The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

SUICIDE OF AN UNDERGRADUATE AT

CAMBRIDGE.-INQUEST.

Yesterday morning a jury was empanelled in the
Combination-room of Clare Hell College, Cambridge, to in-
quire into the circumstances attending the death of Edward
Hayman, a Bizet of that college.
Elizabeth Barton. bedmaker to the deceased, deposed to
finding him, at half-past four on Tuesday afternoon, lying
upon the floor, bleeding from a wound in his throat. He was
a very steady, exemplary young man.
Mr. Hough, surgeon, stated that the deceased was in his
bedroom, quits dead, when he was called in. On a high
reading-desk in the sitting-room a sheet of writing paper,
with blood on it, was found, bearing tho words hastily
@crawled, "Good bye, father. Thank you, dear Henry,
for—". There was a pool of blood near this desk, and a
pen stained with blood upon the table. A large pool of
blood war observed near where the body was found, u well
as on the dressing table, drawers, and looking glass in the
bed room. The deceased had manifestly made a filet at-
tempt at the high desk, then wrote the paper, and, going to
the bed room, accomplished his purpose before the Inking-
glass. The incision was, probably, made from left to right,
and portion of it war jagged on the left side, when, in all
probability, the first attempt was made.
John Marshall Hayman, undergraduate of St. John's
College, stated that he was brother of the deceased. Me
produced some correspondence between deceased and another
brother in Landon, which went to favour the ides that the
unfortunate young man hid gone wrong in his mind on
religious topics. Witness then said: I saw the deceased on
the Thursday or Friday before be passed his " Little go."
He came to my rooms on the Sunday evening before the ex-
amination, his object being to satisfy me that it war imposid-
hie for him to pass, and that he ought to have a medial
certificate to excuse him. It is clear that he was then
labouring under a delusion, because he went in, and, as I am
informed, passed a molt satisfactory examination, being well
prepared in all the 'abject'. My brother's spirits had been
very low during the lea' fortnight, and I frequently noticed
an appearance about his eyes as though he bad been crying.
Thomas Mayer Nilson said—l was a friend of the de-
ceased. In the middle of hat week he sent his brdniaker to
say he wanted to see me. I went to his room. He was un-
dressed in his bedroom. He maid he was very unhappy, that
he had committed a great crime, and wanted some one to
comfort him. He then said he had been guilty of gluttony
the day before, and that he had smoked a cigar overni6ht in
his rooms for the first time in his life. I tried to laugh the
matter off, and deceased said he wanted to be comforted and
not laughed at. I could not persuade him that he had not
committed a serious offence, and by his desire we went into
the sitting-room, and there read the church prayer_etefle-
thee, and some pussies at Scripture. He own" bitter.
There was mere evidence, but the jury here expressed
themselves satisfied, and the coroner said he thought there
could only be one opinion on the matter.
The jury then retureed an unanimous verdict of " Tern-
blunitY" and the remains of the deceased were con-
fided To his brother for interment. The late Mr. Hayman
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years of age.