The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-03-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SUICIDE INSTEAD OF MURDER.  A telegram from Toledo (Ohio) narrates the following strange case of Suicide : A few 'days ago a gentleman arrived at the Boody House Hotel, and registered his name as Charles F. Edwards. On the following day the Rev. Father Quigly called upon the Chief of Police and informed him that Edwards intended to commit suicide. The Chief of Police lost no time. iu verifying the priest's suspicions. Be secured the 'aid of the hotel Manager, who ordered one of the bell boys or pages to climb through the name= over Edwards's chamber door. The boy opened the door from the inside, appearing with a white, scared face. When the ierestigitors entered they tonna Edwards stretched dead on the floor, with nearly alt the popularly known liquid poisons represented in ounce bottles by his side. There were six one-mince phials of laudanum, one of tincture of aconite, one of aqpeous extract of opium, and one of prusaic acid. In the fire-grate were the sabre of • number of letters or ether papers which he had utterly destroyed, no scrap remaining to reveal his identity, "Charles J. Edwards" * believed to have been so alias.: Father Quigly tbee'bild whet he lostr.of the dead man. Edwards, as he called himself on the previous evening bad called at the presbytery. The priest received him in the parlour. 'The man shifted uneasily in the chair until In managed to sit so that he could have a clear way to his hip pocket. Then reaching round with his right hand as if for a pistol, he exclaimed: "Doctor, I tame to- Toledo to commit suicide." His look and. gesture belied his words. Father Quigly, who is a powerfully proportioned six-footer, was frightened, and cried out, "Stop! Would you shed • neighbour's blood? And on a Iliday, too; the day our Redeemer gave Hi a Mood for mankind ?" Edwards accepted lila intended victim's interpretation of his design, and was overawed by the sacerdotal nature of the protest. He withdrew his bend without a weapon, and replied,"Then I witl take my own life." Without another word he turned and left the house, the priest watching him wend his way to Boody House.  The 213th anniversary of the wedding day of the Prince and r'riticess of Wales was observed at Windsor. on Tuesday, by ringing of the bells of St. George's Chapel and St. John's Church. Satiates were Bred in the Long Walk and at Port Belvedere, Windsor Forest. In the evet.b.ir het Majesty gave a dinner party at the Castle a bccotu of the event. . .  A convict at Portsmouth named Wilson took ad. vantage of Monday afternoon's snowstorm to make his escape from hi gang, who were at work or Whale Island. Wiison stayed out in a boat all night, led the craft was securely 'floored by an iron chain, and as the tide rose the prisoner was isolated Ou Tuesday morning he was captured without any ihoultv.  It Is stated that the Russian Ambassador in Berlin has insisted on being recalled, as he flints it impoeiihle to remain here any longer owing to the recent turn of events.  Mr. Sidney Luska's novel, entitled "As It was Wtitten," will be presented gratis, as an extra supplement. with No. 390 of Casaell's Saturilay ins-sal, published on the 18th inst. The same number will contain the opening chapters of a new s, rial ,try of to-day, eutitbkl "Olga's Crime," by Frank Barrett.  F