The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1898-09-10 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

STUDENT'S SAD END.  An inquest was held at Manchester, on Monday, on the body of Louis Alexander Everard (22), a student at Owens College.—Deceased had been living in St. Mary's-road, Crumpsall, and it was stated in evidence that, with the view of becoming a schoolmaster or tutor, he had devoted himself to earnest study.—His father told the jury that it was with difficulty that he could be induced to leave his books for a brief interval. Witness left him at home about a quarter to nine on Saturday morning.—From other evidence it appeared that at 9.90 the some morning the deceased unexpectedly appeared in front of a train that was passing along the Crumpsall section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, near Holland's Road Bridge. He deliberately jumped in front of the engine, and the driver, applying his brake, pulled up in Crimpsall Station. He examined his engine, but could find no trace of its having struck the deceased. There was at this time another train travelling in the opposite direction, and the deceased coming out of the four-foot over which the first train had passed, crossed the six-foot and jumped in front of the second one. He was knocked down, and death must have followed very quickly. A letter in the deceased's handwriting was found in his pocket. It was signed " Farewell," and was in the following terms:—  "All is over. I cannot exist any longer because of my utter vileness. I no longer believe in God. I know that I am full of evil, and if Ido not put an end to my life I can only bring pain and misery on my family. Would that I had never been born. Nature has made me one of her weak ones; if any temptation comes, however slight, I immediately give way. Why am I so retiring? Because I am afraid of people finding out my base character. I have no love of God, only an intense fear of man; and whose fault is that? U there is a God he made me and gave me this character. He made me vile, and it is impossible to change that character. And so I must go to my own place. I take no interest in anything. I can do nothing well. How can Igo on insisting. I should have to pretend to be religious still. I should live a lie, but it could not last long. Everybodylwould see that lam the basest, the hater, the one who would bring untold calamity on his family without a care. Oh, Mr. Cattarall, you did your best for me. It is all useless. You are strong. You cannot understand that lam vile. You think that a man can convert himself with the aid of God. It is impossible beneath all these lies. Mr. Hyde, if we are born bad there is no hope, no help. I have no moral stamina, no strength. Utterly base, sinful, and atrocious, I go the way of all such." In reply to the Coroner, the father of the deceased said there was nothing to suggest that he was harbouring thoughts snob as the letter suggested.—Another witness called was the Rev. B. Carteret, rector of St. Mary's, Onimpsall, who said deceased was one of the teachers in his Sunday school, and was the librarian of it. If he had been in his right mind he would never have written a letter like that. He was one of the best young men oonnected with his church, and there was nothing base or vile in his nature. He was always reserved and uncommunicative. The Coroner remarked that over - study sometimes brought about snob a state of mind as the deceased had.—A verdict of "Suicide whilst Insane" was returned.  CLARKE'S B SI PILLS are warranted to cure in either sex, all &earn:lined or oonstitutional Discharges hemthe urinary s, Gravel and Pains in the batik, Free from Mercury. stablizhed upwards of 80 = In boxes es. ed each, of all .Jhemists and Medicine Venders throughout the World, or sent for eixty stampe by the makers, The Linot an I Midland Donative Drug Compose Lincoln