A PRETTY ROMANCE

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2376, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A PRETTY ROMANCE

A hom antic story came to a happy ending in Mayor Whitney's otfice in Brooklyn. N. Y. . the other day, where he married Herman Kraus and An.ia Kscheubach. Prussian war medals decorated the groom’s breast, and something unus d about their demeanour led to questioning which developed a romantic tale. Herman and Anna lived at Friederiehstahl, on the Rhine and he was eighteen years old when th“ Franco-Prussian war broke out. He marched off to tight for the V norland, and iiis sweetheart rode after him in one of the waggons of the Red Cross Hospital Corps. At Gravelotte a fragment of shell struck Herman, and, when the soldiers came around after the Kittle to bury the dead. If was put in a shallow pit with twenty or thirty other bodies. Grief at the news of hisdoath drove Anna out of her mind, and, wandering on the battlefield, she sought the pit in which he had been buried, and dug out Ids body. Soldiers came upon her and forcibly carried her off to the hospital, where she was sent back to Germany, but they did not bother to re-inter the body she had resurrected. That uight it ruined heavily, ami Herman was revived by it. He was nursed back to life, but a portion of tbe skull pressing on tlio brain made him insane. Anna recovered her reason, and thinking him dead, came to live with her father in America. Last fall a celebrated German doctor examined Herman, and, by trepaning, restored him to reason. He made enquiries about his betrothed, and discovering iter location in Brooklyn, wrote to Iter, aid leam-.-d that she was free and loved him still. A week ago he reached America.