Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-11-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SAD SEQUEL TO THE SUICIDE. _ _ . .  -On Tuesday morning, at Chelsea Town-hall, Mr. LUXIIIOIII Dew, coroner, opened an inquiry into the ciimmetstmes attending the death of Min. Eva Lynch Elosse, aged 26, who DO Friday committed suicide by shooting herself it her incident" 22, Whitehead-grove, nem Sloane-street, Chelsea. Mr. Pagent, berrister, wits present on beholf of relatives, and Mr. Mann, solicitor, who attended the inquest hell on Copular. Howard, watched the present proceedings. The Coroner, on opening, mid the jury would find the evidence as it developed very pitinful, and the oirculnatanuee would make it necessary to go into details.  Mr. Thomas H. Robinson, company manager, Maids-vale, deposed that the deceased was his sister-in-law. She divorced her first husband, Edward Faulkner Lynch Biome, an army captain. The divorce proceedings ware taken in America, where she afterwards married a Mr. Booth, who became insane. Deceased had private Mans, but had latterly been depressed from financial stress. He had no rexson to believe she lived other than a strictly moral isle. He did not know Captain Howard. Mr. Edward Anneeley Owen, barrister, deposed that deceseed was his cousin, aml he had no rewrote to believe she lived other than a blameless life. Maul Roberts, housemaid, next called, mid the late Captain Howard visited her mistress twice a day IA a role, and Ellen Driscoll, cook, spoke to demeaned having left the house on Friday with Mre. Langford, • friend. On returning. Mrs. Lynch Blouse complained of illness. Mary Walsh, a well-dressed woman, apparently about 40 years of age, wan then aworn,but refused so gin Mir address. After porno persuasion she handed it to the coroner on a slip of paper. was formerly cook to Mrs. Lynch Blase*. Captain Howard visited every day at 22, Whitehead-grove. Mr.. Lynch Blume told 111,r that Lady Coestance Howard was going to take proceedings against the captain and herself for • divorce, but she could not hie ander it. On Tharsiey morning witness took a note from deceased to Captain Howard at Evelyn-gardens. The butler found Captain Howard hal shot himself, and witness brought back the note to Mrs. Lynch Bluest. On being told what the captain had done she said, "There is another here who will be lire him." The note was destroyed, and witness did not know its contents. Dr. Charles Herbert Gage-Brown, of 74, Carlogan.plece, said he attended the deceased for acme minor complaints, but he knew of no mental trouble. He was °ailed on Friday afternoon, and saw the deceased suffering from extreme mental emotion and in a very serious condition. He gave orders for her not to be left. Later in the day she was in the earns condi tion,and trembling violently. She mid she had taken a large dose of chloral the night before, but not for the purpose of inducing sleep. He concluded that she bad tried to take her life. Later the came eight he was called, and Mr. Owen forced the levistory door open. The deceased was recently dead, and there was a mark of a bullet wound over the frontal bone. The bullet had penetreted the reknit and brain, but had not come out on the other side. There was a deal of hemorrhage. Afterwards the mark of a bullet was discovered on the wall, and the flattened bullet wits found on the floor. Death way un doubeedly due to the self-inflicted bullet wound. Pohl:le-sergeant Howlett stated that he wee called to the house on Friday night by Mr. who handed him the revolver. The deceased was lying on the flooequite dead, with a bullet wound in the beat He afterwards found a bullet on the floor. The box of cartridges was found in she deceased's pooket The Coroner said the probable key to the mystery wan that the deoeased wrote a letter to Captain Howard. It being returned without as answer most have distressed bar, and on hearing of the captain's death the stock moot have distressed hat still more. The evidence was very clear. The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of nn.sound mind. The deceased woman was a daughter of the Rev. 'l'. R. Brownrigg, vicar of St. Jude's, Southsea, and was married in May, 1884, to Captain Edward Falconer Lynch.Bloese, grandson of Sir Robt Lynch-Blonse, Bth Baronet, of Castle Cerra, co. Mayo. An uncle of Capt. Lynch.Blowe was for many years archdeacon, and afterwards dean, of Llandaff.  Owen,