Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1883-01-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

LEWS.  The Leeds borough coroner has held an Inquest at Armley on the bodies of dames Carling, aged 35, herbalist, and his daughters, aged $ and 3 years. The evidence Showed that the dee-aeon some time ago, having been onfortunate in busines+, sold up his home and went to ddledelphia, where 11 Wtained a good situation. Al ter 'cal been there three ,• he, however, he had to return • .gland in cc-ofeonssmu a serious illness, the money .1,•11 he had g,,t to..mther being spent in paying his . ..•ge out and home .gain. On returning to Leeds he .• a 4nall hose in aefley-atreet, near Armley gaol, .. was only able log. t ,ry little custom. Ilia poverty beved ul on his miwt that Ithi wife for a long time been under the imp-s.cion that he contemplated log the lives of hint -If and children, and in canto. • .—ctse she hod not It his alone for many minutes .; her. Two days b o••• Christmas, however, he Md.. .11 her to go .lown 44 to see the decorations, a. to remaio in tows ccii I,tren o'clock, in ordet that oight be able tog.. ..•.tne meat for the Christmas a lower pi,' Mrs. Carling return d honte sb .es ball-pant el veil k, when she found the door S.ce and her -• .• MI,. Jolly, knock.' loudly .! the ..loor until one in the morning, when og unable to get ie. fb. went to the house of the b•r, 'and there spew Ate rest of the night. Mrs. cwilng returned ho .t half.past tett o'clock the . .  forenoon, and ',tilt renewed her efforts to  gin. a intission, bit ....gig again unsuccessful she got a miner noted ddliart to enter the house b, a whitlow. (hi ice being opened by hien fe the iselilo, l! r.. I sling entered along with Mr golly, and imnie a. a Jai. upstairs. On enterLoy de, room the e to.nid Carling and the two ehil tree lying on th , no.irentiv adeep, but, on a ~,,, the. •• J..oi that the elder child we'•lend, nod the yinieg 0,,0, just breathing, while Carling himself was jo •J. oonJcious state. The w•ineli went down n. 0.., ,pr •i•petor, and two young men then went upstaii a. c , IT .piplescendedagain wliee Carling got 111 It I...i.acy from his pocket, uulecked a drawer, and a nor tram it, with which h thuost eeverid his hi., body. A medical man ,ireined soon aftere enk. b.ii foetid Carlieg on the 'win' of death —in ne L, ee I a few momenta toer It was sliscov Age daughter had dial partly frorn old partly from twirehla poisoning, awl rite peinger child died at Jiro o'clock 11l the oft.,, on from poisoning. It in believed that, hearing idnn e Joel for, doctor, and fearing that the poise., 'chick In hinutelf had taken Ns said ellt have the daeire, affiel soon enciogli, Carling betel ally jumped out f 6.1 nod W.lt hie throat in tho ninener descrilied. oaf, pinata man had left three tiore one to his wile. ne hi his mother-in-law, and a third to the Leeds horo..gh coroner. In his letter to his wife he informed h r 11141, when she received it he and his children would le 110 more, and implored her to keep up her spirits and do the best she could. In his ceminuni. cation to the coroner he informed that gentleman that he had suffered for weeks from dreadful pains in the head, until he Wan nearly frank, and his dmire was to put an end to his Fainiul existence. The jury returned a verdict to the effect "That Carling murdered his two children and committed suicide whilst in an unsound stale of mind."