Romantic Marriage.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7852, 19 June 1905, Page 4

Romantic Marriage.

REMARKABLE NARRATIVE Oh THE LOSS OF A RING.

' A remarka%le story of a marriage Romance comes from Chicago, where, often forty yuars of separation, Jlp John Martia aod Miss Frt'da Olin[stead have been married at Atigi.*ta, Michigan, * in 1«*B6 the couple became cngn.?od, and All' Martin, who was then a railway engineer presented hi* lx>trothed with a diamond engagement ring, and almost inmiedia'tt>ly went away on a tour of inspection.

While ho was absent. Mis.* Olmstead went boating on a Jake with ' a young man. She captured a small turtle and playfully slipped herring round its ncek. The turtle then; nipped her finger, causing her to release hoc grasp of it, and slipping from I her hand, it disappeared into the water.

When her lover returned aw:l leu rued of the incident his jealously was aroused, and, doubting' the truth of! her story, ho broke off the engagement and returned to Germany, hi;: native land, ', iliss ulnistead never married, but lived in sedusiin, true to the memory o£ her lost lover. Last year some- boys fishing in the lake caught a turtle and found a diamond ring encircling its neck. Hearing of this, Miss" Otmstead immediately went to the ftndcw, recognised the ring, and obtained possession of it. She then wrote to Mr Martin in Germany narrating tho circumstances.

.rater a long l delay tho letter reached him. He had never married and had not forgotten Miss Olmstead, though he had sworn never to trust another woman. On receiving the letter he immediately started for America and hastened to Agusta, where an extremely pathetic meeting of the lovers' took place, ati<! their marriage was promptly arranged. Miss Olmstead, who was ai girl of sixteen at the time of her engagement, is now fifty-six yoais old, white Mr Martin is l a well-preserved | man of seventy-one, and the owner of am extensive estate in Germany.