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The Sun. — 1842-12-26 (London, England)

IRELAND. TIM MURDER AT MILTOWN-EXTRAOR DINARY DISCLOSURES. DUBLIN, DEC. 22.—The inquest was resumed this wanasd given. The the most extraordinary charactermorning, place was greatly crowded. On Tuesday evening the body was identified by Joseph Lynch, residing at Parnell-place, as that of his late brother. He, at once, gave it as his opinion that the deceased committed suicide in a fit of insanity. A number of other parties, however, could not be brought to think that he met his death by his own hands, under the mysterious circumstances that Lave appeared. Mr. Bailey said that, as the body had been recog nised, he might now say, that the person missing from Liverpool had been found there. The first witness called was John Lynch. He said— I reside at Parnell-place. I have seen the body lying dead near the lime-kiln. His name was Alfred Lynch, and my son. He was engaged in tha Ortinance Survey-office, Phoenix Park. T. Captain Bailey—My son Joseph told me a razor had been taken out of Alfred's dressing-case, and my daughter told me that he had torn a great many papers and memorandums. To Colonel Shaw—l searched his room, and could not find his razor or his comb. The papers being burned did not excite my suspicion. John Brennan, the dairyman, whose house is within about sixty yards of the kiln, deposed that he left home about a quarter-past six o'clock on Sunday morning to deliver milk in town. Saw Pat Tynan about four o'clock, at which hour witness called him from bed. Both proceeded to the cow-house to milk. Tynan often warms wash at the kiln, and might have done so on Sunday morning. Witness had not a sick cow, but he had one that did not feed well. Heard no noise about the kiln. Left the house shortly after six, when Tynan was cutting potatoes. Returned from Dublin about eight o clock, when he observed a crowd of people about the kiln, and first heard of the murder. Tynan is 'livery proper, well-conducted boy. Saw marks on the wall, but did not see any spots of blood about the kiln. Thought that some person got over the wall after leaving the body in the kiln, and did not . come through the door, that Tynan might not see him as he was going to warm the wash. Heard of no strangers or suspicious characters being about the neighbourhood, nor heard of clothes being found. A person called on Tuesday night, and said he thoughthe knew the body, and that it was his brother. He sat down in witness's house, and seeing several boys seated round the table, he asked them were they going to gamble, if they were, he said he wonld play for sixpence. Witness
The Sun. — 1842-08-05 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CA SE.—Wednesday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Rose, Snows-fields, Bermondsey, before Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, on view of the body of Charles Wilkins, 32 years of age, lately residing at No. 38, Snows-fields, and following the occupation of a waterman, who committed suicide under the following circumstances :—lt appeared by the evidence of several witnesses that the deceased and his wife had latterly lived very uncomfortably together, frequently having quarrels in consequence of his suspecting her of carrying on an improper intimacy with one of his brothers, and that he had repeatedly, in the presence of the witnesses, charged her with infidelity. -On the 26th ult. the wife went down to • Gravesend, ostensibly for the benefit of her health, accompanied by three children, her nephews, where she took lodgings. On Sunday last the deceased went down to see her, and on his return home, about ten o'clock at night, he appeared to be much distressed in his mind, and then stated to his landlord that he had been down to Gravesend and had discovered that his brother was staying with his wife, and that he was much disturbed at it; that he had twice thought he would throw himself from the steamer into the river on his way up to London. On Monday afternoon, he came home to his dinner, and afterwards lay down on his bed, and requested his mother-inlaw to bring him his tea at five o'clock. On her going into his room at that hour for the purpose, she discovered him hanging from the top rail of his bedstead, suspended by a silk handkerchief. She immediately gave an alarm, and assistance being procured, he was cut down, and medical aid from Guy's Hospital sent for ; but in vain, life being quite extinct. It appears that a fatality attaches to the deceased's family, as not long since two of his brothers committed suicide, one by cutting his throat, and the other by drowninhfr himself. It was also stated that his wife had twice before been married, and that both of her former husbands had also destroyed themselvos. The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."
The Sun. — 1842-08-05 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINART CASZ.—Wednesday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Rose, Snows-fiefs, Bermondsey, before Mr.• Carter, Coroner for Surrey, on view of the body of Charles Wilkins, 32 years of age, lately rebiding .No. :18, Snows-tields, and following the occupation of a waterman, who committed suicide under the following circumstances ;—lt appeared by the evidence of" several witnesses that the deceased and his wife „had latterly lived very . uncomfortably together, frequently having quarrels in consequence of his suspecting her of carrying on an improper intimacy with one of his brothers, and that he bad T,•peateillv, in the presence-of the witnesses, charged her with infidelity. On the 26th ult, the wife went down to Gravesend, ostensibly fin. the benefit of her health, accompanitA by three Children, her nephew;,, where she took last the deceased w6nt down to see lodgings. On Sunday her, and on his return home, about ten o'clock at night, he appeared to be much distressed in his mind, and then stated to his landlord that he had been down to Gravesend and had discovered that his brother was staying with his wife, and that he was much disturbed at it; that he had twine thought he would throw himself from the steamer into the river on his way up to London. On Monday afternoon, he came home -to his dinner, and afterwards hifiloWil on his bA, and requested his mother-inlaw to bring him his tea at five o'clock. On her going into his room at that hour for the purpose, she discovered him hanging, from the top rail of his bedstead, suspended by a ' silk handkerchief. She immediately gave an alarm, and assistance being procured, he was cut down, and medical aid from Guy's Hospital sent fi.)r ; but in vain, life being quite extinct. It appears that a fatality attaches to the deceased's family, as not long since two •of his brothers committed suicide, one by cutting his throat, and the other by drowning himself. It was also stated that bis wife had twice befobeen married, and "that both of her former husbands Md also destroyed themselves. The Jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity."
The Sun. — 1842-02-05 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Wednesday night, between twelve and one o'clock, a report of a pistol was heard in Samuel-street, Woolwich, by Tyndal, 41 tt, who immediately repaired to the spot, when lie discovered that. Paymaster-Sergeant Hale, of the Royal Marines, had shot himself in the mouth with a pistol. On throwing the light of I,is lamp on the unfortunate man's face, he observed a torrent of blood running from his mouth, the flesh of which was frightfully torn. With assistance, he removed him into the house No. 5, and sent for the hospital surgeon, who attended, and declared that the wound was of so serious a nature, that he was not tit to be removed at that time. About five o'clock he was taken on a stretcher to the General Hospital, when it was discovered that nearly the whole of his teeth and the roof of his mouth had been driven in by the bullet with which the pistol was charged. Medical as well as surgical aid being rendered, he vomited the bullet, and it is supposed that the teeth and flesh torn trom the jaw were driven doww his throat, as nothing but the bullet has been discovered. The unhappy man has not been able to utter a word since the commission of the deed. His wife informed the doctor that he had been drunk during -the evening, and it was also stated that he had threatened to destroy himself while in a state of intoxication. It is singular, that he took the pistol from a marine who had shortly before threatened to commit self-destruction. The poor fellow lies without hopes of recovery. An extraordinary instance a the uncertain effects of lightning occurred a few days since, at Meuvaines, in NorBundy, when the electric fluid struck a small cottage, and shivered to pieces most of the furniture ; but though all the living things in it received a most violent shock, no man, or animal experienced the slightest injury. The cottage was roofed with thatch, and this was not set on fire.
The Sun. — 1842-01-10 (London, England)

JAN. 1.-The DonglaS of 110/. were Well by the Marquis . ommittee of Ma. .- i 11 t , e own tae C,... ar s ip,. would have it." against ti.e wall, and fallen d , and has; cononued to I e fixed in all subsi qnt I -d- I aistratrs sl ould be • d ' e n tee. t. conviction, and of these only two were in- of Douglas's Dux, beating Mr. e‘. Graliam'e Dubli 1 1, . iippointc to inquire generally into i s •e. • ' '' • d f the suicide on Mr. Powno.- . ,'. • Just 1, ' ` ' _DIE D. tax Acte. It imposed a rate of IBs. on 100 r an 1 b • An inquest was held on the bo y o , ,si us see A hether lam not right.' The Ee';linton Stakes of 95 sovs. by Dr -'•" 1 • . of per- : the subject of their comnlaints • and from this • • , diva luals ot Plymouth and tho third a child of twelve Show -• • . limb s Queen On the 811:, of October, in District Gorruckpore, Bele) beginning ' ' Seto d lb-- and a verdict of Pao de se returned, a 3oui right arm. -sq., I sone! eatatc, anel as no rate was fixed to be ley' ' I •k • ' ,ray a _rnoon Bee, beating Dorcl Douglas's Kerse. The Eqst 1-.1 Thomas no-, Fs elde-t ied on lee augur we! for their ultimate success. year sof zee, from the extreme west of Cornwall, and fl ad been deposed to before Prisoner-Can't see there's any reason for to expose i.• s o b /,d 'la ~• , , • • , • • al - ~ , , .s , s to, - s son of the late T. Ross, F-, , real estate, min assessmei t waa only requ'red to be mole I Our readers will not fail to obsetve that in all hi ff 'e I' h llf • . t hit* d a i . eeee sees Mg t ree la -crown., wo s m Inv, an after the facts above relate' -1 dreadlel transaction, my flesh.-(Laughter.) nide ta. es, y „oi ,eointon s I\llll i)ew. The ilust Olf , London. •delid ty to maLe 1,1 the . on rce 1 prope,r . . these the jury by the witnes,es ta the Brendon Stakes, by Lord Eglinton's Blackbird, and the bn the Ist of November, at Bajainnundry, in the Presi ,dis 1) difference. From this 1 instances the ground of objection to the new s't , lo tw‘o sixPe, aces from a Baker's till, in the absence of the - - . ual directions for Mr. Pow ter r-Itl • k , - un we shall be able to send you ts tin as 1 s ' The Coroner accordingly gave the us Clyde Stakes by Mr. Dourie's Harold. of Madras, Robert Hichens, Esq., of the Hon. East Lng., explanation tne public will at once perceive that the been its i T d I • away this time. You have been too long here. nut' ity an expense. tis only on great eme - u ist i CSS f rom time shop. hris Company's Civil Service, eldest son of 'William Hichens, -•*" necessity for a true valuittion of time annual v•alue of ' ' d d 1. • ' b r; the ieterment of the body at midnight, without C . ~,.,. , ,
The Sun. — 1842-05-30 (London, England)

ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—This morning, before six o'clock, Joseph Bolton, footman to the Hon. Admiral Thuverie, having passed the night out of his master's house, and decidedly under the influence of drink, went into the room of Louisa Palter (who is lady's maid in the family, and between 40 and 50 years of age), with a knife in his hand, and attempted to cut her throat ; fortunately the incision was not so deep as to compromise life, but she received some cuts under the chin, and upon the shoulder and breast. She was asleep when attacked, but her struggles were successful, and she happily reached the female servants' room. Bolton then quitting the room, went to the butler's chamber, told him what he had done, and added, it was because she was always aggravating him ; meaning thereby, it is presumed, she had either told her mistress of some former acts of his mi,conduct, or had threatened him she would do so. The Admiral and the household were speedily alarmed, and a policeman was called in, and Bolton sent in custody to the gaol. At the Magistrates' sitting to-day at noon, he was remanded till Thursday next, that it may be then ascertained in what state the wounded woman may be. The man is about 24 years of age, and is a native of Devizes, Wilts.—Hampshire Telegraph. Alexander Johnstone, Esq., formerly of this city, merchant, perpetrated suicide by cutting his throat, in Glasgow, on Thursday last. It is said that commercial reverses, caused by placing confidence in a house in that city, led to this disaster.—Limerick Reporter.  Monday a man named James Lougimane, caretaker to the late Henry Cole Bowen, Esq., was murdered within a short distance of Toomavara. in this county. A bullet passed through his neck, and his head was shockingly mangled. —Tipperary Free Press.
The Sun. — 1842-07-15 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—At an early hour this morning an unfortunate female, named Jane Dawes, threw herself into the river Thames, near Southwark bridge, being at the time in a state of intoxication. It is a most deplorable fact that two other females were with her at the time, but they were so drunk as to be unable to give an alarni. SHOREHAM HAnnota.—On the Ist of next month a series of new signals, prepared by Mr. Saunders, the harbour-master, will be brought into Use. They *lll be displayed on a new flag-staff on the middle pier, for the benefit of ships hound to the harbour, or wishing to take shelter in sthess of weather ; and will Consist of signals as to the depth of water in the harbour entrance, both on the flood and ebb tide, besides conveying other information which will be duly appreciated by the maritime man, . FORTUNATE E6CAT'Et—On tliiit aftaliooll of Tuesday last, as Captain Ogilvie and Lieutenant (le Winton, of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, stationed at Windsor, were proceeding in a single horse chaise front the Cavalry Barracks to the Slough . station, the horse, which Writs att eiteeedingly high-spirited and valuable animal, took fright, just after pass• ing through the turnpike-gate between Eton and Slough, and set off at a tremendous pace. Lieutenant de Winton, who was driving, was thrown out, and Captain Ogilvie being thus left in the chaise alone, jumped into the road, neither of them, fortunately, sustaining the least injury. The horse, finding himself under no control, turned round just at the foot of Arbour-hill, and galloped back at the rate cif twenty miles an hour towards Windsor. Two men, who were standing at the turnpike, seeing the horse returning at full speed with an empty gig. immediately closed the gate just before the horse came up, with the intention of preventing further mischief. The horse, however, perceiving this " move," then swerved a little to the right, and leaped over the fence, five feet in height, between the toll-house and the gate-post. Such was the height the horse leaped that the end of the shaft struck the arge lamp, shivering it. to atoms, which was fixed against the house at least twelve feet above the road. The horse got completely through the erection, composed of strong timbers and cross-bars, at the side of the gate, clearing himself, from the force with which he was proceeding, completely from the chaise, which was left on the other side broken, as may be supposed, completely into pieces, and a perfect wreck. The horse, which fell the moment he had cleared the gate, is much injured by being most seriously bruised about the legs and chest; and it was with great difficulty it could proceed to its stables at Windsor the same afternoon.  in consequence of a somewhat alarming complaint in the head, Mr. Wakley, M. F., has been compelled during nearly the last fortnight to discontinue his nightly attendance in the House of Commons, and to apply for the assistance of Mr. Baker, the Coroner, acting in the eastern division of the county, in order to be released from a portion of his daily duties.
The Sun. — 1842-01-21 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN THE REGENT'S PARK.---WCdnesday an inquisition was taken before Mr. Wakley, at the Marylebone Infirmary, on the body of Thomas Davis, aged 28, who committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree in the Regent's-park, under the following painful and melancholy circumstances :—Garret Percy, policeserjeant, D 3, said that on -Monday morning, about eleven o'clock, he was on duty in the Regent's-park, near the Zoological-gardens, when a man came running to him, and stated that there was a -man hanging on a tree. He went with the man in the direction he had pointed out, and on arriving near. North-gate he discovered the deceased suspended by a silk handkerchief from the branch of a tree in the shrubbery. lie could reach the branch from the ground, and with the assistance of the man alluded to, he untied the handkerchief, and got the body down. He was quite dead. On searching his body he 'found a silver watch, two gold seals, a purse containing 7s. 64d., a bunch of keys,- four handkerchiefs (two silk and two cotton), a letter, and a memorandum book. The contents of the letter were not permitted by the Coroner to transpire, but it is said to have been addressed to a young _woman to whom the deceased was paying his addresses. Mr. Bransden stated that the deceased was groom to Mr. Dowbiggen, the upholsterer, of Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. He saw him last alive on Monday, shortly before ten o'clock, when he came home with the horse and gig, having driven his Master into the City. He was a sober, industrious man. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity." Yesterday was the anniversary of one of I'4 most important events that occurred during the last century—the acknowledgment of the independence of America, in 1783. It was also the anniversary of the death of Garrick in 1779, and of John Howard, the distinguished philanthropist, in 1790.
The Sun. — 1842-02-12 (London, England)

ROYAL INSTITUTION.—Mr. Richard King, the surgeon and naturalist, as well as for a great part of the time the sole conductor of the expedition in search of Sir John Ross, and author of the narrative of the journey, delivered a lecture last evening at the Royal Institution, " On the Boundaries of the Polar lieas:' After taking a very rapid review of the progress of disco.. very from the 15th century to 1818, he dwelt somewhat at length upon the surveys made since that period by Ross, Parry, Back, and Messrs. Pease and Simpson. The survey of the latter officers, lit appears, has fully confirmed the views the lecturer entertained in 1836 of the polar coast south of the isthmus of Boothia, wherein he differed with Sir George Back. The melancholy suicide of Mr. Simpson has given Mr. King an opportunity of again urging the Government to adopt his plan at a cost of 1,000/. only. This plan was given at length in The Sun. of January 15, 1836 , but a part of the contemplated survey at that time has since been made, and a new line of coast has in consequence risen, in Mr. King's opinion, into importance in relation to the long-agitated question of aN. W. passage. Mr. King proposes that the Government should despatch an expedition, consisting of one officer and six men, toward. the close of April, from Montreal, in Lower Canada, by the usual route of the fur traders to the Athabasca Lake, and, having obtained an Indian guide, make direct for the Fish River by a route well known to the Indians. On the head waters of that stream it is proposed the expedition should winter, and having as. certained the position of a tributary to the Great Fish River, which takes its rise close to the proposed wintering ground, in the ensuing spring follow its course, and afterwards the main stream to the Arc. tic Sea. By coasting along the eastern boundary of the Great Fish River estuary, Mr. K. is of opinion there will be no difficulty in reach ing the land of Boothia Felix, or, in case of its insularity, the Ilecla and Fury Strait. In the latter case the northern configuration of America will he complete; but if the former should prove to be as Sir John Ross has described, it will be necessary to follow that land to its northern limit, which will determine its connection with, or separation from, the land of Cape Walker. If separated from that land, and the dividing sea prove of any extent, the grand problem of a practical passage from the Atlantic into the Pa. eine by the Arctic Ocean is at once solved. Then the tending of the coast line of the Gulf of Boothia is but of minor importance; nevertheless, if the season be not trio far spent, Mr. King considers it desirable to add its boundaries to our knowledge. A few Li lys ago, aA some men were lamming in the powder to blow up a portion of the rack of the tunnel for the Paris and Rouen Railway, at Rolleboise, an explosion took place, and the iron rod, which had been used as a rammer, entered the breast at workmen, and killed him. Another severely injured.
The Sun. — 1842-07-09 (London, England)

WALTER SCOTT. •  SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS OF MlND.—Yesterday' an inquisition was taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Middlesex Hospital, on view of the body of Mrs. Rehecca Shaw, aged 22, a respectable married female, who committed selfdestruction by swallowing arsenic. Mary Knox, No. 22, St, lartin's-street, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the mother of the deceased, said that her daughter had been separated from her husband, who is a law-stationer, in Fetter-lane, about a twelvemonth. She frequently expressed her regret that she had no home to go to, and shed tears frequently. Last Tuesday forenoon she went out about ten o'clock, and returned at twelve o'clock, when she sat down to needle-work. Soon after she became very sick, but made no remark that she had taken poison. Witness gave her some brandy, and she lay down in bed. About three o'clock, on witness's son assisting her out of bed, he observed a paper in her bosom, when on examining it he saw the words " arsenic—poison," written on it. She was then questioned if she had taken it, when she admitted that she had swallowed a pennyworth. She was immediately conveyed in a cab to the Middlesex Hospital, where she died in about three-quarters of an hour after her admission. Nine months ago she attempted to poison herself, when she was admitted into King's College Hospital. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN,--AlthQllol the weather yesterday morning was not particularly favourable for observing this celestial phenomenon, in consequence of the partial obscuration of the sun by light clouds soon after his using, yet those who had the courage to rise from their bed were not disappointed of a very beautiful spectacle. The calculation of the time of the commencement of the eclipse was exceedingly accurate. Soon after four o'clock one digit was darkened, and the obscuration gradually increased, The sun presented a very curious aspect, and assumed an oblong shape at one period. Soon afterwards it appeared like a crescent, and at the period of greatest obscuration the sun's appearance was that of the moon at about four days' old, Indeed, the effect resembled much that of the moon, as at no period were the rays sufficiently intense to preve4 its being looked upon without inconvenience to the eye. Occasionally the light floating clouds altogether prevented the sun from being seen, but, upon the whole, the morning was favourable for the observance of the phenomenon, and it was no doubt an object. of interest to many. At gig o'clock the appearatw.o of the mornhaa relonDltd ti•••• • •••e• period when the shatlea of evehini Ogi 141