The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-10-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE KING'S CROSS TRAGEDY.  Dr Danford Thomas held an inquest at the St. Pancras Coroner's Court on Saturday, touching the death of the man Frederick William Whit-elle:, who, after having shot a young woman, named Daisy Edwards, or Sinclair, in Claremont-square, on the night of Tuesday last week, shot himself in the head.—Catherine Whitehead said that the deceased was her husband, and had been married to her two years. When they were married he said he was 28 years of a.e. He had been doing nothing since the marriage, but lie kept a house for lodgers. They I not live together after February. She met him abunt a fortnight ago, but she declined to return to him. He lived at Haverstock-stro.q, City-road. He bought a revolver some time ago, and when he had pointed it at her he said that if at any time he took the life of another he would shoot himself. He seemed rather strange in his mind. She hail seen him with Daisy Sinclair on more than one occasion, a d had stood by ti,ir side in public-houses.—Mr. Levy Ledger said that he was going home with his wife through Clarewont-square, when lie heard three shots firer+ in succession. Be stood still tor three or four see,ndi, and then ran acroes to a man and woman, w 1... had both fallen to the ground. The woman said, "I'm shot." The constable asked her her name, and Ale said, "Never mind about that, look after him. Is he dead ?" Insiector James Radhy cow the woman at the hospital, when she Faid that she had been living with the dec..laf d at Heygate-street, Walwortli; that about a -a e: k previously she left him, owing to a &saw., c nt. On the 3rd he sent to her to meet him. She net him at Haverstock-street, and in the evening they went to Collins's Music Hall. When they afterwards reached Claremont-square she wanted to get on a 'bus to go home. The deceased invited her 00 walk round the square, and when they got to the corner, where it was a little dark, he shot her in the head twice. She heard other shots directly afterwards, but she could not say whether he shot himself. The woman was still in the hospital, and unable to be present. It was stated that she was progressing very well.—The mother of the de,t-ased • ated that when she saw him on the Monday he was in a very excited state, and she felt certain he was mad. Two of his uncles died in is lunatic asylum He said to her, "Mother, you will get my things after to-morrow. You will outlive me." —The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.  A Bakers' Exhibition is to be hold in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, from the Ist to the 14th of neat month. At this exhibition a gold and silver medal, offered by the Bakers' Company for the best bread, will be competed for. There will be competitions in bread baking and small goods, under the auspices of the National Association of Master Bakers and Confectioners, the London Master Bakers Protection Society, the United Biscuit Bakers and Pastrycooks' Society, the Scottish Association of Master Bakers, and the Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers. These societies will also hold conventions at the Hall during the course of the Exhibition. The Exhibition is to be made so annual affair. Its full title is to be the International Confectioners, Grocers, Pastry Cooks, Bakers, Biscuit Manufacturers, and Kindred Trades' Exhibition.  Queen Elizabeth once jestingly eased a courtier, "What does a man think of when he thinks of nothing?" to which the disappointed suitor drily replied, "Madame, he thinks of a woman's prconi,e." Th.. best he could afford.—Old gentleman "Little boy, I am grieved to see you smoking a cigarette." Willy: "What are ybr talkin' 'bout? Yer don't s'pose • gent wad my allowance can sport a miler"  --------ze. HE