The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-01 00:00:00

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' A a InqUisiti'an vas taken yesterday, hef.te
Mr. STIRLING`; the Colonel, at the Committet.'-
Room, St. 147,wkliouse, On the body
seph Stockton, a cabinet-maker, who put a lie_ , tiOd to hiS existence by shooting hintself through
the head on Siturday last.
- It appeared,from the. eViOnce of Mr. •Francia
Burke, .of Nos. 17 and 13, George-strei Bloorna:
bury, that . the deceased came to lodge at leis
house on the Mandaylreceding his death. Ali%
Burke thought him very rtional, and perfectly
composed in his mind; during the time. Go Si,
tut I.y the deccoetl did' lint leave his bed until
near one o'clock; lie lett the lir,ccse about two,
and returned home about five o'clock ; he was
quite lobe.. i - lies went up to h s chamber, and
fighted a candle; ahout an hour alter, he heard
the report of a pistOli he conjectured that it .was
tired in the next house, and took no notice of it.
The deceased .had, told hint lie should leave his
house in a day or two.. A •.Geotlernan came to
inquire after the lodgings. occupied by the deceas--
-ed about seven o'cloCk ; the arevant lighted.,the
gentleman up stairs to show hint the apartoient ;
she knocked at the deceased's chamber door, dand
receiving no answer, sii.opetie(lit ; smoke issued
in volumes through the dour, and she was com-
pelled to rett cat she gave an alarm. of fire, and
water was taken up stairs ;- the bed-clothes were
on fire. ;The fire being, put out, the deceased
Was discovered dead nit the bed. The deceased's
coat and waistcoat and the bed-clothes were
burnt to tinder. On raring up the b of the
deceased a pistol sell on the ground, and the re-
port. of the pistol, was imiundiliely exriblined, for
the deceased was discovered to We shut througit
the head. On the floor he found a quantity of
gunpowder, which . •would have destroy.,d• tiie
house had it exploded.
.I)lr..Rjchartl Scholefieki of N0..4,, Roge-street •
Long Acre, stated, that lie had known the 44e-
ceased sonic tithe; on the morning preceding hia .
death be received the subjoined letter front hint :
Mr. Scholefield, i-,•0 to Mr. Hughes, at Camberwell, and
get possession of the property I lett there, vix. some
*WO boxes, a bal-box, and two bonnet ditto, bedsteads, chairs,.
&c. Dee. '27 1817."
" Mr. S. please go to Mr. Thactiery, and get his Role, to
purchase the things I shall want, fur 'expect soon to ne.oxlicel
out. Dec. 27,

" S.—This is an authority. for you to• get lay clothes
from Mr. Bushes, No. 13, George-street. You telll hod the:
duplicates in my gloves.
" P. S. •I have written in this way that you irmy eut,l4lirs
letter into three notes; you may cat thrm anart, and :is, per-
haps, you may be upon the Inquest, you can say that I have
been very melancludy fur this week past ; and when you go
ovvr. tho %value, call Ppm) toy siSteriit 31,. Weymuut
New Kent-road, and inform he► what has happened to 1.13 C.
Feet need not show the notes, but apply all toy things to your
own use.':

Mr. Scholefiehl in ,enntintuttion.—He spent
the evening of Friday last with the deceased. lc
then talked of his misfortunes; he said that his
ttife had.left hint and gone to lire with. anothve
man ; his mother had died within a few days, Aiod
the money her property sold for he hp,/ beet&
lobbed oriust Out of -I)is pocket, and he felt
iuctined to blow Out his,brains h a pis!ol, anti
end his miseries. pt (ipii;Sott the deceased
was at times distracted by hisruisfottune,s.
One of the Tory thought that The ICI( er provNl
a deliberate act ot. suicide. 'Fite Jury cousisteda
16 persons, 12 of whom wery ot opinion the tie=
ceased was insane when he contwitted ;be act.--. 4
A verdict w.ss returned—•"fhat the deceaseet
tame to his dea‘h by shooting himsdf with
pistol, when in a temporary fit of insanity.