TRAGEDY ENDS ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1922, Page 10

TRAGEDY ENDS ROMANCE.

AN ECONOMICAL MARRIAGE. RECLUSE AND YOUNG GIRL. London, Sept. 28. A tragic story of the romance of a retired book-loving recluse, who was found shot dead in a room at the British Museum a fortnight after he married a beautiful younc Frenchwoman, is expected to be unfolded at the inquest. . Henry Sym ■. aged 51, a museum librarian, was known to all his colleagues as quiet and very -reserved and wrapped up in books. He recently returned from a holiday in the South of France, and surprised his friends by stating that he was engaged to be married to a young Frenchwomen whom lie had met on the Continent.

His years of semi-seclusion are alleged to have induced in him a strong craze for economy, whiph the prospect of marriage did not effect. A neighbour told a representative of the Sunday Herald that Symons “turned up at the wedding in a battered old silk hat and clothes much worn, contrasting strangely with the radiant and fashionably-attired young wife. He gave orders that there must be no tips, and refused to drive the bride to the West End for luncheon in a car, suggesting that they should go by tram.” There was no honeymoon. Several scenes occurred after the wedding over trivial money matters.