MARRIED ONE DAY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 July 1925, Page 3

MARRIED ONE DAY.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TIIE NEXT. AT.'ifried ;it 1! o'clock ono morning at the office of the Registrar in Hamilton, a. young man named Albert James Griffiths, aged 22, attempted to end liis life in a boardinghouse at Frankton the next morning by slashing his throat with a razor (says the Auckland Star). Griffiths, who is a labourer, came to Hamilton on Friday last, and was met by the parents of the girl whom on Tuesday he, made his wife, and who, by the way, is only lb years of age. They stayed at a Frankton boardinghouse. The marriage ceremony passed off all right, although the bridegroom wore a worried look, and appeared to lie somewhat depressed This feeling seemed to remain with him all day. Shortly after 7 o’clock next morning his girl wife went into her parents’ room. On returning to her own room a little later she found the door locked. She knocked and called, her husband by name several times. After a while he unlocked the door, am) she was horrified to see blood streaming from a wound in his throat. She rushed back, informed her parents of her discovery, and eventually the police were called to 11k 1 scene. The youthful bridegroom was sent to the W.’iiknto Hospital. His wound is not serious, and Griffiths stay in the institution should not be of long duration. . ..