Suicide of a Bridegroom.
A German gentleman named Carl Engel, aged 64, residing in Addison road, Kensington, London, had arranged to be married to a Miss Lawrence, the daughter of a dyer, at 10 o'clock on a recent Satarday morning. On the Friday night he accompanied his intended bride to her residence at Notting Hill, and returned home, apparently in his usual health. Miss Lawrence went to his house on the Saturday morning when she received a communication from the servant, which induced her to send for a man to break open the door of the bridegroom's bedroom. He was found dead, suspended by a strap, fixed in a hole in the cupboard door. The father of Miss Lawrence soon afterwards arrived and cut down the body. In the room a letter was found addressed to Miss Lawrence, dated some days previously, in which he expressed a fear that he would die suddenly from disease of the heart, and enclosing £1000 for her acceptance in the event of this taking place, and his thus leaving her unprovided for before they were married. The deceased gentleman had been in a depressed state. He probably had an inkling of what matrimony meant.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 97, 28 April 1883, Page 3
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