The Sensational Suicide

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 300, 28 April 1894, Page 2

The Sensational Suicide

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(FKR PBKB3 ASSOCIATION ) Wellington. April 27 Mrs Edmonds, it appears, did not go to Australia as reported, but 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 suicide is at present known.

To-day's New Zealand Times says : — The sequel to the marriage of Miss M. Hare to Mr Herbert Edmonds, celebrated a few weeks ago at St Peter's Church, is a sad one. It will be remembered that on March 29th the parties were to be married, but that the bride refused her consent at the last moment, saying '•No!" at the altar, and the ceremony had to be postponed. The following day, however, she allowed the ceremony to proceed, and was married. Yesterday, exactly a month later, the bride's father Mr Hare, of the Government Printing office, received a telegram signed by his daughter, briefly recording the terrible fact that her husband had committed suicide by shooting himself that morning. Mr Hare, accompanied by the brother of the deceased, proceeded by the afternoon train to Pirinoa, which is 15 miles from Martinborough, where the deceased held the position of schoolmaster. Inspector Pender also received a telegram from Constable Bowden, of Martinborough, conveying the news, but without the slightest details of t*ie occurrence. The Coroner has been communicated with, and an inquest will be held. The cause of the suicide is, of course, at present a mystery- We are informed by the friends of Mrs Edmonds that after the marriage ceremony the bride and bridegroom left for Pirinoa, where they lived together for a week, at the conclusion of which period Mrs Edmonds returned to Wellington for the purpose of attending her cousin's marriage. While here she stayed with her parents at Oriental Bay, and in about a fortnight was joined by her husband. On Tuesday last they returned together to Pirinoa, and that was the last heard of them until yesterday. Some unpleasantness appears to have occurred between Edmonds and his wife at Pirinoa concerning the locality where they were living, Mrs Edmonds describing it as an " outlandish " place, and it is stated that threats of violence were used by Edmondn. It is even asserted that he produced a doublebarrelled gun and a couple of cartridges. The whole of the circumstances, however, will no doubt be fully sifted at the inquest. The friends of Mrs Edmonds are indignant at the prevailing gossip to the effect that she left her husband and deny positively anything of the kind.