Coroner's Inquest.
The Times, 1824-01-15T00:00:00

ZuICIDE.--An inquest was held on Tuesday 0e%ening last be fore TnoINeAs STUn.INlG, Esq., Cor-net, . at'tbe African Cbief, Someia-town, on the body of Ellen (Qgletz, ag,d20 yars, wh destroyed herself. y Eleanor Rine, of 73, Ossulston.street, said, oDn Suntday night last deceased amne home, bringing wiet her a half pirt of porter; she re- quested the witnless to tak3e sorne. and on hr rvefusing, she put some sugar into it, and taking the key of her room she went U tairs. She shortlv after retuinel. zT(d phserved that she bad enoiigb, when she was nnetdia4telytu4en il int,a most violentmanner. Mr. Copeland, a surggN., Was sent for, when the cup was shown him which hau contasiie4 the beor.and he innmediately observed a quiahntity of arsenic at the bottom. W'itness pressed-tbe deceased to reieal why alhe had taken the poison. Ttids she refitsed doing, but admitted she had taken it. - On lUonday mornin'g about 3 o'clock she died. ElizalWjllj, who was 'with the deceasc4 when she cMane in with the porter, gave a simil;ar testimQpy, Mlr. Henry Cop'eland. asslsiant toL his brother, of Chalton-street, New-road, sulgeen, sai the deceased hhad been frequently in lheir shop for varioas articleS. On Sunday last she came anDparently in good health, and asked for tpannyworth of arsenic. 'The witness inmgired for 'What purpose it was intended to bc used. The deceased replied it was to destroy somc rats; the witness, however, consiIde-T ed that from her early age she might have some other iintention, and refused serving her. In a short time afterwards- sh again caUed, in company with a strange womau; the woma, remarked tohe witne:ss thathehad nooccz,sionto beafraid in s.elingher'theaxrsenio; the ,witness in reply to the wman's observation; said-"Perhaps not,buti it-is right to be safe when we can;" 'He then felt convinced the det ceased wanted the arsen4e for the- purpose she had mentioned, and irmnnediately weighing it delivered it to her,haing first written poison upon the paper; the woman he had not seen singe, nor has he any lwowledgc of her; she appearel, however, to be 30 years of age. The womnan was rlite inquired for, but it was intimated she was not know n. MIr. Wilpe,m Cepe}and then stated that he heard his brother re. fuse to servc the deceased with arsenic, till she had some one with hrwtovouch that it was for the Tats; about 19 o'clock at night he was called on, and on esamining a cup which had contained some porfer. he found an infusion of arsenic, and as a proper remeole he administered cimetics, &c.; she said it was no use to give her-' any thing, if she had not intended to have died she should not have taken it: somnetimes she cried, and sonietimes laughed, so that wit. net'ss did not consider she was in a sound state of mind. -ir, Qeorge Wakefield, a surgeon, of Ossulston-street, attended the deceased on .hMonday morning, andafound her exceedingly ill; s1 ePpe-ed in a very exhausted stste; andfrom her demeanour be dlid n3at eodsidetabe was in asound stat of.nmind. - ' The jury5 tbexefiore without further inquiry, returned their ver- dict, "lbatthe dccased po~oi0ne hers" , being at the time in a vo-R0NR S1 N iVUBT.