The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

LUNACY PROM WAN?.

A lamentable cue of death, arising from the
combined effects of starvation and injuries self-inflicted
through lunacy, which supervened in the public street,
from extreme waist, was investigated before Mr. H. Raffles
Walthew, the deputy coroner for East Middlesex, late last
night, in the boardroom of the Mile-end Workhouse,
Bancroft-road, Mile-end. The unfortunate deceased was
named John Gould, aged 50 years, and he was under-
stood to have only recently, wired in London from Kent.
Mr. James B. Slight, relieving officer, said that the de-
ceased was brought to his office on Saturday week by
Police-oonstable Toulman, 432 K, who said that he had
found the man in Crown-row in a state of starvation and
annoying the shopkeepers, who said he was mad. His in-
tellect appeared, the constable laid, stupified from destitu-
tion, and he was token at once to a doctor, who exa-
mined him, and pronounced him to be suffering from the
want of the common necessaries of life. The policeman
consequently brought him to the workhouse. In reply to
witness, deceased said that he had left his child at Crayfoni,
Kent, in thecharge of a Mrs. Garrett, so that he might come
up to London to obtain employment as a shoemaker. lie
spoke incoherently, and in a few minutes became alto-
gether irratimal. Witness gave an immediate order to
have him admitted to the union house, and endorsed it
" supposed to be insane."
Mr. William M'lloneld, master of the workhouse, said
that when he heard of the case he visited the deceased in the
receiving ward sod endeavoured to cheer him. He replied
that he had not slept in a bed for a long time. Witness
thought it necessary to order a man to remain up all night
to watch him.
John Star, warder, said that on the morning after de
ceased was admitted, witness was alarmed by hearing •
woman cry out, " He is cutting his throat. Witness and
another man rustled to the place, and found deceased in the
act of cutting his threat with a razor. He struggled vio-
lently to prevent their taking the razor from him, and they
had considerable difficulty in restraining him until the doc-
tor came.

Mr. J. Stephens, M. FLC.S., said that on the morning in
question be sou sent for and found deceased held down by
two men. He had a large wound in the throat. He lingered
a short time and then sank. The immediate canoe of death
was inflammation of the brain. The severe wound in the
throat accelerated his death. He was in a moat ehoekingly
emaciated condition. He was in inch a state that even
if he had not cot his throat be could not have survived.
Thomas Moffatt, porter at the union bonne, said that he
searched deceased within a quarter of an hour after his
admission, and did not find a razor on him then. Deceased
would have been searched before, but that witness WAS
absent from his post, being summoned as a witness on the
Hayrick inquiry, at the Bethnal.green Union.
The Coroner remarked upon the deplorable nature of the
case, and the jury returned the following verdict:—"That
deemed died from inflammation of the brain, and that his
death was accelerated by his cutting his throat with a
lame, and also by his emaciated state; and the jury find
that deceased bad not been searched until 10 or 15 minutes
after hie admission to the union house, and they recommend
that In future persona should be searched immediately on
their admission."

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