The Express. — 1850-11-15 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF MR. PENNINGTON, LATE or TOE TiIaiLIVIIT:It is with et ep refire% we hays to a.nne et th =lac/holy suicide of Mr.Per.ningt.rn (a gentleioan was to Wien years past has filled highly imp rr:ent (Ace, ie her Milesty's 'fro attar• which took plea yeseertio (Thursday) afternoon. About half-put four p dose-constable Henry John, T 223, caute out 0, 0 sr, Keusiugton Gore (lets the T sideno - of L ty Blessinotoci, ue neard the report of Smarms discharged in one a A. plantations In Hyde Pa.k, abutting on the Or 'at Vienna roan, almost directly opposite Gore Housi. lla icemen .ettly ran across the road and entered the park atite small ',ticket state close to the spot, susd discovered the :a. •ortunato g•ntlemsn lying on his heck in the p:sete tioo, with his arms extended, and in his right WI was groped tiibtly a double barrelled pistol, or.: of the barrels of which had just been disehurel, and on the lot k of the other barrel was a perenseiao cap, and the look was cocked. Tire unfortunate gentleman was Una still breathing, a motion of the lips and m un bane %wetly perceptible for five or six munies, wi.. a be i.ppeurl to expire. Iu less than ten minutes after the fatal Oct osi ban conatuitted, Folic, Sergeant Dail, T 20 came up, sad was tolliwed by Mr. Homey, surgeon, at K..ightstaidm who happening to be near the place, heard ail the ectuerene and examined the body, which was lying at the root of ahr tree, and found that the deceased tad shot himself throat the right temple, and that the bad had passed out at the hack of the bead, where the brains were to. uding. On the ground was a large pool of Wood. lionuey pronounced the deceased to be quilt deed. P.dieeseatt 209 A, on duty in the park, then cane up, sods stretcher was procured from the T etatiiin but e, Chtode Court, adjoining ILecsibgton Church, and the body been; been placed on at was removed to the eteidence of Er. 8, readbow, tobacconist, beadle of the out-ward of th min of So. Margaret's, Weieeminater, opposite lioirtl.nbrles barracks, who immediately had it placed in toe dead hi..., of the parish in Rose and Crown-yard, eeijoinine Os house. The clothes of the deceased gentlemen wire Um searched, and in bar pockets were found a silver Seem watch with a gold guard chain, and a silver Brameh k y laehi..l, a gold toothpick, three cambrick handheld:Vl malted " S. J. P. " a sovereign purse, a blue silk purse, al 9.. in silver. Also a card cue, in which were two cos, with the name, " Mr. Pennington, No. 20, Cumberni. street, Portman-square." Mr. Spreadbow nom. eiaii.l proceeded to that admit, and inquired if that genthint war absent from home, and was inieresed that he was. lit then showed one of his cards and the cud c est, WO Lb .0 id i ntified u belonging to deceased. Subsequently de butler in the family came to Knightsbridge, and ideatin the body as that ot his mater. It appears that Mr.Penniegia hail a fit about a month since, from the a fleets of white b had scarcely recovered, and about a fortnight *Mee he bib 'aligned his situation. lie L 11•1 left his house strut half-pie 2 o'clock in the afternoon, to takis a walk with a &Deus and returned home in about an hour. &wetly aftermath he again went out alone, saying he would take another wait The butler states that he had never before seen the dusk barrelied pistol, and new powder flask containing porder,eal 32 bullet* wrapped in a piece of brown paper toned tips deceased. The body awaits a coroner's inquest.