Suicide of an Errant wife.
--Mrs. Veronica Knauer, a German married woman, 25 years of age, committed suicide at New Orleans on Saturday afternoon, by hanging. The circumstances, as elicited before the Coroner, appeared to be that in the morning Mr. Knauer, who is a shoemaker, gave his wife a severe flogging with a leather strap, for truancy to her marriage vows; and that under the smart of this in particular, and a sense of humiliation and shame, she went up stairs to her bed-room and took a piece of rope and hung herself. So determined was the wretched woman in her desperate act, that she hung herself without getting off the floor. She rather strangled herself; for she was found with her feet on the floor and her knees bent nearly as low down.
