The Sun. — 1819-04-09 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.  before soAwmuil.L:tiq:Eist!tqi.ocnou:nsmti.a,kienn:ilyeevsteesrt(lravy:oo,o r)t st 4 Soul wark, on the body (.4 M. Job° .hosier and dealer in flannels-, 0-1° flag: s,,ted in Thornton-street, io the said parish, vrT put alt end to his existence. The following 61".. deuce Was given Mr Westmore, butcher, Thornton-street, 'le' posed, that on Toesday•morniug, he %vas standing at his shop (10,4, which is only rev., doors from the deco-asedts house ; lie beard the report of I pistol,. which he thought proceeded from the de' ceased's Si),,, he went to the deceased's door, which he found fastened. On looking at 'the will dow, he saw some of the panes'or glass sprinkle° whh blood, 44 a piece of wadding lay against( the window on fire; the shop was filled with spioke. A cro,d of persons soon assembled WI the house ; witness sent for-Mr. Proctor, an 00`; cer of the pari•h, who came amt broke open th •door ; • they entered the hoose,_and saw the de' ceased lying on his back ; half his head was WWII off; a pistol recently discharged lay a short dhis:l; lance from him, and another pistol was under PI arm, loaded. Mr. Thomas Bolton, of Bermondsey-building' stated, that the deceased and he had bee" int; 'irately acquainted tor-ten years-; he was ain man, am; lived by himself; and he kept a.Bll°,P'ut the hosiery 'hie for a Considerable period ten months ago his house had been broken ',lll'oe and the 'greater part of his stock was earrile,"„ di by thieves; the deceased had not heel' s()..b-e. and cheerful since, as he generally used to ue .001 fore ; he employed the greatest part of 1113,.tie, in reading. The deceased was remarkably "el st tul on the night prior to his .death, and said ti,itt, his trade wits greatly increasing; be bad frequent; ly talked to the deceased -on -religious sobiee'it; the deceased said lie believed the Bible eacjo word .of it ; he was positive he never beam *0 deceased deny the truth of the Scriptures  deceased was 35 years of age. Mr. Proctor (the parish officer) prodoedAt Bible which lay upon --the counter of the iia-r ceased's shop when he entered the house ; it v";„ open, and he 'observed some writing on the letil the ink not being dry at the tittle. Coroner.-Gentlernen, I will read the tvritiogy if it is proved to be the deceased's. Mr. Boitoth-lt is the dei.e'Retrli COI ailei .-Uvon floe ;eat it, written-- lova " Be wie, intei fere noith Scriptue, it is but no" Whats a bother about aw future stater-it is all ettasease. Coroner.-Uaon a no, Is r leaf is ft i"""‘. d 1 60/1 aquite I bare read the Bible till I ant wearied, 50 it to be all a fare, and nonsense." 'h t}l7 Coroner.-Aell ~pon the last page, " ii witness stated to he wet when he first it' written the r ollowin g :" Beveridge. God fins del: mined vour rate "In tbe 4 Beginning-Awful, dreadful !--i'heoe 15 ".%'hen, None. But there is 4 r •od Oevii-d"u: d "'There inns; be a God, lookat".Nalloes wak". " " " The Bible windll not do-Butt will go and prove it." ~d, Coroner.-'lure decease,: was ie. great agits"" when he wrote the last three fines, as 'is ten' evident from the appearance of the writing• Mr. Ansley. Surgeon, Rotherhithe, depOO!der that he was celled in to see the deceased ale minutes atter he dreadf,,l catastrophe had curred He found him quite dead. He sill'eflfal, to have put, the muzzle of the pistol:barrei ailiteitutl;e,lll:l7l .iris right ear, the hack part of his- head was 6°-.4 pletely carried away Os" Mr. John Pearce stated, that be saw the (1" tip ed about half an hour before he snot himself ;iiito went to, his shop, and asked him to give change for a pound note, which he did but never spoke during the whole time, htit sull the change down upon the counter st;l` ba extraordinary manner as quite surptisetiii,,r thought the deceased was not right 'ea the ideate The CORONER, in summing up ev,h,t-tbe Imes remarked, that it was very extraordinell `l4deceised should have told the willies', -;°„ that he believed every word cant Scripttires, and should have writteil ment be put a period to his mortaLexisteneehe pa a lamentable contradiction. There e01114,;s pals doubt but the deceased put a period their iiho Isle, and the very important part of eirtecide. Jury's) duty upOn this (occasion was tO of dies' " according to the evidence, and the best 0,0 knowledge," whether the deceased tit tire ti gar in such a state of mini] as to he accountat)ieitije what he had done, or whether he laboured „ityt insanity. There was no positive proof ot+►tyAtjeof and the deceased wag of that age, it) the ,bs lite, when men generally wish to live, "I'At4t. very thought of self-destruction is mos; a..ti•creot It appeared that the deceased had I)'''" tl t act° 'in his conduct since be was robbed, aft' , tool very singularly when Mr. Pearce get ch r'l'g-ort him fora pound note; but ,it was f" decide wt.,-ter be was Lhoirriegur"frrt derangement at the time, or whi:tilei. isfi 'ed tb° duct was the reSnit of his Itarteg. strue Tesoiution to commit tite ' crime nt se" :tion, being in sane mind at th nt e ti e• that thil Several Jurymen expressed en opioi°" tth deceased was not tietaneed the time; but 00 Majority were of np:nion that, he was 415 81-4CO;nitig a v, rdict of " Lunacy" was recorded. Herald.)  BI%TH. On the 7th inst. in Fitzroy-square,the Lady °f Chgriel Snell Cliatiimy, of a slill-born  M