The Cotton Factory Times. — 1886-11-12 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

TUE INQUEST.  The inquest on the body of Mr. Fred Archer was licld on Tuesday afternoon, at the residence of the (deceased, Falmouth House, which is about a mile from the town of Newmarket. The jury consisted of Messrs. Manning, Cheunell, Pace, Eeles, T. Brown, Sadler, Simpson. Golding, Rae, Wright, Arber, and Bridge, with T. Jennings, sem, as foreman. The jury having viewed the body, which lay in is shell in the bedroom, the following evidence was taken :  Captain Bowling, a personal friend, first identified the body. He said the deceased was 29 last birthday. Witness had beau staying in the house since Friday. Mr. Archer was ill in bed at the time and remained 80. Witness saw the deceased every day. He could converse to a certain extent, and then seemed to wander. He was anxious about his recovery, and never expressed any intention of destroying himself. He was very nervous; because he wasted so much. Witness was away from the house at the time deceased shot himself, but he had left hint, AS he thought, happy and contented. He wasted very heavily for the Cambridgeshire, but witness knew nothing about his going without food for three days. Ile rode at a weight which nece,eitated short living. He rode several other races at tile week of the ntectua4, and was very thin. Mr. Archer in his illness was attended by two HUMS awl Mrs. Coluhtu, hi mister.  Mrs. Colman, who bore the tryit,; onlcal with lunch &unless, said "I lived with my brother. lie came home unwell from LOWON last Thursday. I did not think he was very ill, and he went to bed a: about half. pest eleven. The next day he was unable to get up, and I sent tor a doctor. Front that time he was obliged to keep in bed, and was medically attended. lie abr.° had two nurses. HO wandered occasionally, but seemed bettor on n 1 iv itiorMitg. I was talking to him gooa deal, lie fm•git ut times, lima then btlitua afresh. kle was *Wane about Lis so mrery. .• two. he wighei to speak to me n lu. nurse lait the room. He told me to send her out. I did not think anythiym of it, as he had done the same so many times on pros -101:13 days. When the nurse left the room j walked to the window to look out, and he said, "Ar they coining?" I heard a noise, and looked round. He was out of bed, by the side next the door. I saw something in his hand, and ran to him. I saw that it was a revolver, and tried to push it on one side. but be put ono arm round my neck, and thraii me against the door. The revolver was in his left hand. lie shot himself in tim month, and seem,: 1 to fall itat on his back. I screamed whiht we wore struggling, bat the deceaFed never had no idea that the revolver wag in the room. It must have been in the pedestal. The whole scene del not last more than two minutes. :ay brother had to reduce himself a great deal to ride St. I thought that he was doing too mach, itnd felt a•oxious• It was very seldom that he reduced himself so low as Bst."  Charlotte Hornidge, a trained nurse, corroborated Mrs. Colman's statement as to heing told to lease the room. Witness asked him if ir: was comfortable st the time. Ile replied, "Yes." The witness con need : "Presently I heard a bell ringing violently, and of 'help.' also a sound as if a pistol had gone off. ran upstairs, and Mr. Archer was lying on the hearth. rug dead. There was a smell of gunpowder, an! hi a valet, who had come into the room, tiAndA me a revolver. I had no idea the reveler was in the room. I have since seen a box containing cartridges in the pedestal which was not used. ' ;The cartridges and revolver were here produced.) "Mr. Archer seemed very low spirited while I was narsing him, and said he thought he was to die. I told biJa he ought to look on the bright side, and he 'I wish I was of your way of thinking.' I did 7' • neti,s that his mind wandered. He had kft • vionsly. Some hours after the bullet in the room, with a parti,.e ; to it."  Deceased's valet spoke to picking up the revolver it fell from the deceased's hand when the nurse turn,: f him over. Witness knew the revolver. A burglary was committed in the neighbourhood about a month ago, and since-then the deceased had kept &revolver in the pedcstal. Witness himself put the revolver there. _ . _  Dr. John Rowland Wright stated that he had ber-i the deceased medical man for feurteea years. hi was not a strong man. On Friday niorriiii4 he fonni the deceased in a high state of fever, and he subie. fluently sent for Dr. Latham, a a second opinion. TOO deceased had a delusion that a dinner he had eat three days before was still in his stomach. He hart typoid fever. On Monday he seemed better, bnt was very low spirited, fie had the idea that must die. Witness left him at half-pat in the morning, and he did not see hire alive again. lie had examined the body, and had a.,cei. tamed that death was ean,,,l by a Millet passing front the mouth through the spinal column. Witneii coi.• sidered that the mind of the de.ceaFed hinged that he could dot be held respolisiLle for LI actions.  Captain Bowling, recallei, said he Wft3 31:;:. aware of limy betting losses to upset to deceased. A verdict of " Suicide during temporary insanity," was returned.  The deceased made t will after his wife's dr.s.th. Be is reported to have left a fortune of several hundred thousand pounds. The Iniain3 will be inter.ul Newmarket Cemetery to•day (Friday.