The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1909-05-05 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

TRAGIC DISCOVERY AT' I WOMAN'S OKASTLY ACT. . . . BIRIKENHEAO.  - MAW NUR THROAT MID iviertS 'nig/ eic,Senvik  r- The 'discovery of • the dead bedy:Ofelkt. John, &Chard ftameden in a teller Of •mk Unitarian Church,, Beseborougheread,' On •• Monday afternoon, created ,s. painfalastata- 'Dr: Mite.. of the 'BOMA ROoPitel; mast lion in many quarters. Fora -:•dninber 'of lineo:•-bean Oreenderalal, nurPrieett,'llest engineering firm of Mesirs. Fawoett,:lPt.;• years Mr. ltaansden. was. manager. for the when' ein-elcierlg'ironsen *silted into 14on and . Co. Lbseitoel,... retiring .b4l, trAle•trianea:which: she had made la her about, six yeses ago. ikk his ;family target. I;l2oWital and dalkPlaiodi ft) -sereral have hied in Rirkenheadllor. -abcigt to) I• • The -consequence _was tht on Monday Years, their residence • being at: West- k in the Boroughuonrt; bebank-road, Devoneltree Part:',lfe rw'-is.t fere •Mr. G. H. Cox. and !Mclennan T. S. Yease•of age, and had taken a;delm inter* De,Att).-1147. Millidme,lot 8,7 Waldin 'the work of the -Unitarian- Church. tax- *lF*Fitid; .1910, Charged with haven • 'sting been a member Of ;the .committee. for tempted to commit siticielei' bi'entting her some time. lie was &W Wl. setiw wqrker throat.. • • • and member of the • Sianday • &heel, for Dr...:llitirletate.d that. on - April • end. at which be was teedeuret: °ryas*, and five o'cloar- in • the tafternotel. Wieoller teacher; ••• welked into the haspital, and on examining On Tuesday- night. April 17th, 'he re- ller.'Llie•found several gasibes in her .throat. oeived a- letter' making an appointment in He :shit there was something wrong with Liverpool the next morning. At .ten a.m. her Mentally.. and be detained, her. There ent, but *Pon the following day he left. the hone* Pre- appeared to have' been tieven definite it eumably-bi keep the appointment. temPte to'ctit hie-throat,' and there Waa a patently he went to the 'house tbe ears_ wound on. the left :side fully two inches taker of the Uditarian Church and bor. •deep, as if the knife had been screwed into rowed the . keys, returning: them a .abort her throat., _miming the artery and cutting time rater- After that.. all trace of .11 was a- vein in the front of the neck.. She said I lost, and he wee missed 11001 .hie dead body' that some people had annoyed her, and I was found: ae eidled, in the church. The 'she also Spoke in a :rambling •manner. I faa that • he, was miming was saver we,* in Sergeant •-Allen deposed to having gone the papers, and on Salley Mies Ferguson, to nr,i6onar's louse, alter seeing • her in the l a the sister .of member of theohuroh, men- hospital. 'lle fonnd•-fonr large knives under tanned that she had light in. the baeethe table stained with blood, and a coal ment of the church late On the Wednesday I6CUttle Wag also spattered. Be charged I night, and this fact was reported, to the .Prisoner that morning, and she mid that deputy-chairman of the church, and as, a People had said• unkind things' abut her. result /dr. Robert Ferguson went-with her. in the hospital she :wee very excitable. geant• Taylor am Monday afternoon aad Supt.: Parker. asked for a: remand, and searohed the cellars under the church, and Prisoner was ..ordered to the workhouse for ID the cellar -next to one of the .clasinvoits. a week- • found .31i. Rameden's body. A razor. win .• found in the fight hand,' while' there W3e a ' large cut on the left Aide of the neck.. • Di. Pitikerten•maa hilaphoned for; but he found that death had taken place several days before. • -- • • At the inenteet which,. Was held. yes ay Dr. Pater Proctor 'atottd -that. decemed bad had • two waver. attach* of: influenza during February and 'Misreb, and both had left him very =nob depreesed. He ale) euffered from iDsOIIIIIIZ. He did' not think deceased was in hie proper state of mind when he committed the act. Mr. Robert Fergueon in the course of his evidence stated that .the light his sister saw lr as 'being used by a class in progreee during .the Wednesday night. ' Mr. John William Remodel) said that o far as he could find there were no•.financial troublee. The jury returned .a.• verdict. that Mr. llamado). ,committed suicide • wli,ilat• of . unsound. Mind. The funeral will take place'at Flafbriok Hill Cemetery at noon ,temornier' (Thurs' day).