The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1877-07-06 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

PIE SUICIDE AT SOUTHERNDOWN.  The inquest was held before the coroner, Mr. Thomas Stockwood, at the house of Mr. John Lysaght, Southerndown, on Friday last, touching the death of John Lockyer, who committed suicide an that day, when the following evidence was teken L utra Davies said: I am a servant of Mr. Lys g'it ; I entered into his service on Monday last; knew the deceased since Tuesday Just; then I saw him for the first time in the house ; he also was a servatt of Mr. Lysagbes ; he said he was rather out of sorts, not quite the thing in health or spirits; he attended to his work on Weirnmilay and Thurs. day; I last saw him alive about half-past ten o'clock on Thursday night; he then left the kitchen and went to bed; he had eaten is good supper, and was about the same in health and spirits; he said be would not get up the next (that was this) morning until about five o'clock; he bad previously got up at four o'clock ; I got up about a quarter to seven this morning, and went for some wood to light the fire, and I saw the deceased hanging in the stable with a rope round his neck; be was perfectly still ; I gave the alarm at once, and Mr. Powell, of West Farm, and others came, and he assent down ; I never heard him make use of any threat to do anything of the kind, or say that he was in any trouble • I am not aware of anything that could have induced him to kill himself. Samuel Howells sold : An alarm was given this morning, and 1 ran to this house and found the deceased hanging by the beam, with a rope round his neck, and a slip knot on the rope ;1,1 cut him down ; he was cold, but not very stiff; :I believe he had been dead smug hours. John Lysaght said live at Stoke Bishop, near Bristol; my family retnoved here the week before last • Iknew the deceased, and had known him for the last 15 years; he bad been in my service during all that time, at one time as farm bailiff, latterly as lodge-keeper and assistant gardener; he was 67 years of age, I believe, a married man with grownup children ; I am not aware of anything in his domestic life or money affairs that could have induced him to take sioVay his life; I believe there was nothing of the kind ; his general health was moderately good; within the last few days he has suffered from diarrlicei, and, I believe, a slight attack on his kidneys, and had also complained of sleeplessness; but he continued his work, and was not under the care of any medical man; his disposition was peculiar, most conscientious, earnest, and over-anxious in his work ; a little matter which others would regard a trifle would be magnified into large proportions by him. and he often worried himself about little matters of no real consequence; he left home for this place on Tuesday, and was then unwell; hi came across the lea without being sick; the journey had a depressing effect upon him, from which he never recovered • he had never been on the sea before, and had a dread of it; when be arrived here he began his work, and found it more difficult than he expected, and worried himself about it, and I believe the worry upset him, and he lost the balance of his mind, and that induced him to do what he did. Verdict, "Temporary insanity,"