The Sun. — 1856-02-19 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF MB. JOHN SADLEIR, M.P.  Although until the nature of the evidence as to the motive which induced Mr. Sadleir to commit suicide be known nothing positive can be stated, yet there seems to be an impression that the deceased had disordered his mind by over-speculation. That the deceased committed suicide the medical post mortem examination performed yesterday and other facts which have come to light distinctly prove. It seems that the deceased was at his club up till half-past 10 on Saturday night, at which hour he returned to his residence, 11, Gloucestersquare. At the club his friends observed nothing strange in his manner, and when he arrived home he seemed in his usual calm state of mind. He then ordered coffee, and, as he required nothing farther, the servants, as was usual with them at that hour, retired to rest, leaving their master up drinking his coffee. Whether he went out immediately after taking the coffee, or remained in until early the following morning, and then strolled up to Hampstead, no one can say, but the latter is the presumption, although at the same time it is certain that he did not go to bed that night, as his bed was found undisturbed the following (Sunday) morning, and when the servants got up they found their master absent. Indeed his hours were to uncertain, on account of his Parliamentary duties, that the servants were not alarmed at his absence on the Morning in question, for they considered he might have made an appointment hleat.ists:ileittgehleueitspiirbeaovmdioypusstweanaidsg,hfato.tunjdllnoekonslwyt ar saaw senwTt haievaerrhons be. , from ilaonomdf that inn. It has been erroneously stated that, filo deceased's remains were discovered by the poliCe;but they were found by a man named Bates, a donkey driver, who at half-past eight on Sunday morning was proceeding in search of a strayed animal, when he came upon the corpse as it lay at about 150 yards from Jack Straw's Castle, on the west side of the heath, and close to a small footpath which leads down from the flagstaff at the top of the hill. Bates immediately hurried to the police-station, Inspector Green (S division) and other members of the force at once proceeded to the spot, and there found the deceased lying as if asleep on a small mound, which he had evidently expressly picked out for the occasion, and a silver cup, together with a largesized, bottle, marked with several labels, " Poison,' by his side. Life had been extinct some time, It the body was then warm. Inspector Green paper, on removed to the workhouse, and, upon h S dl Jo n a eir, g which was written in a clear bold hand, There ehxaode, ituhieo b otdb the deceased's pockets he found a small slip of 11, Gloucester-square, Hyde Park. some some money, in gold and notes, in the deceased's 13. ckets, erdasnoorsdaonudbsteveral lumps intended to asof liamlefoeuagacra,sewcboixeibtatihneindgeotweaeo take with the poison. Inspector Green, through the slip of paper alluded to, was at once enabled to send to town and have the deceased identified, the writing on the paper being recognised as his own, so that the poor man must have prepared it with the express intention of its being the means of leading to his identification. The silver cup was immediately recognised as the deceased's own property through its bearing his crest. The bottle which had contained the poison, and which would hold at least half a pint, was not only labelled in several places with the word "poison," but the leather covering over the stopper had the same word written thrice across it in large letters. The deceased was a bachelor, and the melancholy event was in the course of yesterday telegraphed to his only relative, a brother residing in Ireland.