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The Sun. — 1834-02-10 (London, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE OF AN ARTIST.— On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, at the Orange-tree Tavern, New-road, St. Pancras, on the body of Mr. Joshua Manning, aged 23, an artist, occupying apartments at No. 8, Great George-street. Mr. Prendergast, the barrister, said he was an intimate friend of the deceased, who was a young man of considerable talents and promise in his profession. On Tuesday evening he drank tea with the deceased, who appeared exceedingly melancholy, and conducted himself in such a way that witness should have thought it was his intention to insult him, had he not known him to be incapable of so doing• The deceased had been subject to fits of melancholy from his infancy. Ou Wednesday morning the report of a pis of was heard in his room, but, as this had taken place before, no alarm was excited. S only afterwards Mr.. Manning, the deceased's mother, called en when it was discovered that the deceased had shot himself through the heart with a pistol, which was lying on the table. Mr. Prendergast stated that the deceased was in the habit of receiving men and women at his apartment, for the purpose of modelling from them. He was not aware that he bad formed any acquaintance with a lady, but a female had sometimes visited him, and remained there an hour and a half. He had once shot one of his models in his apartment; and a few days before his dissolution, be requested his servant to buy him a leg of mutton, that he might ascertain how far be could shoot a ball through it. The ni,lat previous to the commission of the act he returned home in tears, and was very de• pressed in spirits. He forwarded a letter to his mother on the same night, bequeathing to her 2001., and ending his letter with some c-infused rhyme, such as  _ " I am free, I am free, The world's disease is o'er with me."  The Jury returned a verdict of "Insanity." Mr. Prendergast stated that the deceased bad received several rewards from the British Institution.
The Sun. — 1834-04-10 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST—AFFLICTING CASE OF SUlClDE.—Yesterday evening an inquest was held before W. Baker, Esq., Coroner,. at the Blue Ball public-house, Whitecross-place, Moorfields, on the body of a young married woman, named Sarah Coombs, who destroyed herself in a fit of insanity, occasioned by the ill usage of her husband. The unfortunate deceased, a very industrious and sober female, was the wife of a costermonger, to whom she had been married about eight years. He had been in the habit of ill using her, and threatening her life. On Tuesday morning the deceased called upon Mrs. Brickley, an acquaintance, living in Foreman's-alley, Moorfields. She appeared much agitated, and was crying bitterly. She inquired after her mother, who was in the habit of calling at the house, and said that she had been severely beaten by her husband on the preceding night, and that in con.. sage equeinactehoefhheiassberouftaalfitryiesande, whereas compelleda d tpoa ss es ee dk trhe , f night. She also stated that her husband had threatened to kill her with a poker, and that she met him that morning in the Kingsland-road, when he abused her for stopping out all night, and threw a large flint stone she at, her -head, which brushed her clothes. He swore he would have her life if she came home at night. After conversing with Mrs. Brickley for a few minutes, e n some creatureer fu l poison. burst she asked for a cup of tea, which she drank. Soon afterwards she began to vomit, her countenance changed colour, and she exhibited all the symptoms of a person who had taken ih e poorpw She told Mrs. Brickley that she did not intend to go home again, but had her friends begged her to think better of it, on account of the child. into tears, and said that day would end her troubles. Mrs. Bricklov assisted her towards the bed, on which she caught hold of her hand, and said, " Don't be alarmed, I have come here to die." Mrs. Brickley asked her if she should fetch a doctor, but she replied, " Oh no, I am too far gone." Mrs. Brickley, however, called for assistance, and left the deceased in charge f some other females, while she went in search of a surgeon, but before slie relurned the deceased was a corpse. After hearing the evidence of the surgeon and other witneP,se:, "ury returned a verdict that the deceased conintivx suicide while in a state of mental deranaelnent.
The Sun. — 1834-08-21 (London, England)

QUEEN- S QUARE.  A RELATlON.—Yesterday Glass, one of the messengers of St. Margaret's Workhouse, attended before Mr. WHITE to communicate to him the result of an application he bad made, to the relations of a young female, named Louisa Charrington, who had attempted to drown herself in the enclosure of St. James's Park.  It appeared that a few days ago the female in question had attempted suicide in St. James's Park, and was rescued from a watery grave by a police constable, and brought to this office, when she stated that she had been turned out of doors by her relations, and she was consigned to the ears of the parish officers. After she had been recovered from the effects of the shock, Glass found out that she bad a brother-in-law living in St. Martin's-street, Leicester-square. This man was married to her sister, and he took her to him, but he at once refused to receive her, and said that he had quite enough to keep without her. He (Glass) was rather surprised at his reception, and represented to him that his unfortunate relation attempted to drown herself. He replied that he did not care, she should not come to his house, and she might go and drown herself again if she liked. He then asked to see her sister, but he refused, and said that his wife should have nothino• to do with her. The young woman appeared deeply affected, and cried most bitterly. He offered to take her back to the workhouse until something could be done for her, but she did not like the idea of returning to the workhouse, and said that she would go to a frienq who had always behaved withthe greatest kindness to her, and on a previous occasion had got her a situation He inquired who it was, and she informed him. He believed that she was a respectable woman, and he left her to go there. Mr. WHITE expressed his regret that her brother-in-law would not protect her.  Glass said that if he heard of any situation likely to suit her he had promised to inform her of it. Mr. WHITE commended him for his conduct, and said that he should always be happy to hear that she was doing well.
The Sun. — 1834-07-12 (London, England)

LOVE, DESPERATION, AND SUICIDE.—The inhabitants of Crediton were much alarmed on Thursday night last, in consequence of the discovery that two young persons had committed suicide by poisoning themselves, at the Royal Oak Inn, in that town. It appeared that two respectable-looking young persons, a man and woman, each about the age of twenty-two years, came to the above Inn as lodgers on Monday week last. Nothing in their conversation or manner tended to excite any suspicions with the landlord, either with regard to their connection or circumstances. They arose generally at a late hour in the morning, evinced much attachment towards each other, walked out together during the day, were very moderate in their mode of living, and retired at a seasonable hour to bed. On Thursday last, however, the landlady of the Inn, not finding them down stairs-at their usual hour, knocked at their bed-room door, and was answered by the emale " that they should be down presently ;" but their not appearing by two o'clock in the afternoon, the landlady sent her son to the bed-room door to remind them of the hour, and he was then answered by one of them, which he did not distinctly hear. Nothing further was thought of them until the evening, when the landlady became greatly alarmed at their non-appearance, and again knocked at the bed-room door ; receiving no reply she burst it open, when, hearing a deep moan, she immediately ran down stairs sruomcepe2 for assistance. On her return with two other persons they wash ou t ) discovered the man quite dead, and the female in a dying state, locked in each other's arms. procured, and the stomach-pump appleedd,icbaultawidit On the table was found a pint bottle, with the remains of laudanum in it, and there is no doubt that each of them had voluntarily taken a considerable portion of this deadly drug. eared that they were recently married; that A Coroner's Inquest was held on their bodies on Saturday last, when_ it mop the match was disapproved of by the father of the young man, and was clandestinely made ; that they were destitute of money; and that the husband had purchased a pint of laudanum some days before at a druggist's shop in Exeter, and had premeditated self-destruction. It .was also proved on the Inquest that the man's name was Samuel Margerie ; that he was a clock and watchmaker, at Heavitree, near Exeter • and that his wife was a respectable young woman from Woodbury, J and lately filled the situation of lady's maid with a respectable family resident at Dawlish. The Jury in each ease brought in a verdict of " Felo de se ;" and the Coroner ordered their bodies to be interred at midnight, pursuant to, the Act of Parliament, without the usual funeral rites.— Western Luminary.
The Sun. — 1834-03-24 (London, England)

LOVE AND CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE.About one o'clock en Saturday morning a police constab!e observed a youth and a girl about the same age wandering about the river at Thames Bank, under very auspicious circumstances. He watched them, and shortly alter saw the youth throw his hat, and the female her bonnet, and a pocket-book, into the river, and then kiss each other. The policeman hastened towards them, and was just in time to prevent the parties plunging into the water. On taking them to the station-house it was asserted that the name of the youth was Charles Johnson, and that he lived with his parents in Grosvenor-row, Milibank. The Oil said her name was Caroline Miller, and resided next door to Johnson. They had long loved each other, but as their parents were averse to their union, they had come to the determination of dying together. Information was sent to their parents, who were in a state of alarm at their absence, and the police delivered the love-sick pair to their care.  The following occurrence has caused great excitement in Kt nsington. On Saturday night week the wife of a painter and gLizier, living at Kensington Gravel Pits, was returning home after receiving her husband's wages, 1/. 1 ls., throng) Church-lane, when a man sullenly seized her by the shoulders, and having forced her up a dark passage, commenced rifling her pockets. She resisted, upon which he pulled out a knife, and in the scalle he cut her hands severely. She screamed murder, and endeavoured to prevent the escape of the fellow, but she fell on the ground from the loss o: blood and weakness, in which situation she was discovered by the neighbours. A fellow named Shuter was taken up, and Mts. Smith having identified him, he was remanded by the Kensington Magistrates. When he was brought up ogain Mrs. Smith was not in attendance, and on an officer going to her house site was not to be found, although her husband had in the morning left her at home. She :as not since been beard of; and the Magistrates have, t:ter repeated examinations, discharged the man Shuter. 'I he grounds and pieces of water in the neighbourhood h ave been dragged for the body of the missing woman, ut without success.
The Sun. — 1834-12-19 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG FEMALE. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, the watermen plying at the stairs of Vauxhall Bridge observed a young female hastily throw herself from the bank into the river. Several of the watermen immediately put off to endeavour to rescue her, and in the course of a short time the body was got out of the water and taken on shore, when she was taken to the Swan publichouse, in the immediate neighbourhood. Mr. Hastings, surgeon, in the Vauxhall-road, was sent for, and every thing possible was done to restore animation, but without success. The body has not yet been owned.  The utmost exertions have been making at Broadway, to discover the guilty parties in the atrocious act of throwing gunpowder down the chimney of the room in which the parishioners were assembled in vestry, on the evening of the 2d inst, as mentioned in our last, and we rejoice to say, with some prospect of success. On Saturday two men named Smith and Jackson, were brought to the county gaol, charged on suspicion of being concerned in the diabolical deed, and warrants are out for the apprehension of others supposed to be implicated in it. We understand the gunpowder was thrown from the top of the chimney by means of a ladder raised against the building. There were about three quarters of a pound of it, and it is one of the circumstances suspicious against Smith that he had recently purchased that quantity of powder, and is unable to account for the disposal of it. Both prisoners live at Broadway. Smith is a working gardener, 37 years of ago, and Jackson a farming labourer, aged 36. They were com. mitted for trial upon the capital charge of attempting to "kill and destroy, 8.7 c." the overseer of the parish, Mr. Stephen Savage, being the prosecutor. We are still in the dark as to how the explosion of the gunpowder was prevented, but, we arc told by those conversant in such matters,- that if it had ignited, the room being very small, the destruction of all pre• sent would have been inevitable.—Worcester Herald.
The Sun. — 1834-06-06 (London, England)

VIENNA, MAY 26.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 99 9-16 ; Four per Cent., 911 ; Bank Shares, 1,236. Allgemeine Zeitung, May 31.  Buenos Ayres Papers state that a considerable sensation had been excited in that city in consequence of a report having been generally prevalent in the House of Representatives that the Cabinet of Madrid had been debating a project for procuring Monarchs for the South American republics. ,  The decided and energetic conduct of the master tailors has not been without its effect on the misguided operatives, many of whom have returned to their duty, convinced at length, that longer to hold out, when there is not the remotest chance of their ever being able to accomplish their ends, is an act of flagrant suicide committed on their own best interests. On this occasion' the master tailors have acted with justice, tempered with clemency. Instead of -allowing themselves to be carried away-by vindictive feelings, they have consulted only the dictates of humanity—which in their case, as in almost every other, is the best wisdom. Hence about four thousand operatives have returned to work which assuredly would not have been  the case had other sentiments than those of an enlightened sense of justice actuated their employers towards them. We extract the passage from the last report of the master tailors, wherein the gratifying fact of this large secession is announced :  " The committee have also the very pleasing duty to inform the trade and the public that. according to the latest returns made to them, the number of journeymen tailors who have seceded from the Trades' Union, and signed the above declaration, is about Four Thousand, and the committee hope that they will very shortly have added to the number every industrious, respectable, and well-disposed journeyman tailor in the metropolis."
The Sun. — 1834-04-12 (London, England)

SUICIDE.--A distressing act of self-destruction was committed on Thursday morning, at No. 3, Cecil-street, Strand, by Mr. Baskerville, jun., a tailor, who put an end to his existence by hanging himself. The deceased, whose paternal parent has attained a fine old age, and lived in the house with him, was himself a married man, and father of four or five children, all of whom are living. An inquest was held on the body in the evening, and it appeared that he, fora few days prior to the unfortunate event, complained of a " lightness" in his head, for which he was unable to account. His family, however, did not apprehend any ill consequences from it, and thought that rest (which they recommended) would restore his health. It appeared, from the evidence of his eldest daughter, that in coming down stairs at an early hour in the morning, she looked into his bedroom, to inquire of him how he was, and seeing his coat there, and that he was not himself in the room, she looked into the sitting-room on her way down, and saw him (as she supposed) standing in a stiff posture behind the door, the strangeness of which alarming her, she hastened down stairs and informed the maid servant, who, having received a rebuke from him the previous day, said she would not herself go in, but called the deceased's son, a youth of sixteen or seventeen years of age, who, on discovering the situation of his unfortunate parent, had the presence of mind instantly to cut him down, and procure medical assistance. The vital spark had, however, fled. The deceased had suspended himself by means of a silk handkerchief from a nail in the wainscoat, immediately above the room door, and his feet having apparently touched the floor, led his daughter into the opinion that he was standing. The jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.
The Sun. — 1834-08-29 (London, England)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Hannah Brown, a middle-aged woman, whose dress presented a complete pitture of wretchedness, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with having attempted to -commit suicide.  ---- A mechanic, who was passing through Poland-street ten the previous' night, saw the unfortunate defendant suspended  • by a handkerchief from the knoglier of a door, she being at the time in a stooping position. He immediately pulled the handkerchief, and the knot slipping she fell in his arms. She was conveyed to the watchhouse, where medical assistance was obtained.  . The account of the poor woman was that her husband, who was a tailor, had deserted her, and she had been left completely destitute. Mr. CHAMBERS endeavoured to convince her of the enormity of the offence she had nearly committed. The defendant replied that she was miserable where she was, and in any other world she could not be worse. Mr. Bryant, the parish officer of St. James's, was ultimately spoken to by the magistrate, and the woman was admitted into St. James's workhouse. S. Hoskins, a publican in Great Windmill-street, was charged with suffering gaming. The informer was Sharing, whose witness stated that some men played in the defendant's house at. a game called " ring the bull." It was done by a ring suspended by a cord from the ceiling, which was flung by the hand towards a hook on the wainscot, and those who got it on the hook most out of twenty times won the game. Defendant produced the apparatus. He said the ring was the bellpull, fixed to call the waiter, and the hook was one of the many round his room for the purpose of hanging a hat on.  Mr. CHAMBERS said an informer might as well say that the hooks in this office were put up for the same purpose, and that the Magistrates amused themselves at " ring the bull." The witness swore that the ring was' not a bell-pull, but put up for, the game, having no connection with the bell. Two respectable men disproved this assertion, and the Magistrate convinced himself of the falsehood of the informer by sending an officer to the house. The information was dismissed.  Ann Whittaker, an elderly female, was brought before Mr. Chambers, charged with being drunk and also with committing various acts of disorderly conduct, at the house of Mr. Thomas Cribb, the Union Arms, Panton-street, Haymarket. The veteran champion of the ring deposed, that the defendant came into his house on the previous evening, and asked for a glass of gin. Seeing she was in liquor, he refused to serve her ; on which she began to use towards him language of a most disgusting description. Finding it was her determination to annoy him and his customers, he turned her out of the house. On her getting into the street she took off her bonnet and challenged him out to fight, swearing she would lick a fellow like him in five minutes. - The violence of her conduct bronght 'several persons round his house, and he was, at length, compelled to give her in charge. Mr.
The Sun. — 1834-09-12 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.  An inquisition was last night taken at the Swan, Vauxhall-bridge-road, before Mr. Higgs, on the body of Rebecca Rick, aged 15, who committed suicide. Mrs. Bela Braithwaite, No. 10, Off-alley, Strand, deposed that on Tuesday night last, about 8 o'clock, the deceased, who lived at No. 2, Carey-place, Vauxhall-bridge-road, with her father and mother-in-law, called for a chair which belonged to her father. 'Witness refused to give it her, considering it too heavy for her. The deceased trembled very much, and appeared worked up to a state of desperation, while the tears were streaming down her cheeks. Witness asked her what was the matter. She replied, " Oh, Mrs. Braithwaite, I have a deal to tell you ; I am so ill-used by my mother-inlaw." Witness then went to her father, who works in Broadstreet, Carnaby-market, and is a compo-maker, to know what she had been doing. The deceased accompanied her, and she, upon seeing her father, said, " For God's sake, father, do for the last time say to my aunt what I have done." She then stated that the usage of her mother-in-law was cruel towards her. Nothing was alleged against her by him. When they parted she entreated witness to let her go home with her, which witness could not permit. On separating from witness she said, " Oh 1 it is Ruth (her motherin-law) I dread, but I will dread her no more." On Sun.day last she went to a situation at a linendraper's, in the Vauxhall-bridge-road, but was discharged the next day, in consequence of not having sufficient clothing. She was in a back place for one week, when she did not see her father. On Tuesday night, when she got home, she was offered a basin of broth, which she was not ab'e to drink, when her father said, " Get out of my s4ht." She went away, and was never seen any more. The diceased's mother-inlaw told witness this. The body of the deceased was found on Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock by the Equitable Gas Factory in the sewer. It was then partly warm. Verdict—" That the deceased drowned herself, being at the time in a state of temporary derangement, accelerated by the unfeeling conduct of her parents."