Student Takes Own Life After Wife's Suicide
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SAN FRANCISCO - Two weeks ago, Margaret L. Riddle, 22 year-old dress designer and bride of a San Francisco law student, sought surcease from the problems of life by shooting herself to death in a hotel room at Ontario in Southern California.
She did not explain why she did it.
Yesterday, no longer able to endure the problems she left, Ralph, L. Riddle, the 24-year-old husband, joined her in death, using the same means to quit life that she did.
Riddle, however, explained.
In a note to Richard MacNulty of San Diego, his roommate and classmate, Riddle wrote:
"I was at a point where death was more attractive to me than life. I have quit."
And to his relatives, Mrs. H. D. Edwards of Santa Rosa, sister, and Lloyd E. Riddle, Los Angeles, his brother, he wrote:
"Life was never very important to me. Margaret gave it its only meaning. Margaret is gone and so is all meaning. To go on living seemed utterly futile."
MacNulty found the body, bullet-pierced, in their room at 145 Gough street. On a nearby table was a book opened to "Thanatopsis," Bryant's famous poem on death.
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