The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1866-11-16 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE OF A LADY. Dr. Lankester, the coroner for the weetern division of Middleeex, held an inquiry on Tuesday into the circumstances touching the death of Charlotte Schwab., a German lady, 50 years of age, who threw herself from the bedroom window of her residence, 79, Oxfordterrace, Edgware-road, on Sunday morning last. The inquest wee held in the dining-room of Mr. Schwabe, and upon the jury being sworn they proceeded to an ante-room, in which the body of the unfortunate lady lay. Upon returning, Hermann Morris Schwabe was called. He deposed: lam husband of the deceased. My wife was 50 years old. lam engaged on the Stock Exchange. My wife Las not been in good health lately. She had been suffering from nervous excitement, I called Dr. Harper in about a fortnight ago to see her. The Coroner Did your wife ever threaten to make away with herself ? Witness : Well, I can't charge myself to say that; but elle might have said occasionally, "I wish I WOA dead." Coroner: We all know that she threw herself from the window. Now, do you think she could have known what she was doing P Witness: Well, when she left the breakfast table there was nothing in her demeanour to cause me to think otherwise than that she knew what she was doing. Coroner, When did this happen. Witness: On Sunday morning I and my daughter came home to breakfast, and after we had been some time downstairs my wife came down. She looked very all, and I remarked, "It in a fine morning, we must have a walk in the pack;" to which my wife replied, " Ob, no, not I." She spoke as if it would be too much for her. I then said, "We must have our oonsin one day to dine with ne." To thia she replied, "Oh, no; how can we have him to dine here, situated as I am." I replied, "Well, my dear, yoa have aa good servants as anybody; but women don't know when they are well off." But I did not say this with any degree of acrimony. A few minutes after this my wife got up, and walked out of the room. After being absent some time I sent my daughter to see where her mamma was, and a lamentable scream from her soon afterwards disclosed tte horrible fact that my poor wife had thrown herself out of the window.  (The witness here buret into teare, and appeared to acutely feel the calamity that had befallen his family.) The Coroner Have you any reason to suppose that insanity exists in the family P —Well, yes. I know that my wife's aunt was insane. William John Bird, &cabman, deposed Last Sunday morning about ton o'clock, I wall told that • lady was hanging by some railings in Oxford-terrace. I went there, and found the lady lying with her head on the railings. Two of the spikes were broken, bet one was gone entire y. James Murray deposed: I was pivs'ng by the 11011110 about twenty minutes to ten o'elo a, ant BaW the lady lying as deecribed. She was bleeding from a wound in the head. I called for asaistance, and a cabman and the gentleman of the house came eta, and maosted to carry the lady in. Alfred Pullen, a servant in the service of Mr. Schwabe, deposed that he heard a scream shortly before ten o'clock on the morning in question. None of the servants eaw the decerool lady before this happened. He took her hot water up to her door aa *anal, that morning, but did not knock at her door, became he was generally awake. Coroner: Had you obeerved that Mrs. Schwabe had been low.epirited P—Witneas: No, air. She appeared very comfortable. On Saturday there were come friends dining with her and Mr. Schwabe, and ehe seemed very happy; indeed, she came down into the kitchen after her guests had gone end said she was very pleased with the manner in which the dinner had been served up. She was dressed diff:rently on Sunday morning to what elle was ordinarily dressed. She wore the came dreee rho had worn the previous night. She had been unwell during the past fortnight, and appeared reatless. She need to tell an things and then say she did not. Her memory failed her. Mr. White, surgeon' 20, Oxford-terrace, Edgware. road, deputed that he had examined the injuries nuntamed by the lady. There was a severe compound fracture of the Skill, and the brain was protruding. Her right leg was broken below the knee and her left thigh fractured. Death must have been instantaneous.  ----fie—aoroner here briefly slimmed up the facts, and The Jury returned a verdiot—"That Charlotte Schwabe came by her death by throwing herself from a second-floor window, but that when she did so she was in an unsound state of mind."