Add to ORKGWoman promises her love to a man before he goes away but while he's away, another man wants to marry her. She says no; he kills her and her man comes back to find his love dead. On her body he finds a handkerchief with the initials of the murderer. The murderer is sent to the gallows while Henry (the dead girl's lover) wanders in distress for the rest of his life.68-40, C470, St. John's; 79-001, C3839A, Freshwater, PB. Laws ABBB O37 1957: 244; Fowke 1979: 52; Manny and Wilson 1968: 289; Gardner and Chickering "Ballads and Songs of Southern Michigan" 1967: 73; Huntington "Sam Henry's Songs of the People", pp. 229-230. See also: Creighton "A Life in Folklore" 1975: 166-167 for a discussion of "The Broken Ring", a folk opera based in part on ...