MARRIED HIS AUNT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7938, 11 January 1906, Page 6

MARRIED HIS AUNT.

STRANGE ROMANCE THAT ENDED IN TRAGEDY. The Morning Leader tells the following remarkable story : August Herman Charles Adolphe Wawerooski is a young man of 21. A few weeks ago he decided to pay a visit to his aged grandfather at Elkstone, a village about mid-way between Cheltenham and Cirencester, not having seen him for about 18 years, Tending the old man, as she bad done for many vears, was the young man's maiden aunt, Mi9s Mary Everella Clark, a bright, woman of 43 years of age, and highly respected in the neighbourhood for her attachment to her father. But Wawerooski had not been long at the farm before he became enamoured of his aunt, and she so tar yielded to his avowals of love as to consent to marry him, being wholly ignorant of the fact that such a union was forbidden. Wawerooski proceeded to the diocesan registrar's office at Gloucester and secured a marriage license. Next morning tne wedding took plaoe at the parish church of Elkstone. After spending one night at the farm with his "wife" Wawerooski departed, it is believed, for his home in Northumberland, and quite alone. Miss, Clark did not long remain in ignorance as to the illegality cf the marriage ceremony, and the shook so overcame her that she sickened and succumbed to pneumonia, her funeral taking place iD the parish churchyard, which she had last visited on her wedding morn less than a month before.