During his tenure on the show, Alan hit a child genius, unknowingly took cocaine, bribed rent boys, lost his wife's car in a bet, was openly homophobic, forced the resignation of a junior government minister and, in the series finale, his guest Lord Morgan of Glossop died of an apparent heart attack.

Later acquitted of murder in light of his wife's apparent adultery, Pozdnyshev rides the trains seeking forgiveness from fellow passengers.

In the televised version, Holmes was not called upon by Ferguson to investigate his wife's apparent attempt to kill her infant son, but by the town vicar to investigate the death of the baby, with the prime suspect being the newly-arrived Mr. John Stockton, a man who is rumored to be descended from a family of vampires.

Croesus ' hubristic happiness was reversed by the tragic deaths of his accidentally-killed son and, in Critias, his wife's suicide at the fall of Sardis.

He rushes home to stop his wife's suicide but is too late ; she has poisoned her son as well.

On 26 August 1978, two days after his wife's death from cancer, and two days before his own 79th birthday, Boyer committed suicide with an overdose of Seconal while at a friend's home in Scottsdale.

The series, which are set in a Classical interior, shows the story of the fashionable marriage of the son of bankrupt Earl Squanderfield to the daughter of a wealthy but miserly city merchant, starting with the signing of a marriage contract at the Earl's mansion and ending with the murder of the son by his wife's lover and the suicide of the daughter after her lover is hanged at Tyburn for murdering her husband.

Summerford, in a drunken rage, had put a gun to his wife's head, forced her to write out a purported suicide note and then forced her hand into a cage of rattlesnakes used in church services, until she was repeatedly bitten ( his church condemned divorce, so he found it convenient to become a widower ).

Kenneth is already away on business when the novel begins and he does not return until the very end, after his wife's suicide.

His wife's mental problems continued, however, until her suicide in 1941.

In a remote village in 1184 France, Balian ( Orlando Bloom ), a blacksmith, is haunted by his wife's recent suicide.

The nun Rikei wrote an account of his wife's suicide and, pitying them, wrote several verses in their honour.

His wife's suicide back in 1969 and a daughter's fatal car accident several years later always weighed heavily on him, and his hyper-violent films such as The New York Ripper caused him to be branded a misogynist by the critics, although he always claimed that he loved women.

Augusta, who had remained with Byron at Piccadilly Terrace since his wife's departure, intercepted the letter, as she feared Byron would commit suicide if he knew of it.

In 2002, however, Hoffman starred as a widower coping with his wife's suicide in Love Liza, for which his brother, Gordy Hoffman, wrote the screenplay.

He posted the manuscript, typed by his wife, to the publisher a day before his wife's and his suicide in February 1942.

He has also been involved in suicide prevention efforts for veterans in his wife's home state of Arkansas.

Shortly after his wife's suicide, his disturbed daughter ( Dakota Fanning ) becomes friends with the mysterious and unseen Charlie, whom David assumes is an imaginary friend she has created.

His wife's numerous " love " affairs and drunken escapades have become the talk of Honolulu and her death during the Pearl Harbor attack-in the company of an Army Air Corps Officer ( Hugh O ' Brian ), with whom she just had a wild fling on a local beach-drives Eddington into a bar brawl, a stint in the Brig, and exile as the "... officer in charge of piers and warehouses ..." in a " backwater island purgatory " as he calls it, until reprieved by Torrey and assigned as his Chief of Staff-and finally into the rape of Navy Nurse Annalee Dohrn ( Jill Haworth ) ( engaged by this time to his son ), who then, fearing she might be pregnant and tossed aside by Eddington, commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills.

While Fearless, Andrea, Ray and David ( preparing for rehab ) investigate, Joel finds himself finally confronting his wife's suicide attempt and the death of their newborn daughter ; while Tom finds himself being coerced into snitching on Joel.

On January 4, 1990, the Tobin Bridge became infamous as the site where Charles Stuart, who was becoming the prime suspect in his pregnant wife's murder, committed suicide by jumping off the bridge.

That evening, he walked into the Dundee Central Police Station on Bell Street and reported his wife's suicide to Lieutenant James Parr.

Despite this, rumours swirl around him, one about his wife's death ( an assisted suicide ) just out of the range of hearing.

As he watches them go, he remembers everything that has happened to him, from their dreadful shuttle accident to his wife's suicide when she sees him in his robot form.

This, combined with his wife's suicide, which happens just prior to Hieronimo's appeal to the King, pushes Hieronimo past his limit.

Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, is trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide.

Hearing his wife's moans and her laughter at him, a humiliated Harold commits suicide by hanging himself.

They believed that sending him to France would take his mind off his wife's death, so he was appointed minister to France in 1785.

In these cases, their relationships with those of high social status had the potential to improve their spouses ' status — and so, more often than not, the husband was aware of his wife's profession and dealings.

Paisiello conducted the music of the court in the Tuileries with a stipend of 10, 000 francs and 4800 for lodging, but he entirely failed to conciliate the Parisian public, who received his opera Proserpine so coldly that, in 1803, he requested and with some difficulty obtained permission to return to Italy, upon the plea of his wife's ill health.

" Despite Patton's earlier statements and his wife's wishes, some consideration had been made toward sending Patton's body to the U. S. for burial at a place like West Point, but repatriation of bodies was strictly forbidden for soldiers of all ranks throughout the war as a matter of policy, so for Patton, this would have required a very special exception.

Spence turned himself in so that he would be protected in Behan's jail, but his attorney successfully blocked his wife's testimony.

Wenham ( IVP New Bible Commentary ) execution was normal for rape cases, so Potiphar may have had doubts about his wife's story.

:" I think my wife's fate is happier than my own, even though it may not seem so.

Upon hearing the news of his beloved wife's death, Shiva was furious that Daksha could so callously cause the harm of his ( Daksha's ) own daughter in so ignoble a manner.

At this time it was illegal in Britain to marry one's deceased wife's sister, so Hunt was forced to travel abroad to marry her.

The town of Grayson also wanted the library prize, so in a compromise in 1916, Grayson took the name of Blanding, Mr. Bicknell's wife's maiden name, as a tribute to her parents.

Taylor lived in Disley, Cheshire for a while, where Dylan Thomas ( who was his first wife's lover ) was his guest ; he later provided Thomas with a cottage in Oxford so that he could recover from a breakdown.

Stone also argued for property rights for women so that a man could not misuse the fruits of his wife's toil.

Washington's will stipulated that his own slaves were to be set free after his wife's death so that intermarried families would not be broken up.

I don't wonder his wife's so fond of him!

He has the most to gain financially from his wife's death, and, since he is so much younger than Emily was, the Cavendishes already suspect him as a fortune hunter.

In 1765, after his wife's death, he took his children to England so that they could be properly cared for.

1910 Calgary was a frontier town that smelled of horse manure and in which public drunkenness was common ; though Aberhart's sensibilities were less shocked by this than his wife's were, he also had to make some adjustments: in Brantford he had always attended church in a silk top hat and frock coat, but he quickly abandoned this custom after discovering that he was the only one in Calgary to do so.

When Miep brings the group a cake, Dussell and Van Daan bicker over the size of their portions and then Van Daan asks Miep to sell his wife's fur coat so that he can buy cigarettes.

This date was also the anniversary of Bright's wife's death, so Bright replied that he felt the need to spend it at home.

The conversation so amused him that he laughed heartily, instigating his wife's curiosity.

And so, at his wife's suggestion, Sinbad sells all his possessions and returns with her to Baghdad, where at last he resolves to live quietly in the enjoyment of his wealth, and to seek no more adventures.

Once Frank is married to her, he could not possibly allow his wife's kinfolk to be evicted from Tara, so he provides her with the $ 300 ($ as of ) which she needs to pay the taxes on Tara.

After using his wife's cotton apron to mop it up, he hung the apron over the stove to dry, only to find that the cloth spontaneously ignited and burned so quickly that it seemed to disappear.