The Sun. — 1858-07-19 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF HUSBAND AND ST.OPSON.  Some time since we gave an account of the death by suicide of a man called Hyde, living at Lindley, near Huddersfield, whose death was, there was good reason to suppose, hastened by the wreteh;d character of his home, superintended by a second wife. Since that fatal close of his career one of the children, a boy of It, has followed his unfortunate father's example, and on Wednesday, at the Globe Inn, Lindley, a jury, presided over by G. Dyson, Esq., the c 'toner, held their inquisition over the body of John Hyde, the youth iu question, who on the previous Monday morning was foundhanging on the bough of a thorn, in a field near the high road. Three members of the family, a brother and two sisters, were called in succession before the jury, and in the presence of the stepmother gave evidence of the unceasing ill usage which had driven them all away from her house to live in lodgings with kinder relatives or more humane strangers, and now testified to theeonduct which had made their poor father and brother the victims of despair. Hannah Hyde, a sister, deposed r e; to having seen the deceased about a week since. Ho said he dared not stop to speak to me, as he would 61,1ai he ettnleirdast.hhaedt She asked ansokteadlwhaoyc vs phoerrwilge sfe.dni Hsrae° e would take a saucepan into a neighbour's house, put haver bread and dry bread in, and scald it, and sometimes the milk was tippered (sour), and sometimessiceos. He said she was selling the things in the how°, and had told him he would not have long to stop with her. Last night the witness went to the house and saw some bedding on the floor (the brother's bed), but she did not ( ,he stepmother being there) turn it down. He bad to wash his shirt and smock himself, and sometimes on the Sunday m When she left him on the day spoken to, he said his mother had never given him any. thing, not a halfpenny, since his father died. "We cried," she said, " for we were both in trouble. I gave him twopence myself."—Harriet Hyde, the stepmother, wascalled. She denied having punished the lad since they had lived at Marsh, except by tap with her hand. She had spoken rather harshly to hirn because he would not clean himself. Re never hinted at des'royiug himself. He was very ditty. The shirt the body was found in had been put on on purpose to disgrace her through the country, a good shirt with linen wris• bands having been taken off. Why he had hung himself was a mystery to her. The coroner having carefully summed up the evident', the jury, after a few minutes' consideration, returned a verdict, " That the deceased had hung himself while depressed in his mind,". and added, " That the conduct of the stepmother was very reprehensible in the treatment of the whole of the children." At the request of the jury, the woman was called in, and the coroner addressed her in grave teems of animadversion. He regretted that the law gave no power to punish her, but her punishment, as it was, would be great enough, for her neighbours would all know what had taken place, and that she had brought it all en herself.. When she married her late husband, she took the children to bring up and care for, and she had driven them all from their home. The father, and now the son, had made away with themselves. That a lad should do this when life was buoyant and cheerful, proved that there must have been Font cease for it. He hoped that for the rest ofehervilnifg this would be a lesson to her, and that future,b her with greater kindness to her children in. her awakened consc:ence might in thetoe D be protected peace of mind. The woman had_ _ b— the pom 50 violent to and from the jury-room y was the demonstration against o f her by members —_ee 8 her own sex in the neighbourhood. L ditfercurg.  procured the - _— he AustrianP, occurs in a rneolveselseway, in a drama on the Indian war, now being played with great success at New York. An American, t ken prisoner by the. rebels, is brought before Nana The name o 1./nert Captain Kost flronmgratharn,. who Sahib,h who orders him to be impaled, or something equally herrible. The Yankee, not the least dismayed, 000lly remarks, " You can kill me, I guess ; but, sirree. Capta'n Ingraham will settle with you afterwards." Whereupon the knees of the fiendish rebel begin to shake, and amidst thunders of spplause from the- epee• tators, ke hurriedly vets the American free.