The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-30 00:00:00

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THE WAY OF DEATH.

Vlerrire Or PASSION.—A respectably-dressed man
and woman went to an hotel at St. Maur, near Paris,
the evening before yesterday, and hired a chamber, to
which they retired after taking a hearty repast in the
restaurant attached to the establishment. As nothing
had been heard or seen of them the next day at noon
the landlord knocked at the door of the room, and
' receivink no answer he sent for the commissary of
police. .The doer was then forced open, and onsniter-
Ingthe,rcipm, which was filled with a notions vapour,
the two lodgers wereloned dead in the bed, near Which
was an earthem dish °obtaining chem.:nil ahem. On
the table. bry'w -paper, giving their named, end stating
that an enhappy passion was the cause of their suicide.
,The male deceased was • conductor of the Fontiscit
Climates, a married man, and the woman was the wife
of a person residing at %gimlet. In the course of the
day they were both recognised by their laingies and
removed for internient.—fialignmi.
ANOTELIOIDIUTH FROM rat Ufa Or CSISOLIIII.--On
Friday afternoon an inquest was held at Hastings; on
the body of Julia Brasier, aged 10, the daughter of a
fisherman in that town, who bad been burnt to death.
MarrAmile Braider, the child's mother, who, in addi-
tion to being in great distress of mind, appeared in a
very, delicate state of health, and was also suffering
from deafness, said that she was up stairs making her
bed, when the deceased child came running up stairs
screaming and with her clothes on fire. She asked her
how it happened, and she said," Oh, mother, I was
lacing Freddy's boots up by the fire." Her WA then
took the child down stairs and put the fire out by
throwing water over her. She was undressed, and a
surgeon was sent for, who was in, attendance almost
directly. She had kept the child home for a week or
two as she required her assistance in the house j but
the child asked-if she might go to school that day, and,
she had told her she might. When the child got
up she had put on her frock ready for school, and also
a crinoline which her cousin had made for her. 10
biting her brother's boots the deceased would have to
stoop, and she (the mother) thought that when she
did so her clothes got over the fender and caught on
fire, The jOO7, without deliberation, returned a
verdict of "Accidental death" In announcing that,
verdiet the foreman made some remarks condemning
the practice of wearing minoline, but the jury did not
appear inclined to pass a censure in this particular
inabanoe, while the practice they condemned was so
gmerally,adopted by the female sex.
klviopa, t• On Tuesday, Mr. Benjamin Cohen,
jeweller, High-street. Sheffield, committed suicide. Last
week Mr. Cohen was taken into custody on the charge of
having stolen watches in his possession. He was liberated,
on hail, and has been in an unsettled state of mind ever
dace. At in berly 'Waren Tuesday morning he was dis-
covered hi Ids rebel tire frighful condition. He had
possessed-himself of a razor, and had inflicted a shock-
ing gash in his abdomen. Two surgeons were sent for,
and they rendered. all the assistance i 0 their power.
About ten o'clock on Tuesday night Mr. Cohen died.
Irons the affects of the injuries he had .ieflieted en .hice-'

DientelteiNG &lOWA, Dr. Lankester held an
inqueat at the Bank if England Tavern, Cambridge-
pleas, •—Faddington; en Wednesday, touching the death
of'ClierlasFritcharff, aged 41, an upholsterer, formerly
ariesidlint at 8, Maniaret-terrsee, Kensington. Gibsoe,
a park-keeper in Kensington-gardens, stated that in the.
afternoon of the 13th inst., as he was passing through
that part of the gardens called Black Lion-wood, he
found the deceased lying on the ground, with his head
resting on hip left Aland, towing at the mouth, and
groaning. /io person was near him. Witness said to
him," My man, you appear I ery ill. What la the
matter with you ?" He looked up and answered, "I
have poisoned myself." • Be asked him whet he'had
taken, and he further replied, " Oxalic acid, and the
bottle lain my pocket." Witness ran off for a brothir
constabie to convey him to St. Mary's Hospital.
Witness produced two letters found upon his person,
one addressed to his wife, dated Siptember 3; and the
other to a Mrs.. Cole, his sister. dated August 22.
The one to his wife was to the effect that that letter
would be the last he should ever write. Be said he was
almost driven mad froau having no sign of getting
ensployment, arising from his having sunk too low in
the ,world, and described . IWe iniserible had been bit
'life daring the past four years, mainly from reduced
tircumstancea. The other to his sister disclosed the
painful statement that he had isot a penny in his
pocket, and had not eaten a crust of bread for several
days; that he had wandmed.about until he could walk
no longer; that he was a " friesidless, homeless wretch,
and prayed her forgiveness for committing the dreadful
crime of suicide." A. brother-in-law of the deceased do-
poaed he had formerly been addicted to Intemperate
ttaat be had not been seen for fifteen months.
Mr l4ltoai, house surgeon of St. Mary's Hospital, said
dedeaQd *lle admitted to that hospital on the 13th, and
died from the mortal effects of oxidic acid last Friday
night. He told witness before be died that ho was
starving, and swallowed an ounce of poison to end his
life. The jury deliberated, and returned a verdict of
Suicide"; bat left the state of deceased's mind at the
time he committed the set an open question.