A strange tragedy has been transacted at Tottenham. A civil
engineer, named G. Tregear, residing there, discovered that his wife had formed a connection with a Mr. Cowen, a bandmaster, and compelled her to take laudanum with him, but his sister discovered the act in time and administered an emetic. Some days after he came into her room, and declaring that he loved her so much he would die in her sight, blew out his brains. He left a letter de- claring that he had married his wife at sixteen, that Mr. Cowen, while residing as a lodger with him, had committed a rape on her, and had forced her to silence by threats. The evidence of the wretched man's sister showed that his wife had treated his com- plaints with the greatest callousness, and the jury resolved that he had become insane through the conduct of his wife. Both Cowen and Mrs. Tregear have written to the Times solemnly denying the imputations upon them, and the husband's statement seems incon- sistent with his resolve that his wife should die. The presumption is that it was the statement made to him by his wife, who, before the coroner, gave no evidence as to the contents of the letter.
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