Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-09-01 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.  Mr. Carttar, West Kent Coroner, haa held an inquest at the Duke of Wellington, Old Woolwich-road, East Greenwich, on the body of Anne Elite Strahan, aged twenty-six, wife of Wllliam Strahan, compositor, and organist of St. Mary's Church, Greenwich. The evident', ahowed that the deceased bad been in depreased spirite since the death of a child in February last, and of late she seemed to have great anxiety about a child ohs expected would shortly be born. She recently moved to 56, Selc:oft-road, East Oreenwich, and the difficulty she experienced in mlecting a suitable place seemed alm to have had an effect upon her. She had before attempted to take poison, but her husband took it from her. Het mother, seeing the state she waa in, induced her to go with her to a doctor in the City-road. The doctor said she required entire change at the seaside. On the occasion of her last visit to her mother ehe said she was going home too home of misery,although her husband was very kind to her. Some days after she seemed in bettee spirit., and her husband left her alone in the house whilst he went to church. When he came home he could make no one hear, and going through a neighbour's house found the back door of his house partly open, am his wife hanging from • beam in the washhome. Her feet were just oil a basket, which was not upset. Near her was an unbaked pie, the tire wae light, and it would seem that whilst preparing dinner she was seized with a sudden impulse to commit suicide. The huaband ran to • neighbour, and asked him to come, but he would nettle then ran to his brother-in-law, Mr. Davis, a clerk, of Glenister-road, Greenwich, who hastened to the house, where he found the front door locked, and going through an adjoining home, oat the body down, but there was no sign of life. He then went for a constable, and the husband arrived with Dr. Nicholson, who pronounced life ex amt. The jury returned a verdict " That the decease; committed suicide whilst labouring under temporary ansanity."  TRLROBAIIIS received from Eau: Donnes, of tern finding of a body hanging on a tree, near Aeneas, in the Val d'Aspe, have caused much excitement at Plympton and the neighbourhood, the fear being that the Rev. Merton Smith, vicar of that parish, who so mysteriously dleappeared from Eaux Bounce bas met with a violent death. The body, when discovered, was much decomposed, and the fact that a large sum of money was found upon it gives rise to the fear that it is the batty of that rev. gentleman. Mr. J. Smith, barrister, of London, Mr. Merton Smith's brother, has telegraphed to the Jugs de Pain of the district for information, and has received a reply that the body is believed to be that of a German. Not satisfied with this, Mr. Smith has telegraphed again for a detailed description of the body. Additional mystery attache.n to the rev, gentleman's disappearance by the fact that some peasants in the neighbourhood declare that he is alive, and add that "lie is well %share he is." These statements have occasioned great anxiety amongst the rev. gentlemazie.friends. . . . _ .  AN inquest has been held by the Lincoln deputy-county coroner on the body of an agricultural labourer, named Ti.omas Duffy, who was found lying dead across the Great Northern line between Lincoln and Boston. • Duffy had been drinking milli some companions, and was returning home on the line, when lie was knocked down hr. }vowing train and killed. A verdict of Accidentally killed " was!neorded.  ----THE Water famine at Northampton still continue. Considerable inconvenience has been occasioned In the Town and County Infirmary, where an adequate Water supply is oiliest importance. . . . _ . . _  INS SEARING anxiety is felt in Holland regarding the fate of the Varna, the vessel commissioned with the sanction of the Government of the Netherlands to take part in the establishment of international meteorological observatories in the Polar regions At a meeting recently held in Amsterdam it was resolved to despatch a vessel from Hammerpest in search of the Varna, whose destination woe Port Dickson. Though application was to be made to the Government to permit the new expedition to be commanded by an officer of the navy of the Netherlands the initiative in the matter is due entirely to Prof. Buys-Ballot, Director-in-Chief of the Meteorological Institute of the University of Utrecht, who, at his own risk, has provided n guarantee fund for that purpose amounting to 100,000 florins, "convinced," as he states," that the people of the Netherlands will in the end not permit the entire expense to fall noon an individual."