The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-22

(Continued from Page 1.) other to the girls mother, may tel much of the story of their decision to die.
 The girls shattered bodies, theil faces serene and unmarked, were claimed by American Consu Franklin c. Gowen, of London, a, the request of the father, tele. phoned from Naples. Gowen held the letters pending the decision of Coroner c. E. Lewis of Hornchurch regarding their publication. Letter to Father
 The Daily Express reported to- day that the letter to the father said:
 We heard about the Messina crash in Paris. It's terrible about Charlie. This is the last straw for us."
 Charlie" was Flying Officer John Alexander Charles Forbes, Jane's sweetheart. Forbes, Flight Lieut. Henry L. Beatty, step- brother of Earl Beatty, to whom Elizabeth was reported engaged and seven other British aviators were killed in the flaming crash of their airplane a week ago today over Sicily. After learning of their deaths in Paris. dispatches from Naples said the girls left Naples Saturday.
 It was possible today to recount part of the sequence of events in the girls last days.
 Four weeks ago today four great British seaplanes scared over the beautiful bay of Naples and alight- ed at Nisida airport.
 Meet American Girls
 The visitors at once took part In the gay life of Naples foreign col ony. They met the two American girls.
 Jane and Forbes-reported to have been engaged to Miss Kath- leen Blakely, a dancing instructor from Beforehand Elibzabeth and Beatty paired off and became in- -separable. Beatty's last letter home to his mother, Mrs Harold Lett, in Wexford county, Ireland, men, toned the girls.
 
 delayed in Naples, awaiting spare parts for their planes. Jane and Forbes, Elizabeth and Beatty, danced each night, sometimes at the Excelsior hotel. sometimes at the Neapolitan Yacht club under the Naples moon, looking out over the bay famous for it's romantic setting, with the mountains and smouldering Vesuvius in' the back ground.
 Their Last Farewell
 A week ago today they bade farewell. Two British airplanes set off southward across the Tyrrhen. ian sea toward Sicily and Malta the British naval station.
 A few hours later dispatches said a British seaplane had crashed in flames near Messina Sicily, and that it's nine occupants were burned beyond recognition.
 The news was more than the sisters could bear. So great ant alarming was their grief that theii mother decided at once they mus leave Naples, dispatches said. ThoI left the next day for Paris and A%Ohuohs " was ACpOAtS tS4s
 Late Tuesday night the sisters registered at the Ritz hotel, neal the royal air force club in Picca' dilly. They were seen to be 1T deepest sorrow. Wednesday they reserved all eight seats of a Hill. man air liner for Paris.
 Prepare for the End
 Some time. during the night oI early morning they packed theii suitcases: wrote in characters that showed their grief letters believed to be of two pages each, one to the father, the other , the mother. each girl writing a portion of each letter. Then they dressed in their best Paris clothes.
 Yesterday they motored down to the Stapleford airdrome, terminus of the Hillman line. They were r1o- ticed there. pacing up and down the runway. One turned to the other and said:
 Wouldn't John have liked to