Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1889-11-16 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY LETTER OF A SUICIDE. She. Carttar held an inquest on Morday evening at the Dover Caitle, Greenwich, on the body of a man supposed to be Francis Sumner Rose, aged from 45 to 50, who committed suicide at hiB lodgings, No. 45, Devonshire-road, Greenwich. The Coroner's officer produced two bore., which had been tied up by the deceased and addressed to the Coroner and jury. Its one of the boxes was found a letter, written on foolscap paper. It began as follows:  portion Francil  "East Greenwich, Nov. 6, 1889, (the figure 6 had evidently been written subsequent to the other of the letter.)—This is to certify that I. Sumner Rorie, have committed suicide by swallowiog an overdose of strong Turkish opium, aud that an person in this house or any other have had either hand or act or part, directly or indirectly, in my destruction. The whole business is my own. My reason for committing eucide is because I haft ruined myself in the careful horse-racing. I had made a fair little fortune at the game for years 1141.1 years ; but easily got, easily spent, until at list! have lost all.  Toe writer, after stating that he could not make up his mind to go back to bat friends en Australia, proceeds:— Considering the moat decent style of destroying my his, I applied strong opium as the best mean., as I always detest those beastly methods of molds, such as shooting, throat-cutting, drowning, and all the met; but, of course, I am well aware that all forms of suicide are bad enough. But I now think that this style of destroying lets la beet, as it is the most decent, cleaned, and quietest style that I know of. Now, having • fair knowledge of this mighty drug and its effects, I have swallowed the contents of Una box, contacting 370 of those opium pellets, minus 35, which I am well aware is more than ten times the amount required to kill an adult person. My motive for taking this amount Is to lull all pain, so, as you can understand, I will actually die in apoplexy, leaving the world in a sleep of peace, without pain, ache, or sigh. Now to Begat the coroner and his jury to give their verdict, I have tribvn these means—namely, I have put a sample of the opium that I have already taken, Shave put that into two tin boxes. I have posted them at two different offices in London from my lodgings at 49, Devonshire-road, East Greenwich. I have taken this precaution in order that the jury may coo that no other party had any handling of this drug but inyealf. Now the Coroner's jury will have very little doubt in this matter—that is, I think so—that Franois Sumner Rose did kill himself by swallowing Cu overdose of strong Turkey opium with his own hand and free will, knowing the same to be far more than doubly sufficient to cause death. Signed, this 6th day of November, 1880.—Fuemois SomNAB Ron."  Dr Adams deposed that death was due to apopluxy, following opium poiaoning. Such opium as that produced (crude) cool not bo bought In England. The number of pellets said to have boon swallowed by the decoaaed was sufficient to kill fifty adult persona—A verdict of " Suicide while insane" Was ratassod by she jeey.  To have fault° and not to reform them, this indeed should be pronounced having I sulk,. It is not calculable what may be accomplished in everything in life by moderate beginnings and judicious perseverance.  Dean Swift said "It is with narrow.eoulerl people as with narrow-necked bottles, the less they have in them the more noise they make NI pouruag it out."  Happiness is much more equally distributed than Some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may posieess mulch of the thing, but very few of the materials.  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