A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1165, 25 October 1883, Page 1

A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

Towards the close of August, Horace Shepard, twenty thiee years |of age, a shipping clerk, and his young fife, killed themselves in New York. Shepard's marriage was unknown to his friends, and it is infened that he had experienced obstacles to it from his relatives. The day previous to the tragedy Shepard spent with his wife out of town. Retiring to rest at ten o'clock at .nigHt, nothing more was heard of them until nine o'clock in the morning, when the sound of two pistol shots brought the neighbors to the room. The couple were found' on the bed, in their night clothes, weltering in their blood. The woman's Arm was around her husband in loving embrace, but; his face waß turned from her in an apparent spasm of agony. On a chuir by the bed lay a' small Bible, presented to him by his mother on his birthday. A mark was in it, and it opened at this ominous verse in the Proverbs :—' There is a way: that eeemeta right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.' In Shepard's ve*it was the following note :—' July 20, 1883. —Rev. PL Shepard, Say brook, Conn. : My dear mother and fathe]:,--4Kittie and l;;were secretly married. There will be nothing revealed of the ceremony. We have been very happy together in life, but we will be happier in death, which seems so pleasant. Our last wish and request is that we may rest together, With all our love and devotion, we are your affectionate son arid daughter,— Kittie and Horace Shepard:'