MARRIED ONE DAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2908, 11 July 1925, Page 2

MARRIED ONE DAY.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE NEXT. Hamilton, July 7. Married at 11 o’clock yesterday morning at the office of the Regisirar in Hamilton, a young man mimed Albert James Griffiths, aged 22, attempted to end his life in a boarding-house at Frankton this morning by slashing his throat with a razor. Griffiths, who is a labourer, is staled to hail from Belfast, near Christchurch, although, so far as can be ascertained, he has no people in this country. Latterly he ha-s been working on the railway at Ongame, and at Wanganui. He came to Hamilton on Friday last and was met by llie parents of the girl whom yesterday he made his wife, and who, by the way, is only 16 years of age. They stayed at a Frankton boardinghouse. The marriage ceremony passed off all right, although the bridegroom wore a worried look and appeared to be somewhat depressed. This feeling seemed to remain with him all day. Shortly after 7 o'clock this morning his girl wife went into her parents’ room. On returning to her own room a little later she found the door locked. She knocked, and called her husband by name several times. After a while lie unlocked the door, and she was horrified to see blood streaming from a wound in his throat. She rushed back, informed her parents of her discovery, and eventually the police were called to the scene.

The youthful bridegroom was sent to the Waikato Hospital. His wound is not serious, and Griffiths’ •stay in the institution should not- be of long duration.