The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1902-08-23 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

TRZ INQ OUT.  Mr. Cecil Holden ,Ixaousti wooer) eonduoad she irq st  Mrs. Fisher was .the fires witnas ceAsd. She mid that ehe was the widor of James Misguide? Fisher, who was aged 09, and a wine and spirit merchant at No. US, Berough-risad. We heel suffered frees a very severe illaem for a long time. On Sturniy evening she was attending to him, and about eight c'olook ode want downstairs to open the door and let the dog in. As she was ascending the Mails sh• beard menet/sing fall in her husband's room, and hurrying thire foond the degenegtA .1=0E41,04 be 1.1"" She noticed some W on carpet, and at once obtained assistance, three doctors aeheiqesatly arriving tied her hasband bears taken mosbulemoe to, the hospital. Danly oh Monday moinTig—alsont three o'clock—she saw her husband, wise bed then esorwere4 conecionscsas Lad waa Ask to •speak ember. He said he did not kart, what Pesesesedhim to de the iajary to linneelf,. and he wee very sorry he had done it. Edgar gores, Am Meows. Bibb Bros., stated that he 'red at 50, crougnroad, a bowie which wee just opposite the deceased man's esta'olithment. About eight dole& on Sunday night he was fatting in his front room, when he ssw Mrs. Fisher porno running out of her shop an a eery elcited manner. if. immediately went entside, and hearing annum front Wade, went thrwagh the doorway. Mrs. Fishes jelled eat "For Ged'• seise, ecime op." He wept up*tabu and saw the chewed men yiag on the door, with Mts. Fisher supporting Lie bead and trying to Mop the bleed. Which was redi over the carpet The doctor; arrived, and the injured man was taken to the hos. tel, Waage found a reser alma to the 15r. Mruphy said he was a Phyrietem and surgeon in practice in Weeinitaredresed. I. had been attending the dtoesseti man since the Ord July for peritonitis and ebstrastion ot the bowels, which VAS a very painful complaint. On Sunday monism he saw him sheet half-past elem. Ho oceogasined of belnj hear y, whisk wigwam thecieM wee a goud sign that he was recovering. Oa itan. tiny e boaae.: d found he wase dcoiased mensacielwasy called tha lying w, the neer, with • pillow amidst his bead and Dm. Andersen sad Harrington attandieg him. It wee thought beet *et he should be removed to the hospital, and there he was taken, witness journeying with him. Every pomible endeavour was made to save life, but without avail; he died at gin o'clock as Monday morning. The deceased men WM of very temperate habits; east was certainly one of the meet temperate men witness bad anr known in the business. It was veil, difficult to get him to drink, area for hie health. The Coroner Do yen think the lanais bad anythieg to tie with this haps.seningl Witness: Well, be went through an awful lot 01 Pain, sod said he could not gs_througa say more. We =.*l,,tr have osseladed to take his life through this. Dr. John Morrison, bonee surgeon at the alwaligh acepetai. mai ha received the der osesed niaa,wke was then aiseeaseiens. Early in the women be recoreeed eenseimionrsa, bye died a few hears later. The wound wee be inshas The The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whiie of eseound mind," and oho extended their sympathy to the widow in her emit lsereassement.