Imitating Romeo and Juliet.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 243, 25 February 1888, Page 7

Imitating Romeo and Juliet.

Many people have thought that Sbakeapoare" strained probability a little too far in the incidents that close the tragedy o* *' Romeo and Juliet," A case investigated before the Coroner for Central Middlesex recently shows that ' similar incidents actually occur in real life. An elderly Frenchman, separated from his wife, took a young French lady vocalist into his house at Euston Square as his mistress. One Tuesday morning early the man swallowed poison, and seemed to be dying. Hie mistress, terrified at being left alone in the world, in a discredited position, seized the poison bottle and drank a deadly draught. She died. The man recovered, and discovered to his horror 1 that his Juliet was dead, After, trying in vain to resuscitate her, he seized a reyolver and, shot himself through the heart. This occurred, not in thetombß of the Capul.ets in the- ancient city" of Verona in the Middle Ages, but in 12, Eiiston Square,, onjy a few weeks ago Romeo's name was Ernest Carnn, and Juliet's Jane Hures.'

"Yes," sighed Amelia, "before marriage George ' professed to be billing to die for faje, and now he won't even gib his life insxnfel in my favour." . - ' - A 'Yankee paper has been sued for libel by a widow for speaking of her? deceased husband as having "gone to a happier home." There's no pleasing some people.