The Sun. — 1824-12-08 (London, England)

HOL OCCURRENCE. and Mao nvderayy night an inquisition was taken at the 'Wangled garet Eldred, Tavern, Brook-street, Ratcliffe, before J. W. ITNWIN, £SF, aged 33, wifenfonm:tri.eownsoefptlitieEbioddryedo,fa3,lrertse.n3elaarr; surgeon. Airs. Sarah Hollitt, sworn—l reside next door to the decelltett in Glass-house-tields, Ratcliffe: on Monday night, the 29th ult., the husband of the deceased came to me and requested that I would come to his wife as soon as possible. I intmediet elI went, and on entering the bed-chamber found the deMs, lying with her clothes on. I asked what was the matter, and the deceit:4ld answered feebly, that she was very ill, and that it was all the effect of passion ; I asked her why she put herself in a passion, particularly when she was situated as she sal (the deceased was in her last month of pregnancy') ; the ace.* ed said that she and her husband had had a few words,. and that she was more to blame than he ; that he had stayed nut later that night than she wished, and that she flew at him di' reedy he opened the street-door. I told the deceased that it would have been much better if she had held her peace in her present situation; deceased said she wished she had. No further conversation took place at that time; I undressed her, put her to bed, and sent for Dr. Harkness, who immediately attended. 1 remained with the deceased all that night. After Dr. Harkness went away, the deceased said she was getting very ill, and desired me to call her husband to the bedside; on his approaching her, the deceased said, " Joseph, 1 hope the Lord will forgive you and me, for one is as bad as the other; be kind to my babes, for I am ►oing to that place from whence I shall never re. turn." I desire the husband to go again for the doctor, and net to come back without him. He did so, and Mr. Harkness On attended. The deceased became more composed, and told me she thought she had broken a blood-vessel. Shortly after this, she , asked me if I did not think it would have been better if she had told the doctor she had been kicked by her husband. I per' suaded her to' tell the truth, which she agreed to do. On Wednesday she seemed somewhat better, but in the course of the day she became worse, and expired about ten o'clock on that night. In answer to a question from the Jury, the witness said that the deceased had told her before her death that her husband tli had given her a dreadful kick. Mrs. Sarah Croker sworn.—On 3londay night I was als.ot requested by Mr. Eldred, the husband of the deceased, to vim his wife, and found her in bed as described by the last wit.ness: All her care seemed to be for her husband and children, and she ascribed the cause of her indisposition to the effects of pas.: isoinonth.e iilnnobrs,ewrsiTitelhafteratreqduanT.ity of bleod about the bed, and reside at her head, and said that if she ever got over it, site hopetlett Ie dzensEleit.zia, annedynnonhiinsyswesokrnin.—g Ihewraswhsaent taifloerdohnerTushesedsahyl,f would give her grace to overcome her passion. I sareitil:oW ceased frequently alter, and she never attributed any conduct to husband. ;tau. e l Harkness On Johnl Ina t clai ; the lower parts of her person a quantity of coaelated 101_ ~.,1„ the evening, I was called to attend the deceased, and foil_ ,doet,, but there did not appear to be a sufficient quantity to occen: alarm. I administered such medicines as I mouldered .easc_i_!, ndasywseorninn—igllita,mabaoustuttgoea'enlocn' kanei(Sul listed to do her good, and they appeared to have the etla,u,',.`: effect, as she somewhat recovered. I continued to att d n_1:: till she died. This deceased never in the slightest degree Allen Honed her hasband's having kicked her. I have esantinecannot body after death in the presence of Dr. Conquest, but that' say that death ensued from the loss of blood alone, buta.lr„ in pprr.cgcnaenntrqyt;est to Tether with a laceration that presented itself on the part eve,s. mentioned, produced her dissolution, as she was far advanc % of Finsbury-square, aw rn.-1 %Via presertr, with the last witness when the body of deceased was 01)niend and on examining minutely the parts already named, 1,",,ed there were considerable marks of violence. The parts a11u43. tion about three-quarters of an inch in length. I to were very livid and tumefied; there was also a small latent' tensive extravasation of blood produced by the injury, vel was the immediate cause of death. after The. Coroner recapitulated the evidence, and the Jury, ~s, a long deliberation, returned a verdict of ihforislooghter gaidnea Mr. Lldred, the husband, who was immediately elWrchell on the Coroner's warrant, and committed to prison. found antleicii  GeorgeSuiciDE public-housel t n i ignh t the Viarnardilougru-street, Illcios, the Coroner, on the body of Mr. Joseph PenrCe, put u period to his life.—Mr. Robert Pearce, residing nit '.7,... 48, Greek-street, Soho, stated, that he was brother to t1,1„11:1;.. ceased, who was forty years old, and lived at No. 11.4,4rw0 dour-street. About nine o'clock yesterday moridn*, he nd sent for to the house of the deceasedanti his rriviu he •‘3l , on a tie bud him on the bed, still alive, but quite unable to sPeak* I weed a mort dealierate wound in the neck, and his person was t'e*--' with blood. There was a surgeon present,- who declared the wound to be mortal, and in two or three minutes lifteructi rival the deceased expired. It would appear that the deceit. had been shaving himself when he committed the dreadinil act, as theashaving apparatus was on the dressing-tablc,)BA.4 also a razor, covered with blood. About two months up in a was taken at .fr. father died, since which the deceased appear,ed, ;11.1)/v„alS, and melancholy state, and frequently complained °' ''''' ' dto that he felt a defect in his intellect : his friends endeavoured . he always seemed despondcheer him, but it was of no avail, Soho, before whoI: ing. Witness waswith night, and left. him in his usual state of mmu.—v r,ul,o__ " That the deceased destroyed himself, being at the time in nn insane state. of mind."—lle has left a wife and two you g children. n lir M a