Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12


two nrstcIass tickets 10 Nottingham ana
return. When they arrived there they took
leisurely walk through the town to the
Talbot Hotel, where they dined. Neither
then nor later at the railroad station was
any strange act observed in their conduct.
they took the 800 p. m. train from Noting
ham, and seemed then in the happiest spir-
Its. Some time later when near Trent sta
tion, the platform porter on going to collect
their tickets found them dead in their car
riaRe. They had been alone there, SO there
was no witness TO what had happened in
the last half hour Of their Life.
The inquest showed that the young peo-
pie had been planning for their death for
many days. Mrs. Clara Williams, 1T whose
house Miss Burford had stopped, testified
that Feron had called thsre frequently dur
ing the fortnight preceding. Each seemed
devoted to the other. Miss Burford aston
ished Mrs. Williams one day by manifesting
intense interest In q sensational novel
which described how lover had poisoned
his sweetheart by putting something in her
coffee. The girl said:
."H would be nice to die with my lover. It
would be nice to die in each others arms -
Mrs. Williams told her not to think or
talk OF such things, but the girl only laughed.
Some time afterward the young woman re-
marked:
"How funny it would be if they were to
ind us dead in a railway carriage; only we
should miss the best of the fun. We should
like to hear what they would say when they
opened the door,
This was so extraordinary a statement
that Mrs. Williams regarded IL only as a
joke. The girl was in the habit of talking
fippantly about serious things. She once
called attention to her dress open at the
bosom and said: "Row nice it would be
for bullet to go In here" Mrs. Williams
could remember only one conversation be-
tween Feron and Miss Burford in which
she heard them speak as If they were dis
cussing suicide. At that time the girl was
sitting beside her lover, and he said:
II would die for you, Lille. Would you
die for me7'
Eyes, would" she replied, and Kissed
him on the cheek
On the Sunday before this Miss Burford
showed Mrs. Williams pistol. She said it
belonged to Ferou, who was down stairs,
The two women went down to the room
where he was, and Feron took the revolver
and held 1t close to Miss Burford's face.
She did not tremble at all, and said she
was not afraid, for he knew how to use the
weapon.
All this testimony went to show that the
young lovers had contemplated taking their
lives. Letters found on Feron's body ex-
planned further their action One of them
was addressed to George Feron, Brussels.
1t read:
MY DEAR GEORGE: write you to-day for
the last time, as am going to commit suicide
this evening. have had enough of life and
am quite satisfied to die. Besides. a pretty
girl Is going to kill herself with me- so IL will
be all the better. It is useless to give you the
reason OF our suicide; IL Is sufficient to know
that she loves me. She has the same inten.
tion to die, and we have decided to kill our
selves. This is the way that we are going to
XIII ourselves: We are going by rail to Not
tngham, half an hour by train from Derby
we will enjoy ourselves during the evening;
then we will take train, and on the way back
Will point my revolver at the temple of my
mistress, and then shoot her; then 1 will kill
myself by firing on my temple. She has
asked me that this shall be DONE because she
can not handle the revolver. Now have oulv
to assure you that this way is the best; there
is no better way than to love an honest young
girl, and to be loved by her. Oh, If were 70
begin againi Kisses to all at home. Receiye
two last ones from your cousin ROBERT.
r. S-You were wrong in not writing me late
ly; this would have afforded me so much
pleasure.
The coroner's jury decided that the
lovers had carried out their plans fully;
that the girl was wilfully murdered by
Feron, and that he had killed himself while
temporarily insane.