A WIFE'S LOVE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 98, 2 May 1913, Page 3

A WIFE'S LOVE.

DESPAIR OF HUSBAND’S HEALTH TOUCHING LAST LETTER.

A touching letter, written by a wife to her husband, stricken with consumption, was read at an inquest at Scarborough, England, on Mrs Kate Blackie, aged 28. Mr Blackie said they had been living at Scarborough. Ho was to have entered tho Scarborough Sanatorium for treatment for consumption that day. Ho left home on Tuesday afternoon to buy clothing, and when he returned shortly after five o’clock found the house locked tip. Ho concluded that his wife had gone out, and, as he was ill, he rested at the next-door neighbour’s house awaiting her return until after one o’clock. Then ho became alarmed at his wife’s continued absence, thinking that some harm had befallen her, Ho climbed over tho backyard Wall at half-past one, and found the kitchen door unlocked and ihis wife lying on the floor near a gas. stove to which a tpbe was attached. The end of the tube was in her mouth, and she was dead and cold. Tho following letter was on tho table:—

“SO KIND TO ME.” “My Dear Husband, —It is with great sorrow and regret that I write you this letter, but you don’t know, dear, how troubled and depressed I am about yon when you have not been able to got tho support and nourishment you have so badly needed, and after you have done so much for me and worked so hard to try and get

on. Nobody knows the trouble and worry we have had this last year. We have both worried about the beautiful home we have lost and the good position wo have been in. But what is all that when you lose your health and strength? You seem to have lost everything since we came here.

No one in this world could have wished for a better husband than you have been to mo ,always good and true. You looked after me in every way and never said one unkind word to me. I cannot hear-, to feel that now you have to go from me when you have been so kind, to me. I cannot bear to think you will have to leave ; me, and go into that place. The .very, thought, pf.jt f haf turned my .braip, ,T qannot .stand.; it, ant lopger. . , ~, , |i . . i."-••■if a : “Forgive,mo for-what ,I.have done. —From ,vonr hrokeu-hqarted wife, “Lam .depressed beyond .words,,Y,qu .are the :only .have ,eimr had in tips, xyorJd- ; np, moijet” The Coroner; It is a very pathetic letter, and the affection they had for each other. (Several,,Jurymen : “ItHs.”) <; f Hr. Hutton, who was speedily in attendance after the discovery, said ,that a,. photograph of Mr dßlaClde had; beon-placpd by dlio womanewer-rcher: luuryi, .apparently-, before (taking - her| life.J 1 ,f.*J MAS • , t .,Ti)O; jury returned a’ verdict of 'stii-j eide during temporary insanity.- ! • j