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The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-10-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

STRANGE SUICIDE OF A NURSE.  At the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, Mr. C. Luxmoore Drew, the West London coroner, held an inquiry concerning the death of Adeline Maud Finch, aged 28 years, a sister of mercy and nurse at the above institution, who died from an inj>ction of morphine. John Howard Finch, a budder, identified the deceased as his sister. He had never noticed her depressed or low•splrited. Edith Wright, housemaid at the hospital, deposed that the deceased appeared quite cheerful tin the night before ber death. In the morning witness found deceased foaming at the mouth. She breathed heavily and died.—Sergeant Adie, the coroner's officer, said that a bottle of oarbolio acid, a bottle of morphine, and a hypodermic syringe were found in the deceased's room. Miss Eveline Maria Finch, sister of the deceased, deposed that on the afternoon before her death she visited her sister and found her quiet and oheerfu., but restless. Witness asked her how she was getting on, and she replied that she had been worried, but was better. The deceased was not engaged, and there was no trouble of that sort; but witness knew she had an attachment.—The Coroner; Did that cause he- anxiety ?—No, just the opposite, she was quite happy in that respect. She had been greatly depressed for some months over her work, because she felt the great responsibility of her post. Witness knew she was not in the habit of injecting morphia, although during the summer she suffered from sleeplessness. The following letter had been addressed to witness :—" Foulis, September '27, 1893.—My dear Evie,—My best wishes for a happy future. This step seems inevitable. I cannot do right; I will not do wrong. Remember that this is not due to anybody's attitude to me, and keep the confidence I have given you. Do not reproach by the smallest thought, much less words, anyone I may have mentioned to you. Everybody has been too kind and good to me. Keep silence as to what I may have impatiently said. The goodness of other people's lives has discouraged me. I cannot fight and be good too. Shall we meet agiin ? God knows if I am to have another otiance.—Always loving you for your love and sympathy,
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-10-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF AN INDIAN LAW STUDENT.  At the Charing Cross Hompital, London, Mr. John Troutbeok, the coroner for Westminster, held an inquest on Monday on the body of Ingul 'Kishore Singh, an Indian law atudent, who oommitted suicide by taking a quantity of poison at the Charing Cross Hotel.—Mr. Frederick Pinoott, of Euston-road, N., identified the body, and said that the deceased had been studying law at the Middle Temple. Witness had known him for two and a-half years. He came to this country from India to study the law. He was a married man, and had two children, but was so exceedingly extravagant that his father had appointed the witness to act as guardian. The deceased was rather fond of the company of ladies, and was continually making them presents. Hs was always getting into seeapes and overdrawing his allowance.—Tne coroner said thAt a letter addressed to the deceased's landlaay from Charing Cross Hotel, and dated Thursday nigh, commenaed "Dear Mrs. Boyd,—( &insure you will be pleased to hear that I nave put an end to my existence—at least, I have come to this hotel for that purpose. How far I shall succeed circumstances will show." The remainder of the letter, which covered ten pages of notepaper, was net rcad by the Coroner, who remarked that it was all in the same strain.—Dr. George Albert Hamilton, of 3, Southampton-street, Strand, stated that he was called to see the deceased. Life was extinct. The right hand was stained with a white fluid, and the lips were brown, as though herbed. A tumbler which had contained carbolic acid was on the table together with a quantity of white lead. A postmortem examination showed that there was a large quantity of white lead in the stomach—about half a pound. It appeared to have been swallowed in small pellets. There was a strorg smell of carbolic acid in the stomach. Death was be to poisoning by white lead and carbolic acid.—The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity."
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-10-14 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT  EALING.  INQUEST AND VERDICT.  The other afternoon, at Ealing, Dr. W. B. Cordon Hogg, coroner for West Middlesex, held an inquest concerning the deaths of James Sootcher, aged 55 years, a horse•dealer, lately rankling at the throridge-road Dairy, Ealing Dean ; and Annie Elizabeth Morby, aged seven years, of the same address, who were found dead, with their throats out. Agnes Morby, of the Uxbridge-rcad Dairy, identified the body of the man as that of her uncle. The deceased child was her daughter, and the deceased man was the father of it. They all slept in the same room, and shortly before 8 witness got up, leaving her uncle in one bed asleep and the deceased child in the other. Scotcher had not passed a restless night, and did not speak to her. He was not excited or depressed. Witness knew he had to go to Brantford that day as a witness in a summons, and that seemed to worry him. He was in no monetary difficulties to witness's knowledge, although the rent was a little behind. There was no one else in the house at the time, and witness went shopping for ten minutes. Upon her return she went to the bedroom and found she could only open the door a little way. She looked in, and seeing the deceased man lying on the floor in a pool of blood, raised an alarm, and two men who came in sent for a doctor and the polioe. The deceased man had never threatened to take his life or that of the child.—George Garrett, of the Old Hat Cottage, neighbour of the deceased, said he saw the witness rash out of the house on the morning named in an excited state, shouting, "Jim's doing murder." He rushed up, and seeing the man lying on the floor in a pool of blood, entered, and then noticed the razor lying on the child's bed. The child was lying on the bed face downwards, and he noticed no injuries. He had known the deceased man for a number of years, and he was always a quiet and steady man. He had not appeared worried, but when witness asked him for a shilling the deceased man remarked, " You have come to the wrong one. lam nearly done up." He always appeared to be fond of the child.—Other evidence having been given, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Sootoher, and that he committed suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity.  The Cunard Line steamer Luoania has beat the record established by the American Line steamer Paris by 59min. She has now accomplished the passage from New York to Liverpool in five days 13 hours 25 min.  A
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-09-02 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A LAD.  Mr. C. C. Lewis, Essex Coroner, held an inquest at Mountuessing, near Brentwood, on Tuesday, canoerning the death of Edmund Nosey, aged 16 years, who committed suicide by laying his neck on the railway metals on the Great Eastern line near Ingatestone. The deceased had been engaged for the past two years as pot-boy for Mr. John Hawkins, innkeeper and baker, at Mountnessing. Charles Philpott, journeyman baker, employed by Mr. Hawkins, stated that he had shared the  deceased's beerfor the past two years. On Sunday night, after witness had got into bed, Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins came into the room, aroused the deceased, and accused him of stealing money from the parlour cupboard. The deceased made no reply, but at Mr. Hawkins' request he handed him his purse. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins then left the room, the former saying, "I shall have you lookei up in the morning." Shortly afterwards deceased undressed and got into bed with witness, but he rose again after a few minute., partially dressed himself, and left the room. Witness went to sleep, and did not again see the deceased alive. John Hawkins said that the purse which he obtained from the deceased on Sunday night contained 355. 6d., and the sum he had missed was 30s. Cs. He had lost money on previous occeu,ions. The deceased's father observed that if his son had been suspected of theft on previous occasions it was strange that nothieg had been mentioned to him (deceased's fathez) about the matter, as he was in the village three times a week. A juryman: The boy would have been alive now if they had welled, and sent for the police in the morning. The jury found that deceased committed suicide whilst temporally insane, and at their request the Coroner censured Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins for having accused the lad of the theftyithout taking proper steps to confirm their suspicions.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-09-02 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN FRANCE.  News has reached Paris of a terrible tragedy at the Central Octroi t.ffi .6 at Dreux. A. M. Robert filled the office of receiver-general there.. He was for some time suTected of embezzlement. An accountant was sent to look into his books. To destroy the evidence they furnished Robert tried to vet fire to the central office. A report was nevertheless drawn up against him. Feeling he was lost be forsook his poet, intending to commit suicide. At least, so he said in a letter that he left behind him. He gave as hia reason a wish to save the honour and property of his family. But yielding to another impulse, he come back to Dreux and wandered all Saturday night near his house. Early next morning he re-entered it, went to his wife's room, in which she and their two children were sleeping. kissed them fondly, and then, armed with a revolver, fired at Madame Robert. She j 1311)vd out of bed and ran to the window to cry for help. Robert firing at her again lodged a ball M her head. Then, thinking her dead, be fired at one of the children, a girl aged five. She fell wounded only. He next aimed at the boy, aged seven, but he fled, and was not shot. Robert then went downstairs to the cellar, where he locked himself in and blew his brains out. The two bullets aimed at Madame Robert are both in her head.  The yearly statistics of the Sunday-school Unien have jest been publinhcd. There are 9,169 schools representing 163,163 voluntary teachers, sad 1,653,756 schotars.  , • ,  oY NUN'  THE  LOST LADY OF LONE;  Mita E. D. E. N. SOITTIIWORTNE, AIPTHOR OP 0116 Addles land," " Nearost Nut Deft*. •  'us., ks.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-09-02 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

DEATH BY MISADVENTURE.  Mr. Brighouse, oonnty coroner, held an inqneet at Walton, Liverpool, on Tuesday afternoon, on the body of George Eloward, groundsman for the Everton Football Club, who, it was first supposed, had committed suicide by hanging himself from • clothes line to which he attached a noose. Deceased's wife gave evidence that she saw her husband at the practice match talking to a girl, and they had some words about this. Shortly after Howard returned home he kissed his children, bidding them good-bye. He went into the yard and she followed him. He put his head through a noose of the clothes line that was stretched across the yard. She thought he did it to frighten her and she told him not to be silly but to go in. He did not do so, and in about five minutes she went out and found him quite dead in the noose. Mrs. Howard was confident that her husband never meant to take his life.—The jury, accepting the opinion of deceased's wife that Howard did not contemplate suicide, returned, after considerable deliberation, a verdict of death by misadventure.  Annie O'Neil, who had resided in the tournland of Dorsey, near Newry, is dead. In her dying statement she asserted that two men entered ner house, dragged her out, and beat her in a savage manner, breaking her ribs with kicks and inflicting injuries's° her head. Two men named evilly and Canolad are in custody. M. Railland, the well-known archeologist of Vannes, has been .iseassiriated under moat at; starone circumstances. The neigbours having thin suspicions aroused made a visit to the house and garden, and discovered the body im. a pit, with the head, legs, and arms severed from it. 'he trunk was also horribly mutilated_  Toe landlord -Of the Red Lion Inn, Stonar, Sandich, hearing a peculiar noise after he had retireJ to bed, went downstairs and found a man named Frank Wilson, whom he seized and bound hand and foot. Wilson was brought before the Magistrates and remanded, charged with abstracting £33 from the landlord's cash-box.  When a Blackburn constable went to the house of a barber named Anderton to arrest him for assault on his wife, he found the doors all locked and Anderton defying him inside. Anderton's son, a young man, opened the window to admit the cons.able, upon which his father attacked him with a poker, battering hie head and inflicting shocking wounds.  The Commission appointed at Rome to investigate the circumstances attending the recent AntiFrench demonstrations in that city has now presented its repoat. It &ids that the reponsibility of Senator Calends, Prefect of Rome and of Signor Sandri, the Chief of Police, is established, bat exonerates Signor Majnetti, the Inspector of Police of toe quarter where the rioting occured, from all blame.  The Queen has been pleaeed to approve the appointment of Lord Justice Bowen as Lord of Appeal in the room of Lord flannel], resigned.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-03-04 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE BOY LOVER'S SUICIDE.  LITTER MOM THE HOME B.IOEZTAR,T.  An inquest has been held by the Cheshire Coroner, Mr. H. Churton, on the body of Vernon George Crowe, a boy of 14, who shot himself after his father's interference in • love affair. The evidence was to the effect that the boy was greatly attached to the daughter of a Mrs. Yare. He visited her house oonstantly, and from time to time stayed very late. On one occasion he did not reach home until four in the morning, and on arrival stayed out all night. This Was in spite of his father's protest and prohibition. One day the father, a oommeroial traveller, found the lad had not been at the office at which he was employed, and on going to the house of Yares he found the boy there. He took him home. The lad immediately ran upstairs to his own room and shot I himself in the head with a revolver. Mrs. Yare and her daughter were called, and admitted that they knew that the deoeued carried • revolver, the mother adding that she had intended to mention the matter to the boy'e father. —The Coroner said he had received • letter from the Home Secretary, which he read. It stated that Mr. Asquith had received a number of representations in favour of legislation in regard to the sale of revolvers, and added that the unrestricted use of revolvers by young persons was admitted to have led to many serious and fatal accidents. He therefore asked for information as to the number of inquests held by the Cheshire Coroner during the years 1890.2 having reference to persons dying through this means. The:Home Secretary enclosed a form upon which a return might be made. Mr. Citurten said that his own experience was not sufficient to help Mr. Asquith, but the letter showed that the gome Secretary was taking all the steps he could to protect life.—The jury found a verdict of suicide whilst temporarily Insane, and censured Mrs. V..re for not having instructed Mr. (owe of his 6:A.'s habit of carrying a revolver, and also of his having threatened to take his own life.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-03-04 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF MR. H. C. BARKER.  RIMILREARLI L 11171121. The inquest on the body of Mr. H. C. Barker, who committed suicide by shooting himself in a railway train at Putney, was held on Saturday before Mr. Braxton Hicks, coroner, in the Conservative Club, Wandsworth. Mr. Wreford, official reeeiver under the bankruptcy of the deceased and his brother' was present. Mr. John Torrington Chapple, solicitor, of 25, Carter•lane Identified the body as that of kis brother-in-law, who was 45 years of age, and a bankrupt. He spoke of the prosecution of the deceased.—You last saw deceased on Tuesday? —Yes, I went home with him in the evening I left him about half-past 9. The proceedings considerably troubled him.—On Tuesday did he mention anything to you about the question of bail I—lt seemed to trouble him whether the alderman might or migh not allow bail.—He already was on bail I—Yes.— Deceased had spoken of suicide, but had never, to witness's knowledge, referred to Mr. Hume Webster's death. He seemed to feel acutely the ruin that had overtaken himself and his creditors, feeling that at his age he would not be able to start in anything else. His life was insured. It was at Brighton in July last that he mentioned suicide, but he was more despondent in January. Witness did not think he intended to commh self-destruction. He always had a revolver when he was at Brighton. He kept it for the protection  of the house. Mr. Peroy Rogers, a surveyor, of Carlton-road, Putney, said he was a passenger by the quarterpast 9 Lit. train from Putney to the City on the day of the tragedy. Upon opening the door of a first-class carriage he saw the deceased on the floor of the compartment, which was bespattered with blood. William Butler, guard of the train, spoke to being called to the carriage and finding the deeeased as described. Witness picked up the letters produced. The first of these letters was inclosed in an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Barker, care of Messrs. Aldridge and Co., 31, Bedford-row, W.C.," and ran as follows: My darling Lii,—You, I know, do not credit the accusations made against me, and are aware of how I slaved at the business, notwithstanding ray surgical operations and illhealth. To think that I should have brought your lives to this! Let my boy, if possible, still respect his father's memory, and never allow my darlings, if possible, to hear of my disgrace. Let thee think of me as the darling old Dad they loved so well. Try to think of my memory in the happy past Thank the dear old mother, dear old Jem, and Annie, Lori, and Arthur, Elsie and Arthur, Alfred and prnest, and, everyone who has been kind to me and us in my trouble, not forgetting faithful Fanny. You know I have never intentionally injured anyone. I feel my brain going under all this terrible trouble and the ruin of my brightest hopes. Forgive your fond husband. Forgive me, my darling.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-06-03 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE HACKNEY TRAGEDY.  INQUEST AND TERDIOT.  At the Hackney Coroner's Court, Mr. Alfred Hodgkinson held All inquiry relative to the deaths of Emma MorgaP, 49, Arthur Jennings, 15, and Thomas Morgan, 55.—Susan Hillman, of Thurlowstreet, Wa!worth, sister-in-law of the deceased woman, was called for the purpose of identifying the bodies, and said the deceased Thomas Morgan was a coffee-house keeper, at Amherstroad, Hackney. He had been paralysed for some years, and this, she thought, affected his brain. She had seen Morgan in violent tempers, but these passed off in a few minutes, and he was calm again.— James Hillman, son-in law to the deceased woman, said the parties had been married four years, and he (witnes,) believed they lived very comfortably together, except *,en the deceased was excited, and then he (witness) considered the man was unaocountable for his actions. Morgan got excited for no apparent cause after the st oke ot paralysis I in July last, and since then he had taken up a knife to his wife. He (witness) did not believe the story that Morgan had attempted to poison his wife. On Monday Morgan and his wife and witness and his wife went to Wood Green on pleasure and Morgan appeared more than usually lively. After they bad two or three drinks Morgan became disagreeable, and, when on the top of a tramoar, slapped his wife's face for no apparent reason. They all went back to Morgan's house and had tea, and Morgan had a doze, after which he appeared better, and they shook hands all round when bidding each other " Good night.' In reply to the coroner, the witness said he did consider that Morgan should have been put under restraint and papers had actually been prepared to that end, but Mrs. Morgan objected, and the negotiations fell through. —Maud Austin, who had been a domestic servant in the employ of the deceased, said that about 1.30 on the morning in question she was awakened by* the ringing of her mistress's bell, and on going to the room she saw her lying on the floor. She did not hear any shots fired. —Louisa Woodleigho another servant in the same employ, said she also was awakened by the bell ringing, and went downstairs. She tapped at the door of Morgan's room, and he replied "Yes," and groaned. She subsequently went to the son's room, and, finding that he did not wake, she tcok him by the shoulder to rouse hint, and then saw blood.—Police-constable Cornish deposed to being called to Morgan's house, when he found the lad Jennings dead. He (witness) burst open the door of the room in which Morgan and t is wife were, and found Mss. Morgan dead on the floor, and Morgan lying groaning on the bed. There was a revolver on the floor.—Subdivision Inspector Bond said that the money found In the house showed the deceased to have been in comfortable circumstances.—The jury found that Morgan first murdered his wife and stepson, and then oommitted suicide whilst temporarily insane.
The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1893-09-16 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE OF A VOLUNTEER.  On Saturday Mr. C. Luxmoore Drew held an Inquest at Fulnatn with reference to the death of Percival Schoefield, aged 17, s leather.bag makez, a private in the 2nd Middlesex Ride Volunteers, who committed suicide at 39, Basuto-road, Fulham. Charles Sohoefield, • saddler, identified the body as that of his son. He arra of a, loniewhat mot.- se disposition, and the merest trlfies upset him. One evening he arrived home from his work, iatendiug to go to drill. As his tea was not ready he flew into a rage and quarrelled with his mother. He went out and never returned all night. &nee his death witness had heard that in the morning he had gone to St. George's Barracks and enlisted in the Garrison Artillery. Answering the tioroner, the witness said that his eon tried to break his indentures as an apprentice, as "he was mad on the army.' Witness could only think that he repented of enlisting and so took his life. He enlisted under a false age, and had learned he might be punished for it. Arthur Sohoefield, aged 13, a brother, deposed that deceased came home shortly after 3 p.m. "laughing and singing." He immediately went upstairs, and said to the witness, "U you hear a noiee, you need not came up." In a few minutes witness heard the report of • gun. He ran upstairs and found his brother, lying bleeding on the icor. Polioe-oonstable Hatch said he was called, and went to the bedroom, and found deceased lying flat on the floor with a Martini.flonry rlie across his body. The jury returned • verdict of "Suicide whilst temporarily insane," adding e rider to the effect that the attention of the authorities should be called to the retention of ball cartridges by Volunteers, and considered that they should be returned to the store.