The Express. — 1861-09-07 (London, England)

SUICIDE OE • SERVANT GIRL—A girl named Brown, whose panints nailer near Sunderland Road-end, in Gateshead. put a period to her existence on Wednesday morning, under the following eircumetaap,_sbe wu living as servant at the Lord Collingwood lon, Clayton. strut, Neweastle.owTyne, and it appears that deceased hail bought herself a bonnet which her mistress eonsuler:d extravagant, the price being is. Cal. She was consequently chanted by her mistress, whether rightly or •rongly, with having taken the money out of a drawer in the house. Ths charge had the effect of cushy; the unfortunate girl to go home, but there, it is mid, she wee so ill received by her friends in coneoquenos of the accustion that she returned to her place. Here the charge wu reitusted, with the threat of the police, and a polbee en was actually sent for, but nothing definite could wawa her. On Wednesday morning, about 6 o' she wee found to have cut her throat. At the inquest, is the evening, the jury returned a verdict to the Veld. that the girl died from wounds inflicted by her own band. The poor girl use may seventeen years of age.— Struderiand Herald.  NT • CITNTLIOUN OF FORTUNIL A profound _engine has been created in Arecooshire. Monmouthshire, and the end mantles, by the melancholy saki& of Mr. Davies, of k, a gentleman holding an Whines! position in society,and well known ins South Wales, who committed self-destructioo by blowiog his brains oat. He accomplished the sed act by placing the muzzle of • rile in his mouth, which be succeeded in discharging with the aid of • ruler to touch the trigger. He was fated quite dead, with the rile resting on his shoulder. No men la et pewit Aped fee the raah sat. Deceased was 110 years d erre. The mad imminence has east a gloom over the whole of the seighboarhood. FATAL Ovx Amen/m-0n Wednesday Mr. Sam Madam of Ingests., the respected agent of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, was called on important husineaa to Rugeley. Having some time to spurs, he drove to his birdship's estate sear Brereton, and, accompanied by Mr. James Dean, the eohki lord's mining agent, arid his son, a yams man eighties years of age, proceeded to the Coppice Farm, where they were joined by James Hackett, the gamekeeper, and his son. On getting into the " Middle Field sense birds ran into the hedge, and Mr. Guiders and young Dean followed them, the latter heath* the hedge. Whilst dein this, and stooping down an that Mr. Gioders might Ire ewer Ma; the birds rose mellow round, near the ground. Mr. Models, who was about four yards from Dean, raised kin ee n, and just as he got a fair shot at the hints and was mg the trigger, the young man. whose back w towards . Giademgot ighad the whole charge entered Limbach of kis head, teariog away the soalp sad brain. He immediately fell meshes, and Mr. Diadem, whose terror meddlers's' may be called to Mr. Deal, and ran for assistance, and itZeijavas removed to his father's bows. He continued to breathe for upwards of an hour after the accident, but was issensible, and expired soon after he had been conToyed home. It is impossible to depict the scene of anguish that 'slued The bitter exclamations of regret which fell from the oak Munate gentleman who had so unwittingly bees the cause of the accident, and the deep, mad ',oilier of persatal love for the untimely loss of their endeared end early eon, were heartrending, and defy description. An Memel* was held on the body yesterday (Friday), at the Holly Blab lea, the Slade, Breietoe, before Mr. J. Collis, eoreeer, and • respectable jury, of which Mr. James, boobseller, wee foresee. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."—Stauforiehire Advertiser.