Glasgow Courier. — 1844-11-30 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

JIMA SUICIDE AT MILE-END.  comma's 12‘40ZIT. noon, Mr. Baker, Coroner for the Eastern ex, and • jury of the inhabitants of Stepney, Ix Tavern, Rowell Btreet, Mile-end, to inquire Charles William Duckett, aged 21, and Eliasal 22, the two young possess who destroyed ig prussic acid, under the very extraordinary Ii have been already partially detailed in the roil. irrence created considerable eacitement In the d inch was the morbid taste for the horrible, cm was crowded. The jury having viewed the 3 the position in which they were discovered description of which has already appeared, the ed into. , a brother of the derailed women, was sworn. t No. 11,Cannon Street Road, St. George's-inceased, Elizabeth Williams. was my sister, and other, who is • widow. I knew the deceased, =keit, who was assistant to, and resided with, .ageat, No. 9, Raven Haw, Mile-end. 1 have sister has been very low-spirited for the last s. She was most affectionately attached to the with whom she had been acquainted for some my possession lore letters proving that their latest. Their attachment to each other WWI families, and their marriage wan only delayed ircumstances. We attributed my sister's meceedingly jealous disposition of Duckett with were here produced, which were addressed to .beth Williams by Duckett; many of them were ritten in the most extravagant love-sick strain. last saw my sister on Sunday after dinner, home with my mother. She went out at halffternoon with Mr. Duckett, with the intention, o church. He told her to Wrap up well, as it My sister did not return from church at the .ween 11 and 12 o'clock land my brother went Duckett, sea., to see if she was there. Mr. )ened the door, and said he had not seen either mm. He accompanied me back to may mother's, home again, wondering where they could be. rters of an hour after, Mr. Duckett again arir's, and related the shocking occurrence, and them both dead at his house. We never had either of them contemplated suicide; butibont )uckett borrowed the Pharmacopaia, a medisaying he wanted it to aid him in preparing  e handed to him a le.ter which was found in an sok border lying on the table in the room where covered, addressed "To Miss Margaret Chapeet, Commercial Road," a cousin of Miss Wilproceeded to read the following, written on the .ely under the address:— our sacred and dying wish, that this letter be bands of the above lady. Such is our final re. r may this find, we pray they may give the same " E. W. C. W. D." were then read; one consisted of poetry ad. hapman, beautifully written and illuminated in inks, entitled "The Last Lay of the Broken ries were 21 in number, bat the following ee-1 fair sample of the entire oomposition:— u the scene—look here and thou shall find It wounded with sternest Borrow's dart;  n'd brain, the wild, the wandering mind, k that's blighted, and the Broken Heart, I each other, joined in band and heart, ad together in one holy tie— cannot, and we oe'er will part; • live, and then together die.  on of the verses was written the following : ly vow, freely given from both our hearts. We h other. We solemnly and without reluctance to die together—testifying to the truth thereof I:1 our names, thus proving our perfect will to the arms of one another. ELIZAB•TH WILLIAMS and "