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Show A Mivex. and pathetic romance ended like a popular drama at the Old Ralley, Iioudon, quite lately. So says a IonJnn Iettet: One Wll Ham Stork, a most respectable la-bcrer, la-bcrer, was indicted for trying to murder his sweetheart. He and she had lovod each other for seven years. Poverty, however, had keji them from marrying. Out of hb earningof XI a Week Stork had kf-j the girl, her aged and infirm father and brother and his own mother from the workhouse. She, fearful of b.Iug a further burden, left to stay with a brother. The lovers, however, met one day Uie man pruotng tho woman tc marry, she, still dreading their poverty, refusing. refus-ing. Wild with despair Stork tried to cut the girl'a throat aud his own. The Ju Jge and the Jury both agreed In sentencing him to a mere formal putife-hoient. and the devoted couple ruvttl.e reward of Uitir long self-denial self-denial by getting a gift of 10 from Uie sheriff's fund to enable them to marry aud si-t up house together. |