A ROMANTIC LOVE AFFAIR.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A ROMANTIC LOVE AFFAIR.

A MOST pxtnordi'i.iry love affair earn* bt'foie Mr Juxf.ice M unsty at the Derby Arizen. A Midland Rulw.iy workman named Elliot, who ia in tlit Army Reserve, was ch.irged with attempting to murder his sweetheart, Kh/übeth I'restoD, it Derby. I-i the mid.iln ot November, unknown to her mother, the girl left her pl.iee ■ f stvico, nnd wet the prisoner, tilling him she had nowhere to go. H« said ho had uo money, and endeavoured to perauad'- her to go home, but as ah* usdined, tliey walked about the streets until midnight, and then went into the rneudowg, where they remained all night. Tht y were on tho most affectionate termi, but all at once prisoner cut his own throat with a razor, and then attacked his sweetheart, on whose throat he inflicted a wound five inches iv length. He Hdid he had done it because his mother had called them both, and when the girl asked where she was to go, he replied "Goto Heaven, where all will be forgiven." Aa it was getting da) light they started for town, both of them haying wounds which bled copiously, and they were met by several railway workmen coming off duty. They bad not decided to die together. Since the accused wu committed for trial, the girl has written two dozen letters, and visited him twica a wtiek in prisoD. — Prisoner was con« victed of unlawfully wounding, and sea* tenoe was deferred.