sydney E. Brewster,-the young millionaire couple who were found shot dead in Mrs Brewster’s bedroom at their estate at Glenhead, Long Island, on Wednesday. When the letter was read the jury • declared that Mr Brewster killed both his wife and himself, and that the motive was jealousy. IN FRAGMENTS. The letter was found in fragments in Mr Brewster’s .Pallet, and came from Mexico. It began “Tracy dearest,” and after referring to a letter just received from Mrs Brewster, continued, “You dear stray girl Tracy, whose name the wind Sings* through the trees ana whose face lingers in the dusk of twilight in these old hills.” It was signed "Rad.” The bar of music below the signature was in the treble clef, and the key of F Major. The music was in six-eight tifne, and the notes were G, F, F, E, G-sharp, G-sharp, A, with markings of pianissimo and' orescen-. do. The sender is believed to be an American engineer now in Mexico. Some members of the family state that his identity is known to them, and others say he is unknown, hut all assert that his ingatuation for Mrs Brewster was not reciprocated.