The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1905-04-15 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SAD SUICIDE.  A BIRKENHEAD CLERK TAKES HIM LIFE  The melancholy lie of tragic meal. in Birkenhead has been added to this weak bY a Weide of • very Pabaftli 01/11121106tr. A young solicitor's clink, named dart Him , on Widnes&lky afternoon took his own lire by cutting his throat,. apparently In • It of armee mental 'deprivation brought on bt, Pbraesi sugsring. or Imagined suffering. muroorth was a ohs* to Mr. Timm. Pugh, aolicitor, of 11, Duncanstreet, and woe only fis reAla of lie. lived with his widowed mother &eV; Pad..li Beld-avenst. . Prom the evidence give& at the imitate, lied by Mr. Cecil Ifoldon at the Town Mll yesterday afternoon, the following are the cironsistimes of the aad cue. The decowed bad for id or seven weeks Bast semPleued of feeling unwell, and meribad it to indigestion. ''Latterly also be bad suffered from glesplesanese, and he to his mother that he had "some serious Zinnplaint of the stomach," or, as she mid. "fancied that he bad." On Monday last ho saw Wilson, whom ha hod occasionally consulted, and that geutieman prescribed fOr him, but told him there was sobbing actually wrong with him. Last Wednesday he was at Mr. Pughb office as usual, but about ten minutes past five—or some twenty initiates earlier their nsue—he went horse, because he did not fee Wel. Cln retching home be asked his mother to get tee for him, as must and then went up When tea was ready, and he had not owns down, Mrs. Burworth went up to hie non to tell him, and found the door linked. Not getting any answer to her blocks, .hi imam, alarmed, and celled a young moo maned Stlarard Barbee, who. Bred- next ,door at No. 43. Hughes worst upstairs and hmoc.ked at the dear, and there being still no answer he got a ladder from his own house, and went up it to the window of Hayworth'. bedroom. The. window. hod been pl.oed 'side open, and a shocking eight me Hughes's Esse, for young Buz:worth was lying on the bed with his threat cut, apparently dead. Hugh,. went hack lowa the ladder end at once tient hie brother for a doctor, and then, With a lodger awned Brans, ascended the ladder mem and entered the room. Burworth was lying "in a pool of blood." With his feed on the pillow and his leg. crossed, and en a rug close to the bed thene-treo more blood, raid a blood-stained tailor. No signs of a struggle were to be noticed. Dr. McDonald was the seedicial gentleman celled in, and he found life extinct. There wee, a deep wound in tbe unfortunate young man'. throat, Are inches long, cutting into all the important stricture, and some of the large blood Teases. P.C. MoArdell (13A) was called in. and took possession of the MEM%  --in-her evidence. lkw Hurwerth. eh.) was greatly distressed, said the dammed had bod no trouble whatever *Part_ from the complaint lm mined to be mitering !rem and ohe board no mend while be wee to bedroom. •  Pnth. wheal:tr. gave evidence and mid the demand bed been with him for ter years. For the last five or six weeks be bed beer low.mirited and net cone, and oecasionally had complained of indigeition. On Monday morning last, WIMP witnoas mined him how be WAR, he mid he bad bad • very al:pleasant night. and addict that be kili:sisort of churning 'enmities, is the• ,which made him foil frightened ""lirgennit." Or Wieditseday marring, when witnelmi remarked that he honed be was bettor, h. said "he felt. 0r that be 4• be." Mr. ,Pugh-a added that be thettgibt rely hithly of die deceased, end had the litinont easdleincie in him; and it must have been some unesuirollable totptttoe thatcausid him to do snob a terrible thing. It was quite conAvary to what one would have excreted of him. The reser Vas identilibd by William John Moore, a borminh police °Mutable, bret'ber-iii-low of the &cakes& lo e the lidderb /Import!. ' 'Pb. jury retntaird a verdict of "Suicide during tensporrry Misanity," aid earpsamed , their sympathy with the mother of the fie. ,sceased.