The Sun. — 1840-10-06 (London, England)

SUICIDE. Yesterday morning an inquest was •held at Tfre Adelaide Hotel, Sheet-street, Windsor, before Mr. T. W. Martin (Coroner for the borough) and a highly respectable Jury, upon the body of Mr. William Glover, of the firm of Hopkins and Glover, shipping insurance brokers, of Change-alley, Cornhill, who was found dead on Saturday morning in a shed close to the Great Park, from the effects of a pistol bullet, which had entered his head at the right temple and come out at the opposite side. The first witness examined was Ann Bartlett, keeper of the Pheasants beer•shop, close to the shed in which the deceased was discovered. She stated that on Friday afternoon the deceased entered her taproom, where he had two glasses of ale ; and after reading a newspaper, and inquiring about the funeral:of the late Princess Augusta (which took place the same evening), he left at 6 o'clock, after staying about half an hour. Witness observed nothing extraordinary in his conduct.  aa 3.tioug him ; John Taylor, a carpenter, who was building the shed i n out close to the Magpie style, leading to the Park, in which sixdiscovered,th o'clock on Saturday morndeposed, thAt when he w down, and, thinking he was but, receiving no answer, regeunntidki tec,ocsiewiaealo‘s,cre kadal laemvt(vi. l past he went close to him, when he found him lying on his left side, with his face upwards, covered with coagulated blood. He had firmly graved in his right hand a discharged pistol, and there was a bullet-hole in his right temple. He was quite cold, and appeared to have been dead some hours. His cravat, hat, and walking-stick, were lying by his side. Witness then went for the police, leaving him in charge of a sawyer who was at work close by. Henry Sexton, the policeman who was called in by the preceding witness, stated that he had the deceased taken to the Adelaide Hotel, where he searched the body, upon which he found a bunch of keys, gloves, several letters and invoices, the Times newspaper of Friday, a silver snuff-box, and 7s. 6d. in silver. There was also a two-ounce packet of gunpowder, from which a small portion had been taken. In a Pocket-book there was a blank check on his bankers, (Williams, Deacon, and Co.), and a small scrap of writing paper, on which was written, in pencil, the following: William Glover, Homerton-terrace, Hackney, and Change-alley, Cornhill. Take me to the Adelaide, as I am known to Mr. Oliver, and Mr. Barton, upholsterer, High-street." It appeared that the deceased had not been to the Adelaide ; but he had been seen in Win lsor just previously to the funeral procession of the late Princess Augusta arriving there on Friday evening. Mr. E. Bagster, a nephew of the wife of the deceased, stated that he had resided with Mr. Glover, at his house at Homerton-terrace, Hackney, during the last  three years and a half. The deceased, who was seventy-one years of age, was formerly in a very extensive way of business, but latterly he had transacted but very littte. Until lately witness thought him to be very wealthy, and he was considered to be so by all his friends. Ho has now money at his banker's. Until within the last three weeks, when he first complained of giddiness and pains in his head), he appeared as usual; but since that ho has been very reserved, and when any of his old friends have called upon him he appeared annoyed, not liking to see them. On Sunday witness observed something exceedingly strange in his behaviour. Latterly he has not attended business so regularly and punctually as usual. Witness breakfasted with him at eight o'clock on Friday last, and he then appeared more cheerful than he had been for the two or three days preceding ; but lie said nothing about going to Windsor. He had no children. He had not had any losses lately in business. The paper produced was in the handwriting of deceased. Charles Walker Ford, who had been clerk to the dece;sed for the last five years, deposed to his regular habits of business until with;n the last fortnight, when he observed a great change. He had not been to 'Cliange•alley but once (and then he stayed only five minutes) since that day fortnight. He then tried to avoid every person he met who knew him, especially in passing the Marine Insurance-office and Lloyd's. This witness then produteda letter written to to him by the deceased a day or two before he left town, relating to matters of business, in which he requested witness to inform Messrs. Elliott, the brewers, who had applied to him, that he had been out of town for a week, and would not return for some days. The letter then o ent on to state, that his nights were sleepless, and that he was almost distracted, and expressing a hope that his bankers had discounted a small bill which had  ....... in been paid for that purpose. This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner briefly addressed the Jury, who returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."