The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

SUICIDE BY A GENTLEMAN ON

EPPING-FOREST.

On Wednesday last a gentleman,— named Scott,
committed a most deliberate act of suicide by hang-
ing himself from a tree in that part of Epping-forestO
which is known by the name of Phillipson s IVarren,
High-beach, and this circumstance, together with the
discovery of skeleton of an old man, named John
Harris, who was supposed to have been murdered,
near the same spot, has created an unusual degree of
excitement for some miles round the country.
It appeared that on the same morning (Wednesday)
Mr. Scott had arrived from his residence in the
neighbourhood of Steine, at the asylum of Dr. Allen,
on a visit to a female patient. For some reason or
other, Dr. Allen, on his making his appearance at
his house, wrote to deceased's brother to apprise him
of his being there. About one o'clock in the day the
deceased was observed walking about the forest near
High-beach, but there was nothing in his manner to
attract particular notice. About three o'clock, a
man named John Clarke, in the employment
of Mr. Phillipsen, of the King's Oak Tavern, High-
beach, having occasion to go into a small thicket
adjoining the rabbit-warren, found the deceased
gentleman suspended from the forked branch of an
oak by a white silk handkerchief. He with much
promptness cut him down, and with the assistance of
Paine, a police-constable belonging to the N division,
conveyed him to the King's Oak Tavern. The body
was warm at the time, and Mr. SeaH, a veterinary-
surgeon, who happened to be at the inn at the time,
opened several veins and arteries, but no blood flowed,
and it was evident the vital spark had fled. In the
course of the afternoon, Dr. Allen and the brother of
the deceased arrived at the King's Oak, when the
latter seemed dreadfully affected, and desired that
every respect should be paid to the remains of the de-
ceased until the Coroner's inquest was held.
The body, or rather the skeleton, of the man Harris,
remains at the same house, and an inquest is appointed
to be holden on both this evening.
The disappearance of the deceased was attended
with much mystery, and the general impression at
the time was that he had been murdered. It seems
that he was in the employment of Captain
Southey, son to the late poet laureat, who
is lord of a manor in Loughton, and the last
time he was seen alive was on th night of the 28th of
June last, between ten and eleven o'clock, by a lad
named Cannon. On that day, it appears, he changed
half a sovereign at the King's Oak Inn, where he was
in the constant habit of calling, and in the evening
was at a beer-shop, in the company of some notorious
poachers. He left shortly after ten o'clock, in com-
pany with the youth Cannon, and after that had not
been seen alive. The fact of his absence under such
suspicious circumstances, had for some time engaged
the attention of the police, and from what transpired
it was found that out of he change he had received
he had not spent more than a shilling, yet strange to
say when his skeleton was discovered there was not
a farthing about him. The spot where his remains
wore discovered was a very secluded one, and had it
not.been for the annual custom of cropping each tree
this might have remained there for years without
being found. It was evident that the cord with
which he had been suspended had, after some con-
siderable time, given way, and the body was on the
left side, 'and the ancles rather contracted when
found. ot the slightest cause has been assigned for
the suicide.

GLANDERS.—The Siecle states, that the facts of
glanders affecting human subjects are multiplied. It
appears that since the year 183 S, more than thirty indi-
viduals have sunk under this terrible malady, which at
the present moment counts as many victims as patients.
MM. Fleury and Monneret, physicians attached to the
Academy of Medicine, at Paris, state that " glanders
and farsy, acute or chronic, may be transmitted from
horses to men, and from one man to another, either by
inoculation or by infection." Amongst the',measures re-
commended to prevent the spreading of this fatal malady,
" every stable intended to lodge permanently several
horses ought to be constructed in such a manner as to
supply each horse with 5o cubic yards of air."
CORONER'S INQUEST.—DEATII OF A DISSENTING
MlNlSTER.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held an inquest at
the Golden Eagle, Stepney, on view of the body of the
Rev. Edwin Parsons, aged 47, a Dissenting minister,
attached to Baalam chapel, Mile-end-road. It appeared
from the evidence, that the deceased was residing in
Assembly-row, Mile-end. On Friday morning last, be-
tween twelve and ono o'clock, he was alarmed by a noise,
which he thought proceeded from his garden, at the back
of the house. He immediately went out of his room to
go down stairs, when his foot caught against something,
and he fell down nearly half the flight of stairs. In his
fall he knocked down some flower pots. Mrs. Parsons
afforded him immediate assistance, and he was carried
into his room. The deceased gradually sank from the
effects of the injuries he received, and died on Tuesday
last. Verdict, "Accidental death." Deceased was
highly respected by his congregation, over which he had
presided many years.

Mr. Ramshay's (of Naworth Castle) celebrated
blood stallion, Liverpool, died at Brampton on Sunday
last. It is believed that, by the &cense of this fine
animal, the loss to the owner will be to the extent of
some hundreds of pounds annually.—Newcastle Acker-