The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-06 00:00:00

KENT.

First innings. Second Innings.
Elcorne b Slinn ...
W Hopkinson b Hod ;s m.... 9 b Atkinson
G Bennett b Hodgson
E Willsher b Slinn.. 8 c Berry b Atkinson 2l
G Martin b Slinn
W Goodhew c Prest b Slinn.. 0 b Slinn 3
Mr G M Nelson b Flinn..
II Fryer c Prest b Slinn
G Baker not out ...
Theobald b Hodgson 1 run out 13
Mr H B Biron c & B Hodgson 5 not out lO
Bye, 1; leg bye, 1

Tot al . CO
YORIISUIRE

Total

First Innings. Second Innings.
E Stevenson b Bennett
J Berry c Baker h Willsher l3 c Fryer b Baker 9
J Rowbottom c Goodhew 3 not out ..59
It Iddisonc Willsher b Bennett 9 b Willsher
G An Jerson b Willsher 23 b Baker
'l' Robinson run out
Mr W Prest c Kelson b Bennett 0 b Bennett
W Halton not out
Atkinson b Willsher
I Hodgson run out 3 not out ..11
W Shinn run out 0

Byes 2, 1 b 2, w b 1.. 6

Total 82

Total ..113

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

Yesterday Mr. Humphrey, coroner for Middlesex,
held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle, Camden
Town, on the body of Gaetano do Lauretes, aged 40,
an Italian, who committed suicide by swallowing a
quantity of sulphate of ether, under most extraor-
dinary circumstances.
Ellen Butler said she resided with deceased at
5, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. He was a
professor of music. On Tuesday morning he went
out in company with a person who called upon
him, and returned about twelve o'clock, when
he was accompanied by the man he went away
with and two others, and who followed him up
to his apartment. Deceased appeared much agi-
tated, and after getting some papers witness sud-
denly saw him put a bottle to his mouth. She
rushed towards him, and screamed, as she be-
lieved, for a doctor. Deceased replied to her in
Italian, "It is too late," and died almost imme-
diately. Deceased was very excited and depressed,
being in a state of fear and in great pecuniary diffi-
culty. She believed what he had taken to be sul-
phate of ether, which be used in photography.
Mr. John Shaen, solicitor, of Bedford-row, said
he had been instructed to institute criminal proceed-
ing against the deceased and another man, on ac-
count of being charged with forging the signatures
of some of the ministers of the King of Italy, with
a view to obtain money. He alleged that the Italian
Government owed him large sums of money, and
that these forged documents were authority for re-
ceiving it. lie was traced to his lodgings in Char-
lotte-street, and was on the morning of his death
brought to his (Mr, Shaeu's) office. lie said if he
would allow him to return to his lodgings he would
produce some important papers which would prove

that he was not so bad- as had been made out.
Witness accompanied him, with the other parties,
to Charlotte-street, and went up with him to
his room. He went to a cupboard and took
out some papers, which he sealed up, and then
went back apparently for more. Having handed
the papers to witness he turned round, and wit-
ness's attention was attracted by the scream of the
previous witness, and on looking, as she rushed up
and clasped him round the neck, witness observed
him take a bottle from his mouth. She called for a
doctor, and he said in Italian, "Too late, too late !"
He staggered back to the bed, she still clinging to
him. He gave one or two gasps and fell back ap-
parently lifeless. Witness sent for a doctor in-
stantly. There was a strong smell of ether.
Mr. G. H. Wildbore, surgeon, of 2, Charlotte-
street, Fitzroy-square, said when he arrived he
found deceased dead. The phial produced had con-
tained sulphate of ether. He had made a post
mortem examination, and found the lungs congested,
and had no doubt that the sulphate of ether was the
cause of death. There was no case on record of a
death having resulted from sulphate of ether, and
therefore it was impossible to state with accuracy
what quantity would produce it.
The first witness was recalled, and said the bottle
when she saw it was about a quarter full, and Mr.
Wildbore gave it as his opinion that that was quite
enough.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict " That
the deceased destroyed himself in a moment of
aberration of intellect, arising from apprehensions
of arrest on a charge of a criminal nature."

SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR DUDLEY.—Late On
Monday night the inhabitants of Lower Gornal, near Dud-
ley, w‘re disturbed by the intelligence that a young woman
had been found murdered near the bottom of -a pit, in the
colliery field at Red Hall. The news was well founded, for
a woman, about 20 years of age, was extricated about half-
past eleven in a most pitiable and fearful condition, being
almost dashed to pieces. Her name is Mary Ann Higgins,-
a domestic servant, whose parents reside at Sed 1 .I
place of seerr.vice,
appears that, a few days ago, she left her
and on Mendsy night an acquaintance that had subsisted
some time ago '7"
crne Joseph Bate,
andate were
, was ;resumed, and
they were out walking after dusk, so seen about
an hour previous to the discovery, at the scene of the
alleged Sheldon. murder, by a policeman named We
learn that attention was drawn to the pit by groans,
and as there are some houses near at hand, assistance was
readily given. Police-constable Sheldon apprehended Bate
in a public-house, carousing, some distance away. When
accused of murdering his sweetheart, he simply declared
his innocenceged in ,
gaoling that she jumped in herself," He
was lod. ,