The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-18 00:00:00

DISTBESSING SUICIDE:

On Saturday evening Mr. T. T. Delasaux, coroner for
Kent, held au inquest at Canterbury, on the body of
Elizabeth Ann Steer, a single woman, 21 years of age ,
who had committed suicide early that morning by hang.
ing herself in the washbouse of her brother's house. The
deceased was to, hare been inbreed the previous da y
to a carabineer of the name of Greaves, but the com-
manding officer refused to grant leave, and her friends
were opposed to it, especially her mother in-law, who
had can el her to leave home in consequel a The de
ceased, it appeared, had previously kept company
with a young man named West, and was desirous,
for some cuise, to leave the country, which she thought
to effect by marriage with Greaveß, who was about ler,v-
ing for India. The poor girl was found hanging, and
dead, shortly after a detachment of the carabiueers left
the city en route for India. In her bosom was the fol-
lowing 'letter, written only a few minutes before com-
mitting the fatal deed. It was addressed to her former
sweetheart :—" George, you took great trouble to write
to me on Tuesday about icy going with Greaves. He
was a man; he will either live or die for me, and Twill
do so for him. Remember, George, how you deceived
me. Daily and hourly you sought my ruin ; often did
you wish to get me into trouble, but the Lord protected
me so far. Your conscience will toll you you was a base,
deceitful man, but God 'never pays debts with money.
My life I will forfeit. Pay my dear father and mother
what you owe me ; it will help my funeral expenses.
You have broken my mind, you seduced me, and God
will reward you for it. You will never prosper. Re-
member these last dying words of one who has been the
'dupe of all your lies. My heart aches, my hand trem-
bles, and in a few moments I shall be launched into '
eternity.,"
After a brief consultation, and an address from the
coroner, the jury returned a verdict that "The deceased
destroyed herself while labouring under temporary in-
sanity."

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they had only tried four cases, three of which had been
decorated with about as much perjury and dishonesty as
could well be brought into them. With respect to the
fact that both the plaintiff and defendant in the present
case were commission agents, his lordship said there
might be respectable men who were commission agents,
but he considered it. a business requiring neither charac-
ter, credit, nor capital—the agent being ready to do
ailthing for anybody who would pay him.
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