The Sun. — 1858-07-19 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF HUSBAND AND STRPSON.  Some time since we gave an account of the death by suicide of a man c tiled Hyde, living at Lindley, near Huddersfield, whose death was, there was good reason to suppose, hastened by the wretched character of his home, superintended by a second wife. Since that fatal close of his career one of the children, a boy of lf, has followed his unfortunate father's example, and on Wednesday, at the Globe Inn, Lindley, a jury, presided over by G. Dyson, Esq., the coroner, held their inquisition over the body of John Hyde, the youth io question, who on the previous Monday morning was found hanging on the bough of a thorn, in a field near the high road. Three members of the family, a brother and two sisters, wore called in succession before the jury, and in the presence of the stepmother gave evidence of the unceasing ill usage which had driven them all away from her house to live in lodgings with kinder relatives or more humane strangers, and now testified to the conduct which had made their poor fithere and brother the victims of despair. Hannah Hyde, a sister, deposed i to having seen the deceased about a week since. He said he dark. d not stop to speck to we, as ho would pgetlai nt rdastilitae dt he had n . She askedalways h v po'beerrg wasd f He coa me r would take a saucepan into a neighbour's house, pute !s haver bread and 41,y bread in, and scald it, and sometimes the milk was tippered (sour), and sometimes sweet. He said she was selling the things in the house, and had told him he would not have long to stop with her. Last night the witness went to the house and saw some bedding on the floor (the brother's bed), but she did not Ole stepmother be.ng there) turn it down. He had to wash his shirt and smock himself, and sometimes on the Sunday morning. When site left him on the day spoken to, he said his 'nether had never given him anything, not a halfpenny, since his father died. "We cried," she said, "for we were Loth in trouble. I gave hint twopence mysel,."—Harriet Hyde, the stepmother, was called. She denied having punished rho lad since they had lived at Minh, except by a tap with her hand. She ha 4 spoken rather harshly to himbecause he would net cl,,an himself. He never hinted at destroying himself. He was very ditty. The shirt the body was found in had been put on on purpose to disgrace her through .the country, a i shirt with linen wris.bands having been taken off. Why he had hung himself was a mystery Ito her. The coroner having carefully summed up the evidence, the jury, after a few minutes' consideration, returned a verdict, "That the deceased had hune himself while depressed in his mind," and added, " That the conduct of the stepmother was very repreherndble in the treatment of the whole of the children." At the request of the jury, the woman ores called in, and the coroner addressed her in grave tee ma of animadversion. He regretted that the law gave no power to punish her, but her punishment, as it was, would be great enough, for her neighbours would all know wh-t had tekeu place, and thet she hod brought it all en herself. When she married her late husband; she took the children to hung up and cars for, and she had driven them all from their home. The father, sad. now the son, had made away with themselves. That a lad should do this when life was buojaittcnamned cheerful, proved that there must hive boefe protected cause for it. He hoped that for the rest i;ehinhaervilnifge this would be a lesson to her, and that so violent awwitahkegnreeadtecroknisTlenneeses might oighhert chtltdhree inj ibtrui rnei her tpoeaacnedoffromminthde. juTryt.Trowooram;titnnheedpotloicle7 her by members of was the demonstration againlisood —Leeds Mercury. her own sex in the neighbour •  Ingraham, who the Austrians, occurs in a procured the racc:liaehlsee:oaalynig:iaflorflindCrkaL m'Laatainofnromthe Indian war, now being y great EitiCCOSS at New Yolk. An American, tikan prisoner by the rebels, is brought before Nana Spalbeiehd wb , who orders him to be impaled, or somethirg equally horrible. The Yankee, not the least dismayed, coolly remarks, " You can kill me, I guess ; but, mime." Captain Ingraham vv i 1 settle with you afterwards. Whereupon the knees of the fiendish rebel begin to shake, and amidst thunders of I pplause from tto specs tat)ro, Its hurriedly sits the American free.