The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1892-11-05 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE LT THOMAS STREET.  On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held at the Borough Hotel, Borongh.road, before Mr. Henry Churton, district coroner, touching the death of Samuel Houghland, 42, Thomas-street, The wife of deceased, Elizabeth Houghland, said her husband was a boiler cleaner in constant work, but be was always drinking. He came home from his work on Tuesday evening with a " little " drink In him. He had been working for twelve months, but he only gave her out of his earnings just what he liked and kept the rest for himself. He came Lome on Tuesday about a quarter-past five. She gave him his tea, and afterwards he was going out, but she begged him not to do as she was afraid of his taking more drink. He got vexed with her, struck at her, and ran bee out of the room threatening to murder her. She ran out because she was afraid of her life. He had stabbed her with. a knife in the stomach about a fortnight before, and she was then under the dootor'a hands through Lim. She always had to leave the house when he was in drink. On Monday night he had out down the clothes line in the back yard and threatened to hang himself with it. She had not left her husband alone more than ten minutes, before a young man named James Gough, who had apartments in the same house, came and told her that her husband had hung himself. She did not go up to their room at once; there were so many people about. They bad four children, the eldest of whom was turned twelve years of age, In reply to the Coroner, the witness said she believed her husband made a practice of slipping away from his work and getting drunk. James Gough was next called. He stated that he had apartments in the same house as the deceased; they had been reared together and he knew him well. On Tuesday at one o'clock, witness SEW him last alive, and he was the worse for drink then. About half-past eight in the evening a little son of the deceased's came into witnesse's room and said, "Oh Mr. &ugh, my father is hanging on the wall." Witness ran upstairs, and found him hanging with a blue handkerchiof round his neck suepended on the wall. He held up the body to take the weight off the neck and got the boy to hand him a knife and then cut Lim down. He had stood on the box to hang himself, and then had kicked the box away. He was quite dead. In reply to the Coroner, witness said the wife was a steady sober woman. They used to quarrel every Friday when he got his money. He used to get beer "on tick" at a public-house.  The Coroner said ifKthe deceased had been a sober steady man he might bays been living then, and might have lived for years and years and attended to the requirements of his family and brought them up respectably and well. Instead of that he had given way to drink, and was always more or less under the inflaenee of drink. In a flt of temporary insanity he had cointo‘tted suicide. _ _  .•••••• ••••••....• The jury returned a verdict to the effeot that deceased had committed suicide whilst temporarily insane.  FOULKES' TOILET AND NUNNERY POWDRlL—lmpalpable cud Delicately Perfumed, possessing the Emollient properties of Fuller's Ruth. Entirely void of colour and inc high state of parity. In boxes at 6d and le. Foulkes' Cement for Broken Articles will unite any material from Glass and Leather to Wood andiron, and the articles joined bear wuhing in boil lug water. In bottles at 6d. and le.—W. J. Foulkes, Family and Dispensing Chemist, 19 and 21, Grange Mount, Birkenhead. Cams nouns always on hand at MOderefe L pkgs.—Ape/ Smith's lianary, Olatightm  iM6I