Show Storks PatlictSsi Koinancc A strange and pathetic romance ended happily at the Old Bailey Tuesday One William Stork a most respectable laborer was indicted for trying to murder his Sweetheart He anti she had loved each oIlier for seven years Poverty however how-ever had kept them from marrying Out of his earnings of Li a week Stork had kept the girl her aged and infirm father and brother and his own mother from the workhouse She fearful of being a further fur-ther burden left to stay with a brother The lovers however met one day the man pressing the woman to marry she still dreading their poverty refusing Wild with despair Stork tried to cut the girls throat and his own The judge and the jury both agreed in sentencing him to a mere formal punishment and the devoted de-voted couple met the reward of their long l selfdenial by getting gift of 10 from the sheriffs fund to enable them to marry and set up house togetherLondon Letter |