The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-06-27 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT RIPON.  On Monday Mr Charles Husband, Coroner for the Liberty of Ripon, held an inquest on the body of Mr Christopher Liokley, aged 45,0 f the Market-place, Ripon, hairdresser, who committed suicide in a most determined manner by cutting his throat with a 111.70 r On Saturday ni,.Tht. From the evidenoe of the deceased's wife, Elizabeth Lickley, it appears that the deceased had been , very strange in his manner for several days past, and when spoken to did not reply until he had been asked several times. On Thursday morning between two and three o'clock he got out of bed and pulled the window blinds aside and looked out of the window. Witness asked what he was doing, and he replied that two policemen were looking in at the window. She said it was nonsense, and the deceased therefore got into bed ; but spent the remainder of the night ery restlessly. The deceased had never threatened to take his life. Nothing particular occured on Thursday and Friday; but on Saturday morning Mr Aso:nigh (Mr. Mason's clerk) went into the shop, and deceased said, " I suppose they are going to turn sue out. Mr Mason is going to let Mr Harrison (a hairdresser) have my house." Mr Aseough replied that it was all nonsense, no such thing was going to happen. On the Saturday night the deceased had finished shaving a man called Pattison, of Bondgate, when he said to his wile, who was in the shop, he would go and feed the birds, which he kept in the attie of the house, before he began to be busy. It was the deceased's custom to feed the birds every night; but remaining up stairs rather longer than usual, Mrs Lickley called to him. Receiving no answer, she went up stairs, the door of the attic was open, and she found her husband lying on the neer covered with blood. Sergeant Thistlethwaite, who was on duty in the square, was called, and he found the deceased laid in a reclining position on a box against the wall in the attic. He was covered with blood, and there was also a large quantity of blood on the floor. He examined the deceased, and found he was quite dead. He had a razor clasped in his right hand, and his throat had been cut from ear to ear. The razor was not very sharp. He also found a piece of paper on a table in the room with the following words on :—" Mr Mason (Lord Ripon's agent), do your best. I can give all good-bye. I leave all to you, 'Elizabeth. Get Lord Ripon, Mr Mason, to ask Edwin (the deceased's eldest son) to have house to support you." There was no signature to the note, but Mrs Lickley identified the writing as that of her husband. Alta ough the deceased had been in a very queer way, he had carried on his busiucas and had not been attended by • medical man. Dr Collier was called in to see the deceased by Sergeant Thistlethwaiie.—After • short delleration the jury returned a verdict to the efeet that the deceased committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.  HEALTH, STRENGTH, FRESHNESS OF COMmu:lox, and Clearness of Vision all result from the use of Brandreth's Pills. They purify the blood, cleanse the liver, and invigorate the whole system, There is no remedy of today that can approach them cc true excellence of quality. Ask for Brandreth's Sugar-coated Pit* forty in each box. Local Agent, Mr Walter Willson, Linthorpe-roadand Wilson-street, lifiddlesbrough.—Aorr. • • A