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The Express. — 1868-03-03 (London, England)

DAY.) This afternoon Mr. \V. J. Payne, the City coroner, held an inquest in the board•roolu of the Scottish Union Fire and Life Insuranoe-office, 37, Cornhill, epectiag the suicide of Mr. Frederick G. Smith, aged 66 years. The first witness called was  Mr. John E Smith, of High Holborn, brother of the deceased, who said that since August List Mr. Smith had been very depressed. At that time he was married, but he regretted the step he had taken immediately afterwards. He seemed to be much concerned about his future prospects in this world, and was under the apprehension that be was " eternally lest." On Thursday last be said, "My soul is in hell," and that he did not ' belong to his family, but to the . . _  Henry Gerrard, messenger at the insurance-office, said that be had known the deceased fifty years. He was a changed man since August last. He was depressed and melancholy. On last Saturday at 12 o'clock be said he was very poorly, and that it wee his brain that wu affected. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon ho went into an upstairs room over the board-room and shot himself by placing a revolver at the back of his head and firing it off. Richard Burrows, a *boors= in the employ of Mr. Crane, gun maker, of the Royal Exchange, said that on Saturday last the deceased came into his master's shop sod asked to be shown a revolver. He said, " Will it kill a man ?" Witness said that he would not like to stand in front of It at 50 yards distance. He then said "That will do." And be purchased the revolver saying he wanted it for the of killing • man. The Coroner said tit was putting a loaded pistol into the man's hand. to destroy himself. Mr. Robert Went, clerk at the ineurance•office, said that deceased appeared quite calm and did his usual business on Saturday. He had never spoken at the office about thieves breaking into his house at Camden-town.  The Coroner said that the deceased might h►ve been examining the pistol, and one of the barrels might bare gone off by accident. It was far the jury to say if that was as.  Dr. Dudley said that be believed that the mind of the deceased hart been impaired for some time. He had attempted suicide in September last. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."
The Express. — 1868-06-12 (London, England)

TIE " UNATTACHED STUDENTS " STATUTE.— Is a convocation holden this afternoon the important unattached students statute was submitted to the house in fifteen votes. There was a large attendance of members, and the proceedings created considerable interest. The first and second votes were carried unanimoualy. The former provides for the matriculation of unattached Btudents, and the latter coedits of general provision. for putting unattached students on the same academical foot. nig as others. The third vote, on the clause relating to tutun of unattached student., caused a discumion, but was ultimately carried, the numbers being-1,605t, GO ; non place; 25; majority, 26. The fourth vote, which related to the clause forbidding collegiate students to become unattached without leave, was also contested but carried, the numbers being—placet, 55; non-place!, 20. Votes 5 to 14 were all agreed to; they provide for the alteration of dc2niticn of roddeyea, notices to he sent to delegates, the register of delegates to represent college boobs the reeldeuce of unattached students, admission to regency, regents ad placcntum, notices to be seat to delegate', admission to ilegi ace, presentation for degrees, altered form of grace, grace for degrees in abfence, unattached members of convocation, gate- bill for unattached students, and preaching turns. Vote 16, which relates to fees and dues, was carried on a division by a asajoi ity of 33. In the same convocation the statute allowing students to lodge out under certain providons RAI submitted in three votes, and after a division in each case, carried. The complement of this statute, one appointing delegates to license and superintend lodging-houses, wa. agreed to without a division.  Fl grlerOZ OF A BELO/AN OVFlCElL—Yeateeday afternoon, Mr. Richards held an inquest in th the &mufti room of the Mile-end workhouse, on the body of M. Michel Frets, an °Ricer of the Belgian army, who winIs emitted suicide by 'hooting himself through the bead. It fl appeared from the evidence that the deceased had for some time had a law suit pending in connexion with proparty coming to him upon his marriage? the anxiety to attendant upon which had affected his mind. The jury a considered that the rash act was committed in a fit of " temporary inmnity, and returned a verdict to that *Mel. ^P
The Express. — 1868-06-03 (London, England)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE THROUGH LOSSES ON THE TURF.  An inquiry was held last evening by Mr. W. Payne, coroner, at the George Tavern, Tower-street, Waterloo-road, respecting the death of Mr. Thomas Whitehead, aged tO years. The deceased was a cutter at a clothier's in Cloth-fair, and his son deposed that he was aware of the fact that his father was given to betting, but as he was a very " close man" be never told whether he had won or lost.  Mr. T. Saopter said that on last Friday night he saw the deceased on the top of an omnibus which was returning from the Oaks. He was then in a very desponding state.  Mr. Jones Milet, of the European Coffee-house, in the Westminster-road, said that on Friday night, at 11 o'clock, the deceased came to his house and took a bed. He was so sad that he could hardly speak. He wee sober, and after drinking a cap of coffee, he said that a friend of his bad told him to back Pace, one of the horses that was to run for the Derby. He bad done so and lost. Witness spoke to him upon the evil of betting, and said that he bad once been a sufferer by it. He then went to bed in the top room. Before be did so he smoked a pipe. Witness heard him place the wash-hand stand and a chair against the door. The whole of his conversation had been upon racing. O Saturday he did not come downstairs., and witness then forced open the door. lie found the deceased seated on the floor at the end of the bedstead. He had tied a rope round his neck and then fastened it to the pole of the bedstead. He bad then sat down upon the door and pressed his body forward. Ho was quite dead. Dr. Donahoe said that the deceased bad died from suffocation caused by strangulation. Several papers relating to betting std racing were found upon the deceased. He had lost money by the Derby and Oaks.  _ The Coroner basin! summed up, the jury returned n Ter. diet of " Temporary Insanity."
The Express. — 1868-03-17 (London, England)

SUICIDE FROM WATERLOO-BUDGE.  An inquiry was held by Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy smear, at the Vestry Rea, Fairer** Southwark, lest night, reepesting the =hide of Antrim Mem, sled 19 years. Mar Ana Reel, 41, Thersonotrer Maher, idea tied the body of the deemed in list ef • yeas mime whom she saw on the night of the Mk Palmer, in tie set of come Mee frees Wahwireidge At 1 Meek on the might in queen she was tem* the bridge tee the Sherd, on the right-head aide, when she Mem& the decreed, who wee Mired is a li ement, Inte re mewed mese rdm the the mt. Be Mud rend and lore at her Imedly,sd lien bowed, though he had are am bee Men /leap his hat a* the seat he stepped en to the asp of the meek sad he disappeared be a gamest, eitip wad met Ma bow, far it wee a rep dark sad seamy sight. She irk +the Mt mad called a pollema. who feted in it • sheet el piper en whiali was written the name of the deer* and word " drowned." Willem Pike and Cherie Biarcedl, waterier, deposed that on Friday last, while ruing in their beat of Ra down-shire, they head the body of ithedeseesed,ms4 dread, with the exerdea of the had They brenglit ashore, sad in re of the teat re they feud a penny and a beer, in a isadwe tlig,lees inie fees pima The leer referred to wee Mee to the meow, who said that was a met erseordimery prodesee It referred to a mew with •pe were need isms, sad • oharaperee diner, followed by ea ezeureke. Theo were sores PM. whisk were guile iedeent, sad whir preluded hie reeding the deseert. Some witnesses wee the munised, ind hem the rather involved Maar it append tier re deemed les the see of a leadame ; that his heampas wen ford to be hi eierise, he balm • mediter ler ead a dieter fir 12. ; shirrs rel a sweetheart meted Ales, mad that, n& he was es yore, he mare in sedneing hem Or she gar birth tea bitty tar mate ego, mad thr ter• eeri orandka took plain•' by mistiestakes eamet,'• sad he lie a er Meat ve way to dr Meta Oa der ega re his suicide he berme IL free hisre Ter in ifierpeireet, Geowellerest, sad he sees me meg am by theme He end re he wee gar Limensie rare. It wee Were Men the tor blase bat in his pore after hie Male the. he me re eels ei the'lreardeir re Me Teeny ea Irish he harem the 21. with the yeeng rem meet Pm" and that Motet dimened his mar nest the elempigne Mabee ezenniee he me Avid io fee his he 5.4 M eer lebsert. d • • 'Wgner having mane up, :s.Mr Mese • role " sat GO email app, err swede by throwing hinesifila44 river fay 211100. Bak% while in • rate of iipaiNpr A . • f 4 • itaillairiralticai OF, isy BALTARmartL maga gag er Mar. r Migrate Ler dell this Meet rel Mhe Seed ahem Meg, fr eeth= is" tea Iterem,ele her In bid herr for • bet blehe• jaigripaihie t mei is MX. air Mier net Met 6114 .vsegsd.ist. 111.119 ^ Clemener or to-serrow arming, sadthe eisere wal Ire pier the errs et aboat a wee reneaer. lb hoes Ihrter Tame will, we neeteluek eller hese to re Meters of Bert es a eledidite /sr lb* serreges.—/fortere Wkly.
The Express. — 1868-10-17 (London, England)

JOB MASTER.  INQITEST.—(THIS DAY.) This (Saturday) morning, at 10 o'clock, Mr. Bedford. the deputy-coroner for Westminster, held an inquest in St. James's Vestry-hall, Piccadilly, on the by of Mr. Charles Newman, aged 69, who committed suicide under circumstances detailed in the following evidence : Mr. Arthur Compton Ryan, solicitor, of 3A, Lincoln'sinn-fields, raid that-he had known the deceased for many years. Ile was a job master and he resided at 121, Regentstreet. Witness acted as his solicitor, and had noticed that lately he had been in a desponding state, owing to his being over-taxed in business, but on Thursday last he teemed in better spirits. Ile was of a highly nervous temperament. Henry Darnell. of 121, Regent-erect, foreman to the deceased, deposed to having been called by Mrs. Newman. who expio.ted her fear that her husband had been scud with a tit in a closet. The door was forced open, and the deceased we discovered, still alive, with his threat cut. Medical resistance was obtained, but death ensued shortly afterwards. Witness saw Mr. Newman 19 minutes hefore his wife called him: he then appealed cheerful, but during the afternoon ho walked about the yard. and seemed " lost in his mind." Ile had been in that state fur the last two months. U. was a humeral(' num. Mr. Charles Keys. F.R.C.S.. deposed to the nature of the injuries inflicted by the deceased upon himself. Mr. Jklemy Harding, of 18, tlrafton-street, Bond-street, member of the College of Physicians, said he had attended the dec.ased for the last tifteeu years. Physically his health had been good, but mentally he had during the last three months not been in his right mind. although he was lucid at intervals. He thought that he took a more desponding state of his affairs than there were any grounds for. A short time ago he visited him at his farm, when Lis language was unconnected, which convinced him that his mind was disordered.  Other evidence proved that the mind of doces‘eil had become impaired by a pressure of businetr. 110 Cori ner summed up. and the jury returned a verdie that the deceased .destroyed hie own life by cutting his throat with a razor. he being at the time in a state of unsound mind."
The Express. — 1868-10-17 (London, England)

THAMES. ♦ MAD TALK. a plumber. aged 4.1 years, of No. 13, LuneLnuse. was brought before Mr. Paget on harged with threatening the life of Mr. Matth, ws, broker and appraiser, of No. . y-7reen, who bad executed a warrant cn the prisoner. The complainant • been subjected to threats and annoyances from • ,•r. who met him on the night of Friday, the 9th • pre.enting a live-barrel revolver at him, • t.. shcct 7 t:ee said he had fired off the five chambers of r by direction of Mr. Benson. They were powder and ball. K. ner, in Mi. defence, said he was often walking •1. large sums of money and valuable property ..11 Le curried the revolver for his own prolle di,cluirued all intention of injuring Mr.  .10 R. said the prisoner fired at a man a -no t. slot he explessed the greatest fears for Ile a-as idled a Louseldeaker. burglar. and !di-el:tr. tool was not sate ter a momtnt • • it-i-,b,•r earri,••l firearm, alomt I •.:et tiomght the prisaher was laheuring under r.. 10 itr,! to Mr. M.fthews. 1k almal,l take  110 1.1 I. 1,1,411,r for g. 1,71 of 1 I.r  :‘'  1 I. os I ton not u1.:14. the inivther  IA: •r-I• II TIII:EE .\l* A ,il.-_•-•••1- :.- of triple suicide Ur.k phiee sit raid nrar the li.lltell.N-Mad-brl.4flT, •• anal, Dal-tow From the statement of John keeper of the Acton loi k, it seems that 11,i • d at about is quarter to two by a man in cha1.,40, •i•.1,-idigite. on the canal, who having heard t. , ~ wed Lc a spla.hing in the water, had come NVliiteinarie immediately got up • tr, the spot indicated, about la the lo,k-houife ; and, after dragging i„it time, succeeded iu bringing to i••,,ly of a girl, which, having been conveyed '•,- ]public-Lowe, in the I'ownall-road, was • htelese. bi the meantime the police became . in it 6 the melancholy occurrence, awl Inspec. with several policemen, followed the party . • ahove-numed for the drags, as it was known '• • gals had jumped horn the Queen's-road\'• inane at once returned, and after a short • ',to: body to the surface. The weight • ••-• was very great, and it was soon •• the hand of the body in sight • the hair of the other unfortunate • • ••dm been got out of the water, dead. , • on a gate and removed to tihore• • c. lather the first had been cotiveyral on I* h,. User transpired that the whole of Lad been seen I°,4:ether at a late • tar: sitting in the street drinking ahil two of their companions say '-1..• ..1 making away with themitelvea. '••I ite• from the bridge one of those who • "I elating their existence (deterred, • •i tap rn in my bOaOM, and some itiutolktoroo and atterwarols turned to • 1.• ono 1. pave a portrait of Lerrelf, telling • • . t t•, :..ther, he would know where she ; r• in it however, discovered upon her, I. t awlkenliefs were found hailer. .•.:,,pcu from the bridge joined hands. %t ... I• aged lietworets If, and • : ..11..-: Mt-. not yet been ideretiliool. • ••• o • .o. for null an extraI. ,• t. ••I I hi- have the appealltlino, ' hall,' ~.IValith. The coroner's in.. • 1..1u0i, :Monday.
The Express. — 1868-12-28 (London, England)

SVP •., •,  BPSR. ANI) SUICIDE IN B,lli IRANCIIM  I• •••• / Jecolison, a native of Denmark, in ;,..y. recently shot Miss Rachel McDonald, in . hale, in can Francisco. He had been emMr. MelMaidd, and, tiring in the house, had s -trona passion for the young lady, who was I . .of age, and very beautiful. She disliked ::.idion. to her, and complained of them to • !.. who in a friendly manner told the suitor to ! ...agint '. which he did, but still continued • .• h•ni-e. t Ate evening he intuited the house, ~, tiro Mottles of champagne, one of which • . =erred to the girl and her permits. They , • ,o. the wine, and then Jacobson. visibly ..p the other bottle and remarked, "Now • •.. neat my wont mate." Notwithstanding • . , ooluct, nolne of the finnilT imagined that he • .•ten.pting their murder. soon after he went ,i 1 er. lir. McDonald and several others of the ....e -I.ghtly ill. but the immediate effects were •.:. and th y all retired to bed. Jacobson had ~:i.i, d tie wine for the purpose of killing the • •y . but. sh.erying the omen quantities which ..r lutist hare feared that the poison bad not taut he determined to return and accom• • nsi the death of liachel. Accordingly, about .• • rest nioniiii;:. haying armed himself with ,'el p.stol, and a stoat tile which he had it one end like a jemmy, made his way to Mr. . 1.011,e. Ile seaed the high board fence, anal • .: f-., :tr.s.oe the inmates, he stealthily ap: end .s! the hose. With the heavy tile he prisod ' . 1. w 'lidos/ and crawled in. The little boys : o L.., h hail lota placed against the window, . . ss .- e .:ible.d to get upon the bed and down to o o 0,.t ,rousing e.ther of them. Ile then eni ~.. ia. k'e room, and either spoke to her or . • .' in-,' with the pistol, for she awoke. and thing - • .• I, ',time in her bed, cried out "Ma ! Ma '.' . , Ile nalaraterrt in the room. As she spoke . ,• ,re 1. and then pining the weapon at his own . : sared a bullet in his own brain. The parents, _ 1. ra port. harried to the room, and there found et, a 1:;:, lily wounded and Jacobson dead on l' y.i..m.: lady lived about 48 hours.  oIoIITAN
The Express. — 1868-07-01 (London, England)

TILE HZALTU OF LONDON.—It appears from the return lamed by authority of the (general that in the week that ended on Saturday Arne 27, 4,776 births, and 2,997 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 24 pee 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,122 boys and 1,041 girls, in all 2,169 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years (1868-67) the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,072. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,464. it was the twenty-sixth week of the year; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with • correction for increase of population, 1,304. The deaths in the present return exceed by 160 the estimated amount, and exceed by 226 the number recorded in the preceding week. The annual rate of mortality was 22 per 1,000 in West London, 26 in North London, 23 in Central London, 31 in East London, and 21 in South London. The deaths from :probe disease, were 466, the revered average number being 346. Nine deaths bora • =allpox, 65 from messiest 28 from scarlatina, 8 from. diphtheria, 66 from whooping-cough, 42 born fever, 171 from diarrhoea, and 18 from cholera were registered. The mortality from diarrhoea exhibits • oonidderable increase. In the week which ended 6th June the deaths from diarrbres were 27, in the two following weeks 31 and 66 persona died, and last week the deaths reserded were 171. Five deaths from diarrhea were registered in the nib-district of Kensington Town, 13 in the Mob-district of Christchurch, If arylebone, 8 in the sub-didmat of .blington Keit, .6 in the suli.disbict of Islington We" _mad 6 in the -I,d of Mile-rid Old Town Ealit Qt the 171 persons who died, 146 were children ander ore, year of age, 18 were under 6 years of age, and 7 peeseds were seed 40 years and upwards. It is essential et the present critical period of the year that the grealest oats should be taken by the engineers and others who bats Me control of the water supply of Loaders, so se to prevent any contamination of the water. The ventilation ef the sewers oleo demands attention. The deaths hem fever were at the annual rate on 10,000 living of 2 in Wad London, 4in North London, 13 in Central =illiiate East London, and 9in South London. In Mesentsulta the deaths in the London. Firer Hoepital ire been referred to the districts from which the patients were brought. The deaths oft from delirium tremors, of 2 persons from sun stroke, of 10 infants tram eyptulia, of 13 persons ham drowning, of 4 infants and act e adult from suffocation, of 6 persons who committed suicide, and of 6 persons who were ]tilted by homes or carriages in the erects, was registered. The holt)) oL Sydenham is far from being satisfactory; the return shows that of a total number of 14 deaths reedited, 3 ocrerrod from measles, 6 from scarlatima, sad 2 tram wierming-rowsgh. ♦ use of typhoid rheumatic fever was ate zerenbeL
The Express. — 1868-09-16 (London, England)

SEPT. 15. —APPOINTMENTS.—Lientenant+, : John Inglis. additional, to the Cumberland, for service in the Hercules ; Edward Dnimmond, to the Duke of Wellington. Navigating Sub-Lieutenant James T.A. White, additional, to the Zealous, for disposal. Midshipmen : Robert B. Macanoehie, to the Terrible ; Geo. P. W. Freeman, to the Liffey. Navigating Midshipmen : Henry H. W. P. Juhream and Henry J. Keane, additional, to the %Anions. for disposal ; Sidney Hughes and Arthur R. P. Hamden, additional, to the Royal Alfred, for dispoeul ; and Clerk, Robert Dunaltbon, to the Zealous.  ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BRADtourc—On Monday night William Bruerley, an old police officer in the Bradford force, was sent home from duty by his superior officer for being the we, for liquor. His habits have been rather intemperate of late, and the wife, as they retired to bed, uttered a few words of gentle re proach, suggesting the wisdom of "doing better," or not returning' to his employment. They went to sleep, but, in some hours after, early yesterday morning. Brearley rose from bed, complained of thirst, drank of water, and then returned to bed. As he was doing so, he asked his wife to lay on the other side, and as she was in the act of doing so she suddenly felt a instrument—it was a ran, r—drawn across her throat, as she put her hand out in alarm, she received also a severe gash on her hand. She instantly tore herself from his grasp, sprang from bed, bleeding as slie was, ran down stairs and into the street, and created an alarm. An officer, named Osborne, c.une up, and in a moment after he found. on going to Brearley's house, that he had also cut his own throat, and was lying in a pool of blood on the chamber floor. A surgeon, Dr. Lodge, was called in and attended to both, who are dangerously wounded. The wife has the jugular vein slightly wounded, and the husband the windpipe severely cut. The latter was removed to the Bradford Infirmary. It is said that the misconduct of the wife for a long time past has sorely disturbed the peace of Brearley, and driven him to seek temporary forgetfuhises in liquor, his intemperate habits having more than once subjected him to reproof from his superiors and the watch committee. A