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Show Pens Note on License New Husband Takes Life Forjyck.ngJWrongG.rlL LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 15 (UP) A 20-year-old bridegroom of on day scrawled a suicide note on the back of his marriage certificate, cer-tificate, then killed himself because be-cause he married the wrong girl, police aald Tuesday. Former high school football star Tommy Lee Schwader wrote a trembling farewell note to his It-year It-year -old bride, Edna Irene (Jackie) Hamman, which said In part: "If anybody ever tell you this I a coward's way out, you try it one. . . . Jackie, pleas don't dream." The youth' body, the muzzle of a 12-gaug shotgun Jammed against hi head, was found in his car Monday, barely a day after he and Jackie were married In Yuma, Ariz. He had fired the death blast with his big toe. Beaid hia body, officers found a Yuma, Ariz., marriage certificate certifi-cate with a scrawled suicide note on the back. In hia pocket they found a not from the girl he had courted for months, Betty Jean Cron, 19, that turned down hia plea to "go steady." "Tommy was sor because I had broken with him," Betty Jean, the bride's best friend, explained Tuesday. "He married the wrong girl, not the girl he loved. I was sure it would not work out." Although they went out together In a party Saturday night, Betty Jean said the final break In their romance cam the day before, when he found ah had dated another an-other boy. But Saturday night after the party, Schwader, a Compton college col-lege student, talked Jackie Into accompanying him to Yuma, where they were married by a Justice of the peace. "I thought I loved htm," Jackie told polios. "But on the way back from Yuma I suddenly felt It waa all wrong. I told him so." They went to a motel, however, where ah aald she told him she didn't lov him and couldn't live with htm. The youth's suicide not urged hia another not to "carry on too much." , |