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The Express. — 1860-12-08 (London, England)

SUICIDE BY A SOLDIER.  Mr. Bedford, the Weetmineter coroner, held a long investigation at the Fusilier Gossiis' Hospital, VauxEellbriage-rosd, yesterday, respecting the circumstances connected with the death of William Thompson, aged 23, a private in the Boots Fusilier (,Danis, who corumittad suicide by cutting his thrust with • mar, under the following  Peter MCracken, a private in the above regiment, de• posed that be had known the deceased for upwards of three years. He was a private in the mom regiment. The deceased had been in the. Bengal Army. and prised through the whole of the mutiny ea India, and on his return home joined the Fusilier Guards. On the Ist init. the deceased was brought to the hospital, suffering from a wound he had inflicted with a razor in the abdomen, for the purpose of destroying life. He was strictly watched, and was not allowed to have his razor. He became much better in a abort time, and on Tuesday last we, about to be dia• charged. About one o'clock in the afternoon he was supplied with kis kit, which, amongst other thing], included . his ranee • bat before keying the hospital the deceased went to the closet, and after a considerable time bed elapsed be did not return, and on a soldier going to the closet he dia. covered the unfortunate man on his knees weltering in blood, with a frightful gash in his throat. In the pan of the closet was a large quantity of blood, in which the razor with which he bed infheted the wound was found.. .  Mr. John Ashton, surgeonmajor of the regiment, said the deceased was brought in on the lst Mat., and was placed for the ant two or three days in a room by himself, and strictly watched. The dammed bad Leen infoi.ned that he would receive his discharge. He bed been very much de. pressed in his spirits. The deceased eeme few years ago attempted his life by cutting his throat, of which a mark still remained. He ww the deceased after be had committed suici.le to examine the wound, which was about four inches in length and very deep on the right aide of the throat. The deceased bore • most excellent character, which he had sus. Maned throughout his services in hada. Some further evidence wu adduced, tending to show that the deceased had for some time been in • depressed and melancholy state, sod it was believed his niiud was some. what deranged et Cum. The Coroner having summed up, pointing out the dread. ful end of a man who had served his country so well. the jury returaed a verdict, "That the deassuid ooeuruitted suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity."  THe DOILB or
The Express. — 1860-06-28 (London, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER OP A FEMALE IN OXFORD STREET.  This forenoon considerable excitement prevailed in Oxford-street, near Soho-squa►e, in consequence of the discovery that a female had been found at No. 376, Oxford. street, in a room at the top of the house, with Ler head off, and who is believed to be the female who wasalluded to in the letter which was discovered on the foreigner who committed suicide the previous day. Brown, D 128, who raw the man in Hyde-park, went to the above house, which is in the oeeapation of Mr. De Bola, retailer of ginger-beer, kc., and inquired if he had a female lodger in the house. Mr. De Bola said he had. The constable, accompanied by him. proceeded up to the room in which he said she re. sided along with a man. The door was locked, but was forced open with a poker, when the unfortunate female was found lying on the door, having had her head separated from the body. This (the bead) was found in a cupboardandsomeof her limbs were observed to have been cut, as if with a saw. Inspector Coombe. afterwiads arrived, upon which a medical gentlemap was sent for, who stated that life had been extinct some time. Upon making inquiries of Mr. De Bola IA to his knowledge of his tenants, he said that they had been in his house only about a week, and that be had not seen anything of either the man or the women since Saturday. Mr. Coombe, upon leaving the room, which was in a frightful state from the vast quantity of blood upon the door of it, fastened the door, upon which he pat a seal, and took the key of it away with him. He also communicated the circumstances of the horrible transaction to Mr. Bedford, the coroner.
The Express. — 1860-10-01 (London, England)

SUICIDE—On Thoraday evening a gentleman entered the coffee-room of Thomas's Hotel, Piccadilly, and, having ordered dinner, partook of it. About sag o'clock he left the table abruptly, leaving untested a pint of stout he had just ordered, and proceeded to the bedroom he had engaged on the second floor. About two hours before, while dressing in the rune room, he inquired of the chambermaid the means of escape in the event of a are in the hones, of which he had great dread. He told her that being, some years ago, staying there, he bed • fearful dream of • Are terns, and under its imas's°, he had been compelled to leave hie bed, and effect his escape by the window into the street, and that he bad one thigh over the sill of the window, when he providentially smote and found his alat.n groundless. On waking in the incening he found the window opened as he hail left it. Re remarked, in conclusion, I doe% know whether I shill sleep in this house or not. That shall wake no differ. mos to you ; you shall have your fee," and he gave her a shilling. On Friday morning, ea he did not make his sp. trr, no answer could be obtained to calla, the dear i rrked, the police were sent for, and on the door being forced the unfortunate gentleman was found lying on the floor with a razor tightly clenched in his right band, end his bead nearly severed from his body. On animists, deceased's ciathiiir it was found to contain a stress* 'nature of soiled socks, betel nuts, half-smoked eigars, cigar-cages, and the two following memoranda : " Memorandum : If I should be timed dead either from a legy cie epilepsy, end word to my brother, the Rev. R. Woodiest nest Dies, Norfolk." " I'm insured fur 140001 mar *kr dated Ine-t." in his pockets were found 801. is bask noun, and nearly Ma in silver sad copper. The friends of the demised gentleman have been apprised of the event, and the limiest will be bald Web,.
The Express. — 1860-10-01 (London, England)

SUICIDE—A garter's apprentice, a tine young /MA, Of 96, named Arne, who loved hiSutore neither slaty ,or well, lately hung himself in his maser's house, in Paris. Users his table, amidst • harp of books, was focal the following letter, the y el which was not on a par with the style :-"I am t a grocer and shall never be anything else. I always think of that cariallure representing • grams standing on the threshold of hill door, and making this rellectios-' Born to be a max and saileinual to (arrows armee' He who thus judged our mlliug was in the right. For many years I have tried to iceprose my naiad ; I have read, and even copied out, books which I dou't uudentand. All this muddles my bead, and I Mid that I become more and more stupid' every day. The longer I live the worse I shall be Now, I reniendis to have read somewhere that • man should apply his intelligence to be useful to humanity, mad as I see I shall never be at for anything but to weigh cheese and dried plems, I have made up my mind to go to another world which I have heard of, and see whether Nan may cot be a place for us there. I ask perdon of my brethren for spearing in this disparaging way of our commas profession ; but- 1 defy them to pout out • single inetanos of ' • groom liming ever made his way to • higher position. There are plenty of manufacturers who have become de/ puttee and aro deconitod and loaded with all ante of honours, out the like has never happened to a . For these, reasons I have determined to -hang m . I beg my pru.s.t, to erect a simple toinhatooe to my memory, and to inscribe upon it these wools, ' Born to be a man ; died • grainer.' " (Jaime' Boatfo.--General Boson, who has arrived is Pasis,haaaddresodthe following letter, dated Hotel de Bade, Boulevard der Italians, Sept. 27, to the Dubai. "Having been detained at Naples by a painful illness, I was preparing, an moo as I was able, ter rejoin the King my mamas at Gesso. My departure woe opposeal and it was sot need the 11th that I obtained my liberty sod minidisks to quit Naples, but on a priories, on my word of honour, not to serve for three months an his Mojesty's army. On my arrival yesterday is Paris I read in your journal • letter signed Bosco sad dated ('spas, 14th, sad extracted from the , KT0,441 Journal. I share in the sentiment, which are 1 thereM expired, sadism proud at having them attributed to me, but 1 did ERA write the letter in question.Accept. is:, Boma." Tut HMO or
The Express. — 1860-11-12 (London, England)

WILLIAMS.  We understand that a dividend of 4a. in the pound will shortly be paid to the creditors of Mr. K H. Strange, grocer, draper, and banker, of Ampthill, who failed about three months ego with liabilities amounting to 15,1201., and meets to 4,796/. The creditors, upwards of 300 in number. mostly reside at Ampthill, and are persona of small means.  In the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday there was a dividend sitting in the case of Messrs. Cnylitz and Simond, merchants, who failed about four years ago. Dividends to the amount of about 26. in the pound have been paid. The official now states that the sum in hand is too small to be susceptible of apportionment to each creditor. The liabilities of the firm, it will be remembered, were about 100,0001. Cuylits committed suicide, and Simoud's certificate was suspended for five years. The following letter from the Secretary of the Gellivara Company (Limited), dated Nov. 9, has been posted in the Stock Exchange : In reply to your letter of the Bth inst., referring to a certain report, namely, that " this company has obtained the long-expected concession from the King of Sweden," I am directed to inform you that the said report is premature. The preliminary steps, however, for procuring the necessary concessions, privileges, &c., have been taken, with every prospect of success, and immediately upon it being kaowa that they have been obtained I will communicate the fact to you. Au extraordinary meeting of the Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada is called for the 30th inst., to declare a dividend. An extraordinary meeting of the Thames Graving Dock Company (Limited) is called for the 16th inst., to authorise the directors to raise a sum of money on mortgage to pay off existing liabilities.  The interest is advertised on Cork and Youghal Railway bonds.  anima Evzstrio. Console, which closed yesterday at 93# to 11 for the 6th December, opened this morning at the same (potation, and improved late in the afternoon to Mt, " buyers," the closing price. For money the final quotation was 93} to t. The official business report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Console, for money, 931, # ; ditto for account (Dec. 6), 931 • Three per Cents. Reduced, 91#, ; New Three per Ceuta., 91}, ; Bank Stock,232 ; India Stock, 223} ; ditto Five per Cent stock, 1869, 104, g ; ditto Bowls, Bs. dia. Turkish Bonds remain firm. The Loan of 1854 closed at 71 to t, and that of 1858 at 57j to 58. Brazilian Four-and:a-Half per Cents. continue to meet with inquiry. The market for Spanish Bonds was strong. Mexican left off at 21# to 221. There was no variation worthy of notice to-day in the market for bank, land, steam, or miscellaneous shares. Great Ship shares remain quoted Ss. to Se. (3(1.  The shares of the Bank of Turkey, after touching A tlis., " buyers," closed at f to A die. The new shares of the Midland Railway Company were quoted to 11 prem.
The Express. — 1860-05-09 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—{great excitement has prevailed in the village of Latham and neighbourhood ro consequence of • woman named Anna Maria Fisch, the wife of a boatman of that place, having on Friday evening been found 1 under her bed, with her throat cut, and quite dead. The deceased had not lived on the best terms with her husband, who is addicted to drinking, and this fact, with the peculiar position in which the body was [mod, gave birth to the rumour that she had been murdered, and these rqporta prevailed in the village until, to the astonishment el all, the evidence was elicited on the inquest, in which the remarkable dramstances of the razor remaining in the throat sad hand of the woman were sworn to by the men who assisted ia removing the body, although she had leant over • vessel to bleed into. The 137 y rettirnel • verdict " That deceased destroyed herself cutting her throat with a razor while ma fit of insanity. —Bury Pod.  With reference to the silk market, the circular issued last evening by Messrs. Durant and Co. reports as follows : We have had another month of Leary chugging business in silk—the tardy development of the spring trade having added much to the depression of our manufacturers--end the deliveries of April were almost unprecedentedly small ' for late years. /a China silk the pressure upon the market for some days antecedent to the departure of the last overland mail was rAther severe, and prices gave way, but the mail despatched sad the more pressing sellers relieved =arrs have gradually improved- a little in feeling, at least, if not in fact, and there are now rather buyers than sellers at the prices of the lowest moment. It is yet early for the formation of any definite opinion sa to the awing European crop, bat the latest advioes do not hold out any Let/assauduine espeetations. In Bengal silk we have of mommt, some few sales have been made, bat nothing requkimi mmeeial eotioe. Italian sairocedinnes a dead letter --wens few bales have been returned to tisOontinentel markets. Is. Brutia and Persian silk waive :idra forced ale of a parcel of the latter at a Mullion t° la per lb. " As mar& the approaching European crops of  . silk," Mr. -M.-117.--Zaton's circular observes, " it is too early to expect anything decisive, though there are the usual conflicting reports, from which, however, the only real conclusion to be drawn is—that 'apt little or no damage has been done." The condition of the growing corn crops in the south of Russia is thus noticed in the advicia received from Odessa, under date April 27, by Messrs. Pietroni and Draper : The advice. width we continue to receive from our neighbourhood, and from the interior, respecting the growing corn, could not Le move satisfactory, and our farmers say they have not fur many years seen our crops present a more favourable app-nrence: We consequently hope to have at last au abuull.mt harvest, which in autumn should augment our stocks, for so lone a time insignificant, and which have been almost completely cleared out by the transactions in March, which amounted to about 223,000 chetwerts.
The Express. — 1860-08-24 (London, England)

DOCK ACCOMMODATION AT LIVERPOOL. The Mersey Dock Board at their meeting yesterday (Thursday) informed • firm who requested more dock accommodation for their fleet of steamers, that they could not accede to any such request till the great float was opened at Birkenhead next November, when they hoped to be able to arrange the general business of the docks, so as to give increased accom. modatio on the Liverpool side of the river. HONICIDI BY Immtuntscs.—A medical student sod a retired apothecary, named respectively Delorme and Bouctiamoat, were yesterday tried by the Tribunal of Coe. rectional Police, on the charge of homicide by imprudence. The circumstances of the case were somewhat singular. A young girl, It years of age, daughter of respectable parents, some time ago went astray, but after • while was seized with remorse, and resolved to commit suicide. In July last she called on • friend of her father's, and said, " I am wretched ! I cannot continue the degraded life I have been following for some time pot, and I will die I" The friend remonstrated, and, as he thought, succeeded in persuading her to abandon the intention of suicide. But • few days after she called on Delorme, with whom she had been intimate, and whilst conversing with him took up and tried to open • phial containing some arsenical substance. "Do not touch that," he cried, "It is poison." " Ah," cried she, with • strange smile, "I am sot afraid of poison." It would appear, from what transpired afterwards, that she contrived to secrete the phial, and then went away. Two days later the girl committed suicide, and it turned out that she had done so by means of the poison in question. The phial having been traced to Delorme, he was arrested, and to due coma brought to trial for his imprudence in having let the girl get hold of the poison, and Bouceurnont far supplying the poison to him, contriu7 to the regulation in for... The former, in his defence, sad that be really did Dot know Battle girl had taken the phis! ; awl the latter affirmed that as Ddorme was • student of four years' standing, be had thought there was Do harm in letting him have • poisonous substance, especially as he had required it to make experiments. But the tribunal condemned each to three months' imprisonment, and the latter, besides, to 501. Tun Popg's OWL —A letter from Rome of the 18th nays :—" A great part of the Irish battalion of St. Patrick has already embarked on its return to Ireland. This battalion has been so called by the ROOMS on account of the enormous sums that have been expended on bringing It to Boss and equipping it ; the will el St. Patrick is the Italian for the bucket of the Dodd's. This embarkation will sestabout 50,000 francs. Everybody ui glad of their departure; the disorders of this moop had become unheard* What they were is best learned from the butchamkakem, and tavern keenecs. Never paid, and often beats., the only reply they could get f rom them was • ap. ply to Antenelli :he will pay you.' One day de Mcro& presented Ishmael( at their barracks to address them ; but be ens ohlird to run for his life."
The Express. — 1860-12-11 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT EXETER.  On Sunday morning, as two men named Lee and Baker were walking down the road leading to the Exeter Baain, they saw a hemp of clothes on the ground near the Weighbridge, which, on inspection, proved to he the clothes of a man. They at once suspected that some one was drowned, and gave information to the police, and grapplinit irons were procured, and after a short search in the basin the body of a young man was taken out, and at once removed to the Buller's Arms ' Inn, St. Thomas, where it was recognised as the body of John Collings. Dr. Perkins was soon in attendance, but life was extinct. The unfortunate deceased had undressed himself, with the exception of his shirt and one stocking, and must have walked upwards of one hundred vards from where he had undressed to get into the water. h is supposed that be must have seen some one coming and did not wait to take a the rest of his clothing. Deceased was about thirty years of age, and formerly held a responsible situation in the firm of Messrs. Geare, Mountford, and Gears, solicitors, from which be was dismissed about two years since, and then went to London in soother situation, which, however, be did not long retain. Whilst in London, deceased's wife was compelled to leave him, and she, with her two children, returned to Exeter to her friends, and in a few months after the unfortunate de. ceased returned also, and then procured a situation in Cornwall, where he remained about one month, and again returned to Exeter. After a considerable time, the unfortunate young man was employed by Mr. Huggins, solicitor, of Exeter, and about six weeks since he went into the Devon and Exeter Hospital, from which he was discharged as cured on Thursday, December 6th. He took lodgings in Collatem-buildings, and for the last two days has shown symptoms of inanity. On Saturday evening, about 9 o'clock, he visited his sister, who resides in St. Sidwsll's, and, giving her a penny, requested her to get him • mutton chop, and was in a very excited date • he then bad sd. in his pocket, which was found in his doilies when discovered ; there were also several pawn-tickets found in his pockets. Deceased was a member of the Volunteer Artillery. A melancholy fact in oonnexion with the unfortunate roan is that his father committed suicide some years ago, which seemed to prey on his mind, and he was fee. queotly at that time heard to say that he should commit suicide himself. Deceased was at one time much respected io Exeter, and was honorary secretary to the Exeter Ragged School.
The Express. — 1860-12-06 (London, England)

THE PAPAL GUNPOWDER EIPLOSION AT NORWION.  NORWICH, Doc. 5. The alarming gunpowder explosion in the shop of Mr. Marries., Orford-piece, Norwich, be. berm &deeded with even mare serious trooaequeoces than wan at fret anticipated, Mrs Dady, one of the injured persons, having died yesterday in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. It *prime that this poor woman meet have fallen from a room above into Marriersis shop immediately after the second floor of the house was blown away, as the was picked up on the burning ground dour in quite an insensible condition. The poor creature's husband committed suicide a few weeks since. It appears that the name of the boy whose dead body wee picked up out of the burning shop was not Harrison, ea originally 'toted, but Charles Hill ; be is a son-in-law of Mr. Harrison, and hence the cord 02/0111. A suspicion is eotertained in some quarters that the poor lad had been experimentiog with the powder, Mr. Marriaon having reprimanded him some time since for having fireworks is his pocket. A few days sines, it has also been ascertained, he let of a little powder in the forge-room at the back of the premises, a circumstance which appears to indicate that the boy had the dangerous propensity common to youths of him age of trifling with gunpowder. There seems also to have been a rumour of a smell proceeding from an escape of pia, in Mr. Marrison's shop ; and another hypothesis which has been put forward is that the boy was searching for the leak with a candle, and that a double explosion of gas and gunpowder followed. Yesterday, Mr. Wilde. coroner for Norwich, held an inquest on the body of the boy Hill, which presented a shocking spectacle. The Coroner, in commencing the proceedings, said the 12th Geo. 111., cap. 61, enabled a dealer in gunpowder to keep 2 cwt. by him at any time without any license. A fresh act bad been recently passed by which a dealer was not prevented from keeping 2 cwt., bat a clause in the act, which did not come intooperation WI August next, required that a lionise should be ted for the purpose. After hearing the evidnaa and a brief deliberation, the Ina returned a verdict of " Amidental death." This morning =other inquest was held on the body al Mrs. Lady with a similar remelt.