The Sun. — 1851-10-30 (London, England)

SUICIDRT—OR Tuesday morning a most determined attempt at suicide was made by George Godson, a coachman in the service of Count Zorab, Rosslyn Lodge, Hampstead. It appears that orders were given that the carriage should be ready by nine• o'clock, to take some part of the family out, and that shortly before the period alluded to the groom entered the coachhouse, when, on looking into the ♦ehicle, the door of which was open, he beheld his fellow-servant (the coachman) lying upon one of the seats with a frightful gash in his throat; a razor, with which he had inflicted the dreadful wound, was discovered by his side, and the cushion and bottom of the carriage were deluged in blood. Inspector Champneys, of the S division was promptly at the residence, information having been given to him of the occurrence, and after the unfortunate man had been attended to by Mr. Perry, a surgeon, he was removed upon a stretcher to the North London Hospital. We understand that there is but little, if any, chance of his recovery.  DEATH BY PoicoN.—On Thursday an inquest was held at Great Bradley, on the body of Hester Radford, who died on Tuesday, the 14th. Ann Radford deposed that the deceased, who was in her seventeenth year, was one of four daughters of Joseph Radford,'her late husband's brother, with whom witness now lived as his wife, and by whom she had two children, aged three and five years respectively. The deceased slept at her uncle's, next door; Joseph Radford and the witness with four children, sleeping in one room ; the rest of the house, the property of Par. Lamprell, having been pulled down. The deceased kept company with a young man named Alfred Hinds. On Sunday, the 28th ult., she was taken with a bowel complaint, which continued till the following Sunday, when Mr. Baker, surgeon, saw her; and she kept her bed from the Sunday night till her death, which took place on Tuesday afternoon, about two o'clock. Two of her sisters and two of the witness's children had been taken ill during the same period, but were better now. They all had their victuals together. The inquest was adjourned in order that a post mortem examination might be made, and we understand that a quantity of a plant well known for its use in procuring abortion has been found by Mr. Image in the intestines.—lpswich Express.  FATAL ACCIDENT AT BLACKWALL —Yesterday afternoon Air. W. Baker held an inquest at dam Artichoke Tavern, High-street, Blackwall, on the body of John Wallis Shores, aged 65. The deceased was a superintendent over the men in the dockyard of Mr. Pitcher, Blackwall. On Friday last the deceased and several men were engaged in weighing a. large quantity of chain. The scales v ere fixed  to the —"shear's,"`and While the men were in the act of removing about six cwt. of the chain, one of the planks slipped away, and the shears fell with great violence, striking the deceased on the right side of the head. He was carried to the surgery of Mr. Frey, but he died shortly afterwards. Sevjal witnesses were examined at great length, who said that they had called the deceased's attenti n to the dangerous condition of the tackle, but be said the lashing on the top was quite safe. The coroner remarked on the evidence, when the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."