LOVERS’ LANE TRAGEDY

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 165, 31 March 1939, Page 4

LOVERS’ LANE TRAGEDY

WIFE RE VE AILS SECRET HUSBAND’S INFATUATION i r Two love letters and a sobbj-fig widow told the coroner at Beacon.sfield, Bucks, the story of a husband who fell desperately in lave with another woimail; of his wife’s long fight to, bold him, and the end of it fall —a sqicide pact. The inquest was ’on Sidney Arthur* aged 39, Eileen O’Mahony, 2f>, and their 18-months-baby, Euwar*. O’lvfiihony. They had -been Mind deud j«in r a> sealed "car in , Lovers,?' Jane, Beadpnsfield. n 1 # . V.OJlre fjuryvretuHied a verdict that the ychild .was .liiurcliered by both the man ;jnd tho women who themselves died as the result of a suicide pact. Davies’ widow, Airs. K'tbel Lily Davies, of Greenford Gardens, Green ford, jMriddlest'x. said'that they,.were niar-,l-ied'jn 1919, aud had two) children 'aged six and! three. >■> She broke down and , cried softly

“Sid, oh' Sid!” as she told bow two and a half years ago her husband, after being strange and upset fulsome Weeks, told lief one night that lie loved another girl. i Together Again. “He .did not say who it was, but he asked me to go to my home in Wales. He said that if I- didl not, lie would. 1 went away and took, the childreqf l stayed away a .year and four months. “My inisbaikl used to visit me, and he made(an allowance.” The coroner: Did lie, so far as you know, continue with the other woman!-' —As far as L know he was trying to break it oftAbout September, 1937, she returned home and'’"they lived together again. “At the end of Septei,liber he went away again for severau£montlis.”JContiuued Mrs. Davies. ' “I taxed him with staying" with the other woman. He would not answer.” “On Friday morning he went out and told me lie would lie back between 2.30 and 3 o’clock. He seemed to be quite liis normal .self. I never- saw him again.” : Mrs. Davies had nevdr seen Eileen O’Mahony. Relatives and friends of Eileen O’Mahony said that they had believed she and Davies were married. They .seemed a ' cheerful, happy-go-lucky pair, devoted, to the baby boy. “I am Fed Up” The cproner read extracts, from two letters, written a few days before the suicide, v- One was from Eileen O’Maliony to Davies:— “I am. fed. up. Never a place to go to. Then you -keep on saying wait until September and see what happens. ‘Now it is here, and where does it lead toL The sooner I pass out the hotter. A good finish to the end of my days. One thing LAvill always keep near my heart is mykfove for you. which will always live oil in the next world.” The other was from the man to the girl, dated two da5 T s later:—

“Why have you so little faith ill me f You know you are part of my life. God forbid!, you are never out of my thoughts. If you are going to do it, wo] are going to do it together.” Reviewing the evidence, the coroner said: “Apparently he fell desperately in love with the other woman rtnd made an awful tangle of his life. There is no doubt that the death was a deliberate act.”