The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-10-15 (London, England)

ADM.—A serious accident, whereby one boy has lost his life and another received dangerous injuries, took place in DunkinAeld on Tuesday afternoon. James Lawton,. nine years cage, John Holmes, seven years, and three other boys about the same age, were playing at the Dunkinfield Park, Near the Dukinfield Brewery, there has existed a csi, liery, for many years worked in the side of the hill, under the Park, but it has been disused for three or four years. The Park is considerable height aboye the road, so that the coal crops out in some places in the park ack'sucent to the road, At the -back of the'brewery the seam is three or fens inches in thickness,- and the five boys were digging out the coal when the earth' gave way, and they were more or less caught by it as it fell. An alarm being given, Entae men who were engsged at the brewery ran to the spot with spades. The bcy H'olmes was rescued alive, though he was completely covered with earth except his feet. The boy Lawton was quite dead; lie was found with his head uncovered, but lead-been crushed to. isath with the weight of the earth which had fallen upon him. The three other boys escaped' without being in the least hurt.. The boy Holmes, -though dangeroasly :rushed, is expected to recover. SUICIDE BY OYAICIDE o PoTAssiums----A coroner's in. pest took place CD Saturday, at Noi 1, Richmond, terrace, Hackney,. before Jr. Humphreys, on the body of Mr. William James, Groves, aged 42 years. He was merchant in the city, and his transactions were principally on the COrrs Exchange and with New York. be evidence showed that he had sustained very severe losses in connexion with, America, and his partner being at present in New York, while alone here the trouble had greyed upon his mind irsesituost distressing manner. On 54iursday last he came to his father's house earlier in the des, than the hour at which, his father and brother were utually there. He asked the servant if they were at hoe, and ascertaining that they were not, he went into the dining-room, ordered that a glass and some water should be brought. He then closed the door, and the roorivas not entered till latess,when his father returned. He was then discovered lying on the couch, as though asleep,- but dead. On the table atood a bottle containing a quantity of cyanide of potassium, and the tut:obi/r in which he had mixed the poison and from which no had-drunk as much as he was able before the poison took effect.. On the table beside the glass were two letters in which he stated :—" My min& is going. I cannot bear these troubles any longer; they are great and hopeless ;" and "I cannot pass another day like this," as well as a kindly and anxious referense to his wife. The troubles of which he spoke had Lean undiscovered till his death, ,up to which he had been considered a prosperous man, and were solely pecuniary business difficulties. The medical evidence established that the deceased had been poisoned with cyanide of potassium. The jury found, "That the deceased committed suicide by poisoning himself with cyanide of potassium while in a state of uneound mind, and the jurydesire to draw attention to the danger of permitting the: indiscriminate sale of cyanide of potassium to unknown: persons, and to suggest that in all cases the purpose to which so. deadly a drug is to be applied should be carefully ascertained.