The Commonwealth. — 1866-11-17 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A TVEALTRY JEWESS.  Dr. Lankester held an inquest on Tuesday afternoon it the Gower Arms, Gower-street, on the body of Julia Levy, who committed suicide by jumping from the sacond-floor window of No. 37, Alfred•place, Bedford. square. The unfortunate deceased was suffering from a disease of the uterus, which excited her most fear. fully at times, and afterwards left her entirely prostrated. Mr. Field, solicitor, appeared on behalf of the friends of the deceased, and endeavoured to show that she met with her death accidentally.  Mr. Edward Jeslen, of 46, Gordon. square, son-in-law of deceased, said she was GG sears of age. Her husband, Abraham Levy, had retired from business many years before his death. She had lately been suffering severely from a certain disease which caused her excessive nervous excitement. She appeared very forgetful at times, and the fact of her having the disease preyed upon her mind. Catharine Chambers, who had acted as nurse to the deceased, said the deceased was sometimes mentally affected through her disease. On Monday morning limit witness left deceased in the front bedroom, and shortly afterwards she heard screaming in the street and house, and was told that deceased had jumped out of the window. The latter had often after her fits gone to the window and opened it, because she was so hot. She did so on this occasion before witness left her. She had received instructions to watch her, but aot too closely, as it distressed her. By Jurors: Deceased opened the window herself, but witness did not think she was go/mg to commit 3taide. _  ---fu-r-iher evidence having been given as to the illness of de masa, Thomas Walters, of 27, Tadd•street, Easton-road, said he was passing along Alfred-place the previous morning, when he saw deceased put one leg out of the window, and immediately afterwards the other. She hung by her hands for a sena, and then dropped into the area beneath. He raised a shout, and, rushing across the road, jumped down the area, and-With the assistance of another man carried her upstairs. She breathed once or twice after he picked her up. He did not think she could have fallen out of the window accidentally, she came out so deliberately. Charles Edwards, a cabdriver, corroborated last witness. Dr. B. Aroedeckne Duncan said he was called to deceased early on Monday morning. He was told she had thrown herself from the second-floor window. He -found her I..rm was fractured in several places near the elbow. There was a out on her foot as if from glass. He believed her nook was broken, and her head was fractured. She died from fracture of the skull.  The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."  A Counterfeit Buicide.—On one of the Paris quays, last week, about dusk, a man was observed to be gesticulating in a strange manner, when all at once he threw himself into the river. Two boatmen immediately put off to his assistance, and upon bringing him to land, asked him what indnoed him to attempt suicide. He replied that he had not any such intention, that he was an excellent swimmer, but that he had not a son, and if they were good fellows they would share with him the reward allowed for saving a man's life. They indignantly refused, and handed him over to the police. The reward, 25f., was offered to them all the same, but they declined it, n :7t, wishing to share, even indirectly, in this new species Ox swindling.