The Commonwealth. — 1867-01-05 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN. On Monday Dr. Lankeater held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle, Camden town, on the body of Mary Ann Frier, who committed suicide under very distressing circumstances. Charles Frier, father of deceased,living at 2, William. street Regent's park, said: The deceased was my daughter. She was 19 years of age. I saw her last on the 29th September. She had been indueed to leave her situation on the Monday previous. She said she went to live with the eister of a man named Saunders. She said Saunders kept her out till it was too late to go home, and then he took her home with him. My wife went to inquire about it the next day, and my daughter,: finding we were determined to inquire into it, ran away and drowned herself. The next morning we found this note in her work-box "My dear Mother,—As you are determined that me and Harry shall not come together, I will give him up, but it will be with my life. I cannot live, mother, without him. I have written to say good-bye to him, and now I will say the same to you.—Yoar Daughter." I and my wife wished to break off the engagement after we knew that he took her from her situation. Sarah Frier, mother of deceased: I saw my daughter after she left her situation talking to Saunders. I asked her if she had slept with Saunders. She said she slept with his sister, but I found out afterwards from the sister that this was untrue. Henry George Saunders, of 19, Castle-street Reit : I was acquainted with deceased. I had promised to marry her, and would have done it. I saw her last alive on the 27th November. I had seen her on Monday. I left her between ten and eleven in the evening. She said she would go to my sister's, but she did not. I work at Harrison and Son's, Saokville-street. I saw her on Tuesday, and I advised her to go with her mother, and she did. When I went home to dinner she was in my room. She said her father and mother had ordered her to give me up, and she oould not do it. I persuaded her to go home. I did not see her again, but I received these letters from her, which will show you whose fault this is. The following letter was read : "My darling ilarry,—By the time you have received this I shall be no more. I need not tell you whose fault it is. They will not let me see you any more; so good-bye." We loved each other, and wanted to marry, but her parents wanted somebody better off than me. Mr. Burt, house.surgeon at St. Pancras Workhouse, said deceased was brought to the workhouse last Thursday morning. Her head was much injured, but the injuries were inflicted after death, probably by the steamboats. There was evidence of an old seduction, but no evidence of recent connection, and he did not think such had taken place shortly prior to death.  John Long, turncock to the West Middlesex Waterworks Company: I found this body about thirty yards from the bridge, near St. Mark's Church, Primrose. bill. I handed it over to the police. I should just like to say, air, that there are no drags by this bridge, HO that it would be impossible to save anybody who might fall in. The lowness of the parapet on the bridge was commented upon by the coroner. The vestry of St. Marylebone had raised the parapets of their bridges, and since then he had not a single case of accident or suicide in connection with them.  The jury returned a verdict of "suicide whilst of unsound mind."  Extensive Robberies at a Railway Station. —On Monday, at the Sheffield Town-hall Win. Stones, of Verdon-street, a private watchman in the employ of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, was charged with having committed a series of robberies from the goods department at the Victoria Station. The robberies were of the most extensive character, and had been going on for some time, and ultimately a watch was set, which resulted in the detection of the prisoner in the act of rifling a parcel of goods. His house was found to be stocked with stolen goods, and a large Case whioh he had sent to Grimsby was packed with plunder. The prisons; who pleaded guilty, was committed for trial.  THE FamAL