Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1912 — FIANCEE’S SKULL AS CUP [ARTICLE]

FIANCEE’S SKULL AS CUP

Curious Method of German Student to Keep His Dead Sweetheart in Mind.

Paris. —Drinking from a cup made from the skull of his fiancee is the way which a German student at Strassburg has adopted to keep the memory of her fresh. > The fact is vouched for by the Abbe Wetterle, a famous French-Alsatian priest, whose propaganda against Germany has won him several terms of imprisonment. He bought the grim relic from’ the student to add it to his “museum of German civilization” at Colmar. The girl died a year ago In the hospital where the student worked, so that the latter had little difficulty in removing the head in the dissecting room. The abbe was put on his track by a jeweler who studded the skull, which was brought him. with rubies.