CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 13

CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY

WIFE'S STORY OF HUSBAND'S DEATH

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, This Day.

The' story of a Christmas -morning tragedy in a bed-sitting-room in the Great North Road, occupied by a couple married a fortnight ago, was unfolded this morning at an inquest.

Mrs. Vera Elizabeth Weston said she retired to bed about 1 o'clock in the morning. Her husband, Nathaniel Charles Henry Weston, aged 38, a tinsmith, followed a little later, after opening a bottle of beer. He commenced to cry, and. when . asked what was the matter said: "Well, don't you love me any more?" The witness replied that" she did. "Well, it's too late now," he said, and aske.d her to kiss him goodbye. He said he had taken strychnine before going to bed. He went into convulsions and a doctor was called. The husband was removed to the hospital and died five minutes later.

The witness said .they "had lived happily, arid there had been no disagreement. They had visited her husband's mother during the afternoon. He had a few drinks, but was not intoxicated.

The inquest was adjourned until tomorrow to take medical s evirh:T:o.