The Sun. — 1844-11-19 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF  SUICIDE. Great excitement was occasioned in the village of Hawnes, near Bedford, on Sunday morning, in on; sequence of a respectably dressed man being foul)" hanging in a hedge quite dead. The following dal an inquest was held before Ezra Eagles, Esq., woo'. for the county, and the following evidence. Wes given : Josiah King, a labourer, deposed that on Sunday morning he was going up Mr. Armstrong's fields in the parish of Hawnes, and in the hedge.; about A WI,: dred yards from the road leading from Wilsted Clophill, he saw something hanging, which at first he thought was a mawkin to frighten the birds but on going nearer he found it was a man. He was tied by the neck to an ash bough with a handkercbie and appeared to have been hanging there for so° time. He then told some other persons and the coostable, and they removed the 'body to King's beet' shop. It was in a high state of putrefaction. WV witness found the deceased he was on his knees. I' was very respectably dressed. William Cole, the constable of Hawnes, deposed that the last witness fetched him on Sunday morn: ing to Mr. Armstrong's hedge, to see a man hanging' He found the deceased suspended by the neck to as ash stem, with two handkerchiefs. He broke the stem and let the body down ; it was that of a poll about sixty years old. He examined the skull, could find no fracture. The deceased had on a b1i614 neckerchief, two shirts, pair of cotton drawers, 014, black trousers, and a fancy flowered waistcoat. Jl3; appeared to have been a round-faced man. His uPPei, jaw was very round, and the under jaw rather sun; in. His hair was dark and rather curly and whisked sandy; they extended underneath his chin. He VI on Wellington boots cut open up the instep. He n'A white cotton socks. He had a black frock Ott" lined with silk, and a black velvet collar. Tb_As— was a hat hanging by the side of the deceased in the stem of the tree, in which were a r; of spectacles, a pair of scissors, a common ho comb, and a pencil. In the small-clotb! pocket was a piece of paper, on which °l' written in pencil, " I ham in troble," and the figuiri 1844 and 1793 deducted, with 0047 below ; and 1879 and 1777 deducted, with 0067 below. And in coat-pockets was a playbill of Mr. Jackman's cis pany of the performance of Cato, and „1"11 Silent Family; another bill, "R. Brett, b7A and biscuit-baker, 55, Fleet-street ;" another, tso true Friend in need," appearing to be a relative to a friendly benefit society at Mr. Jones "► Backchurch-lane, Whitechapel ; and part of another bill, relating to another benefit society, at Mr.Bowers_t Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell. After the clothe' had been removed, witness examined the body' there were no marks of violence; the hsandkerchie by which the body was suspended were figured cotton; Upon the black neckerchief the letters " WThSsr" were marked in white silk. On his shirt COd ID the letter " R." was marked in red cotton. "io five feet three inches in height, and was a strange!. 0 witness. The body was not identified, and being 111 high state of decomposition, was obliged to be burled directly after the inquest. The jury returned an O.Pe,, verdict, to the effect that deceased was found hanging —Hertford Reformer.  MR. HUSKISSON'S b