A LOVE TRAGEDY
Vienna, November 30. A lieutenant of an infantry regiment at Stanislau, Maxmilian Kasparek, suffered from melancholia on account of his inability to marry a lady whose family were unable to provide the dowry that the military authorities demand from the prospective wife of an officer. A week ago the lieutenant, accompanied by a lady, was seen to enter his rooms at the barracks. Neither of the missing pair was seen again, and it was decided to force open the door. The lieutenant and his fiancee lay on the floor with bullet wounds in their heads. On the writing desk a pile of letters was discovered, addressed to various relatives, saying that the pair, despairing of ever being united in life, had resolved to die I together. They begged their relatives to lay them side by side in a common grave.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 224, 27 January 1911, Page 6
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143A LOVE TRAGEDY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 224, 27 January 1911, Page 6
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