The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY EVE NTIN6I., SEP-PEA/BEN 16, 1862.

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size, rather large ; weight, rather large; colour ave. I
rage; order, average; number, rather large; even- I
tuality, moderate ; locality, rather large ; time,
rather large ; tune, rather large ; constructiveness,
rather large ; language, rather large ; comparison,
rather large ; casualty, rather small."
It will be seen that the size of many organs in
this development is large and powerful. Large
amativeness is quite in keeping with his sensual
course of life. The great size of destructiveness,
combativeness, self-esteem, and firmness, with only
small conscientiousness and rather small benevo-
lence, rendered him a most dangerous and formid-
able character, as they would give him an implac-
able feeling of revenge, and he could take the life of
anything that stood in his way without the least
compunction either before or after the deed. Cau-
tiousness and casualty are low, hence his want of
circumspection and prudence. In fact, the head is
a low, miserable type, that would take pleasure in
seeking the path of evil.

SUPPOSED MURDER OF AN ARTIST IN

PLYMOUTH.

PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

This morning the body of an artist, named W. T.
Norman, was discovered in Deadlake-lane, near
Pennycomequick, Plymouth, under the following
suspicious circumstances :—A man named Waycott,
a dairyman, was returning from milking his cows
about half-past 6 o'clock this morning, and found
the body of the deceased lying across the footpath,
about 'l6 feet from the railway arch which passes
over the road. His trousers were opened and pulled
up, as if he had been dragged by his legs, and his
overcoat was drawn up to his armpits and partly
over his head, as if from the same cause. He was
lying on his back with his right arm extended and
with his left by his side, with.both hands tightly
clenched. His hat, which was small, round, and
stiff, was lying in the centre of the arch, some 20
feet or more from the place where the body was
found. The hat was full of blood and had a bulge
on one side, as if caused by a heavy blow. About
the centre, and a foot from tho ground, there was
blood upon one of the stones of the wall of the
arch, apparently as if some one had fallen heavily
against it. About a yard on the right and left
sides there was a pool of blood, and on the wall
about four or five feet off more blood was found,
traces of which were also perceptible in the road,
about eight feet from where the first blow was ap-
parently struck. The body appeared to have been
dragged on the right side of the bank, for when
first discovered there seemed to be traces of the
clothes on the ground, in addition to which the
body was much dirtier on the right side than on the
left. The body has evidently received some wound
or wounds on the head, though as no post mortem
examination has as yet taken place, their nature
has not been ascertained. Close by the spot is the
gate of a field, fastened without a lock, and the
object may have been to remove the body there,
in order to afford greater facilities for
escape. A man living in the immediate
neighbourhood states that he heard two
screams on Saturday night between 11.30 and 12
o'clock, and that a cab passed about the same
time, but whether shortly before or after he can-
not remember. It is not improbable that the mur-
derer or murderers might have been disturbed by
its approach, and have hastily left the body in the
position in which it was found. No attention was
paid to the screams, as they were not repeated, and
are very common in the neighbourhood, especially
upon Saturday nights. The deceased had been
drinking at the Globe Hotel, which he left at 11
o'clock, so that that hour would probably be about
the time of its occurrence. A little money was
found on him, but it is not known whether he was
in possession of any valuables. The body was at
once removed to the Pennycomequick Inn, where
it at present awaits the coroner's inquest.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE.

SPECIAL VERDICT.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, the
Middlesex coroner, opened a protracted inquiry
at the White Hart public-house, Kingsland-road,
Shoreditch, touching the death of Mr. Joseph
Hallows Robinson, aged 53 years, an engineer,
lately carrying on business at No. 3, Cook's-place,
Kingsland-road, who committed suicide through
grief at the removal and decease of his wife, whom
he believed had been taken away improperly into a
Roman Catholic priory at Ascot.
Mr. Vann, the solicitor, attended to watch the
case for the friends of the deceased's family.
The court was crowded during the inquiry.

The first witness called was the son of the de-
ceased, a boy about 12 years of age, who said he
had been living and sleeping with him since his
mother had been removed to the Roman Catholic
Hospital at Ascot. His father had been in a very
low and desponding state through his mother's re-
moval, which had been done by the advice of her
friends. On Thursday evening last, about eleven
o'clock, he retired to rest with his son, and on the
following morning, at an early hour, when the elder
son called to see him, he found his father suspended
by a rope to the rail of the bedstead. Dr. Burchell,
of the Kingsland-road, was called, but life was ex-
tinct.

By the Coroner—The deceased became unhappy
when his wife was removed, and she was taken from
home because she was ill and could not bear the
smell of the drains and the sewer at the back of the
place. My mother was removed from the house to
my aunt's. She celled Dr. Burchell and obtained
the means for her removal to the Roman Catholic
Priory. Tho landlord had been informed of the
nuisance at the house, but not the inspector of nui-
sances.

Thos. Powell Robinson was then called, and said
that he found the deceased dead as described. He
knew how his father had been through his mother's
removal, and his mind was evidently affected. He
only went home on Sundays, as he was employed
at Mr. Allorell's, the butcher, of Hackney-road.
His mother had been ill for the past six months.
The deceased had been removed to the Priory at
Ascot through the kind interference of the curate
of the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
By the Coroner—His father had been drinking
rather more lately than usual, and witness had
several times remonstrated with him, telling him
that he must not fret, but put his trust in God.
He had frequently heard the deceased exclaim,
"I wish your mother was at home."
Dr. Burchell proved that the deceased died from
strangulation by hanging.

Esther Pemberton, of 23, Sarah•street, Kings-
land-road, said that she was the sister of the de-
ceased woman, who had a complication of disorders.
On Thursday fortnight she called upon witness, and
said that she was on her way to Dr. Burchell, the
parochial medical officer. Witness kept the deceased
female at her house because she told her that she
could not breathe at home. After she was removed
she told witness that she could breath much better.
Witness went to the curate of Shoreditch church,
and he got her an admission into the Roman Ca-
tholic Priory at Ascot, to which place she was re-
moved, Witness went on the following Friday to
Priory and saw her. She said that she was kindly
treated.
By the
Coroner—It was a very large place, and
witness saw abort 12 patients, some of whom were
children. They all wore similar dresses, consisting
of slate-coloured gowns with hoods and caps, She
said there was a
minister in attendance upon her.
She several times told me that she was very happy,
and there were two letters on the bed, one from her
son and the other from witness. Tho letters had
been detained, as the head matron was out of town
at Plymouth, and they had been kept back to be
opened by her first. I intended to have taken the
deceased back if she had not been Well treated, and
took money down to pay the expenses
of her re-
moval home. I left the deceased there, and subse-
quently heard that she was worse, and that I was
to meet her at the Waterloo-road station toremove
her. I went to the terminus, but the deceased was
not there. I received a letter written from the
Priory, of which the following is a copy:—
" r. I'tobinson,—l regret to give you the painful tidings
that your wife (Elizabeth Robinson) will, probably, Lefore
you receive this letter, have departed this life in peace,
, The disease of which she suffered had increased rapidly, as

you will have learned, although she is happy an& cheerful.
The lady superior desires me to write to you concerning
her funeral, and to ask you what you would wish done with
regard to the expenses, for which the hospital have not
funds.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., "C. CHAMBERS.
" Ascot Priory Hospital, Bracknell, Berks."
Other letters were read by the coroner, from
which it appeared that the authorities of the insti-
tution had endeavoured to inform the relatives, but
the deceased died very suddenly, and before the
friends could be reached by post. The sister of the
deceased went down to the Priory, but the funeral
had been performed.
Jos. Robinson, the elder son, said that his father
was sadly annoyed at the death of his wife, and
became raving mad. He told his aunt that it was
no use to go to the Priory, for her body would be
cut up when she got there. He believed that his
father was afraid that his wife had died in the Ca-
tholic religion.
The Coroner said that it would only be right to
give the curate (the Rev. Mr. Brockman), of St.
Leonard, Shoreditch, an opportunity of explaining,
and despatched Mr. Waller, the summoning officer,
for that gentleman, who promptly attended, and
explained that he had used his authority to get the
deceased female into the establishment which bad
been named. It was supported by private subscrip-
tions, and that was all he knew of the place, which
was a convalescent hospital. He had recommended
a great number of persons, and had sent his own
servant to the same asylum with a broken arm, and
she was recovering. The establishment was a highly
respectable one, and was conducted by a lady supe-
rior (Miss Lelham) on the same principle as the
Devonshire asylums. It was not true that the esta-
blishment was conducted on Roman Catholic prin-
ciples.
The female Pemberton was recalled, and said, in
reply to the coroner, that there were about 12 per-
sons in the establishment, and some were children.
They were dressed in robes and hoods trimmed with
scarlet linings, crosses, &c.
After some further evidence,

The Coroner remarked on the case at some length,
and read over the depositions, when the jury re-
turned the following special verdict :
" That the deceased committed self-destruction by
hanging, arising from the belief that his wife had
died in a Roman Catholic institution, where she
had been removed by the recommendation of the
curate of the parish."
The proceedings then terminated.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DETER-
MINED SUICIDE.--4 TRIPLE ATTEMPT.

Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middle-
sex, held an inquest yesterday at the Swan with
Two Necks, Finchley, on the body of William
Eade, a postman, who was found dead in a pond at
Finchley, under the following distressing circum-
stances :

Robert Tennant Eade deposed that he was the
son of the deceased who was a postman, aged 53
years. His father had been in a desponding state
of mind for the last fortnight or three weeks,
which had been brought about by something be-
longing to his club, which preyed upon his mind.
He told him once that he would make away with
himself. On Wednesday night last, between
nine and ten, the deceased was found in a pond
in Mr. Capper's field. The deceased bad been
ill in bed all day, but got up about three o'clock in
the afternoon, and witness saw him go out at the
back of the house between seven and eight. In the
morning of that day he (deceased) went down stairs
about four o'clock in his night shirt, and witness
followed him to the back door. He went back and
dressed himself, and on going into the garden saw
his father's legs out of the upper part of the water-
butt. Witness got the head above water and held
him till his mother and sister came, and he was
then taken up stairs and pat to bed. He was quite
delirious, and it was necessary to hold him down.
He had become very melancholy recently. When
his father went out in the evening it was to give
another postman a parcel, and when he did not re-
turn witness went to the waterbutt in the garden,
and then to the pond, by the side of which his hat
and clothes were found. After some search the
body was found, and witness identified it as the
body of his father. He occasionally got tipsy, and
was so the night previous. Witness had no doubt
that his father caftsed his own death.

By a Juror—lfe was with his father in his bed
room all the day until he went out.
Mr. Robert Peele, of Whetstone, said that he
was in his garden on Wednesday night last, and
observed a light near the pond in Mr. Capper's
garden. It was then about half-past nine. By the
side of the pond he found the last witness and his
sister searching for their father, who they suspected
had drowned himself. He assisted in dragging the
pond, but they did not then find the body. He
went to the house of the deceased, and found a
piece of paper laying on the table. That paper he
produced, and it contained a statement in the hand-
writing of the deceased, and referred to his pro-
bable speedy death. Witness then went to the
police station, and, with a constable, returned to
the pond, in which they ultimately found the
body of the deceased. He was quite dead, and
there was a piece of string tied tightly round his
neck.

Thomas Sellwood, carpenter, of East Barnet, said
that the deceased was secretary to a Foresters'
Lodge, and a case had recently been heard before
the county court in which the deceased was much
involved. Although he had been much censured
by some of the members of the lodge he had been
re-elected to his post.
By a Juror—There was no insinuation against
his character. Deceased had given notice that he
intended to resign.

The Coroner, in summing up, commented upon
the extraordinarily determined character of-the
suicide, he having firstly attempted to drown him-
self in the water butt; and having been foiled in
that attempt by the intervention of his famiiy(who,
strangely enough, allowed him to go out alone in
the evening), he threw himself into a pond after
endeavouring to strangle himself.

The Jury, after a long deliberation, agreed to a
verdict, "That the deceased destroyed his life by
drowning while in an unsound state of mind."

TWO MEN SUFFOCATED IN A WELL.

Oa Saturday morning two labouring men, named I
respectively David and George Hudson, brothers,
proposed to their sister that they should get up a
pail which she had let fall into a well on the pre-
ceding Sunday at Chatwell, near Sittingbourne,
she answering that she would prefer that they
should not do so. They, however, persisted, and
having placed a ladder in the well, George, the
youngest, about 20 years of age, descended, but on
getting to a depth of five feet returned, saying to
his brother that it smelt queer. David, remarking
to him that he must be afraid, went down himself,
and reached the bottom, where he had not been a
minute when he reeled and fell against the side of
the well, George then descended to rescue his
brother, but he also became affected by the foul air,
and both were overcome by the poisonous gas.
Their sister, who had been standing over the well
on seeing the state of her brothers, cried for assis-
tance. Some of neighbours coming up imme-
diately pulled her off the ladder, down which she
had gone a few steps. A man named Hinge then
went down and managed to affix a rope to one of
the Hudsons, but it slipped in the attempt to bring
the man up, Hinge, at the same time, being brought
to the surface almost insensible. A man named
Ramsden, a platelayer en the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway, then volunteered to descend,
seeing that one of the Hudsons showed signs of life.
He made four attempts to do so, but on each oc-
casion was driven back by the foul air, a candle
which he had taken with him the three last times
being put out by the gas at four or five feet from
the surface. Finding himself getting weaker by
the inhalation of the " damp," lie gave up the at-
tempt to reach the men, and procuring a grapnel
managed to get hold of the ba .ty which appeared
to be possessed of life, but before it was quite to the
surface some of the clothes gave way and the body
fell back. At the next attempt Ramsden succeeded
in raising the body, though at that time life had
departed. The other body, that of David Hudson,
Was next raised, but life wa© quite extinct.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER IN SOHO.

•
Yesterday morning Mr. Langham, the deputy
coroner for Westminster, held an inquiry at the
Vestry Hall, Dean-street, Soho,respecting the death
of John Radford, aged 32, who was killed on Fri-
day last under the following circumstances.
Mr. J. Radford, 147, Southwark-bridge-road,said
decealed was his son, and was a very steady man
and of very temperate habits.
J. R. Holmes said that on Thursday, at half-past
two o'clock, he came into Dawson's public-house,
Wardour-street, drunk, but able to stand. Wit-
ness's little son ran in, and said that the deceased
had just given him twopence for nothing, and asked
him "if he could fight," making him show how.
The deceased ordered and paid for some gin for an
acquaintance of witness's, named Crawford, who
then, at his request, sang the " March of the Came-
ronians." Deceased then turned round, and
caught hold of the hand of a tall young man be-
hind him, and gripped him so tight as to hurt him
very much, and bring him nearly to the ground
He asked him to wrestle, and they scuffled along,
but Crawford separated them. Shortly afterwards
deceased left the public house with witness and
Crampton, and they met the man that he was trying
to wrestle with. Deceased struck him on the chest,
and he striking in return, they fought three rounds
when the man ran away, every one calling after
him " Coward ?" Deceased ran after him, but fell
against Mr. Pepin's window, and on the flags. His
head did not strike the ground in witness's opinion.
He started up instantly, but did not continue to
pursue his antagonist, but ran in a sort of circle
back to the public-house, where he found a man
named Davis standing, whom he struck and fought
two rounds with. Davis struck at last two heavy
blows which knocked him down, his head coming
against the kerb-stone. Ha never spoke after, and
was carried into Pepin's shop. Davis was drawn
into the fray, but he then made no attempt to with-
draw, but fought with the greatest energy. He
had been on the drink for a fortnight.
Fredk. Claydon said that he happened to be pas-
sing along Wardour-street at the time in question,
and he saw the first fight, when the tall man, now
in custody, ran away. Deceased went back to-
wards the public-house, and met Davis, when some
words passed between them, and Davis struck de-
ceased. The words were spoken in mutual anger.
Deceased was knocked down, Davis falling over him.
In the second round Davis again struck violently,
knocking deceased from the middle of the road to
the side, where his head struck the kerb. Davis
left, and deceased was removed to the chemist's.
Davis certainly struck the first blow.
Mrs. Wriggleworth described the fight between
deceased and his first antagonist, and said that in
that fight he evidently received no hurt. Davis had
been drinking with the deceased in the public-house.
Witness could not say whether they had any words
when they began to fight outside the tavern, nor
could she say who struck the first blow, They closed
in directly. After deceased was struck down on to
the kerb Davis made a kick at him, but whether it
took effect she could not see. Witness saw de-
ceased was dying and called the police, who followed
Davis and arrested him. Deceased appeared to have
had plenty of money about him, and the other man
seemed to stick to him on that account.

Wm. Smith, a shopboy, said that after the first
fight Davis said something to deceased, who struck
him in consequence.
Mrs. Devine said that when the people called out
" Coward" after the man that ran away in the first
fight, deceased said, "I don't care whom I fight."
Directly afterwards witness saw him fighting with
Davis. Deceased was mad with drink, and dread-
fully excited.
Mr. Dawson, landlord of the Two Ships, said that
deceased was not drunk, and witness refused to
serve him only on account of the sort of people he
was treating. Deceased struck Davis first. When
Davis knocked him down a very stout man struck
deceased on the head while he was getting up. It
was rumoured that he was kicked, but witness could
not see whether he was or not.

Dr. J. Starling said he found deceased just dead.
There was a slight wound on the right side of the
hea3, and an abrasion on the neck. The chest had
been much knocked about.

The court then adjourned for further evidence.

SHOCKING MIPALEMEN7 OF A CHILD.

An inquest was held before Dr. Lankester, the
Central Middlesex coroner, at the Bank of England
'tavern, Cambridge-place, Paddington, yesterday,
touching the death of Sarah Jane Finner, aged
three years, the infant daughter of James Finner, a
waiter, lodging at 66, Hampden-street, Harrow-
road.

The evidence of a printer's boy, named Webb, of
63, Hampden-street, was to the effect that on Wed-
nesday, about five p.m., as he was passing on the
opposite side of Hampden-street, he saw the de
ceased child leaning half-way over the balcony on
the first floor. In another instant she fell down
headlong from the balcony on to the iron railings,
and became impaled by the head. She then fell
from the railings into the garden. Mrs. Finner, the
mother, ran out from the house and picked her up
in an insensible state. He (Webb) ran for a doctor.
Mrs. Firmer said she left her children together
on the first-floor, where they lived, with the window
open at the bottom. The eldest child was seven
years, the next four, and the deceased three. The
balcony was of the ordinary kind, and as safe as
most of them. Her attention was attracted to the
deceased lying in the garden by the screams of her
other children. Shortly after the dreadful occur
mance a medical man arrived, and strapped up a
terrible wound in the head caused by the iron
spikes. She took her to St. Mary's Hospital, and
she died in an hour after admission.

Mr. J. M. Packer, house surgeon to the hospital,
deposed that ho attended deceased on being
brought into the hospital. She had a severe
punctured wound, penetrating the skull, and en-
tering into the braiu. She was in a state of coma,
and died within an hour.
The Coroner, in remarking on the shocking na-
ture of the case, thought there was no evidence to
show that any one was to blame; and the jury re-
turned a verdict that deceased died from a wound
in the head from falling upon an iron palisade.

DEATH FROM DESTITUTION AND
ALLEGED TVO_REHOUSE

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Yesterday morning the adjourned investigation
into the circumstances of the death of Elizabeth
Wilmott, otherwise Lloyd, aged 49, which involved
a charge of inhumanity against workhouse officials,
was resumed by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the
deputy coroner for East Middlesex, at the Marquis
Cornwallis Tavern, Curtain-road, Hackney.
The evidence taken on the previous occasion went
to show that deceased, having been seriously ill for
some months, and being reduced to extreme poverty,
applied for relief to Mr. Rogers, relieving-officer to
the union of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, but that he,
after an interval of three days, called at the house
No. 61, Charlotte-street, Old-street-road, and said
that he " would do nothing," and left without giv-
ing any succour. He subsequently, it was deposed,
refused to submit to the Board of Guardians a certi-
&ate from respectable tradesmen as to deceased's
good character and the urgency of the case. She
died on last Wednesday week from exhaustion from
disease and want of proper food, and the body was
found on the following Saturday, shockingly ema-
ciatcd and huddled up in a coroner of the unfur-
nished room, where it had been placed by her hus-
band, who himself occupied the other corner.
Mr. Marchant now said that the deceased's hus-
band behaved very brutally to her•
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and.her husband that it would be necessary to make
application to the board. When he proceeded to
means the husband became
very abusive, asked if
make inquiries as to their
his wife's condition was not
sufficient to satisfy him, and would have no cere-
mony.mo afterwards to apologise,
The wife ca and
the
he gave her an order to attend the board on
following day; no did not consider it a case for
relief, as they Wore earning 10s. a week, and it was
not his duty to vvisithhousesunless where the appli-

cation' came before the board. Nor did he think
the better way for him would have been to call on
the deceased in this case, for they would be running
after the poor all day if they did the like.
The Coroner said that, as Wilmott had not come
forward to sustain his evidence, they must accept
the statement of Rogers. He was of opinion that
relieving officers should have power to give assist-
ance in pressing cases, without waiting till they
came before the board.
The jury returned a verdict in accordance with
the medical evidence, attaching no blame to the
Board of Guardians or their relieving officer.