WED AND DEAD IN A WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 57, 8 March 1932, Page 10

WED AND DEAD IN A WEEK.

TRAGEDY OF DEAF MUTES

SIGN LANGUAGE AT SERVICES

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SYDNEY, March 3,

Little more tlian a week ago Sydney was intrigued by tho report of a wedding between two deaf mutes. Vincent Lewis married Gwen Porter at a service wliere tlie only audible sound was the marriage service spoken by the minister. This was translated by an interpreter and the bride and groom gave their responses on their fingers. Tragedy followed swiftly on the heels of this happy event, for a week later brido and groom were involved in a motor accident in the city, Mrs. Lewis being killed and her husband seriously injured. They were standing in a traffic safety zone 011 Parramatta Iload when a motor car crashed through the barrier and swept over them. In Mrs. Lewis' hand was a photograph of herself and her husband, taken after the ceremony and_ delivered to her only an hour earlier.

The funeral service, like the wedding service held only a week before, was remarkable for the fact that an interpreter stood beside the minister and on his fingers translated the words of the service to a big gathering of deaf mute mourners.