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The Sun. — 1859-03-24 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A L UNATIC IN AN MUFTI HOUSE.  Yesterday an investigation took place in the board-room of the Strand Union, Bow-street, before Mr. Bedford, on the body of a man named William Death, aged 40, whose body was discovered in a complete state of nudity, under the following circumstances :  Mr. Newell, landlord of the Ship Tavern, Hanover-court, Long-acre, said he had known the deceased for about six months as a customer, but had, from his very eccentric manner, considered him deranged. Francis Boston, No. 6, Hart-street, Coventgarden, said deceased came on the Thursday night, about ten o'clock, and he shaved him ' • but on account of the lateness of the hour he refused the request of deceased to dress his hair. The deceased left his shop, muttering to himself that " Now he had £l,OOO he should open a public-house ; but he must first have a candle to see to dress himself." William Adkinson, beadle at the Piazza, Coventgarden,. then stated that he had for some time known the deceased, but had latterly considered him of very weak intellect. On Friday night he (witness) dreamed that deceased had committed suicide by hanging himselfin the house in White Hartstreet. On the following day (Saturday) he became so uneasy that he determined to visit deceased, for the dream made a deep impression on him. He first, however, went to Mr. Robins's room, and told the porter there, who consented to accompany him. On entering the house No. 3, White Hartstreet, they called to deceased, but on receiving no answer proceeded to the front room on the first floor, and on entering were horrified to see the deceased lying on his face in a corner of the room in a perfect state of nudity, and quite dead. Medical assistance was obtained without delay. The evidence of Mr. Paynter, surgeon, showed that after a careful and minute post mortem examination he came to the conclusion that deceased had died from apoplexy. On lookinc, at deceased he found that his face was quite disfigured or flattened from lying on it. He considered deceased must have been dead about two days. It further appeared that the deceased had £6O deposited in a savings bank, which, from remarks he had made, he intended to keep, so that he should be entitled to vote if the new Reform Bill became law.  The Coroner, in summing up, remarked that the case was one of the most extraordinary ever brought under his notice, but had most satisfactorily in all particulars been made quite clear. The Jury, after a short interval, returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. The inquiry then terminated.  The Bishop of London was elected a Governor of the Charter-house, in the room of the late Earl of Ripon, on Tuesday last. Another vacancy has occurred among the Governors of that foundation by the demise of the Earl
The Sun. — 1859-03-24 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A LUNATIC IN AN EMPTY HOUSE. •  Yesterday an investigation took place in the board-room of the Strand Union, Bow-street, before Mr. Bedford, on the body of a man named William Death, aged 40, whose body was discovered in a complete state of nudity, under the following circumstances :  Mr. Newell, landlord of the Ship Tavern, Hanover-court, Long-acre, said he had known the deceased for about six months as a customer, but had, from his very eccentric manner, considered him deranged. Francis Boston, No. 6, Hart-street, Coventgarden, said deceased came on the Thursday night, about ten o'clock, and he shaved him ; but on account of the lateness of the hour he refused the request of deceased to dress his hair. The deceased left his shop, muttering to himself that " Now he had £l,OOO he should open a public-house ; but he must first have a candle to see to dress himself."  William Adkinson, beadle at the Piazza, Coventgarden, then stated that he had for some time known the deceased, but had latterly considered him of very weak intellect. On Friday night he (witness) dreamed that deceased had committed suicide by hanging himself in the house in White Hartstreet. On the following day (Saturday) he became so uneasy that he determined to visit deceased, for the dream made a deep impression on him. He first, however, went to Mr. Robins's room, and told the porter there, who consented to accompany him. On entering the house No. 3, White Hartstreet, they called to deceased, but on receiving no answer proceeded to the front room on the first floor, and on entering were horrified to see the deceased lying on his face in a corner of the room in a perfect state of nudity, and quite dead. Medical assistance was obtained without delay.  The evidence of Mr. Paynter, surgeon, showed that after a careful and minute post mortem examination he came to the conclusion that deceased had died from apoplexy. On looking at deceased he found that his face was quite disfigured or flattened from lying on it. He considered deceased must have been dead about two days. It further appeared that the deceased had £6O deposited in a savings bank, which, from remarks he had made, he intended to keep, so that he should be entitled to vote if the new Reform Bill became law.  The Coroner, in summing up, remarked that the case was one of the most extraordinary ever brought under his notice, but had most satisfactorily in all particulars been made quite clear. The Jury, after a short interval, returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. The inquiry then terminated.  The Bishop of London was elected a Governor of the Charter-house, in the room of the late Earl of Ripon, on Tuesday last. Another vacancy has occurred among the Governors of that foundation by the demise of the Earl of Devon.
The Sun. — 1859-12-28 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY AN ABSCONDING CLERK. —On Monday a young man, named John Ferguson, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself on board the ship Empire of Petwe, at Liverpool. It appears that ho was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. W . Holmes Brothers, of Manchester, and had absconded on Friday last with £370 belonging to his employers. He was traced to the abovenamedwthaes vesselgoing as a second-class Monday, whenpathsseungfoeurnd. vessel, which was hound for Australia, whither ho yolencgr smv visited t ei in Tthweo bed ; on being told to get up and dress himself he raised himself slightly in the bed, and , without even disturbing the bed-clothes, raised a loaded pistol and shot himself through the left side, the ball penetrating the lowerrib.lie was promptly removed to the Southern Hospital, where the ball was extracted, but faint hopes are entertained of his , recovery.  also perished, and the total loss cannot be estimated at less than two millions of piastres."  A Wiesbaden letter says :—" In spite of all the reports that have been spread about, I am able to assert positively that the Government of Nassau has not concluded a concordat with Rome, and has no intention of doing so. Besides, by our public law, such a convention could only be made with the reserve of the states giving their approval."  The &bad Dnew-nck, states that the pacha of the fortress of Belgrade has ceased his relations with the Servian Oovernment. The pacha had demanded the extradition of a Turkish subject, which was refused by the Government of Servia, and that circumstance caused the relations between them to be broken off. The Servian Minister of Foreign Affairs has addressed a memorial on the subject to all the foreign consuls resident at Belgrade.  " A new era," says the Independance of Brussels, "is about to dawn upon the Sews in Austria. If the information transmitted to us by our correspondent at Vienna is correct, the Austrian Cabinet after much discussion, has decided at a late sitting, under the presidence of the Emperor, that the sews shall henceforth be authorised to purchase real estates in any part of the empire except Gallicia. To entitled to this new immunity, a man must be able to read and write."
The Sun. — 1859-07-01 (London, England)

ADEL-MI-TERRACE, STRAND, in excellent condition, and beautifully situated. hub ound floor and drawing-rooms may be adapted for a pc company, or other purposes. They may be viewed on. application to the houseIceeper, resident. For further particulars apply to Mr. Thos. Jennings Ford, Esq., 8, Pinner's-hall, Old Broad-street, City.  SUICIDE OF TWO LOVERSI  Within the past few days the little watering-place of Aldborough, on the Yorkshire coast, has been shocked by a painful event. It seems that some time ago a young woman, whose maiden name was Ann Elizabeth Johnson, 17 or 18 years of age, a native of Burton Pidsea, but who passed in Aldborough by the name of Sutton, came to the south of England to nurse her aunt, who was the second wife of Mr. Tomlinson. While so engaged an attachment sprung up between her and her aunt's step-son, a youth about the same age. Some friends of the youth had attempted to persuade him that his connection with the young woman would never bring happiness to either of them, but the acquaintance was kept up. On Friday evening last both of them were seen together. Between eight and nine o'clock they passed the shop of Mr. Thompson, grocer, and the girl bought half an ounce of tobacco, while Tomlinson remained outside. From thence they proceeded a little way to the north of the village of Aldborough. Somewhere about halfpast nine o'clock the foreman at a farm-house saw them, and we believe between eleven and twelve the farmer himself was disturbed by the loud barking of his dogs, as though some persons were loitering about. However, nothing more was heard of them. On Saturday morning, as an old man named Nightingale was proceeding to the sea-side to follow his avocation of getting gravel and cobbles, his attention was arrested by finding sundry articles of female apparel laid-on the sand, out of reach of the tide, and nearly opposite what is called Raime's pasture. These articles included a mantle, a couple of skirts, and a crinoline. His suspicions were at once aroused, and on looking about he saw to his horror the bodies of two persons in the water, about 100 yards distant. They were being dashed about by the tide, in what is locally called the " Group," that is to say, between the two sand-banks occasioned by the action of the sea. Unable to remove them he went for assistance, and then the bodies were drawn to land, and proved to be the two young people of whom we have been speaking. Their resolution to die together was proved by the circumstance that they were tied together by the neck, the handkerchief which united them being twice round the throat of the girl. They had been dead some hours. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned."—.Eastern Counties Herald.
The Sun. — 1859-07-01 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF TWO LOVERS.!  Within the past few days the little watering-place of Aldborough, on the Yorkshire coast, has been shocked by a painful event. It seems that some time ago a young woman, whose maiden name was Ann Elizabeth Johnson, 17 or 18 years of age, a native of Burton Pidsea, but who passed in Aldborough by the name of Sutton, came to the south of England to nurse her aunt, who was the second wife of Mr. Tomlinson. While so engaged an attachment sprung up between her and her aunt's step-son, a youth about the same age. Some friends of the youth had attempted to persuade him that his connection with the young woman would never bring happiness to either of them, but the acquaintance was kept up. On Friday evening last both of them were seen together. Between eight and nine o‘clock they passed the shop of Mr. Thompson, grocer, and the girl bought half an ounce of tobacco, while Tomlinson remained outside. From thence they proceeded a little way to the north of the village of Aldborough. Somewhere about halfpast nine o'clock the foreman at a farm-house saw them, and we believe between eleven and twelve the farmer himself was disturbed by the loud barking of his dogs, as though some persons were loitering about. However, nothing more was heard of them. On Saturday morning, as an old man named. Nightingale was proceeding to the sea-side to follow his avocation of getting gravel and cobbles, his attention was arrested by finding sundry articles of female apparel laid on the sand, out of reach of the tide, and nearly opposite what is called Raime's pasture. These articles included a mantle, a couple of skirts, and a crinoline.. His suspicions were at once aroused, and on looking about he saw to his horror the bodies of two persons in the water, about 100 yards distant. They were being dashed about by the tide, in what is locally called the " Group," that is to say, between the two sand-banks occasioned by the action of the sea. Unable to remove them he went for assistance, and then the bodies were drawn to land, and proved to be the two young people of whom we have been speaking. Their resolution to die together was proved by the circumstance that they were tied together by the neck, the handkerchief which united them being twice round the throat of the girl. They had been dead some hours. At the inquest the jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned."—Eastern Counties Herald.
The Sun. — 1859-05-14 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR.—It is with extreme regret we have to notice the death, by suicide, of Mr. William Hadley, son of Mrs. Hadley, of Queen's-buildings, and proprietor of the Cheltenham Journal. The melancholy occurrence took place on Saturday night, at about half-past ten o'clock, in a bedroom attached to that in which deceased had been in the habit of sleeping, where he was found by his distressed and horror-stricken mother suspended by a cord from the bed rail. The unfortunate deceased had an inveterate drinking propensity, which he indulged at frequent intervals, to the neglect of business and the discomfiture of his friends. These habits ofintemperance had been induced primarily by trouble of a domestic nature, and at different periods during the past a twelve months remarkable change had been noticed in the deceased. He had become subject to continual depression, generr.l lowness of spirits, and taciturnity.—Cheltenham Eramtiler.  ijA;,lOEuNn gßi rLLE 1 9C yAeSaEr s Ao fT age, gile R nI Ga ml eTdO Sara.—. r—a hOsrim t hr dwaa sy charged before the magistrates 'with stealing oz. of tea, the property of Aldborough Phillips. It appears the prilasta soncr had been living as domestic servant with the prosecutor for the last four or five weeks, and that on Friday morning, about half-past eight, he had occasion to leave his parlour to go and see his wife, who was ill upstairs. On his return he found that a quantity of tva had been taken out of the tea-caddy whicji stood on the sideboard. He at once taxed the girl with having taken it, which she denied; but on her pockets being turned out some tea was found wrapped in a piece of paper. She then confessed to having taken the tea, but denied .having ever stolen two and ahalf pounds of butter, of which her master also accused her. She had only 2s. a-week wages, and had taken the tea for her own use. The magistrate regretted very much that Mr. Phillips had thought proper to proceed to such severe measures with the poor girl, whose character must be forfeited. They, however, inflicted the lightest punishment the law permitted—one week's imprisonment,—West Sussex Gazette.
The Sun. — 1859-12-14 (London, England)

INTERESTING TO BRIDESMAIDS.—The following rather singular project has just been presented to the Chamber of Nobles of the Swedish Diet. Baron Creutz proposed that from the age of 15, young girls should be allowed to answer of their own accord, yes or no, to any suitor for their hand. M. Montgomery opposed the project, declaring that at the age of 15, love, though strong, was too blind, and that the age of 25 was indispensable to be able to see clearly on so important a question. Baron Alstroemer treated such an objection as madness, and proposed to the Chaniber to decide who was in the right—Baron Creutz or the Apostle Paul. The baron replied that the words of the apostle applied to paternal authority, which was very severe among the'Jews and andcould not now be invoked when inanners and customs had so changed. Baron Alstroemer said that if the Chamber were to adopt the project Mormonism would the Romans become general. Baron Creutz replied warmly that it was ridiculous to talk of Mormonism, that this project was a serious one, and calculated to have a salutary effect on manners and ideas. The project was referred to a committee. FRIGHTFUL SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning a frightful suicide occurred on Wandsworth-common. It appeared between four and five o'clock police-constable Chapman, of the V division, was walking upon his beat on Wandsworth-common, when his attention was drawn to the body of a respectable-looking man lying at full length upon the ground. He at first supposed that the man was asleep or intoxicated, but upon moving the body he was horrified at seeing a frightful gash on the left side of the throat, and a razor in the right hand. He immediately raised an alarm, and Dr. Connor was 80011 on the spot, and pronounced life to be quite extinct, although the body was warm. Upon searching the clothes of the unfortunate man, the following letter was found written in pencil : omy poor, dear wife,—Whcn you receive this I shall be lost to you for ever. It is far better that I should go before all is gone. I want to write a long letter, but my hand shakes so much I cannot. May God bless you and make you happy. Pray for me, pity me, and try to forgive me. Good by. You poor lost husband, Charles Bowerman." The letter was addressed to Mrs. Bowerman, 16, Bouveriestreet, B.C. ,The body of deceased was removed to the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse, to wait an inquest. The son of Mr. Wright, a builder, of Battersea Rise, subsequently identified the deceased as his uncle. It also appeared that the deceased was unfortunately, addicted to drinking, but had been a teetotaller for some time, and latterly had broken out again into his old way. It is supposed that he came down to Wandsworth by a late train, and wandered about the common until he committed the dreadful act of suicide. He was about 46 years of age.
The Sun. — 1859-12-14 (London, England)

INTERESTING TO BRIDESMAIDS.—The following rather singular project has just been presented to the Chamber of Nobles of the Swedish Diet. Baron Creutz proposed that from the age of 15, young girls should bo allowed to answer of their own accord, yes or no, to any suitor for their love, though strong, was too blind, and that hand. M. Montgomery opposed the project, declaring that 02t.5 wasls indispensable to be able to see clearly on so atth th important a question. Baron Alstroemer treated such an objection as madness, and proposed to the Chamber to decide the age age of who was in the right—Baron Creutz or the Apostle Paul. The baron replied that the words of the apostle applied to paternal authority, which was very severe among the:Jews and the Romans, and could not now be invoked when manners and customs had so changed. Byron Alstroemer said that if the Chamber were to adopt the project Mormonism would become general. Baron Creutz replied warmly that it was ridiculous to talk of Mormonism, that this project was a serious one, and calculated to have a salutary effect on manners and ideas. The project was referred to a committee. FRIGHTFUL SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning a frightful suicide occurred on Wandsworth-common. It appeared between four and five o'clock police-constable Chapman, of the V division, was walking upon his beat on Wandsworth-common, when his attention was drawn to the body of a respectable-looking man lying at full length upon the ground. Ho at first supposed that the man was asleep or intoxicated, but upon moving the body he was horrified at seeing a frightful gash on the left side of the throat, and a razor in the right hand. He immediately raised an alarm, and Dr. Connor was soon on the spot, and pronounced life to be quite extinct, although the body was warm. Upon searching the clothes of the unfortunate man, the following letter was found written in pencil:— cc My poor, dear wife,—When you receive this I shall be lost to you for ever. It is far better that I should go before all is gone. I want to write a long letter but my hand shakos so much I cannot. May God bless you and make you happy. Pray for me, pity me, and try to forgive me. Good by. You poor lost husband, Charles Bowerman." The letter was addressed to Mrs. Boworman, 16, Bouveriestreet, B.C. 'The body of deceased was removed to the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse, to wait an inquest. The son of Mr. Wright, a builder, of Battersea Rise, subsequently identified the deceased as his uncle. It also appeared that the deceased was unfortunately addicted to drinking, but had been a teetotaller for some time, and latterly had broken out again into his old way, It is „p. posed that ho came down to Wandsworth by a late train, and wandered about the common until he committed the dreadful act of suicide. He was about 45 years of age.
The Sun. — 1859-08-22 (London, England)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE. •  Last Saturday night an investigation took place before Mr. Langham, deputy-coroner for Westminster, at the Board Room of the Workhouse, St. George's, Hanover-square, on view of the body of the unknown woman who was found floating on the Serpentine on Wednesday eveninglast, and removed while still breathing to the Receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, where she died from the effects of drowning at 10 o'clock the following morning. The body of the deceased has since been identified by her relations as Emma Williams, a seamstress, 20 years of age, in theemployment of a Mrs. Roland, 68, Great Titchfield-street, Marvlebone. As it appeared from the evidence of various witnesses, the case was an extremely melancholy one, and a married sister, who was present at the inquiry, suffered great distress of mind, and frequently burst into paroxysms of grief. The deceased was an orphan, of a naturally cheerful disposition, steady, and respectable; but, as her relations were poor, she was compelld to get her livving as a seamstress, and toiled constantly at her needle from 12 to 10 hours daily with her late cm...  ployer for the past five years. She earned, upon an e,ekl,vfirthomwwhheimch she ipne-law, aww' ahNs'edratgee,pfarvomhelrOs.bit.oetlh2esr.boarded and lodged at 30, University-street, 75. per week. Recently she complained very much of her eyes, and occasionally had been somewhat depressed in spirits in consequence of their weakness, and at times told her sister that if they should fail her, as she feared they would, she could not tell what she should do for a living, as she then would be prevented from following her occupation, and had no one in the wide world to depend upon, and, according to the statement of her sister, she worked very hard to keep herself respectable. About an hour and a half previous to the time she was found in the Serpentine she left her work in her usual good health and spirits, and about three minutes before the supposed rash act she was seen by a young man named Bollinot, walking rapidly across the bridge of the Serpentine from the direction of Kensington. It was very dark and foggy at the time, and in consequence he lost sight of her almost immediately she passed him, but believed she jumped into the river from one of the bridge parapets, as his attention and that of others near the scene was fire t attracted by a loud splash. Verdict, "Deceased died from the effects of drowning, but how she got into the water there NV 0,3 not sufficient evidence to show."  ..