The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1886-07-17 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

TRAGIC SUICIDE OF A COVENTRY YOUTH AT SHEFFIELD.  A ebocking cane of euicide moored a: Highfield Sheffield, on Friday morning, the parsers who committed the raah act breng W.111.c Ife•d, be p.m of Mr. Thonous Mese. of Cheylaornore. Coventry. The South YoriciAire and North Pekes/err /Paine Neer., oc Saturday, gee.* the following deo*.le of the occurrence :—A young to.. named William limed *gel IS. cone to Sheffield about three reontoe rig,. and ies b-en engagad by his brother, It,. .1. H. Mead. watch utol clogk neeker, of 139. L edoneuad, H gbfirld. Mr. Stead has bad occareion to remonetrate with him about hi• habit., and thrertened to 'eel him back to Coventry unless he reformed. liewtertlay morn. log W.lhceo Meet canoe down to breakfast as rimed, but it-teat of commeneing work he turned round •nd risk- d he hrother if h- vow b,go beck to Coventry. Mr. libel replied that there would be no seed to need him home It be behaved himself properly. After breakf srt thr young to.. weet netnews, and • odium vow beurd os though he I wow rummaging in hi. bor. He lid n come down again, and on Mr.. Mead golng up • belle later. she heard • tote-tot A mock ' being etrnek. Mr. Mean bet-offing 001-7 C, her unetaim cod went jet, hie /ern beltoom, ; where. bke moat other j-weller., he kept a revolver. It bad been taken away. and wt.i'm Amer-hive for the revolver, he wee startled by a report from the adjoirong room, and trwhing out l easy his brother tel to the Boor mortally wounded. The revoker he me-t have fetched out of Lis brother'. room and taken into hes own. Ha bad I evidently directed the r, volver to hie been, bet miming he aim the bullet bed peered underne.th. in the region of the rromach. The eufferer Sedated great agony. rant intern al hermorrhoge .et in. Dr. Ilale.Jamee vow epeedily in attendance, but it Yea. found imporible to extract the bullet and the youag toot, hog- red on through the eight in intenee agony and died thit rnoin•ng Est nine n'elor,k. He nra. coomeiour up to the thoment of he death. Irecee•ed'e fob., *as tel.-graphed 1,., yeeteoley direct'y after the occurrence, ant arrived in Sheffield in the aft...noon. Hi* mot- re cv expected to arcive t hi. !morning. A-fled why he attempted to Jade-7 ham-elf the onfortnaate young rose admitted that he dui nor knew • het led him to do it. Hes fdend• esy he bei never been quite right eine, hW return frdm Aretrea, and it in believed he committed the aet under enrichers impel., sirh,ch rendered It to sreoponsible for he action at the ties-. Dr. lese...latnee viai•ed hip patient several time. dorm, tho• bight, but from the fret no hope. were entertninel of hI -• • •• • .  - , An inineet arse held on Monday morning be tha coroner. Mr. Donee, W.vhonae. at the 0 orn Inn, liagh-61d.. on the her vol ,v. 1 H.ron Mead, aged 17. whe died on Saturday morn.nw effeere of • bullet wound. Joeeph Hines. Mend said the deesoed eras Ise brother, and hart tee, 'II bin Atop Since Starch let. On Thuraday ntdht he halt, rernonstrate with Ism nbout Ise work, and about the bad boor, he kept. end threaten. d to send hint laime to Covent  ..try. The deceased hal Ste meats at hi. (switneys..) house hut ledgci arch • Mrs. Green in Randall... Deer. It.. came I, he work as u•uat soon after sewen o'clock on Friday nierninc. When witness came ilownstaas he was in the beckyrint. He cam- thringh the houee ant went out into thr street, returning about • quarter to nine He then stilted vs-lather he was to stay or go borne. %Vinyls. replied that ho duf not si-h to rend hitn home, bathes ould hare to iy mine attention to his work if he -.rayed Occea.of then treat et-claim and, a. he teemed .trance in his he l.itne.) f.A,owe I h to. w.....• ton htm to come down se 'here wee some work in the shop which wanted finishing. aa he did not come down, Is itneeeki wife sent nretalr. to try to pereuade bin. He orient! her out of the room, saying he woula come (own directly. Warty... then be, to get uneasy and went to his own tearoom to ore if the revolver was in it. umal place, under the bed. At he could not dna it he was procenaing to his beet her's room, when he heard the report of revolt, r the d-ceasea tall to the ground. He at nit,., .eint for Dr. Dale Jame., who attended the unfortun•te yang Men until hie tleath. For scene time pet deoesisea had behaved in a very strange to snner, and had been very more. and ;alien lie twitnectil could not owierstand how his broth- r got ta kiwis w,ere the revolver was kept. In his °Omen deseased'e mind bitt been unhinged ever -ince he returned from America, about two yea, aeo. Thomas Mead. Coventry, the father of the a•cemsei, said he last saw hi. sion alive at Ii i.e.,. He was then in very good health and soh it.. Ile had never known the deceased Ott-eaten to commit suicide. but, from hi. ttttt ice manner. he boa es, r dared to reprove hiin for any I tilt, leet he shonl-1 be es. When he arririd from Coventre on Friday afternoon, deceased wee alive and eanseiou.. He asked him why he hail shit him-tat, sna St replied —I don't know." The first witins.. reesalia.sayl, in reply to the Coroner, that hi. revolver had been brought from Coventry by another brother. Ti. ievolver belonging to the deice wed u-ed to Ise about the phop, and we. ',ever 'malted. The deco...eel shot himself with hi. to anced revalvcr. One 01 .hit yory ale, who lir, he aecesecl. said that Cr.ome week- he hal noti,.l how %,ry titian, Ito was in his manner. and lie wss sot at all eurprised to hear of the suicide. The jury retnrued a verdict that "Use deceased committed suicide whilst in • *tete of temporary to... Atty."  Pttle.—Weery oflel, —Derangement of the liver ie owe of the meet eareent een-e• of dangeroto dimame. arJ the moot profile eon.e* of them melancholy forebedinga sinch are wore@ 1f,.. death haat,. A few 1106011 of hetes noted Title act megteally io dirrePlog low rpirita, end repelling Die cove, t attacks read* on the nerwee by ...come re heat,mnpure tomphere, orerondal nonce. Or elthanatime excitement. The meet shattered oonstilithon maw derive benefit from Holloway'.