The Sun. — 1832-01-14 (London, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE.  An inquisition was last night held at the Magpie and Stump, Fetter-lane, before Mr. PAYNE, and a respectable Jury, on the body of Sarah Sykes, a fine young woman, aged 21. William King, the Ward-beadle of Farringdonwithout, about eleven o'clock the preceding morning, was sent for by Mr. Green, baker, of No. 103, Fetter-lane. On his arrival there he was called into the parlour by Mr. and Mrs. Green, who informed him that they had been robbed by the deceased, who was servant in the house. After some preliminary conversation, the young woman was re quested to come into the room, and Mrs. Green then asked her if she had not always found her a kind mistress? She replied, " Most certainly 1 have." Mrs. Green then said, " You have been robbing us for some time past, and you know it ;" and the deceased then confessed that she had purloined three ss. papers of copper, and that she was sorry for having done so. Mr. Green then told her that he was determined she should go before a Magistrate, at which she appeared most dreadfully agitated, and implored forgiveness. Mr. Green appeared inexorable and determined, and witness then said to her, " Come, you must put on your bonnet, and come with me." On hearing this, after a moment's pause, she darted out of the room like lightning, and flew up stairs. Mr. Green then said to witness, " For God's sake follow her, she means mischief." Witness rushed out of the room after her, but was met in the passage by a fierce dog, which delayed his progress for a few moments, and he was then convinced, by the violent banging of a door up stairs that the deceased had committed some dreadful act. Mrs. Green having called the dog off, they proceeded up stairs together as quick as possible, when, on entering Mrs. Green's bed-room on the second floor, they were horror-struck at beholding the deceased standtog before the looking-glass, with a dreadful gash in her throat, from which the blood was streaming. Witness ran up to her, and caught her in his arms us she was in the act of falling. He then laid her on the floor, and perceived that she was expiring. By a Juror—When witness told her she must come with him, it was only done to frighten her, as Mr. Green had previously told him that he did not mean to prosecute.  The CORONER here observed that the witness had done extremely wrong in frightening the deceased in the way he had done, when he knew it was not the intention of Mr. Green to prosecute. Mrs. Sophia Green deposed that the deceased had been in her service about seven months. She was a strictly moral girl, and possessed a high spirit; she was a native of Yorkshire. Witness had no cause to suspect her honesty till the day prior to hei death.  Mr. Green corroborated the testimony of his wife, and described the deceased as a most excellent servant.  The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."  We hear that the LORD CHANCELLOR has proposed to Lord MILTON to accept a Peerage, under a certain contingency ; and that the Noble Lord declined on several grounds, but principally because he wished to remain in the Commons in order to push his proposed alteration in the Corn Laws.—Leeds Intelligencer.  The motions made in the House of Cornmons by Mr. HUNT, have so much weight, that he naturally finds the greatest difficulty in getting them carried. —Figaro in London.