Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-11-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

COI.OLIer it was purely for registration purposes. They might send her to prison, but the would never tell. The euroner did not pursue this 00111.0, arid a verdiot was returned no the effect that the deceased committed suicide whils temporarily I 12814115*  At the Kenstngton Town-hall on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Dom:tons Drew bell an inquest on the body of Oftptsiri the Hon. Frederick Charles Howard, aged fifty-three years, son of the 'wood, sod brother of the present Earl of Effingharo, who was found ,ht dead at his residence, 34, Evelyngardens, South Eeneingtou, ou Thursday after noon. . Mr. B. Hallett, of ths Pinned'lly Olub,identified the lowly an than of his friend Captain Howard, ! who was formerly • captains m she Ooldstrentrn Guards. !luring the last tour or lire weeks the witness had noticed a zrest change in Captain Howard. He wan very depreesed. his health was bad, and bin appetite bad failed. The deceased had told witness that he we not feeling well. He was not, in witnese's opinion, a likely man to commit suicide. The witness last saw Captain Howard on Wednesday evening in the City. He was troubled &Lilac one Or two MisOr western, but there woe nothing no have led him to commit suicide. The deceased was an exceedingly him perete man. Jam-s Vase, butler to the deceased, donated that he had been in bad health for some time peat. The witness did not know that them had bean any insanity in the family. On Wedniadey night the deceased went to bed at about son o'clock—a very unusual time for him— and during the night the witness went past his room several times, and heard him vomiting. The witness did not think there was anything particularly wrong, therefore he did not go into the 100111. NOILE morning he went 0,5 of the house about half -past ten, and returned in about thi es-quarters of an hour. Shortly after eleven o'clock someone brought a note for the deceased. The witness went into his room, and seividim on • chair. Thinkins he VIM asleep, the witness went downstairs and told the person who had brought the note that Captain Howard was asleep, end that he did not wish to wake him. The person said, "You must do en, as I want to deliver this note." The witness went back to the captain's room. He then nntioed a revolver in the right hand of the deceased, end saw some blond on the floor. He took hold of the demeried's heed, and found it was cold. The police and the doctor  were then sent for. Mr. Gordon Frederick Henry Charles Howard, son of the dectutsed, said he last saw his father on the morning of his death. It wee about 9 30, and the deceased was then in bed. He seemed ill, and complained that hi, head EIS very bad. The witness wished to send for • doctor, but his father maid no, and seated that if they left him alone ha would be all right, as he only had a bad headache. Dr. Lankoster, of 1., Elm Park -gardens, said he waircalled to the house about 1 10 on Thursday. In a back room on the grquni flour be saw the deceased in an armchair, lying on his left %ids The revolver produced was tightly grasped in hi. ; right hand, and his finger was sound the trigger. There was a bullet wound on the eight tenople,and the bullet had apparently gone through the head. In reply to question, by the jury, the coroner's officer said there were no papers in the room to throw any light on the cause of the death, and Mr. Mann stated that the note which was delivered It the house after the death was returned to the writer, but there was no reason to connect it with the action of the deceased. The jury returned a verdict of suicids whilst of unsound mind.  The "Yorkshire Evening Poet • publishes an account of • visit which it is •tated • Leeds detective has paid to Jebes Spanner Balfour. He is said to live in great owl. about 25 miles from Buenos Ayres. Hie residence guerded by mounted and armed police, who on several omissions prevented the detective from effecting on interview with Bailout, and one of these aimed policemen volunteered the information that any attempt to forcibly carry off Balfour would be futile, a. his defensive forts numbered one hundred armed men, and that spaniel arrangements were being made to provide reinforcements if numeracy. Balfour's house is situated in what the detective describes se • perfect ferylaml.