LOVERS DEATH PACT.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1922, Page 5

LOVERS DEATH PACT.

WOMAN SURVIVES. London, May 12. “Don’t waste money on black clothes. Come in your best and brightest, for black means sorrow, mother, and I am happy. Neither of us can go without the other.” This extract from one of several ren.arkable letters written by a woman, disclosing a tragedy of hopeless passion, was read at t he'inquest into'the death of William Hibbert, aged 38, a bootshop manager, who was found dead in a bedroom filled with gas, in company with his youngest brother’s wife, Maud Hib-< bert, who is now recovering in a hospital. The coroner pointed out that if two persons mutually agreed to commit suicide and only one died, the survivor was guilty of murder. He adjourned the case in order to enable the woman to attend. Other letters from Maud Hibbert referred to “great happiness coming after our last week together.” Hibbert wrota a letter to his brother, declaring: “A woman who will sacrifice her all to give one man happiness and then go out with him is not bad, but is an angel. Wo just want to die together as the flowers do.”