The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1882-12-05 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

BAPTISMAL  NXTRAORDINARY FATALITY.  On Tbrindey an lequeet was he'd at Bromley, near London. tinchlne the death of Ellen Hoebech aged lir, who was found deal in bid on Tuesday. P. doshacM, a Custom -house officer, said that defendant wee be wife. U. had not h... lowing with her for the boot eighteen months : elate that time she bad been cohabi. Jog with a • man named Pearson. Sind, a Custom-h,stre officer. Witnese formerly resided at the same house as Pearson, but left there partly on ace runt of his elfe's intemperate habits, and partly through her familiarity with Poaredn. His wife refused to ace deputy bins, but remsined with . Pearson. Witness teed been married to the deceased ler twelve yesrs, and she bad two children ly hint. J.iross William Phillips Pearson said that for the lost eighteen months Ilea Hiebach had lived with him.. his ad.'. He bad a wife of hi. own, and she lived in the same house. , but &he could not very well undertake the housekeeping. as some time back she bad ha I paralysis of the brain. The deceased was ei very diaipated habit.. Ste drank very freely. On Monday night when witneas went to bed the deceased *pp. ired to have been drinking freely, loot Lune old sot seem to he anything the , matter with her maticularly. Witness got up to go to employment soon atter seven, and at thst time the deceased was lying on her face on the bed, app rent's` asleep. At about tour o'c'ock he received • note from his wife to the followicg effect :—" Please Mrs. 11. has smothered herself in the pillow.- lie went home and then found deceased lying in the bed in the same pontien that be bad left her in the morning, but she seas dead. Deceased we. o' a very rxettable terepsraineet, and would sometimes ti row all kin•le of thing. a: both him, his wife, and her little boy. lie had beard her frequenuy threaten to commit suicide. The deceamil's little buy, woo was between beam and eight years of riept in the same bed with thew. J rumol earson, the wife of the last witness', waa then c air& boo gave her evidence in a very calm and straightborear I manner, and di I not exhibit any qmptom, of pity.: it or inentin ilifirouity. She stated that line join i tile deceased lying ail described on Tuesday at tern on, and at once sebt for her husband. In rep y I. the coroner, wither. said that she we. well aware that her husband and lho deceased were living together Ili luso and wife. The deicea-ed we. of very intemperate 'obit •. Mr. Richard ltsraey, LC.P rad he exam Med th, body, and t mud bruises up n the shoulders, arms, and erste These were the only :narks of violence. Ile hut since made a poet•mormiu examination. 7Os Canoe of (kith as. evideutly suttee 4WD. In his opinion it wee next to irubossible for the ilecrm.ed to have suffocated heralt by lying ita the p sitson in which Au was found; there Mein LI :nuke of pressure upon the throat. The Coroner, in 14111111ninn up, said the cam was a very mysterious tom. The evideioce had amebas' a mut shocking state of immorality. Alter the it itement of the doctor Out it we.. impoesible. or next to it, ter the &cased to hare auffa-ate I herself by lying up on her are in the way in which Coe au found, he thosaut it heat for Use jury to return an open verdict. Tee jury then returned a verdict that di ceased bad died from suffocation, but how that had I Nip brought about there was no esi. demos to show. The matter ii thus lilt in the hands of the police.