The Express. — 1864-12-03 (London, England)

DECEMBER 3, 1864.  THE EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OP A 3OLDIEE IN THE CITY. ,0  At the resumption of the inquest in the case of the suicide of James Feat, a soldier of the 3rd Bath, by IL W. J. Payne, depnty•ooroner, last night, in St. Botolpuced:h's vestry-room, the following additional evidence was add Lanos-Corporl Wells, of the 3rd Buffs, rid that during that afternoon Inspector Mitchell directed him to go to lied deceased's widow at Putney, but to be back at the rernmptice of the court. He set out, but when be was within a mile and a quarter of the house be found that he had only just time to get back at the meeting of the court, and he therefore returned without seeing the person he was to fetch. Coroner—Then we must do without her, and hear what you have to say as to the state of deceased's mind. Witness rid that the deceased used to become almost mad when he drank. Some years ago his stepmother had struck him a blow at the back of his head, which crushed in the skull and caused a contusion of the brain. The doctor could find the crushed place if he examined the head. If it was pressed he used to berme delirious. Dr. Fowler—The whole head is blown away. Several witnesses were then examined, and from their statements it appeared that the deceased had received a short time since, from his wife, the money to purchase his discharge, but that be spent 21. of it in treating his iromredo before he left the regiment. He wrote two letter, to his uncle asking him to make up this deficit, but he got no answer. He got leave of absence, and came to town on the 22nd November, and on the next day he paid for his passage to the United Stare. Finding that the ship did not sail till the 28th November instead of the 24th, as he had expected, he drank heavily sad bought a pistoL On last Friday night he paid ser.,y his last twopence for a girt et ale at the Green Dragon, la Bishopagate, saying, " I will have this if I never have another." He went straight back to his lodgings in the China Coffee-house, Blab° to-street, end blew his head to pieces, as has been alrreeaaddy reported. He was stated to have been much attached to his wife, and he was known to have had her portrait ; but the photograph which he had crushed wider his heel the moment before he shot himself was destroyed beyond the possibility of identification. The Coroner said that the mai was a most singular one. There could be no doubt that the deceased had suffered from rental aberration, consequent on the injury to his head ; and that finding himself without the money to purchase his discharge, and in the position of a deserter, he killed himself while deranged, The jury returned cas"Zt of " Suicide while in • state of unsound  • SHARE lildTll.—(2'Hlß .041%)  Two o'OLooz.  The railway market is inactive to-day, but the tendency generally is not unfavourable, the variations in the principal lines being about evenly balanced. Metropolitan, London and South Western, Great Northern, and Great Eastern stocks have risen to per cent., while London and North Western, Midland, and South Eastern have receded k to k. London and North Western stock is now quoted 118 to I • Great Western, 77Lto 78k • Midland, 136} to 1'37 ; Lancashire and Yorkshu'e, 114 to ; Caledonian, 131 to 132; South Eastern, aq to 3 ; Great Eastern, 48 to}; Great Northern, 133 to 134 ; London and &nth Western, 98 to 99 ; and Metropolitan, 1213 to 122 f. Eastern Bengal, Grand Trunk of Canada, Namur and Liege, and Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean shares are dull, and other colonial and foreign lines inactive.  IPd I CL gnaw I Sam  334 Ili  78 SO  dial °I 6° I  46 47.  iirile -4ti ii Ile I  ft »,41  —I i pal as_ a 1  —I 1 pal tzgaudl 64 14.8241 tit lOW II a I  Err  ... 44  3. _m  H!  S) 4e 16  32i lie 10  ... el  9 Eti 91 90,  35  16131  MO  91  491 9 L 939 1  tOt i i 91  171 1,  4  1.111  lei—  • -.  Nil  111,--.SOBI WWI  ii2:itl•  -,--, 100,0001 1100,000 100,000 1114600 MOW  iOOO,OOO no,cno' 74.0n0:  0010%11111.  11. IS Mglslamism