Wedded Only Eight Days.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1424, 15 June 1899, Page 14

Wedded Only Eight Days.

J.,_ jMGTOUS mania leads to- a ■'YOUNG HUSBAND’S SUICIDE. A (.young widow, named Keziah Edith Oates, told (says a London paper of April 14) a pathetic story at an inquest in Leeds with respect to the death of her husband, who cut his throat with a carving-knife on Saturday last. .. The pair were married at Stirling omy on. Good Friday, the yonng husband, who is a fitter by trade, having obtained work ju Leeds. Gates was of a very religious temperament, and lust after tne wedding he toid hfs wife that his marriage greatly distress€(l him, &s li6 dreaded the coarse chan of his shopmates on going back to work. On 'Tuesday, at Stirling, he began to behave strangely, and kept saying that .detectives were coming for him. The Coroner (to the widow): I understand he used an expression showing he was under some religious mama i —He seemed to think God’s wrath was upon him for marrying me. . Last Thursday Mrs Oates called m a doctor, and also took her husband to see a. minister, who talked to linn about an °TBefore we were married,’ continued the young widow, “he was for ever talking about our own little nest, as he ca. leu it, but afterwards he took no interest m the preparations to.start housekeeping at Leeds. He said to me, “If God mil give me another chance I will be a good man to you,’ and seemed to think himself unworthy of me.’ . , The couple reached Leeds at hall-past five on Saturday morning, and went to loci rungs pending the completion of tneir own home. They retired to rest, and rbko for dinner at about half-past one. Oates was then very morose and dispirited i and, though his wile tried brave.y to cheer him up, she could not remove the trldom from his face Subsequently, in. Mrs Oates’ absence ho seized a carving-knife from tne tame and cut his throat. , The jury gave a verdict of •Suicioe dining religious mania..’...