The Sun. — 1836-02-25 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  AFFLICTING SUICIDE OF A MARRIED FEMALE AT LADY" ANSON'S HOUSE IN CURZON-STREET, MAY FAlR.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Pitt's Head, Little Stanhope-street, May Fair, before Mr. Gell and a most respectable Jury, on view of the body of Mrs. Charlotte Tooth, aged 48. Thomas Fellows, under-coachman to Col. Anson, of No. 32, Curzon-street, May Fair, knew the deceased, who was the wife of the coachman to Lady Anson, mother of the Colonel. The deceased resided with her husband at her Ladyship's. On Sunday night last witness was out with the carriage, which was driven by .the deceased's husband ; they returned home with her Ladyship and the Colonel. Between eleven and twelve o'clock the same night, witness was engaged in pulling up the carriage, when he heard the deceased's husband call out, " Oh, my God, my wife has hanged herself." Witness immediately ran up stairs and discovered the deceased suspended by the neck to one of the posts of the bedstead by her handkerchief. By the assistance of her husband, who held her in his arms, witness severed the handkerchief; but life appeared to be quite extinct. Several domestics in the service of Lady Anson spoke.to the deceased having been in a low dejected state for some months before her committing the rash act, but they were unable to assign any cause for such. The deceased lived on the most happy terms with her husband. The Jury returned a verdict —" That the deceased destroyed herself in a state of temporary mental derangement."  The inquest again sat on Tuesday upon the body of W. Saundrey, at Woolwich, who it was reported had come to his death by flogging. A post mortem examination had taken place, attended by ten medical gentlemen, who stated that they believed the deceased had died from the effects of fever, and certainly not from flogging. Four of the Jury came to the conclusion that the deceased would not have died but for the flogging he received ; but the remainder expressed themselves of the same opinion as the medical witnesses. The following verdiCt was then delivered to the Coroner by the Foreman :—" That the deceased died by the visitation of God, and not by the bands of any person or persons whatever." _ _  On Mon-day evening the inquiry touching the death of William Adolf Ries, a Polish refugee, was resumed in the Vestryhall of Christchurch, Newgate-street, before Mr. PAYNE, when the further evidence of the surgeon (for which the inquest was adjourned) was taken as to the cause of the death of the unfortunate gentleman. Mr. Hay, Surgeon, of Newgate-street, stated that since the Jury had last met he had opened the body or the deceased, and, after a minute examination, was fully prepared to state that death was not occasioned by poison, but by water on the chest, arising from natural disease. •  The Coroner observed that after such a communication lie imagined the Jury would feel satisfied. From the habitual melancholy of the deceased, as well as from the documents found in his possession, there certainly was sufficient ground to suspect that he had destroyed himself by poison ; it was, however, gratifying to think that the unfortunate gentleman, although weighed down by such a series of misfortunes, had not had recourse to so dreadful an alternative to rid himself of them.  A verdict was then returned of " Died by the visitation of God." •