The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-16 00:00:00

THAMES.

SUICIDE OF JOHN BARDOE, THE LIBERATED SLAVE.—
This morning was appointed for the re •examination of Oude
Ajur, the liberated African slave, better known as John
Bardoe, for wounding four Asiatic seamen in the Strangers'
Home, West India-road, Limehouse, to which place he was
removed after his trial, and acquitted on a charge of assault-
ing and wounding a city police-constable named Oliver
on the roof of a house in the Minories. The witnesses,
interpreters, and others were in attendance on the magistrate.
The Court was filled -with persons anxious to hear the
proceedings. At 12 o'clock the police van arrived
with the prisoners under remand, but without
Bardoe, and soon afterwards Sergeant Walker, who
has charge of the van, announced that the un-
fortunate creature had put an end to his oxistence by
hanging himself in his cell in the Clerkenwell House of
Detention. This morring, at two o'clock, the night watch-
man in the prison while going his rounds called to the
prisoner, and he answered him. Two hours afterwards the
same watchman again called to him, and no answer being
returned he opened the door of the cell and found the un-
fortunate man quite dead. The manner in which the
deceased hung himself did not transpire, but it is
believod he strangled himself with his handkerchief.
There is no doubt that his misfortunes, his fear of
being sent into slavery again, and the severe
wounds he received in the terrible conflict with
the city police constable, preyed upon his mind and caused
him to commit suicide.

At half-vest 12 o'clock Lieut.-Colonel R. Marsh Hughes,
the Secretary of the Sailors' Home, addressed the magis-
rate, and said the black man, Bardoe, was dead. He had
ommitted suicide.

Mr. Yardley—Has he indeed. When did that occur?
Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes—This morning, sir, he tore
his sheet to pieces and hung himself.
G
Sergeant Mather, of the police van, here said that the
of the Clerkenwell House of Detention informed
him the poor fellow had strangled himself at an early hour
this morning.
Mr. Yardley said this -was a most lamentable end to a
most lamentable affair. No one in this country was to blame
but the person who brought the deceased,
and made a
slave of him, and who intended to treat him as a slave
again, was very much to blame.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes—lt was a most disgraceful
transaction on the part of the foreigners. Can there be any
objection to my seeing the body of the deceased ? I under-
stand there are some very remarkable marks on his person
which I am most anxious to see.
Mr. Yardley said that, from the kind manner in which
Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes behaved to the deceased, and
the great interest he had taken, and the humanity he had
evinced towards all destitute and friendless men of colour
who arrived in this country, there was no doubt his wishes
would be consulted by the authorities. He could see no
objection whatever to Lieut.-Colonel Hughes seeing the
body. The case, however, was out of his hands. The
man was dead, and the coroner and a jury would hold an
inquiry. He inquired how the wounded men were pro-
gressing.

Mr. Corner, a respectable surgeon, of Poplar, said he
had been in attendance on the wounded men daily, and
they were all doing well. Two were nearly recovered.
The other two were invalids at the time they were wounded,
and their recovery would, consequently, be slower.
Lieut.-Colonel Hughes—ls there any occasion for the
wounded men to attend here ?
Mr. Yardley—None at all. As far as lam concerned
there is an end of the matter.