The Express. — 1863-02-14 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE BY STRYCHNINE THROUGH DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.  A case of suicide by a young woman through blighted affection, which has crested extraordinary interest and excitement in the quiet district of New Shoreham, has been resumed and concluded by Mr. Gen, the local coroner.  --The farts, as disclosed in evidence, appeared to be these. Mies Jaws Herbert, aged 19 years, the daughter of a shopkeeper at New Shoreham, fell in love with James Jupp, a labourer. Her family strongly objected to the affair and Mr. Herbert stated to Jupp, in preemies of hisdaughter. that he never would permit the match, sod that he would prefer following her to her grave to seeing her married to him (Jupp). Jupp, in his evidence, stated that demand in one of her letters, said that her father had distinctly threatened to murder her if she held any WMpoodenee with him. All this made a profourd impreesioo cm the unfortunate deceased, and she became quite despooding. She got a friend to purohase at a chemist's two packages of "Butler's Vermin Destroyer." On last Friday week she kissed her father and went to her room. The next morning she was found lying on her beck, with her eyes open. Her father said, " Get up, my girl •, your eves &rooms d —why do you not answer me !" He then found she was ecd.  Dr. Fidler said that he was called in and found deceased deed, with all the symptoms of death from strychnine. She was on her back, the arms bent, the hands clenched, and extraordinary rigidity of the joints. There was extensive extravagances of blood in the neck, and ,the monolog had the appearance of having been bruised. There wee a quantity of green peculiar looking fluid in the stomach, and there was a cup in the mom the dregs in which presented the same appearame. A police-sergeant found two empty sixpeeny packages of " Butler's Vermin Destroyer." That poison was believed to °retain strychnine, which would amount for the peculiarity of the death. Under the mattress wee found a pocket-book, in which were some letters One of them ran u follows—" Tell James Jupp I em goes where he told me to go. He is the cause of this, but I freely forgive him. Tell him I wish him to me my remains laid in the grave, where I shall rest in peace." Mr. L. Herbert said that when he celled on Jupp, and told him the girl was dead, be was greatly affected, and bebegan to cry. He said to Mrs. Herbert, when she showed es n body, " This dear girl ought to have been my wife, and this would not have happened ; but you wanted to give her to a man that was not worthy of her." At the resumption of the inquiry the coroner summed up, and remarked upon the rodaecholy nature of the case. The jury rotund a verdict " That deceased poisoned herself by taking remain powder, which contained strychnine ; bet what gate of Wad she was in at the time there was no evidence to show."  In the defeat which the government suffered in the House of Oommces last night their (Heeds assisted very liberally. Of the 113 whose names appear in the division list this morning, am having voted for Mr. Pensockes motion, at least 80 are miuisterialista. Mr. Peacocke's motion was that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to give directions that no sales, to facilitate enclosures, be made of Crown Lands or Crown Forestal Rights within fifteen miles of the metropolis.