The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-30 00:00:00

SHOCKING SUICIDES.

Yesterday evening there was an Inquest held at Bartholo.
mew's Hospital, before Mi. Surt.TON,. Coroner, for London,
on the body of Isabella Mary Madder, aged 60 years.. Mary
Ryan deposed that- the deceased had been turned out of St.
Andrews Workhouse, a fortnight agO,. and she came to lodge
with her at Is. per week, but she could not pay that sum. On
IVednesday last, atone o'clock, witness found her in her room,
lying utter' a basket which she used in the market, with her
throat cut, and bleeding. The razor with which she inflicted the
wound was lyingclose to her upon a table. She was removed to
the hospital, where she died next day. On her cross-examination
witness said the deceased told her she had cut her throat through
distress; that the overseers turned her out, and refused to re-
lieve her any longer.—A Gentleman, who had been an over..
seer, and is still a member of several committees in the Liberty,.
said the deceased had been in the workhouse in winter for the
last twenty years ; in summer she used to work in the market.
She applied, to him since last turned out of the house; he
adviled her to apply to the Magistrates at Hatton-garden, but
they had ordered her to be sent home to Ireland. She refused
to go because she had no friends there; and she had been forty
years in London. The Overseers refused to relieve her, andbe
then advised her to sit at tlie step at the workhouse door till
they took 'her in. Several of the parish constables were exa.
mined, as likewise was the daughter of the deceased, awoman
who is herself in indigent circumstances. A long.investigation
took place between the Jury, who thought it was cruel to turn
an Irish pauper out with no other prospect than starvation, tu-
less removed to Ireland, and perhaps then destitute; but the
Coroner told them it was not their province as Jurors to consi-
der any thing except what immediately related to the death of
thadeceased. The Hospital Surgeon said, the wound was not
very, dangerous, but there was a large quantity of blood upon
the brain of the deceased. .Verdict—" Insanity."
An Inquest
.was held yesterday'et the Champion, Goswell-
street-road, on the body of Mary Deacon. The deceased, to it
appeared in evidence, had been for some days preceding in a
melancholy state of mind, and on Fridarevemng, the 22d in-
stant, was found lying in her bed, by the mistress of the house
where she lodged, in a state of extreme exhaustion. On being
questioned, she admitted having taken a quantity of, oxalis
acid; but when medical 'assistanee was procured, no induce.
ments could prevail on her for some time to receive the anti.
dotes which it was proposed to administer.. After a lapse of
objections were overcome by.}yr fears,
ainbodustutaheroene
consented to
tohetralccmeaiciiies to expel the poison; butthereinedied were applied too late,. and she' lingered ineitriinte
agony, till Wednesday last, when she expired. Deems,
the brotherof the deceased, deposed that
.she had heel an ille-
gitimate child; from winch she had been separated; and the
loss of it had constantly preyed on her mind. The Jury re. ,

'turned a verdict of aelfanurder under the influence of tempontry
mental derangement.
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Queen's Head, Fashion.
street, Spital.fields, before I. W. URWIN, Esq. on the body of
Mary Corsbie. William Wither, 5, Flower and Dean-street,
Spital-fields,ipocket-book maker, deposed that yesterday morn.
lug, about eight o'clock, on hearing the deceased, who lived
in the same street, had hung herself, he went to her room,
and saw her suspended by a silk handkerchief from the
bed-post ; witness gave a knife to a young man present,
who cut her down; had no doubt she committed the act her•
self, and that she was insane at the time; knew her to have
been frequently watched lest she should commit suicide.—
Elizabeth Clarke was nurse to deceased; had attended her in
the daytime the last two months • before she went yesterday
morning the deceased had hung herself ; deceased had fre-
quently been in raving fits, and was then with difficulty held
down.—Elizabeth Williamson had known the deceased for the
last ten months ; never thought her of sane mind ; deceased at•
tempted to strangle herself more than once; she was 57 years
of age.—Verdict—" Lunacy."