The Weymouth, Portland and Dorchester Telegram. — 1862-10-02 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE WAY OF DEATH.  VICTFIS OF PASSION.—A respectably-dressed man and woman went to an hotel at St. Maur, near Paris, the evening before yesterday, and hired a chamber, to which they talked after taking ft hearty repeat in the restaurant attached to the establishment. de nothing had been heard or seen of them the next day at noon the landlord knocked at the door of the room, and receiving no answer he sent for the eommisaary of police. The door was then forced open, and on entering the room, which was filled with a noxious vapour, the two lodgers were found dead in the bed, near which *as ati.eartbern dish oontaining (thermal ashes. On the table lay a paper giting their names, and stating that an unhappy passion was the cause of theft sulfide. The male deceased was a conductor of the Ponts•et Chaussees, a married man, and the woman was the wife of • person residiug at Begnolet. In the course of the day they were both recognised by their families and nitrated for interment.—Oalignini. DFAIII FRO* VIZ VIM or CantoLtnt.—On Friday aftenoon on !Oral irto keld at.Haseings, on the body of Julia Brasier, aged 10, the didghte• of a fi4hermius in that town, who had been burnt to death. Mary Annie Brasier, the child's mother, who, in addition to being in great detests of mind, appeared in • very delicate state of health, and was also suffering from deafness, said that she was up stairs making her bed, when the deeeasnd phild tante running up stairs screaming and with her clothe' oh ere. She asked her how it happened, and she said," Oh, nibibtf, I was lacing Freddy's boots up by the Sr.." Her son then took the child down stairs and put the fire out by , throwing water over her. She was undressed, and a sorgeon was sent for, who WM in attendance almost directly. She had kept the child home for • week or two as she required her assistance in the house but the child asked if she might go to school that day, and ebe bad told her She might. *hen the child gut up she had put on her frock ready lot school, and also • crinoline which her cousin had made for her. In basing her brother's boots the deceased would have to stoop, and she (the mother) thought that when she did so her clothes got over the fender and caught on flee, The jury, without deliberation, returned a verdict of "Accidental death." In announcing that verdict the foreman made some remarks condemning the practice of wearing crinoline, but the jury did not appear inclined to pass a censure in this particular instance, while the manioc, they condemned was so generally edapted by the female se:. binning. On Tuesday, Mr. Benjamin Cohen, jeweller. High-street. Sheffield, committed suicide. Last week Mr. Cohen was taken into custody on the charge of havieg stolen watches in his possession. He was liberated on bail, and has been in an unsettled state of mind ever since. At an early hour on Tuesday morning he was discovered in his room in • frighful condition. He had possessed himself of s razor, and had indicted a shocking gash in his abdomen. Two surgeons were sent for, and they rendered all the assistance in their power. About ten o'clock on Tuesday night Mr. Cohen died from the effects of the injuries he had inflicted on himself. DIESTEMSING BErronn. Dr. Lankester :held an inque-t at the Bank of England Tavern, CambridgepLme, Paddington, on Wednesday, touching the death of Charles Pritchard, egad 41, an upholsterer, formerly •resident at 8, Marearet4errase, Kensington. Gibson, a park-keeper in Kensington-gardens. stated that in the afternoon of the 13th inst., WI he was passing through that part of the gardens called Black Lion-wood, be found the deceased lying on the ground, with his head resting on his left hand, foaming at the month, and groaning. /So person was near him. Witness said to him, "My man, you appear very iIL What is the matter with you f' He looked up and answered. "I have poisoned myself." He asked him what he had taken, and he further replied, " Oxsiie said, and the bottle lain my pocket." Witness ran off for • brother constable to convey hint to St. Mary's Hospital. Witness produced two letters found upon his person, one addressed to his wife, dated September 3; and the other to a Mrs. Colo. his sister, dated August 22. The one to his wife was to the effect that that letter would be the last he should ever write. He said he was almost driven mad from having no sign of getting employment, arising from his having sunk too low in the world, and described how miserable had been hi life during the past four years, mainly front reduced circumstances. The other to his sister disclosed the painful statement that he had not a penny in his pocket, and had not oaten a crust of bread for several days ; that he had wandered about until lie could walk no longer; that he was • " friendless, homeless wretch, and prayed bet- forgiveness for committing the droldful  crime of suicide." A brother-in-law of the damaged de posed that he had formerly been addicted to intemperate habits, and that he bad not been seen for fifteen months. Mr. Mahon, house surgeon of St. Mary's Hospital, said deceased was admitted to that hospital on the 13th, and died from the mortal effects of oxalic acid last Friday night. He told witness before be died that he was starving, and swallowed an ounce of poison to end his life. The jury deliberated, and returned • verdict of "Suiciiii" ; but left tbe state of deceased's mind at the time he committed the sot an open question.