The Late Sensational Suicide.
THE INQUEST -VERDICT OF INSANITY. JEALOUSY OF DECEASED. THE WIFE'S EVIDENCE. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'). Wellington, This Day. At tbe inquest ou Herbert Edmonds a verdict of temporarily insane was returned. Ho shot himself early in the morning, blowing out his brains. The people with whom they lived said the deceased had appeared to be very jealous of Mrs Edmonds. He had been acting strangely the previous evening, and appeared to have something ou his mind. At about three a.m. she woko up and found him standing by the bed with a loaded gun and looking very strange. He told her to prepare to die with him, but she got the gun away. He appeared rational in the morning, and got up and went into another room, and then she heard a shot. He was very jealous. He had threatened to shoot her before their marriage. She had lived with him ever since the marriage, except for a fortnight, when she went to Wellington because her father was ill.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 301, 30 April 1894, Page 2
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172The Late Sensational Suicide. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 301, 30 April 1894, Page 2
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