The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-11-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—On Tuesday night the domestics of the Hon. Colonel Begot, of Eaton-square, London, were retiring for the night, it occurred to one of them that the top of a cistern, used for supplying the nursery, which fastens level with the floor, was not so tight down as it should be, and she raised the flap for the purpose of forcing it down closer.. She was than horrified at observing Emma Radwell, the housemaid, crouched down in a sitting posture under the water, and quite dead. The most unaccountable part of the sad story is the small dimensions of the cistern, which has only an opening of about 18 inches square, and so shallow that it was not supposed capable of holding a human being, an I had there been any means for pulling the top down inside, taking this to be a case of suicide, there is no human probability of the body being discovered until decomposition took place. No reason can yet be assigned for this strange affair, except some expressions the deceased let fall, that she feared she should not do her work to satisfy her mistress.  THE MAN WITH MANY WlVES.—Btainall, or Beaumont, the surgeon, was brought up again on Wednesday, at the Mansion House, London, charged with having married several young women, all of whom are now living. Elizabeth Tinley stated, that she was married to the prisoner on the 25th of March, 1843. He stated to her that his name was Henry Edward Beaumont, and five months after the marriage he went to sea. Emily Georgiana Rose, whose affections the prisoner had gained on the passage to India in the vessel in which he was acting as surgeon and she was a passenger, was the next witness called. The poor young creature was an object of great and general commiseration. She has not  yet attained her 16tb year, and upon being called upon according to the customary form to say whether she knew the prisoner, she was quite overpowered by her feelings, and sobbed and wept bitterly. It was well that she had but to answer a question or two. She stated that she was now in Sussex, living with her friends, and that she had been married to the prisoner at the Old Church in Fort William, Bengal, on the 30th of October, 1847, and had lived with him afterwards as his wife. Anna Amelia Bland, who was supported to the chair in the witnessbox, and appeared to be in extreme affliction, gave evidence as to her marriage with the prisoner on the 30th of  September, 1848, and stated that she had lived with him till the Saturday on which he was apprehended. Mr. Coach, a gentleman of well-known respectability in the city, stated that he was brother to Rebecca Coach, the prisoner's first wife. She was now living with her parents at Liskeard. The prisoner left her in 1842. The witness here produced the letter which the prisoner had written to his wife upon his departure, excusing himself for the absence of a day or two. Several other cases can be substantiated against the prisoner. The prisoner passed as a surgeon, and was possessed of a certificate, which belonged to another person, whose name he erased by a chemical process. for the purpose of substituting his own. It is expected that the Apothecaries Company will prosecute him for this offence, as transportation for seven years is the heaviest punishment for all his matrimonial offences.