The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1881-04-16 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

SINGULAR P. An inquest was held at tin.. . William street, on Wednesday att... M. Hewes, coroner, as to the death Gill, bu teherAged 22 years.-sad landlord of the Ivy Cott, body as that of his son, and previous day be came home b, o'clock, took off his coat, ar yard. The family sat down deceased did not come in, 1%. and called him, and he said, " went on with their dinner,and as come in, witness asked where he was, and was told he was in the loft. After dinner he (witness) went into the shop, and • few minutes alter esoe back and inquired where the decreased was, and they said he was still in the loft. .He went to leek for him, and found him hanging from a beam by a clothes line. He immediately cut him down, but he appeared to be dead. Notwith. standing this, they sent off at once for medical aid. There was no one with deceased, and he (witness) had no doubt that he committed suicide. During the last few days he had noticed that the deceased had been very dull, and when he spoke to him on the previous day on hominess matters he did not reply. Deceased went to Packington races on Friday, but not on Saturday. He did not know whether he had lost money there or not—whenever he spoke to him on the subject he had always denied being mixed up in betting transactions. Deceased had never attempted suicide before, or threatened to do no. —Emma Walker, aunt of the deceased, said she spoke to the deceased against the slaughter-house door, and told him dinner was ready, and asked him to come in. Deceased did not reply, but OS she went into the house he turned and saw him go up the ladder to the loft. She noticed deceased seemed strangeslll the morning. On the Sunday she told him he seemed dull and ill. but he said there was nothing the matter with him. She went out again on the previous day, about five minutes after the dinner was ready, and called him three times, and the last time he said, " I'm coming," but in a gurgling sort of tone.—Dr. Milner Moore Pala he was called to deceased at about twenty 11l ill Mei; past two on the previous day. He found him lying on his back in the loft. He was quite dead from strangulation—the drop was not long enough to cause dislocation.—The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed tltliCiae by hanging himself, and that there was no evidence to show the state of his mind at the time.  butcher,  :rage, ' said  -I son  Notwith- i  On Friday evening an inquest was held at the Queen's Hotabefore Mr. Coroner DCWCO, as to the cause of the death of Charles Walker, twe,o, years of age, the son of Win. Walker, keeper of the Grey Friar, Greyfriars'-lane.— The toothier of the deceased stated that on Thursday morning the deceased was helping his father with the cows and horses, and went home to dinner at one o'clock. He went into a hay loft at the back of the house, and witness called to him to come down. Deceased answered her, saying, "Do you want me, mother?" and she said, "Yea, come down." He then came into the house, but complained that he could not eat any dinner, and went up into tho loft again. Soon afterwards witness called deceased again, aed as ho did not answer she went into the loft and saw him hanging to a beam, with his in-ins held out before him. She tried to loosen the rope, but could not do so ; but, raising an alarm, a neighbour came and cut him down. He WWI then quite dead. Witness said the deceased had been much impressed by the death of his cousin, Thomas Gill, on the previous Tuesday. Since that time he had seemed nervous and irritable, and during the night he often raved in his sleep about it. Witness knew of nothing else to have caused him any anxiety, as he always had a good home.— Thomas Barton, marine store dealer, deposed to being called to the loft by Mrs. Walker, and finding deceased hanging, (mite dead. He cut him down and then left.—Dr. A. Res.d stated that from a superficial oxamivation of the deceased he was of opinion that death resulted from strangulation.—lnspector Coombs produced the rope with which deceased hung himself. —The Coroner briefly summed up, remarking that the case was very like the one before him on the previous Tuesday. Ile suggested that a similar verdict should be returned. --The jury returned a veidiet that deceased destroyed himself, but that there was no evideuee as to his state of mind at the time.