The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

DETERMINED SUICIDE.

An inquest was held before Mr. Payne, on Satur-
day evening, at the Tower of London Tavern, Tower-
street, Waterloo-road, on the body of Mr. Thomas
Noy, aged fifty-two, late a clerk in the Army Dis-
trict Pay-office, Duke-street, Westminster, who com-
mitted suicide on Friday morning, by hanging him-
self in his bedroom, under the following distressing
circumstances :

Police-constable 177 L stated that he was celled is
about nine o'clock on Friday morning, and found the
deceased hanging by a rope behind the bedroom door.
He immediately cut him down, and sent a brother
officer for Mr. Sewell, surgeon, upon whose arrival,
in about two minutes, life was quite extinct.
Mary Noy (daughter of deceased) said her father
had been very law spirited for some days. He was
indebted to the landlord for rent to the amount of 71.
19s. 6d., who had threatened him to distrain on his
goods, unless a portion of the money was paid on
Friday. Deceased had recently been discharged from
his situation ; but it appeared from the evidence of a
clerk in the Recruiting Department, that hopes had
been held out to him of a re-appointment, and he
had received his salary up to the 30th of the pre-
sent month.
The police, on searching his room, found two lett.
ters, written in pencil, one addressed to the coroner,
the other to Mr. Legge, his landlord, of which the
following are copies :

" 14th August, 1844.
' Mr. Coroner—l am in my perfect senses, there-
fore there is no occasion for a jury. I wish you to
send my body to Westminster Hospital, if in your,
power;
for I received good treatment from that in,
stitution about twelve months since, and I have no
other legacy to leave them. Pray comply with my
wishes if in your power,

" Sept. 14; ,)0" THOMAS NOY."
minutes to Six, A.M.
" Mr. Legge—You see what your precipitancy has
brought on. Did you think I would see a broker in
No, never.1 Had you waited a few
my place ?
weeks everything would have been settled, but your
avarice and miserly propensities are well known to
me. Do not touch an article of Mrs. Gibb's things,
as you value the curse of a dying man. Her rent is
paid to me to the 20th of August last, and when her
daughter tomes from the country she will pay you
what is due from that time. I shall lay the same in-
veterate curse on you if you touch any article that
belongs to Mary in her own right, such as clothes,
boxes, &c. " THOMAS NOY."
" There will be sufficient of my property to pay
you, and a surplus to hand over, as, according to law,
there is one-and-a-half year's interest too mach
charged in your account."
It appeared that a portion of Mr. Legge's debt
was for money lent at at 7} per cent. interest.
The jury returned a verdict, "That deceased com-
mitted suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."

The contemplated alliance between Lord Loftus,
eldest son of the Marquis of Ely, and Miss Hope.: Vere,
daughter of Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere, and niece to
Lieut.-General the Marquis of Tweeddale, Governor.of
Madras, is expected to be solemnised at the close Of the
ensuing month, when the noble bride elect will have ar-
rived with the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro from
the Continent.