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Show mm Young Man Regrets Marrying a Woman Twice His Age Grand Junction. Colo., Sept. 1. Remorse Re-morse resulting from a throe months' honeymoon marked by a riot of dissipation dissi-pation following hia elopement with a woman nearly twice his age, Is believed be-lieved to have been the cause of the attempted suicide here last ulght of , Fred W. Cheney, 2G years old. son of ; George W. Cheney, manager of the Monchoslor. N. H., branch of the New York Mutual Life Insurance company ' and a member of an old and well-to-do New England family. Cheney shot , himself in the head with a revoKer at a hotel in the presence of his brld. He has small ehanc of recovery. Cheney and his wife arrived late yesterday afternoon from Denver, stopping at this place, according to Mrs. Cheney, to break tf Journey to I the Pad lie Coast. They weut to a hotel and a short time after they had retired to their room, a shot was her.rd Hotel employes found Cheney on i the floor with a bullet In bis head, and ! Mrs. Cheney on the bed In a dead faint. ! I.atrr the woman told of her young husband's dissipation since their elooe-nient elooe-nient from Boston last June, and did not deny tbat Cheney had expressed regret for his actlon and threatened to return to bis parents. She declined to tell anything about herself. Five hundred dollars was found in Cheney's possession, the last, Mrs. Cheney said, of $5.0on which he had when they left Boston. |