The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-11 00:00:00

and was ill ; but his sister caused them to take an emetic,
which saved their lives. 'While Mrs Tregear was lodging
at Tottenham her husband came over to Tottenham to his
sister's, and from her lodgings Mrs Tregear went there
to see him. He was greatly excited at the time, and
Mrs Wheaton, his sister, induced his wife to leave him as
she was sure he would be better with her away from him,
He then remained ill in bed for two days without seeing
her ; but on Wednesday night, at a quarter-past ten, her
landlady let him in after his wife had gone to bed. "He
came into my bedroom," said Mrs Tregear, " and shut the
door. He stood for a quarter of an hour without saying a
word. He laid flowers on the table, and he put there also
the first letter he ever received from me. He placed several
portraits on the table. Hie sister came into the room and
wanted him to leave. He ordered her out, saying he wished
to speak to me. She stood with her husband outside the
door. Ny husband looked very strange, and I asked hie
sister to come in again. He again ordered her out, and she
left, saying, 'lf anything happens to him you shall be
given into custody.' He then walked round to the opposite
side of the bed. He pointed to the flowers which he had
brought, and said that he had plucked them at Hampstead
that day, :at the house where he had first met me. He
pointed to his hat, on which there was a new black hat-
band, and asked me' Do you know what that means ?' I
said I did not. He said that he had seen my papa that day.
(Her father had died before they were married, and he was
aware of that.) He said he had waited long before he saw
him, and that then he told him to go and see her. He said
my papa told him he was married again. I do not recollect
that he said anything else. I was terrified, and went to call
Mrs Wheaten, who was outside. He said I will blow out
my brains.' I ran to the door and called' Sarah,' but heard
an explosion, and saw him fall on to the bed. I found he
had shot himself through the head."
Dr May gave evidence to the effect that he died an hour
afterwards from the pistol shot wound.
Mrs Wheaton, in her evidence, said that her brother had
not exactly forgiven his wife, but he was so fond of her that
he said to her, " I will die, Georgiana, in your sight." She
treated him with the greatest pride and callousness. They
had agreed to take poison together, but she had evidently
no intention of doing so,
The Coroner said it would have been truly diabolical if
the wife had accompanied her husband up to London to
purchase poison under an agreement to take it with him,
when she had no intention that it should be fatal to more
than one.

Mrs Tregear repeated that she did take the poison with
her husband.
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict, "That deceased died from a
pistol shot, inflicted by his own right hand while in a state
of insanity, into which he had been driven by the infidelity
and heartless conduct of his wife."
It was stated that the unhappy lady was the daughter of
parents that died seven years ago. She was then brought
up in the family of an eminent surgeon practising in Hamp-
stead, at whose death, two years ago, she was left with no
otherprotector than his aged widow.