The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-25 00:00:00

SUICIDE AT GREENWICH.

Yesterday evening Mr. C. J. Carttar held an inquest
.t the Greyhound inn, Greenwich, to inquire into the
circumstances attending the death of Mr. James Corss,
,ate of the firm of Messrs. Corss and Roberts, clothiers
and outfitters, 63, Shwreditch, who was found weltering
in his blood, with a pistol by his side, at that inn. Mr•
James Corse, sen., identified the body of the deceased
as that of his son, aged 22 years. The deceased, who
was engaged in the business of the firm, left home about
ten o'clock on Tuesday morning to purchase goods at a
warehouse in Wood-street. Witness found that de",
ceased had purchased several hundred pounds worth of
goods, which were sent home that day. Never saw the
deceased afterwards.

Thomas Roworts, the waiter, said deceased came in
soon after ten o'clock cn Tuesday night, and engaged a
bed, and then sat for about twenty minutes in the coffee-
room, when he went to bed. lie seemed low and de-
sponding. In the morning witness was called up stairs
tv the maid servant, and he found the deceased lying
undressed, prostrate, and bleeding from a wound in the
head.

Mr. John Sewell, surgeon, proved that death had
been occasioned by the deceased's shooting himself With
pistol. The ball had lodged in the head near the left
temple.
The following is a copy of a letter which was found
upon the person of the deceased:—
" Greenwich, Monday Evening.
"My dear Father,—My madness has at length con-
quered me. Now, when in possession of everything I
wished, all around me seems nothing but gloom. That
great defect of my character, want of determination--5
defect that I have laboured day by day and hour by hour
for the last three or four years to cancel—grows upon
me and spoils mo in everything I undertake. I dare
not look to the future, for I see it there making a beggar
of me. For myself I care not, but time must reconcile
those whom I wonld rather undergo any torture than
bring into trouble. It is the certainty that this day
would come, sooner or later, which determines me now►
while unfettered, to end all. Did I, my dear father, see
one ray of hope for improvement in my nature, I would
live. The only future that I can paint to myself is e
wife and children beggars, and myself hearing theirs
and the world's curses for bringing them to that state.
Be it cowardice, or be it hominess, it is not to be eradi-
cated. How many times have I tried, and how wolf
times have I flattered myself improving, and yet itremaills
an indelible black • spot, as even at school. It was
the same in America to a great extent, but
since I have been home the thing becomes
worse and worse. I cannot write—it unnerves
me for that which I now feel to be my duty. I had
intended not to have written, but felt that I owed to all
who might otherwise have thought themselves in some
way connected with my determination. I state again
that my only reasons are the feeling of thorough incom-
petency to grapple with the world in business—a feeling
of disgust for myself every day, for doing so little, so that
my brain wanders, I can scarce see what I write. Give
my love to all. I could not bid them good bye. Lat
Lizzy have the disposition of my things, and ask her to
see to the letters and journals. I die, as I have lived,
the wretch of the family.—Good bye! Good bye!"
Mr. Cons, after hearing the letter read, said it was
mere delusion of the brain, as not one young man in a
hundred had better prospects or more domestic comforts•
The family were united, and lived on excellent terms•
The deceased, who laboured at times under great depres-
sion of spirits, left home one morning, and the next tulla
he heard of him was by letter dated New York.
Dr. Coulson, of the Old Jewry, in a letter, said that he
attributed the act to physical causes, constitutional de
fects which had been coming on for a length of time.
The CORONER remarked at some length upon the case,
and said that after reading the letter in the deceased's
own hand there could be no doubt as to his state of
mind.
Verdict—" Insanity."

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