THE RECENT AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 9426, 4 July 1882, Page 3

THE RECENT AUCKLAND TRAGEDY.

On June 19th a young man named Henry Foreman ; aged 22, committed suicide in Auckland under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. Deceased had been married only six weeks to Mary Hearling, a girl of 18 years. The match was not a happy one. The circumstances of the sad affair will be understood from the following statement made by Mary Foreman to the police :—I am the wife of Henry Foreman, and I was married to him seven weeks ago to-day. About three weeks after we were married I wanted to go to a dance in the Temperance Hal], and Harry would not let me. He took down a gun at the same time, and said if I went he would shoot me first, and himself afterwards. Soon afterwards he offered to go himself, and wo went to the dance together. We had occasional squabbles since then. Harry was very jealous of me. Last night, about 8.30 p.m., my father came to our house to see my husband. I said to Harry, 'I will take a walk round the corner.' I went round the corner into Victoria street, and met a young man named Patrick Doolan, with whom I was well acquainted, and stopped to speak to him. While we were talking together my husband came up, and said, ' You came around bere to meet this young chap, 1 and I replied ' I did not come to see him.' He then caught me by the face and knocked me down in the street. I was courting Doolan previously to marrying Foreman. After I got up, I went home with my husband, and when we got inside he beat me. We quarrelled a good part of the night. I said if we could not agree it would be better for us to part, and I would go to service. He replied, ' ?ou will have to go.' This morning about 8 o'clock, I got Harry his breakfast. We were good friends again, and neither of us spoke of Inst night. Harry gotdressed and asked me for some money. I had 10s which 1 gave him, and I had 5s 6d more, which I told him 1 was keeping for the rent. He wanted that also, but I refused to give it to him. He did not say wh.it he wanted it for. He threw

the 10« which I gave him on the (abJe and then went and took the carbine down I ran out of the house towards my mother's and when near the corner of Chapel mid Durham streets, I heard the gun go off. 1 told mother I believed lift had shot himself, and she went up." At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of " suicide, while suffering from temporary insanity, caused by jealousy and measles."