The Sun. — 1862-04-16 (London, England)

SUICIDE FROM ILL-TREA7VIENT. Yesterday Mr. W. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, opened an inquiry at the King's At Tavern, St. George's-street, Camberwell, ms an thy' bod of Jane Louisa Olerman. The investigation created great interest in the neighbourhood owing to the many reports raised as to the cause of death. Eliza Jon e, wife of a labourer, residing at Nov 70 Bath-street, (amber well, said that on Saturday afternoon she wont t,n No. 1?-, in the same street,. and there found theydee, cased retching on a sofa in the kitchen, her head beie'g supported by one hand. She appeared either dead o. C ,dying. She called her hes moved. She, with aind rested it on her by name, but only her eyelas one to go and fetch her son's wife, lifted her head, atakened, her nose shoulder. She cried out for somt": her body, and a doctor. Both her eyes were Boccie of the had bled, bled, and there were bruises on . her arms appeared displaced. I saw. saw three juries inflicted on the previous night,. I le, a man blows given with the fist by Richard Tat. with whom she lived. I found in her pock ket two papers labelled " Poison." I believe she poisoned herself, as at 2 o'clock the same afternoon she said, iti " So help me God, I will make away with mys‘ali consequence of my husband's ill-treatment." I advised her not to do so. When she came into nay house she seemed very ill. I told her I would have gone into her house when she vireo being beaten so, only I was afraid he would have served me the same. She replied that her husband had beaten her, so he should bury her next week, as he was leading her a most unhappy life. The Coroner—How long has this Bert of treatment lasted? Witness—l have seen her twice before bruised and her eyes blackened—once, a fortnight before her last confinement. The whole time she was with me on Saturday she was crying, and complained of great pain in her head anti all over her body, caz,ised by the brutal treatment o f Tace. A daughter of the deceased, an intehligent little girl only six years of age, said that sh e saw her mother take two paper packages out of her pocket, put them into some warm water in a wive-glass, and after stirring the contents with the cane, she drank the same. She .asked what she drank, and= she said salts and poison. Mr. Chabot, surgeon, of Camberwell, said that on Saturday afternoon he w,ls tt:ltched to see the deceased, whom he found lying de ,ad e' he floor. ying a printed He saw two paper packets, each ha label of poison. He ordered a seal-chi to be made for any vessel that might have bepn used, and a wine-glass was shown him that had been wiped out, but there was a minute portion of acid ad. hering to one side. He tasted it, and had no dotib,t, it was oxalic acid. He examined the body and bruises on the head, arms, and aide, and be' two eyes were blackened. It was his opinion that she had died from the effects of the oxalic acid, biat could not be positive in the absence of a post mor teta examination. found The Coroner explained that the child had seers her put the powder into the glass, mix it in water, and drink the same. And that she then said it was poison, and, from the fact of his tasting the remains in the glass, he was of opinion that it was oxalic acid, He therefore thought those circumstances had removed all reasonable doubt on the subject. A female named Goodenough, the landlady of the house, gave corroborative evidence, and added —She (deceased) asked me in the afternoon to lendl her 2d., which I did, and she said, if this was poison I would take it. I believe that she was induced to destroy her life owing to the ill-treatment she received from Tace. I heard her say, when he was ill treating her the previous night, " Dick, you have almost murdered me, but you shan't Jo so any more"—when he gave her three more blows on they head. (Sensation.) Mr, Woodman, the summoning officer, said .that owing to the death he saw the man at present in court. He said his name was Richard Daniel Teen and that he had lived with the deceased, but he' was not married. He said when he entered the, room, "What a pretty mess I have got myself into The learned Coroner summed up, and The Jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from poison, but there were causes affecting her mind. The learned Coroner then addressed Tace, and told him that he ought to feel exceedingly thankful that the deceased had not died from the effects of his brutal treatment; if she had he would have sent him to Newgate for murder.