The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-08-07 00:00:00

An Inquest has been boll In i-rindnn, by Dr. tankesler, oo
the body of Charlotte NI till ll.pbn. .gel 17, who we-
found dead in hod In Fi Hay morni..g last, at 51, Bernard-

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street. allol-11-11(11illre.
Mary Hopkins. mother of the deceased, identified
the Isidy. She said her daughter was in servic. where
she was found dead. Witness heard of the death on
Friday moroinc hint She last eaw her dive on the
previou, 'rne-dav, wit-n she air.eared in ROM health.
She had a sweetheart named Tom, but there was no

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quarrel bun.
Mrs. H tenet Hotnan, of 61 B irnaracdreet, Russell-
s:pare. said the decessed lived witlt her as a d onesbc
servant. It WAS Witt...4lA CIAIoOI to call deceased
between nix aut seven o'clock in the morning, aml re.
eeivitw no answer on Friday morning last, she entered
her room, and found her sop .rently dead in bed. She
sent for a doctor and the police.
Polce-conatable 35 E said he was called to the
hinute mentioned, sail saw the girl deal in bed. There
was a teacup, a KIIPS, and part of a emon 1/11 the
taltle, by the be.14,1e. In the fireplace lie found a
paper marked "0.010 acid- poison." He also found
a letter dated July 29, 1869, and addressed t her
ml her, father, sisters, and brothers. It was AS
follows:—
I now sit down with • Sad and painful heart, hut I hope
that G d will forgive me. My deer friends. I hope that you
will think as much of Towns you did I hope that my enders
will he heeler than I have been. 'When taut far away from
home and in my grave, All.l Ail my bones Are rotten, Take op
this note and think of me. Let me not be forgotten '
Sly
dearest mother, I wish that yin had kept me at home 011
Monday night, hut that is God's will. Good lye, and God
bless you all Will you give my love to all my If WMIIIIIII4 to
my sisters, and to Mrs Capen—to them all ; and to my dear-
est Tom, and to all of them ; au,ti Accept the same, my dear
mother an-I father? I love you more than Icon tell, for yen,
have been good end kind to nit I am, dear mother, your
uhild, Charlotte Matilda Hopkins. Good bye, God bless you
ail!"
Men. II plains recalled, maid that when her daughter
came home on the Monday night she was in great fear
about the letter she had received from an emigration
society, a., if she did not carry mil, her agreement, 'he
would be liable to a penalty of £lO, or three months'
imprison mint. Witness persuaded her to return to
her situation, awl she woad fetch her home in a
proper way. Witness was aunt that the fear of impri-
sonment had led her to self-destruction. She destroyed
the letter.
The Coroner said no society could force a person to
emigrate against their wish
A juror wished to kn.)+, the name of the society,
when he was .newensi from the body of the court that
there wan a Servants' Emigration All Society, whose
agents had been round Bloomsbury aid other squares
setting forth the advantages of emigration to the ger-
cants. and offering them mei-taws. Several had gone
out under their auspices.
The Coroner said there was nothing wrong in that.
There were too many women in the country, and by
a-sisting young women to emigrate it was for their
benefit. U. however, threats were used to force them
out againet their inclination lathe event of a change of
mind, It ~decidedly illegal.
1)r Watkins, of Guildford-street, deposed to being
called to the decerreed on Fliday morning lags, and
finding her dead in bed. He took a cop from stable
in the torn, which contained crystals and a glass in
which had been irorter or stouts alto with 141/1110 crystals
in it He had tested the crystal., and found they were
those of oxalic acid. The post martret examination
showed that the body was well multi-heti, and titter-
'tally the presence of that poison WAN detected. The
cantle of death was poisoning by oxalic acid.
The Coroner having referred to the evidence, the
jury Italia they should like to have the rules of the
nociety who were instrumental in the emittrat.ion.of
servant., but ultimately returned a verdict of " :suicide
oxalic acid while in ass unsound state of mind."

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
SCHRECKHORN.
The Rey. Roma, Phipps, writing to The Times from
OrindeWald. July 28, givee the following particulam of the
fetal accident on the Schreckhorn, which happened only a
few ears ago:—
I think it right to communicate to you at once Immo
details of the fatal accident, by which the Bev. Julius
Di. Elliott, of Brighton, was billed by • fall from the
Schreckhdrn. Mr. Elliott was travelling luSwif zerland
with my brother, the limit P. W. Phipps, with the
object lif ascending several mountains together. They
were accompanied by Franz Biller, of Z-rmatt, Mr.
Elliott's guide for the lest four years, aod by Josepo
Lauber, of Zermatt, as porter. On Monday afternoon,
the 26th inst., they left Grilidelwalel to sleep at the
cave under the Kastenatein, taking with them Peter
Baumann, of Grintlelwald, as an e.ddibi mai porter.
Their intention was to separate on Tiotelay morning,
Mr. Elliott to ascend the Bchre,khorn with Biner and
Lsuher, my brother t f go over the Strahleck aid back
with Bauinson. However, Tuesday morning proved
en tine that Mr. Elliott advised my brother to change
his plane, and accompany him up the tiebreckhorn.
This my brother agreed to do, on the stipulation that
Mr. Elliott should still go as he had originally pro-
posed, allowing my brother to follow inoependently
With Peter 8111.1112111111,, so that he might be no hindrance
to Mr. Elliott's well-known rapid climbing.
The first half of the ascent wee effected with compa-
rative ease, the weather being perfect and the 800,/
in
firstrate condition.
As the rocks became more difficult. Baumann and
my brother ppt on their rope. Mr. Elliott, however,
declined to put on his, as he thought it unnecessary.
He ascended very rapidly,. and went on some distant.*
in advance with his two guldes.
When my brother and Baumann reached the Col at
the top Mr. Elliott, with Biner and Lauber, were
about half-way up the final peak; they were just leav-
ing the snow, and were cutting the last steps to reach
the rocks of the summit; they were in great spirits at
their 811CO210, and the two parties shouted in congratu-
lation one to another.
At this moment it appears that in springing from
the ,now on to the rocks Mr. Elliott slipped and fell.
Lauber was on the rocks, but not firmly placed, and
amid render no assistance liner caught him by the
arm for the instant, but failed to hold him, and belt g
unroped Mr. Elliott glided rapidly down the steep
snow slopes of the northeast face of the mountain,
rolling occasionally over until he disappeared from
their sight some 1,000 feet below, near the Lautermar