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Show THWARTED LOVE COSTS GIRL LIFE, LOVER SURVIVES Refused Divorce That He Might Wed, Boy and 1 Girl Choose to Die. Paterson, N. J. Tragic drama of thwarted love of a banker's son and a beautiful girl below his station unfolded un-folded here with the finding of the young lover stumbling through the woods near Echo lake, N. J., two gaping gap-ing bullet wounds in his head. Fie killed the girl he loved after his wife refused to give him his freedom. He sought to follow his sweetheart iu (Iiith and bungled, and so was charged with murder. The body ot the girl, Jenny Brauer, blond and slimly beautiful, was found in an automobile in a lovers' lane. Jenny was twenty-two and had been a waitress. Wife Refused Divorce. Her lover was Rodetic Meakle, twenty-eight, a brilliant violinist and con cert master. His father is William R. Meakle, vice president and treasurer treas-urer of the Paterson Savings Institution. Institu-tion. i Detectives learned that Meakle had been married since 1926 to Jessie Murphy, school teacher of Paterson. wn i iibikiiii" i irr II ii 1 1 I iiMn--"""'"".- ! Killed the Girl. Miss Murphy lived at the Meakle home, although she still retained her imaiden name. Some months ago Meakle met Jenny Brauer. He became Immediately Infatuated. In-fatuated. Going to his wife, he confessed con-fessed his love for Jenny and asked her to give him a divorce. This she not only refused to do, but ordered the couple never to see each other again. Planned to Die. 1 Feeling that their mutual adoration would lead them only to unhappl-ness unhappl-ness and frustration, Meakle and the girl planned together a trip that was to end in murder and suicide. That the girl knew she was going to be killed as she was held in a Inst embrace, em-brace, is indicated by n note that both 1 signed. This said : ! "I'ate has denied us the right to 1 happiness in life, so we go happily i to rlenth. 1 "We hope our friends cai. now real ze the existence of real love." - |