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Nov 6, 2010
I'm Guessing that they were very sheltered girls & he was a drifting gypsy. They formed some sort of attachment & quite possibly he was accused of something. Improper behavior, witchcraft or the occult. Christianity was very strong then & there was no possibility of any further friendship or courtship with a person so unlike their own kind. Very sad, accusations led to death by hanging. The girls ingested poison in order to end their lives as they were unable to have any say in the outcome of the young man's fate. A very sad & tragic tale, one that was very real in that time period. Class & breeding meant everything and one did not cross the line.