FURTHER PARTICULARS.
McKain was habitually quiet and reticent. He was a brushmaker by trade, but was ambitious, and studied hard to take up clerical work. After getting married he threw up his position, and visited various parrs of the colony with his wife, in which process he seems to have exhausted; what money he had. He had never given any indication of a suicidal disposition. Mrs McKain was the only daughter' of Mrs Price, of Maaterton, who was opposed to the marriage. The girl was pleasant and attractive and very fond of her husband—in fact, she threatened if parted from him to kill herself.
The news was broken to Mrs Price, who is ill, on Saturday night, and as ahe insists that her daughter shall be buried a*t Masterton, McKain's wishes will be disregarded. Mr Moorhouse, who was called in by the police to identify the bodies, says the man's face was peaceful, but the girl's was frightfully contorted, as if in deadly fear of the death she saw coming.
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Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9307, 20 February 1899, Page 2
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170FURTHER PARTICULARS. Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9307, 20 February 1899, Page 2
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