The Foreman Tragedy.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1921, Page 3

The Foreman Tragedy.

INQUEST I KOCEEDINCS. |„v TELEGRAPH— I’KR PRESS association] WELLINGTON, Dee lAn inquest was opened by F. K. Hunt s M on the victims Edward AltreiL FonM.mil ami Ids wife. »f the Add Smith Street tragedy on I m-sday altcillniiu. when the bodies ol the limn - nd |,j< uiu* wtTL* luiuul in tin.* 1,1 #i \. i*-; ■ 111. li'tiis*.- uii'liT <in urn 4.» n• * pointing I" murder ami slid ale. E\ i dem-e "'as given by Elsie Marion Uev.s isister ol Mrs Fordman) «ho said sleand In-r sister came to New Zealand I mini ill- ago. They had no friends or relatives in the Dnniinum. I hey w-m-k----ed in hotels and there made the nr quaiiitam-e of men like Foreman and Anderson, now undergoing tcriii o. imprisonment. Eon-man was intc'is'ly jealous of Ids wife, without cause. She -aid he made allegations of miseondmwhich led to a seyarution. Alter t.l.tt he hunted Ids wife, meeting her going to and coining from work and he sliadi wed her at night. Witness was not -,,1-pi-i-ed at anything that happened as -he ght Foreman mad. Magistrate Hunt put in a letter addressed te him by Foreman making ; I-h-gatiotis again-l hi- wife or ndseomlu-.’t with two men. giving a reason lor tailing drastic steps, lie said 1 mimed her full of hope and Hushed with hap-eitn-ss and lived on day alter day in hopes of hot' returning. All is hhiim. I have nothing to live for and lio inter-e-t in life. My ensile has fallen and the future is to work, eat and sleep, a life of endless misery, and then die Mr limit, this is not a case of insanity or even temporary insanity, for I am as calm to-day as at any time in mv life. I have told ' mg on .lestruction, hut all I isarcasm. 1 shall make one final nppoV. The appeal was made on Sunday morning and failed. Foreman wrote a )io Isiiipt on Monday night, saying he had told his wife her life was forfeited am’ Die would he sorry when it was ton late.

The inquest was ndiotinicd fill Monday.