The Nuneaton Times. — 1875-11-13 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England)

DROWNRD.—An inquest has been held at Sunbury en the body of a man named Wilding, a gutunaker at Chelsea, who was found dead in a meadow near Sunbury. Mrs. Caroline Wilding, wife of the deceased, said she last saw her husband alive on Tuesday evening, the 2nd inst., about 8.30, when he left home to go out on business. He was then in very good health and spirits, and there was nothing unusual in his manner or split arance. She oould not say if he had committed suicide, she thought it very unlikely; but she wad unable to account for his absence from home and his being found so far from Chelsea. Mr. William Taylor, a surveyor, of Hornsey-rise. proved finding the body of deceased in about eight or ten inches of water, left there by the recent floods. A' doctor proved that there were no marks of violence upon. the body, and the general appearances were consistent with death by drowning. The jury returned an open verdict of Found 1.40W130d. DRAT; OP A NAVAL ViTilitiN.—lntelligencis has been reco:ved of the death, on the 3rd inst., of Commander William Hole, in his 83rd year, at the residence of his son•in-law, Captain the Hon. R. F. Boyle, RN., of Parley-lodge, Berks. He had seen considerable service in the early part of this century. He was awarded the war medal with four clasps, commemorating a boat action in 1809, his participation in the reduction of Martinique, in that also of Guadelotipe, 1810, and a cutting-out expedition in 1814. Ile was the only son of W. Berry Hole, Esq., of the Island of Jamaica, and grandson of the Rev. W. Hole, of Kerscott, Devon, three of whose sons distinguished themselves in the service of their country, viz. : Admiral Lewis Hole, who died in 1870, as the senior surviving officer of the battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar, in which last engagement he was that lieutenant of the Revenge; Commander C. Hole, who Was Wounded by a boarding pike in the desperate cutting-out of • French man-of-war in Vigo Bay, distinguished himself in other Gasetta &Worts ; and Captain 11. Hole, Royal Marines.  , up, _ _ • lamp.. but he A • besieging pip, and attempted to Art hold of him and grasped hold of his my arm, The man then jumped on the I cried out for the mate, but he ger answer; so r went down, but stopped at the' house, where I found the helm deserted. Wr low, and found the chief mate with his throat his head nearly severed from his body. I r the man for leaving the wheel, and askeo _ for so doing. The man .replied that Nears threatened to kill him, therefore he left the hide fell down on the deck, pretending to be dead. , the state of MIA*, I went to the cabin, procured ea„ revolver, and returned to the main deck. The night being very dark and equally, I could not see the murderer. Through loss of blood I became insensible, fell to the deck, and in falling the revolver dischargeds the ball passing through the knucklejoint of the fore finger on the left hand. I remained insensible till daylight, and, being thirsty, asked a Chinaman standt ing by to get some water, which he did. I then asked him where the serang was, and he replied that he was forward. The sorting was called and asked where the man who attempted to murder him was. lie answered the man was aft, and had thrown overboard compasses, chronometers, charts, instruments, cloth. ing, lamps, &c., and had broken and was still breaking up the furniture in the cabin with • hand-spike. I asked the serang why, if there was only one man mutinous, the crew did not seize him, and they immediately got different implements and attempted to secure the •-iurderer, who, upon seeing them coming towards him, jumped overboard from near the wheel-house. The Chinese supercargo received a cut an the right side of the head from Nolan, who was not seen again after he had jumped overboard. I ultimately succeeded in making for Lyeemoon Pass, and anchored inside Green Island at 7 p.m. on September 26. The man biotin, by whom the tragedy was committed, was suffering from a disease known among the Mateyo' and Siamese as gillah, or amocque. It takes the form o 4 ringworm, and is attended in every case by madness of more or lessoiverity."