THE RECENT INTERRUPTED WEDDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9497, 28 April 1894, Page 5

THE RECENT INTERRUPTED WEDDING.

A DISTRESSING SEQUEL. ' THE HUSBAND SHOOTS HIMSELF. [BY TELEGRAPH. ASSOCIATION.) ! Wellington, Friday. The police have received information that Mr. Herbert Edmonds, schoolmaster at Piringa, Lower Wairarapa, shot himself at 7 a.m. . ' ~,','•■ The death of Edmonds is the painful end of a romance which began in St. Peter's Church a few Weeks ago. Then, as telegraphed, his bride refused at the altar to marry him, but was persuaded to become his wife next morning. That day they left for Piringa, about 10 miles from Martinborough. A passenger who was in the train, says the girl refused to speak ' to her? husband all the way, and before the journey's end was reached ' she gave him the Blip and disappeared. Edmonds was only 27 years of age, and of a bright, cheery disposition. He was not at all the kind of man likely to commit suicide, but doubtless his temper was soured and his life embittered by the events of the last few days. Mrs. Edmonds returned to her father, with whom she stayed till this week, when she went back once more to her husband. She herself telegraphed the tragic news to her father, but nothing more than the bare fact of the suicide is at presenb known.