The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-08 00:00:00

extraordinary Suicide in. St, Luk e's.

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ewShackell said that deceased was a hatter,
Chiswell-street. He was latterly
desponding because he wished to sell the business, but his
landlord would not accept of any tenant who would buy the
stock. Ho was reserved and would not tell witness any-
himself in the parlour behind the shop.
him on Saturday night. She knocked for
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thoughtanesetrss-lshetaeip saw him
by
had gone out. After church in the evening,
however, she became alarmed, and the parlour was broken
open and he was found dead on the sofa.
Mr W. Monroe, a lodger, said when the parlour was
broken open deceased was lying dead, undressed, on the sofa,
There was a cup on the table, by the side of which was a
piece of paper, on which was written " Beware of the poison
in the tea cup on the hob." No doubt he had intended to
place the tea-cup on the hob after ho drank sou_e of the
Poison ; but the action of the drug was too quick. There
was also on the file a letter, which was as follows :
" You need not open my body. I have taken poison, and
Mr -- has been the cause of it. For I have offered to get
him a tenant who would purchase the stock, fixtures, &c. ;
but ho has refused to accept any tenant, for the express pur-
pose to ruin me.
gi Saturday eve, Dec, 3, eleven o'clock p.m.
" F. SIIIMELL.
"My last words are—be very kind to one another. As for
me, I die in perfect peace."
The witness said that • deceased's shop had been broken
into a year ago, and he had ever since slept in the parlour
behind it, saying " If they come again, I will be there as
well as themselves." He used to lock himself in, and not
answer his wife. 'Witness believed he was not of quite sound
mind. _ _

Dr. Evan Evans said the deceased had poisoned himself
with cyanide of potassium. A paper of that poison lay on
the table, and the deceased was apparently so anxious that
no one should taste it in mistake that he had pinned on
it a largo label " Poison?' The cyanide of potassium
was used in the arts, and was at present sold without any
inquiry being made as to what purchasers wanted it for. it
was quite as deadly as prussic acid.
A clerk to the landlord said that that gentleman was not
in town, and he (the clerk) know nothing about the refusal
of a tenant. The house was let to a Mr Parker, but de.
ceased paid the rent.
The Coroner having summed up,
The Jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound
mind.

THE TRAGEDY ON THE HIGH. SEAS.—Captain
Walker and the four men constituting the crew of
the Alciope have been arrested end imprisoned. It will be
remembered that the vessel in question arrived at Queens-
town on Monday, from Demerara, when the captain re-
ported that two Frenchmen. who were in the crew. had,
during the voyage, mutined and murdered the carpenter and
the mate. They then sought the captain's life, but he foiled
their attempt, and ultimately with the assistanceof the four
remaining members of the crew, secured the mutineers, put-
ting them in irons. While thus secured, one of them, it is
reported, beat his trains out against the aide of the ship,
and the other died, it was supposed from poison, which he
administered. himself. An inquiry will be instituted into
the whole affair.