MAN WHO GAVE WIFE IN CHARGE

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3471, 26 May 1934, Page 9

MAN WHO GAVE WIFE IN CHARGE

FOR STEALING FROM THEIR

OWN SHOP. INQUEST REVELATION. A hufeband who said he once gave his wife into custody, and that she once summoned him for assault, was questioned at the inquest held on her at Windsor (England) recently. The inquest concerned the death of Mrs Goring, and Thomas M. Goring said his Wife left the house, telling him that she was going to jump into the river. He did not think she meant it, and did not follow her for two minutes.

He agreed that he once gave her into custody for stealing 10s from the till of their shop. She was ill at the time. He afterwards withdrew the charge, but his wife was taken to the police station by a constable.

Once his wife took out a summons for assault against him, but withdrew it when he signed an agreeemnt undertaking not to interfere with the management of the business. Once he went home and found she had locked the shop and drawn all the money out of their joint banking accounts. He had always given her “ everything money could buy,” and had not been brutal to her. She had often threatened to leave him, but the only trouble between them, had been over money.

A friend of Mrs Goring said that she went to a cinema with her the evening before she was found in the river. In one of the films a man was suffering from cancer, and this upset Mrs Goring, who said if she thought she was suffering from that disease she would take her life. Witness believed the film preyed on Mrs Goring’s mind, as she had undergone a serious operation for an internal com-

plaint. The coroner said it wfas clear that Mrs Goring was depresesd owing to illness, and that her domestic life had not been as happy as it might have been. For the husband to give her in charge when she was ill was a strange thing for a husband to do, but it was imposisble to say how far this act had affected her mind. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was recorded.