Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-02-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN AI WALLASEY.  On Wednesdey at noon the body of a gentleman wss found ia a field at Hcen-side, Walimey. The body wee identified me thatf Mr. Thomas Peel, who resided at Bark-terrace, Liscard, and was formerly in bonnets as %paper merchant in Liverpool. On cleceaasid'e temple was a bullet wound, and by his side was a revolver, with which he is believed to have shot himself. Deceased was fifty-nine years of age, but no reason can be assigned to have induced him to commit suicide. At the Boathouse Hotel, The Magazines, New Brighton,an inquest was held before Mr. Churton, on 'fbuzsday, in regard to the death nf Mr. Thos. Feel, who was found deed in a field at Liticerd on Tuesday with a bullet wound through his head. The first witness was Henry Kent, a young man residing in Sandy-lane, Wallasey, who stated that, about 3 30 on Tuesday afternoon he saw deceased on the footpath in the cricket field at Horse-side, Liscard. He was walking about, and witness, who was ploughing in a field close by, thought deceased was merely taking an airing. He therefore took no special notice of bon. About half-past five, however, he heard a report of firearms, and running in the direction from which the sound came he Eland deceased lying on his back in the field. There was a bullet wound in his temple from which blood was flowing, and ohms by deceased's right hand was a five-chambered revolver. The man was apparently quite dead. Witness sent a messenger for the police while he remained bear the body, afterwards assieting to remove it. Police-con/Sable 219 (Bowden) deposed that he was called to the field soon after the occurrence, and found the body as atated by Kent. The revolver contained four charged cartridges and one empty case. Among the papers found on the body was a business card showing deceased to have been partner in a fire, of psalm dealers in White. chapel, Liverpool., There was nu clue as to the discerned having any intention of shooting himself. Mrs. Sarah Oarroll,sieterin law of the deceased, amid ehe had tended with him at Paikrerrace, Liscard, since he went there ia June, 1891. He had stayed at home since Friday last, and on Tuesday lie did not get down till dinner time. He had been lying late in the mornings became he could sot /deep at night. He had complained that this had Ins& him very depressed, and. in addition, else business into which he tied lately gone was not prospering. Deceased and on Monday, when his partner sent word abet no business had been done for two days, " Unless there is some bunnies soon it will kill me." He left home at three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, saying he would go for a walk and see whether it would help him to sleep at night. In addition to his tinniness not succeeding he had been very unfortunate in his inveetmanta, for instead of having dividends to draw, be had bad to pay calls of hundreds of pounds, Witness never saw a revolver in hie possession, and be was pert actly rational, akthough much diecurbed in his mind. He refused to take spirits for the porpoise of helping him to sleep. He had six Ilene children et home, and he cried over them s great deal when hie investment* began to go wrong. Hs had been separated from hie wife for four years, and at her request witness had under-, taken the charge of the children in preference to a stranger doing no. Mr. Chmton, in aomming up, said he had never heard of ouch a series of misfortunes as had pursued the deceased, and it was no wonder they , acted upon his mind. . . _ . .  dmaresond, ioh he had  ----------- while tompararily insane wee reeurned.