The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1904-09-17 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SHOOTS HIRAM" AT FIRST/ALL.  AS Gicp /Soren Rotel an Wednesday after 1301:111, lit. J. C. Bate aandoeted an uniniri into the eiresinetsoes att4IDCWII the death at Jabs Y. Nide:oboe. • coliceiter ef Mentor. who was found deed on Tiey evening in • ditsh in the kezisail fake, ballet winind in the right temple. Jar. E. Brassy, stinker, appeared for the ralatiess of She deed. The Coroner wed the ear mee gm the jury was what wee the Mate alf the deseside nand at the time. Cheats Cyril Ratter Nicholson. rennin( at V.vead. Rhyl, identified the body en that at hie fades, who was & ceolieiter Ist pesetas Masher. His hither's ne.sin shootsB and bio residence wae Onttegt. Liverpcolsad. Chester. Re lest slifir We Mbar on Sonde/ night, and he Rhin easplisined crl being very _poorly. Si. gganned deposed, end woe pffering grist The deasesd had resided at lienrall gaps Agri& or •May far the benefit of bin hallb. 11. knew very little at hie father's Ihnincial &Rails. In copy to Mr. liirseas, he said abet hie taller Whe very erratic end and became annoyed at the least thing. Si. had beams fretful. and hie demeanour had very avaah changed. in spy to the Crooner, the witness said that 111 h 'Aber MO not always ansuntable for hie eationia, sad be was it times quite imps. lire. Jane Jones. of Whitby Howe, Her I welL said the deceased had lodged at her : bonne since die 3nd Ansa. lie died been in I • very . bad Pete of health and was very dedicate. On Monday he got up se usual for bircalrhat and then wrote all the morning. about one o'clock be had a little lunch. She beard him go downstaire between 3 o'clock end half-peat three, and he went out, and be did not es him afterwards. She noticed nothing wrong with him on that day. He woe vary poorly on Sunday, but weii rather brighter on Monday. He had never threatened to take hie life, and wit:nem had never seen him in the Leseamion of a revolver.  William Hayes, a barman at the Heswail Hotel,_ said that Monday about half-past three he wee in 0. e bar. l'he dammed came in and witnees served him with a small wbisky. He also eupplied him with pm, ink, an envelope, and a stamp. The decamel asked witness to post a letter for him sad he than left at about twenty minutes to four, lie went out through the back we and said he wankel he going up the hill. Witness natined nothing strange in hie manner. Edward Rammer, an archateat, of Liverpool, mid that about 6.30 on 'Puna:lay evenmg he was walking amass the Farhatl fields in ainismay with a friend when he saw • man in a °ranching position in the ditch. He saw that he wee dead. He spoke to mane other man who was in the fielda at the thus, and thee he sent for the palace. John MOOTS, a fruiterer at Haswell, eaid that about 6.30 on Tuesday he was in the rarhall fielda. and the previous wittiest called Id. attention to a man lying in the ditch. Be went down end noticed the body. but sew nothing of the revolver at the time. Sant. William Redeliffe, of Heswell, said that about GAO on Tuesday evening he received information of the discovery, and proceeded to the Farhall fields, and there saw the body of the deceased in a crouching position in the ditch. The right km* was on the ground and the other a few inches off the ground. Ile raised the body, and under the deceased's right hand he found a six-chambered revolver. There were three cartridge*: two of them were loaded, and the other was discharged. He examined the body and found a bullet wound in the right tampie. He found aeveral articles on the batty (produced), and a cum of money. , the correspondence he found a letter .esmd to the deceased's medical adviler, Dr. Jephoott, and another to the CW?Mr. mind,  The -Coroner said theme letters were a a guide to the Ante of the deceased's mina.. and he quoted kaseages from the letters. In the letter to 'LIS medical adviser deceased said "I am to-night racked with pain in my side, my hands, and my body. My memory is going some and WWI*, and I ant so =m.l your, and I feel that my mind is me, and that I fear much for the fu IttiOaswi4 my atekt, to iive my allotted span of lila In the letter ,to the Coroner the derwassd mode somas allegations againet a gentleman,. but ths Coroner did not givethe gentlernsals name. One passage read aim follows: "It is Mr. -'s undue influence for the settie.l meat of his unjust claim that is driving ma mad, and I would rather die than be a lunatic and dependant on anyone for the rest of  mU7 ids" Its Coroner ackled that there would be no difficulty in saying that the deceased was ot unsound mind at the time, and that he ithot 'ltimai .  'lllie jury returned a cerdiot of "Suicide whilst at imocamd mind."