The Sun. — 1845-11-12 (London, England)

END.—A woman, named Simms, the wife of a market-gardener, at Kingsholm, near this city (Gloucester), and who was in the habit of attending the vegetable market, was found dead in a chair, on Tuesday morning, under the following circumstances, detailed before Mr. Joseph Lovegrove, coroner, and a jury :—Hannah White —I am the wife of Charles White, and live next door to the Bull Inn. I have known the deceased for the last five or six year:i. She came to my house between seven and eight o'clock on Monday night; I noticed that she was quite in liquor, and could hardly walk across the kitchen. She had a bottle with her about half full of ruin, and she drank out of it several times between that time and about half-past eleven. At this time I left her and went to bed, together with my sister-in•law, and got up this (Tuesday) morning about six o'clock, and found deceased sitting in the chair in the kitchen, just as she now is. [The body was exhibited to the jury in the same position as it was found ; the deceased had the appearance of being asleep.] I called up my sister-in-law, and we thought she was dead. I went to my father, andhe fetched Mr. Clark, surgeon, who pronounced her to be quite dead. The deceased was much given to liquor ; she is about fifty years of age. Sophia Jones—l live with the last witness, but for the last three months have been in attendance upon Mr. John Simms, the husband of deceased, at Kingsholm. [MrSimms had been severely injured by a bull.] The deceased was unwell from the bile for some time, but it was to be attributed to the quantity of spirits she usually took. She left home on Monday morning to look after the cart with vegetables, and was in her usual health. She returned about ten o'clock of the came morning quite tipsy, and went to bed; she arose again about four o'clock, and partook of a basin of chocolate. I left about six o'clock, and I saw her as described by the last witness between seven and eight; she was very noisy and abusive. After we left the kitchen she continued very iet ; I afterwars found her i the chair quite dead. When quiet at home, she usudally slept onn a chair or on the sofa. The deceased was a drunken woman, and usually carried a bottle of spirits with her. About twelve I had occasion to come down stairs, and she appeared to be in a sound sleep. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that " the deceased died froi the effects of intoxication." Gloucestershire Chronicle. SHOCKING SUlClDE.—Another proof of the direful. results which the preaching of such fanatics as Dealtry andil44* Burgess, who recently honoured this town with their pry-.5,_ , sense, is calculated to produce upon the minds of the creNr: -, k dulous and ignorant, has, we regret to state, been afforded fitrtiz,l3 the suicide, at an early hour on Friday morning, of ascot:inn: -‘7l named Netherton, the wife of an ostler residing in Gibbons• Line, in this borough. The poor woman, it appeared, at• tended the lectures of the worthies above•namedrand fright- 7 (i. ~lli, ened at their declaration of the near approach be t*xlsy 0f.,...t 1, ' #ll judgment, she has ever since been in a state of-Mtatal de. -4 ;," "NI ........) rangement, and thus it was, that being left alone for a short ..`i, time on Friday morning, she put a period to her existence bl 0 ' nearly coyeripg tor bead from her body.—riemptis gonad