Inquest.
Wellington, This Day. At tho inquest on the body of Herbert Edmonds the verdict was that during temporary inanity ho khot himself, early in the morning, blowing out his brains, Tho people with whom Edmonds and his wife, lived said (hat the deoeosrd bad appeared to be very jealous. Mrs Edmonds said tb&l h& bad been aotiag strangely on the pretioa* evening, and aeemed to have something on bis mind. About three a.m. she woke up ami found him standing by the bed with a loaded gun, looking very strange, and he told her to prepare to die with him, but she got the gun away. lie appeared rational in tho morning and got up and went into another room. Then she heard a shot. He wa» very jealous, and had threatened to shoot, her before her marriage. She had lived ' with him ever since the marriage except tot a fortnight, whioh she spent in Wellington where her father was UU : *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 30 April 1894, Page 2
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162Inquest. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 30 April 1894, Page 2
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