Followed the King's Example.
Two young Munich Indies-, the Bai oiies-ses Anna and Loui&e (lubtenbeig, aged lcspectively 26 and 23, committed suicide by drowning' themselves m the Stain be iir lake on the identical '-pot wheie the King or Bavaria was found read eleven months ago. They had held many melancholy convt-i nations on the tragical fate of the monarch, and rejjeatedly went to the lake meiely to throw flowers into the watery srrave. At last they cave way to the impul&e of following the King's example, and, taking a boat, rowed to the Kpot, which is close to the shore, and dropped silently into the -water. Next morning when the missing boat roused suspicions a search wat, made and they were found in the soft clay h'rmly clasped in each other's arms. They weie both pretty highly cultivated and licb.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 5
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141Followed the King's Example. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 216, 20 August 1887, Page 5
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