The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1871-09-15 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

EXTRAORDINARY SU:CIDE.—On Monday morning Mr. Carter, the coroner for Kent, held an inquiry at the Globe Tavern, Lower.road, Deptford, respecting the death of Mr. George henry Mothersole, aged forty years, who had for a considerable length of time occupied the position of drill instructor to the 27th Kent Rifle volnuteer.. Mrs. Laura H. Mothersole, 14, Jessamine-t en ace. Victoria road, Deptford, said that deceased was her husband. Ile had been in the Royal Marines, and t e was the drill instructor of the 27th Kent Volunteers. On Friday evening at five o'clock he was at home and he was in a low and desponding state of mind. He, ten months ago, while ill, attempted to make away with himself. On Friday evening witnes, heard the snap of a rifle cap, and she rushed into the room, and found the deceased lying on the floor with a rifle bullet near him. He was then dying frt m the effects of a bullet wound in the head. Witness then called for assistance. She found a leather strap tied to the trigger of the rifle, and he had placed his right foot in the strap and pulled the trigger, having previously put the muzzle of the rifle in his mouth.—Mr. James Williams, 14, Victoria-terrace, Deptford, a schoolmaster, said that he lived near the house of deceased. On Fr day cvening the deceased called upon him and said, although witness was an entire stranger to him, "Will you take a message to my wife? You are quite old enough and strong enough to do so. Te:l her that I want to see her." Ile was very excited, and witness became frightened, for he lept waving a stick over his head and dashing it about. Witness then went and saw Mrs. Mother. f..le, and she said that she would come and see him Wit neas returned to the deceased, and told him, and he exclaimed, " Oh, is that all. I shall go and see her." He then ran over into his house. Ile was in a state of great excitement, but he was perfectly Fr:then—Mrs. Mothersole, recalled, said that hen the deceased came into the house after speaking 'o the last witness, he said to her "kiss me darling," and she did so. He then went into the next room and shot himself. He had plently of ammunition in the house, and witness never took any notice of his firing off rifles, for he was in the constant habit of practising. The bullet that be used blew part of his skull off, and he fell in a pool of blood which fell from the wound.—The Coroner raid that the case was a very remarkable one, and the jury returned averdict of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity.  SHOCKING AFFAIR IN NEW YORK The American papers report a peculiarly sheela lag affair, which has made a great raise in New Y. rk. In the afternoon of August 2.4 It a woman sighted at the depot of the Hudson River Railw•y in Thirtieth-street from a cart with a box, which she got a by who was known to his companions as "Paddy" to carry for her, at the cam, time tel jug him to be veil' careful of it as it contained glass. Tie boy told her he could not pass the box until she had taken ber ticket (she wanted, she said, to go a Omit distance beyond Chimgo). Accordingly, ni hor request, he showed her the way to the book. it g office, and s.w her take a ticket for Chicago. An no train sits due for five honts, she asked the I tI where she amid get some refreshment, and was dire:ted to a restanrant. She does not appear 10 have gone there, however, and WA9 not seen again. In the menntime the box came unfastened, and t hoirib:e discovery was made. The New York Tow! There was nothing to be rem at first be ordinary quilt; removing thie there was an 01 army blanket. Doubled up in the bottom of thi• a. ted flimsy trunk was the body of a full-growl woman full five feet in height, which had bee,. cranim-d into a trunk two feet six inches long a•ii eigh cen inches deep. She had been put in upon the right side, the legs doubled up, and the h. ad bent forward so that the face and knees almost met. Seen even in this position and rigid in death, "rag girl, for she c.uld not have been more lien e i„shf een, had a face of singular loveliness." I W -.9 ascortained on medical examination that Ills th'easil had been the victim of criminal trea' men!.