Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

YES, blr. I'm very sorry. 1 wasn't
laughing, and its no laughing matter for
me, losing a good place and a good master"
And here she began TO cry.
There, there, that will do,n said The
coroner Pray control your feelings.
Wa there anything peculiar in Mr.. Need
hams manner That should lead you othink
he was not in his right mindg'
'No more than what / have said. as il
seemed 80 curious he should ask me il I'd
ever been to the OPERA
''Oh, yes, yes; wev We heard that before.
Uaughter.) | mean in his appearance or
in his manner"
mo, sir; | can't say as there was. But
to say as he would give me and the othars
tickets, and he should see us there. was
something SO odd-I beg his pardon"
Ganghter.)
Very well. That will do"
Eyes, sir; thank you, sir" said Mary,
retiring into a corner to be upbraided by
the cook for making a fool Of herself, ''and
making all OF us look as silly as you
are"
Then came the evidence Of Mr.. Nolan.
He described his visit to Mr.. Needham on
Saturday morning. He bad received O
telegraphic message from Dublin relating
to some financial business, which he
thought it desirable Mr.. Needham should
SEQ. Mr.. Needham was in financial diff.
culties far more serious than he, his solci-
tor, had contemplated, although serious
enough to give him great anxiety. Ee
found Mr.. Needham not in his usual state
of health, but depressed; looking very
weary and tired, yet full OF intellectual and
mental resource. He shouldn't say that he
exhibited the slightest tokens Of insanity.
1t was not his intention to stay and break.
fast with M. Neelham, but he remained,
and they talked over q great MANY busi-
ness matters in relation both to The London
AMI tine Dublin hanks, AMI to some cues.
tons OF mortgages AMI other Sc c~urIties.
He left Mr. Needham a bout hall past threein
the afteI Don, and that was the last time
he saw HIN alive.
Henry Nee1ham, brother of the deceased,
next gave evidence Of an unimportant char
acter, with the exception of the reproduc-
ton of the letter with which the reader is
already acquainted. The witness was very
much affected during the reading of the
letter, and once or twice was so much over
come that he paused and turned away his
head to wipe the tears from his eyes. The
dead silence in the court was ample EVIL
dence Of the deep sympathy that was felt
for the witness and other members of his
family.
Horace Byles, Of the firm of Byles, Gr1nt
q Byles, solicitors, Lombard street, deposel
that on the morning of Friday preceding
his death, the deceased, John Needham,
called upon him AMI asked for financial as
sistance in the interests Of the Naedham
Joint Stock bank, showing him some telc-
graphic messages he had received from
Dublin on thu subject OF their vans, pro.
posed several schemes for witness consid-
Grafton in regard to raising money. and
after he Horace BJles) told him they were
not such schemes as he could recommend or
adopt, Needham grew very excited AMI ex-
claimed, 'Great GodI If the hank fails it
will be my fault AMI the ruin Of thou sands
He walked about the office with his hand to
his head, and urged witness to help him.
He hal not been on very friendly terms
with Needham for some time previously to
this interview, on account chiefly Of a dis
appointment in money matters. About q
month before his death he remembered that
a security Needham had given him. upon
whichhe had found money! for the Irish bank,
had not been registered, and after Need.
ham left on Friday he deter mined to have
it registered. There was something so de-
spairing in Needham's manner that he felt
the bank was on the eve of collapse. During
the conversation he (witnes) mentioned
this security to Needham, and there was
something so strange il his manner he
~(witness) had a sudden sus picion that there
was something wrong about it. He thare-
fore sent his partner with the decd to Dub
lin. On arriving there he was not lung in
discovering that it WIS a forgery. The
serenity purported to be q deed given on
the purchase Of an estate in the encum.
bered estate; courS 1t was signed By two
Of the commissioners and two attesting
witnesses, and not q single signature was
genuine. Sensation in court.) 1t had a
real seal of the encountered estates court
attached to it, bat there was no doubt it
had been transferred from some other
genuine deed, He twi5nesl attributed
Needham', death to his excitement about
the Ne9dham bank and to his knowledge
that he (witness) wa; about to send this
deed over to Dublin for registration.
There were rumors Of other for3erie5, but
he knew OF no other forget deed than his
own. Several of Mr.. Naedham's deeds
had from time to time passed through his
hands to persons who had advanced money
upon them, but he ~lwitness) had no reason
to believe that any one OF them was not
genuine. He did not think anybody en-
joyed the deceaseTs confidence. Mr.. Neel-
ham was a very reticent man; it was diff
cult to get any information from him be.
yond what he chose to impart. He should
think Mr.. Sadler had written the letters
produced under great excitement, and he
believed that soma of thu stat ements in
them were not correct.
There was then a long discussion between
the coroner and the witness as to what il
was proper to disclose in regard to the de-
ceased's affairs, what might lie kno wn and
what might not; and the witness men,
tionei several circumstance indie lting the
serious financial difficulties in which Mr..
Nesdham was involved.
The inquest was then ad journed until
Thursday, when fresh evidence of a
lone and voluminous character was given.
and other private letters were pro.
duced, and the correspondence in The
Times Was mentioned in terms any
thing but complimentary to Mr.. Green.
The coroner also deprecated the fact
that several public journals had discussed
Mr.. Green's remarkable statement that he
had seen the deceased and hal spoken to
him at Liverpool on the Sunday, when il
wa a fact beyond all manner of doubt
that the unfortunate gentleman was lying
dond nt Ham netnnd runrrhnn1,n IL MIA nj