Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-01 00:00:00

every day am

the deceased on Saturday last

dejected

I spoke to hit& on the subject of the 1(

placed

did not answer the questions satisfactorily, so he
under arrest. A Juror : Were there not reports that th
deceased had committed himself ? If so, it ought to be
cleared up. Witness : Not to my knowledge. I can't give
evidence on report or mere suspicion. I can only speak to
facts. I can give.you no evidence on that point. By the
Coroner : The conversation I had with •the deceased was
not with respect to his being iu arrear. It was upon the
subject brought to my knowledge by Superintendent Wes-
ton. The nature of it was, that some money had been
taken from an officer of this regiment about ten days ago.
Superintendent Weston here. interposed, and asked if it
was necessary to pursue the inquiry in that direction.
Although he -was quite willing to be examined on that
point himself, if requited, still he submitted that it might
lead to an interference with the ends ofjustic,
vered in. The Coroner said the first duty of the jury was tk
ascertain the cause of the death of the deceased, and then,
having ascertained that, their next object was to inquire
what led to that cause. Witness_: The conversation between
li;(7fiVtetEfid tthba-c-nifif ap-regtet--- ma) o q-: -Eyre
Powell said : I have known the deceased for the last year
and a half. I have always found him energetic and
excitable in his manner. He was quite the contrary during
the conversation with the colonel on Saturday last. It
struck me that deceased's manner was then so listless that
it bordered on stupefaction. That was during the conver-
sation which terminated in his being placed under arrest.
I also observed a peculiar ghastly appearance in his counte-
nance. By the Jury : Pecuniary difficulties were likely to
produce the appearances I observed
however, in the conduct of the
suppose that he-contemplated suicide. Mr. Jonathan Le,
surgeon to the regiment, said : I have made a post tnorteu
examination of the deceased, and I found the internal surface
of the stomach inflamed and disorganised, I have no doubt
from poison—prussic acid. The bottle produced has con-
, tained prussic acid. It is quite possible that he may have
taken oxalic acid as well, as I
.do not think that prussic
acid would have produced the diSorganisation of the stomach
alone. At all events, death has resulted from poison. The
Coroner then summed up, and, after impartially going
through the evidence, urged the jury to examine it carefully,
and, if possible, to look with a lenient eye upon the act of
the deceased. The jury found "That the deceased destroyed
himself by poison, while labouring under a fit of temporary

e were it perse-

L. - There was
,nothing,
deceased to lead me to

insanity

TEE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT RAMS-

RAMSGATt, Monday.—Sonie additional particulars have
just been brought to light in reference to this mysterious
case, which may assist the public in coming to a conclusion
upon the question of murder or suicide. The identity of
the deceased has been satisfactorily ascertained. It appears
that, Curing the inquiry before the coroner, the police had
succeeded in tracing the deceased up to the point of his
landing at Southampton, on the 31st March, a passenger by
the Bremen, from New York. On the termination of the
inquest Superintendent -Livick, of the Ramsgate police,
wrote to the police authorities of New Yorl

.7 c6nveying. t

them all the known particulars of the
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them torascer

and the circumstanc

,
Inder which he left ~ln

'lea. 0

a reply

s received to the following

The deceased was a German, na

tern, and wa

-here I

Mattern

and they are not in very good circumstances. The deee
Frederick Mattern, arrived in New York from Gerr
about two years ago, and while there he worked as a but
• ' •

One day, about 14 months ago
meat fc

in cuttin.

mhen, h}• some ac 6

in the Machine, and th

rs Were cut off. Th
ed appeared anxious t

;igland. On If

ender the St

at law

light execute ti
theuol it was

means at law of c

Besides this subs'

it eiegit

aucis, or else

[witted that such proceedi

pelting th,

istees to give up pos:

the plaintiffs re

statement in the bill, that they were unable to execute the
elegit, which, they contended, was sufficient in the case of
a demurer. The case was argued on the sth of May, when

the Ma

of the Rolls took rim

Yesterday

morning his Honour gave judgment, and said that there
were two points argued, either of which, if determined in
favour of the plaintiff, would suffice to support the bill. The

,t was as to the plaintiff's right, under the statute, to come

ludg

3-ear, to have the equitable lifeinte-

)r impounded to answer the judg-
, which

In the 13th section of the act

led that nc

in any i

if twel

before Lord Truro a precisely

I with re

which kind of property was dealt with by the statute in the
same way as iand, except that the period of delay was six
months instead of a year. Lord Truro held that the creditor

might have the aid Of the court to restrain the transfer of the
stock within the six months. But it was said that there was a
distinction between stock and land, and this was true where
the subject charged was the inheritance, though even then the

Couri would doit

revent its destruction
timber and the like.

abject matter was a lite m.