A SOLDIER'S SWEETHEART.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 211, 18 May 1915, Page 5

A SOLDIER'S SWEETHEART.

/ A pathetic letter written by a servant girl was read at an inquest at Hammersmith on Ellen Louisa Jt:-J Burton, whose body was found in th. 3 Thames. Mrs. Alice Burton, of J - wood Road, Hounslow. said that the girl's sweetheart was wounded at the front, and he died in hospital in November. On January 18 the girl for a walk, and nothing more was see?.*, of her until her body was found. Oil January 1& the mother of the dead mar* received a letter from h«r, in which she said: —"People tell me I shall meet someone else seme day I sir.: / like just as much, but I It now T cannot have another sweetheart after him, a.d I cannot face the long years of loneliness which are before me. It' I don i write to you in a fey. days, you wii'i know I l.ave drowned myself. T ine.v not be able to do it if my courage fei : ; me at the last, bi:'t 1 hope not. E a ■as so tired, and long to be out o** it. T-a.::, going away —going to join my da:ling.-*' The jury rctunfed a verdict <■'.. "Suicide while of unsound mind."