The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1889-04-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE BIRKENHEAD NEWS, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1889.  to fasten firmly into the headstall, so that they do not shake out of place. At first the horse appeared startled by this addition to his harness, but he soon got used to his glasses and liked them. "In fact," says his owner, " when I turn him out to pasture he feels uneasy and uncomfortable without his goggles, and last Sunday he hung around the barn and whinnied so plaintively that I put the headstall and goggles on him, and he was so glad that he rubbed my shoulders with his nose. Then ho kicked up his heels and danced down to the pasture." lie could see what he was going to eat then.  The story of the tragic deaths of Robert Feron, aged 18, and Lily Burford, aged 20, is such an one as might have been invented by Zola or some other such "realist." But it is true. The boy murdered the girl in a firstclass railway carriage near Nottingham, and then shot himself. Both had' prepared themselves for death, the girl apparently for no other reason than that she 'desired to die with her lover. She had been a reader of sensational novels, and desired to become an actress. A year or two ago she gave birth to a child, but the infant does not seem to have been an incumbrance to her, and she appears to have transferred her affections from its father to Feron. On Saturday last, while reading a novel, she said to her landlady, "It would be nice to die with my lover. It would be nice for us to die in each others' arms." Later on she said, "How funny it would be it they were to find us dead in the railway carriage. Only we should miss the best of the fun. We should like to hear what they said when they opened the carriage door." Then she declared that "she must wear her best underclothing that day, as she wished to look nice if she died."  Feron's conduct prior to the performance of the double tragedy was equally remarkable. He wrote a number of letters, subsequently found in the railway carriage. One of these ran as follows, and the remainder were similar in character :—My dear Fritz,—My good old fellow, I am going to be buried in the earth without shaking hands with you for the last time. I have had no luck, because you know what I have had before going to Brussels. I will never get over it. 'I have already spent more than 40ck francs at the doctor's, but I don't get much better. You will be the only one in Brussels who knew my secret. I haye not told it my father. I . . . . .  simply tell him that I have something frightful, but it seems to me useless to tell him everything. There is another reason; I love an actress, and she loves me also. Besides lam in debt for more than 1,000 francs. I shall commit suicide to-morrow evening (Wednesday). I believe that she will kill herself with me. I know that it is very sad to die at the age of 19. She is also 19 years old; I shall be 19 in six months. However, Ido not regret it. I will do it in a railway carriage. She has really the intention to commit suicide as well, for she cannot live without me. She has a true love for me. However, you know what girls are. She might be weak or feeble at the last moment. Therefore, dear Fritz, be very careful and remember sometimes your old friend,