Widnes Examiner. — 1895-02-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

BRIDGE.  6.  I REPORT OF INQUEST. Oa Wednesn • • ay afternoon, Mr. F. A. Jones. deputy coroner, held an inquest on the body of Michael • Hogan who commuted suicide by . jumping from Warrington Bridge i/11 Friday, last week, and whose body was recovered on Tuesday. , Mary Hogan, wise of deceased Rad residing at 78, Sehool-brow„ Warrington, said hcr husband was a tanner's labourer and 44 years ef age. She saw him last on Wedioesday, last week in his residence and she was th:n Afraid he was going to take her life, he was iN etch an excited condition. He talla.rl obelmen in the tanyarti going' to bury him there. 'D.Osait'4l, I lot, at 1 home th st night and went to kis i Wdr,V,, 0 • 'qlng, loot witness being afraid of hiinrema3ped hour and and liter little girl afterwardsil.aCke , -V op,ie • cl ior agairtst him. He hid had no' trouble . ~7 1141., he said they were making him do too ranch • at the' tanyard. 04ceased was arldittei to ltriii •: • 01 the Wednesday night she informed the police about his behaviour and ,she also went to Father Ditggan to see hint. ' William Asliton„claimney-sweep. Warrington, deposed to recovering, the body of deceased from the. Kersey. • near Warringt in Bridge, at ,r,EO on Tuesday afternoon. Toey found the body by grappling and it was as near as, possible to the place where he had fallen ,ins'• •He was fully dressed. • , ~ Joseph Crnss,,l3, Sparling-et.,wood.turner‘n 'delicate- ' Isokinc,o trian.said that on Friday the 15th ot this month he VP as on Warrington Bridge about twenty nainutes to two, and saw the deleaed struggling in the water, and the: people around throwing ropes to him Seeing th-y could do nothing, for him, witness after taking ig3 coat off,' sprang 'over the wall into the river, and; viten : be got within a yard of- ' deceased, the latter' rolled underthe ic- head first. Witnesa,whacould swim, groped aboiit for deceaned for tea minutes, and recovered his cap. The water was In--:, tensely cold, and at one time witness was ,aintost drown under the • ice himself ,bytthe .current. In answ ir to the Coroner heitaid he had rescue I a child . about three years' ago. Since Fridat'S occdrrence he had beencomoelled to remain in bed for tan days. Flmry 8 ,te, on the day in question, R+.7 Aeleasel come op salersey.atreet and tken go on the bridge. He placed his hands on the wit.; and after .ae,zlance round sprang, over head first. When he cmne twin) swain for . a moinentAmon his left side, and when a shutter was. thrown tohicra deceased plithis left hand out but could not graspdt. ,:: Mr. Gibbon: foreman at'Nelson'a tannery where deceased worked, slid the latter had worked thereabout , two years and was a good workman. :There was no cause for his making any complaint abouts,the work he had to do. The week of his death deceased had been off work and retarned on Monday morningapd said that he had been drinking. The Coroner mentioned that . the jury might make a recommendation of the conduct of Cross he his brave endeavour to save deceased'a lire by risking his own tor' plunging inta the icy wa.ter'' oi a fhwing river. If they rn i•Ze that reeommendation he (the coroner) would see that the matter wis brought before the' royal Humane Soeiety. I The jury 'returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst of an unsound mind.," and expressed their appreciation Of 'Cross's brave act, end said that it should he reported a; She Coroner had suggested,to the Royal Humane Society, for them th:nlatard him fittingly.  _  ,1w  •