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LOVE LETTERS OF TRAGIC COUPLE.

INDIAN DOCTOR AND

WELSH WOMAN,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY) SEPTEMBER

LAST YEAR'S RAILWAY CASUALTIES.

NUMBER OF PASSENGERS KILLED ABOVE THE AVERAGE.

Passionate letters which, bad The year 1927 was a bad one in passed between an Indian doctor ragard to the number of passen- and n young Welsh woman were gers killed or injured in train sc read at the resumed inquest oncidents in England. If the the couple at St. Pancras.

total number of deaths, including They are written by Manatha those of railway servanta and non- Sanyal, 50, and Gwenyth passengers, is taken, however, the 28; of Cilycwm, near figure, le consliterably below the Warthenshire, who average, for the ten years, 1910-25. Maged in a Gow-: In accidents to traina 27 paa- cr-atre Abonavn) boarding house sengers were killed. and 618 wore on July 8. At the earlier inquiry injured. The averages for the on August & it was stated that yours. 1916-25' were 8" kiled and

GRAND SUMMER death was due in both cases to 466 injured.

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the couple were embracing each led, however, and 3,194 infüred, In othar....

Endearing Terms. After evidence as to the iden tification of the handwriting, ex- tracts of the letters addressed by the man and woman to each other were produced. They all began in endearing terms.

what are known to the Ministry of Transport as movement accidents, 1.c., cases where there was no accident to the train itself. Here the number Kiled was 12 fower than the average for the decado 1916-25, although the number of injured was about 80 per cent. above the average, As early as May, Sanyal was The total of passengers, Ber- writing to Miss Lewis about sul-vants, and other persons not in- cide, and Mr. D. Hopkin (for the cluding 220 auicides) killed on the woman's relatives) quoted this railways in Great Britain during passage to show that she was try-1927 was 435, while 25,403 persons ing to stop him:

were injured. The average num-

"Monty, dear, I beg of you-de bor of persons lilled yearly be- not, do it I will fight for you a tween 1916-26 was 518, and the long as am able and until I am average number of persons Injured absolutely certain that you intend 22,626.

to ignore my tears and prayers- and give in. I would rather give

Excluding the 476 million jour-

you up altogether-and you know neys catimated to have been taken what an awful struggle that season-ticket holders, nearly would be-than have you commit 1,200 million journeys were made suicide."

by passengers, and 413 million miles were run by passenger and freight trains. The number of passenger journeys, though more than in 1926 the year of the general strike-was less than in

In the same letter there this passage:

Was

1.

"I do not really care what hap- pens to me, and with this cruel pain on top of my mental suffering

I am nearly demented. I wish recent years, although the mileage could make you see my point of was greater. view."

"Coward and Fool."

promise to take you with me also-- Answering Mr. Hopkin, the in-you know how reluctant 1 was, spector said there were passages and even when I'did promise to In Mias Lewis's letters in which please you I knew I could only do she asked Sanyal to take her with it in ense you absolutely made me him, but he agreed that they were do it-I never had any iden of written when she was convalescing inducing you to it." after illness.

Mr. Frampton then read a lot- Mr. Frampton (for the man's re-ter from Miss Lewis to Sanyal, latives) read the following ex-in which she wrote: tracts from one of Sanyal's letter: "I don't wish to live without

"Dearest, You call me a co-you, so have no scruples about ward and a fool to still brood, but that. I am so afraid you will not do you do me justice? I am pen-have the courage to do things to niless and without any prospect me when it comes to the paint, of employment. How can I ve and the agony of mind I go without, money? „Apart from the through on that account is worso work I have learned, what glad can than a dozen-deaths. I do. Forgive me, dearest...

"Dearest, when I mentioned about my taking my life in case I do not find anything,, and you! said, and also wrote and made me sound mind in both cases.

"Leave me hure alone on my own-

and you will leave me to a worse agony than taking me with you.

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