The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-15 00:00:00

Strange Suicide at London Bridge,

_
Yesterday morning Mr. William Payne, coroner
'or the city of London and Southwark, held an in-
quiry respecting the death of Richard Barrett,
aged 45, who committed suicide at London-bridge.
John Barke, 6, Little Manchester street, Bethnal-
green, said that the deceased was a tailor by trade,
and lived with him. He had been living for twenty
years with a woman who left him seven weeks ego
and got married. He was much distressed in con-
sequence. At times he seemed to be out of his mind,
and he used to jump up in the middle of the night
and run out saying, " All the people in the house
are going to murder me." For some time past he
was out of work, and he was very poor, not even
having a tab:e in his room, Last Sunday week he
went to see his sister, who was living in St. Pan-
cras, and of whom ha had lost sight for twelve
years. She " disacknowledged" him, and said, " I
do not know you. You are not my brother. My
brother has been dead some years.' He returned
home in a most agitated state, and said to a little
girl, " I will kill myself." He afterwards locked
up his room, went out, and witness never saw him
alive after. He was a man of very sober habits.
William Jones, a working man, said that on last
Thursday morning he was on the steps at the City
aide of Landon-bridge, when he saw the deceased
on his face, party covered by the water.
lure Was a
evidently mark of a severe injury on the temple,
caused by a fall. The deceased had ap-
parently leaped from the bridge into the river.
George Smith, 602 City Police, said that he was
called the last
an by
Ind found the deceasneedss atlyi x
n
I\lo
one
_,:i
laineianrththeemsotrenpisngof,
oisaw m get into the
His friends were discovered by moans of
a London-bridge.
advertising in the newspapers.
The Coroner said that the case was clearly one
of suicide, though there was no legal evidence of
the fact.

The Jury returned a verdict.—t, That
deceased
was found dead in the Thames at London-brid,e
but how he cline into the water there Was no direct"'
evidence to prove."

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