The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-10-06 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN THROUGH LOVE.—On Tuesday, Da,s .Hardwicke, deputy coroner for Central Mid!,..l •dlesex, resumed an adjourned enquiry in the boardroom of the Marylebone Workhouse re specting the death of Eliza Payne, aged twenty„l a book machinist, who poisoned herself by, taking a dose of oxalic acid.—Dinah Payne,. mother of the deceased, said she saw her danghter last alive on Saturday the 29th September, when she was very much excited about her sweetheart, who had died in Middlesex hospital. The next time she saw her daughter she was dead. Witness subsequently state 1 that deceased said her sweetheart when dy-ieg threatened to haunt her if she went out with , anyone else. Evidence was then given by ai! police to the effect that the deceased's body was. found shortly after one o'clock on Sunday morning last near to Clarence Gate, Regent's rark. A surgeon was sent for, but she was found to be quite dead. Upon her person w!s found 25., a sikpence and 7d. in copper, a purse, an old ring, and a piece of paper with , her address upon it, but nothing was found to I give any clue as to the cause of her death. John -Eritz, of 11, Park-place, New-street, said lle,ceased took the ring found upon her from , his hand. On Saturday last he took her to the Metropolitan Music I fall, and left her in Highstreet at about a quarter past eleven at night. He was aware that she had kept company with a young man who had died in Middlesex Hospital. Further evidence was taken showing that the deceased was in a desponding state about her former lover. Professor Julian Edward Disborough Rogers said he had made an analysis of the contento of deceased's stomach, and found that death hae resulted from a dose of oxalic acid, taken in solution. He had ascertained that her father used oxalic acid in his trade as a bootinaker. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound mind. Horse and Cattle Medicines, )11 E. SANSOM'S Chemist, Ilindpool-road. MURDER IN BIRMINGIIAIt—On Wednesday, at the Birtningham police-court, before Mr. T. C. S. Kynnersley, Thomas Grayley and Catherine Grayley, married, were chayged with the murder of a man named William Francis Sullivan, under the following shocking circumstances : On the 29th of September the de- I ceased was in Chapel-street, when •a disturbance took place in Drury-lane close at hand. , He went there aad found that the Grayleya ! were fighting with others in the lane. Deceased attempted to stop the fight, and tried to get the combatants away, when the male prisoner rushed into his house, seized a poker, and on his return commenced a furious attack on the deceased, breaking in the back of his skull. Deceased fell apparently lifeless, when the female prim )ner took a brick in her hand and belaboured the deceased fearfully about the face and head. He was then taken to the General 'Hospital, where he died from the injuries. The prisoner was taken into custody, but they denied that they had struck the deceased • the female, however, adding that she had beat some one's head with a brick, but she did not know who it was. They were both committed for trial at the assizes on a charge of wilful murder.