The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-08-15 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE OF A LADY AT STOCKTON.  On Monday at the Clarendon Hotel Mr Coroner Settle held an inquest on the body of Mrs Frederica Myers, aged 55 years, who had died on : Saturday evening from self-inflicted injuries.—Mrs Janette, Bloom. daughter of the deceased, said she I lived at No. 24, Hartington-roal, and her father, Mr Morrie Myers, pawnbroker, lived at No. 5,11 Bartington-road. Her mother had been in ill- „ health for the last six months. On Friday last I witness went to the house between 9 and 10 a.m., i 1 when Dinah Holmes, the servant, told her that I , she had taken a cup of tea up stairs. About 111 a.m. witness went to deceased's bedroom, ' where she found her mother in bed. Her left arm was outside the bedclothes, and she saw it had been cut. A re-tor which had been in the house for years was lying on the bed, covered with blood. The blood bad flowed freely, and stained the bedclothes. The same evening witness ordered the sermnt to barn the razor, and saw her put it in the fire.—Dinah nolinee said elle had been in deceased's service not quite three months. On Friday last witness took deceased a cup of tea about 9 a.m. Half an hour later she said she would have another, and witness took her one, which deceased asked her to put to her lips. Her arms were then under the bed-1 clothes, and witness did not observe either razor or blood. Witness set the cup on a chair, and I went down stairs. Five minutes later witness f went again, but did not notice anything wrong with her. At 11 a m she heard Mrs Bloom screaming, and went up to deceased's bedroom, when she saw her in bed, with her left arm outside, bleeding, but saw nothing of the racor. The husband mai had his breakfast and gone to the shop, but had returned, and was standing in the passage when the alarm was given. The racer was usually kept in the back room, where the master slept. There was no one up stairs between 9.30 and 11 a m. except Mrs Bloom and herself. Witness thought her mislress had been much depressed of late.—Dr. Blandford said the deceased was his patient, and had been out of health for six months, being much depressed in , spirits, though she showed no distinct signs of in, sanity nor a tendency to commit suicide. , He saw her on Friday about 1.30 p.m. She was then in bed, and extremely weak , from lofts of blood. Her left arm was , bound up, Dr. Clegg having previously seen . her. There were three wounds, one s'ightly i above the elbow, one across the elbow, and one a little below, all in front. The cuts had all been made from the outside towards the inside showing that they were possibly self-inflicted. Tbe wounds I bed been caused by • sharp instrument such as a - razor. They were all distinct, wounding the superficial vessels. She was too weak to queetion about it. Death had bean caumid by anaema of the brain, resulting from loss of blood.—The jury re, turned a verdict that "Mrs Myers had died from r wounds self-inA icted while in a state of temporary insanity."  Rtirrtn:- ...o TRUSS TonTrnu Xe TEsurBLE —Secure thu ......_evrnan method and avoid both. Call on or address J. A. Sherman, Hernial Specialist., 64 Chancery-lane, London. The photographs of extraordinary cases before and alter cure to be seen at his offices are marvellous. His book, edit free. 7d.—Anrr, BUDDER'S BALSAM Or IiOREHOUND AND Cometroor, the certain mire for Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, and all affections of the Cheat and Luny. One dose relieves—one bottle cures. Don't ,take any substitute. Give it a trial, and you will never 'regret it. In bottles, is lad and 2a 9d d all °Umtata. I —Azle, To