The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-18 00:00:00

LEEDS, FEB. 17.

STOOK EXOHANGE.—An average business done to-daf•
Midland, 83—North Eastern, (York capital stock), 31i
Victoria Mine, is. die.

BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 17.
STOCK ExonAxam:—The market continues firm, and
little business doing, at about yesterday's rates. London
and North Western Stock, 107# s—Great Western Stock,
67/—London and North Western, Eighths, die.—Blv
mingham Guaranteed, 76 ?,—Birmingham Pref., 104 I`.
Birmingham Canal, 92
3—Birmingham and sthiford•
shire Gas, new, 11 12 pm.

SHOCKING SUICIDE BY STRYCHNINE.—A painful se*.
Baton was created in Newport last week by the 1113°01
of the death of Mr. William Gummow from strychnine,
administered by his own hands ; and the fatal act is of
importance to the world on account of the distressing
symptoms which exhibited themselves for some five
hours previously to his death. On proceeding to view'
the body the coroner's jury found deceased in the same
position, in bed, in which he died, and be presented
most fearful sight. His eye-balls seemed ready to burst
from their sockets ; his teeth were tightly closed ; the
features drawn and contracted, and the whole counts.
nance frightfully distorted ; his fists, too, were firmly
clinched ; his feet forced out beyond the foot of the bed,
and his limbs in a state of fixed rigidity. The poison wall
bought by the servant of the suicide. The druggist recol•
lected the latter coming to his shop and asking for arsenic
to kill rats. He gave him three grains of strychnine.
" I have sold the same (said the druggist) for killing rate
for four or five years to many persons. I write the word
poison' on my packages, and have not a printed label."
The coroner and jury observed it would be much better
to have a printed label. The deceased took the whole
three grains. The doctor who attended him first tried
strong emetics, which produced no effect. He then ap-
plied the stomach-pump, but his mouth was so firmly
fixed, and the spasms and violent paroxysms were so
powerful as to shake the gaslamps in the room below,
and he could not in any way apply it. His body wag
bent in a curved form as in lock-jaw. They were only
such symptoms as weuld be produced by strychnine or
hydrophobia. The spasms contracted and bent the feat,
and the hands were clinched too, and he died in one of
those convulsions, quite black in the face. From half an
hour to two hours is the longest time known in such cage°
after spasms have commenced. Half a grain is enough to
destroy life. The right side of the heart was found full of
blood, and the left empty. It has been a disputed point
(in the cases lately before the public) as to whether this
side should be full) or empty in cases of poisoning by
strychnine, but there have been instances both ways.
The lungs were blacker than usual, but the other organs
healthy. —Hants Advertiser
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BIRTHS.

OF 1. 801.

the 17th inst., at Herne-hill,
TaY, Mrs. Christ°.
pher North Graham.
-On the 17th inst.. at Clapham-park, Surrey, the wife of
Sydney Laurence, limp

OF A DAUGHTZIL
On the 16th inst., at 12, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park;
the wife of Captain klansard.
Robert
On the
aylsthinst., at 2, Regent's-park-terrace, Mn,
Cl.

MARRIED.
On the 17th inst., at Clifton, Eyre Ceote, Esq., of West
Park, Hants, to Jessie Mary, the third surviving
daughter
of Major-General H. Leehmere Worrall, of the Bengal
Cavalry.
John
terrace
Hudson, M.D., of 11, Cork-street, Burlington-gar■
dens, to Louisa Grover, of 23, Cambridge-street, Ilya!park,
park, daughter of the late Captain Grover, F.R.S.

DIED.
On the 17th inst., the Very Rev. William Rowe Lyall,
Dean of Canterbury, aged 69.
On the 17th inst.,,Mr. James Well, of Horton, upwards
of 25 years assistant to Messrs. Wm. Tegg and Co., Pub'
lishers, Queen-street, Cheapside, aged 58.
On the 16th inst., at Horsham-park, Robert H. Hurst,
Esq., aged 69.
On the 15th inst., at Hoddeedon, Fferts, Arthur, tl •
yoinger son of the late Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., M.P.
On the 15th inst., at Grantham, George White, Esq
aged 88.
On the 14th inst., at 8, Harley-place, Bow-road, Jona..
than Arnold, Esq., formerly of the Stock Exchange, .agtd
71.

On the 14th inst., at 26, Upper Grosvenor•street, the
Rev. Arthur Atherley, vicar of ileavitree, Devon

LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No.
112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coon
of Middlesex, Wednesday, February 18, 1857.