A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 20 October 1883, Page 4

A NEW YORK TRAGEDY.

Towards the close of August, Horace Shopni'd, twenty-threo years of age, a shipping clerk, and his young wife, killed themselves in JKew York, Hhfjiai'd's marriage was unknown to his friends, and it is inferred that he had experienced' obstacles to it from hi- relatives, The day previous to the Shepard spent with his wife '■at of town. Jietiring to rat at ten ■■i-iook at night, nothing more was iirtiid of them until nine o'clock in the morning, when the sound of two pistol huuts 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 m'oiind her husband in loving embrace Ihii his face was turned Irani her in an apparent spasm of agony. On a chair 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 omnious verse in the Proverbs : "Thereis a way that seemeth right unto a man, hut the end thereof are the ways of death." In Shepard's vest was the following note:—July 20th, 1883.—Rev P, L. Shopard, Saybrook, Conn,:—My dear mother and father, —Kittio and I 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, wo are your affectionate son and daughter,— KiTTiEand Horace Shepard,