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The Sun. — 1841-06-23 (London, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE AT STAN.; FORD ABBOTT. - (Abridged from the Essex Herald.) A case of suicide occurred last week in the parish Stapleford Abbot, in this county, under circumstances of a very romantic character. A labourer named James Ramsey, about twenty years of age, having visited. Jane Hills, a respectable young woman, in the service of Mr. .James Dixon, for some years as a suitor, in consequence of her refusal to marry him, quitted his house and enlisted on the 9th instant. He however became dejected and miserable, and five days afterwards was found lifeless suspended from a tree, in Mr. Dixon's garden, at four o'clock in th^ morning, close to the window of the bed-room in which the object of his attachment slept. An inquest was held on Tuesday, before C. C. Lewis, Esq., Coroner, when it appeared from evidence that he was considered to be in his right mind, but that he was habitually sad ; he had been connected with the girl Jane Hills for about two months, and was disappointed at her refusal or backwardness to marry him. A sheet of foolscap was found in the deceased's hat under the tree on which he hung, and upon it was written in pencil as follows :0 My Dearest as God gives me leaf to write these few words to yow what i do tell you it certainly is trew for what i done you caused me to do so what i tell you bear easy in your mind fur i love the so well i cant leave the behind So my dearest Jane ive come again as you may find me here no tongue can tell i kow it well i have been to sewere but when to the tomb its there fore to remain i hope you will not lay to heart to heavy a load of pain . for its when that i do go i hope its kind you will behave as i loved you and you loved me you will follow me to the grave so its now to all my friends and my relations far and near i hope unto these lines you will lend and eare so its now fore to conclude and finish all my rime i think within my own . mind iam jest in my prim so. now my dearest Jane i hope its kind you will behave • and its when that homewards i do go .. you will follow me to the grave Whoever finds this pray read it to my dearest beloved Jane hills God bless you my dearest Jane for my dearest beloved Jane hills pray read it to her for my sake The Jury returned a verdict "Temporary derangement."
The Sun. — 1841-06-23 (London, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE AT STAPLEFORD ABBOTT. (Abridged from the Essex Herald.) A case of suicide occurred last week in the parish of Stapleford Abbot, in this county, uuder circumstances of a very romantic character. A labourer named James Ramsey, about twenty years of age, having visited Jane Hills, a respectable young woman, in the service of Mt. James Dixon, for some years as a suitor, in consequence of her refusal to marry him, quitted his house and enlisted on the 9th instant. He however because dejected and miserable, and five days afterwards was tbund lifeless suspended from a tree, in Mr. Dixon's garden, at four o'clock in the morning, close to the window of the bed-room in which the object of his attachment slept. An inquest was held on Tuesday, before C. C. Lewis, Esq., Coroner, when it appeared from evidence that he was considered to be in his right mind, but that he was habitually sad ; he had been connected with the girl Jane Hills for about two months, and was disappointed at her refusal or backwardness to marry him. A sheet of foolscap was found in the deceased's .hat under the tree on which he hung, and upon it was written in pencil as follows :0 My Dearest as God gives me leaf to write these few words to yow what i do tell you it certainly is trees for what i done you caused me to do so what i tell you bear easy in your mind for i love the so well i cant leave the behind So my dearest Jane ive come again as you may find me here no tongue can tell i kow it well • i have been to sewere but when to the tomb its there fore to remain i hope you will not lay to heart to heavy a load of pain for its when that i do go i hope its kind you will behave as i loved you and you loved me you will follow me to the grave so its now to all my friends and my relations far and near ilibpe unto these lines, you will lend and eare so its now fore to conclude and finish all my rime i think within my own mind i am jest in my prim so now my dearest Jane i hope its kind you will behave and its when that homewards i do go you will follow me to the grave Whoever finds this Pray read it to my dearest beloved Jane hills God bless you my dearest Jane for my dearest beloved Jane hills pray read it to her for my sake The Jury returned a verdict "Temporary derangement."
The Sun. — 1841-12-20 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.-Late on Saturday night an inquest was held at the King's Arms Tavern, Ifolbornhill, betore Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, on view of the body of Mr. Ezra Hodgkins, aged 59, formerly an opulent innkeeper and coach-master, who committed suicide under circumstances of a most afflicting nature. Thomas Showle, porter to Mr. Parker, proprietor of the King's Arms, proved discovering the deceased about 11 o'clock on Friday morning suspended by a rope to a horse rack in one of the stables in the yard of the inn ; he immediately cut him down. Mr. Parker, the proprietor of the inn, said he had known the deceased a great number of years ; he was formerly an innkeeper and coachmaster in wealthy circumstances, but of late years had been so far reduced as to be cotnpeiled to drive coaches and do whatever jobs he could obtvi.n. The change in his circumstances was mainly attributable to the long coaches being taken off the roads in consequence of the railways ; he was a sober, respectable man. Mr. George Butcher, of the 13e11,Holborn-hill. said he had known the deceased for a length of time ; saw him last on Friday morning, when he told witness that he had got a badge to drive a cab, but that he had been so unfortunate as not to be able to take home daily sufficient money to his employer, who in consequence dismissed him ; he was very dejected at the time and wept bitterly. The Jury after coin-1 menting, upon the melancholy nature of the case, returteudnaDvEerNdiDct EoAII.---On Saturday night last thef " Temporary mental derangement." SUDDEN family of Mr. Goater, the extensive fishmonger to the Royal Family, of Hungerford Market, and who resided at No. 8, Buckingham-street, Strand, were alarmed by the sudden illness of that gentleman, who, in attempting to walk across the drawing-room, dropped down apparently in a fit. Medical assistance was instantly procured by the family, but, on their arrival, life was found to be quite extinct. The deceased was a very early riser, and invariably went to Billingsgate Market with his cart as early as the business of that place commenced. The body awaits a Coroner's inquest. The„ deceased was universally respected by all who knew him. The Commissioners of Customs directed, not long since, that stock should be taken in all the bonded warehouses in the port of London, and we are sorry now to learn, that in the warehouses in the immediate vicinity of the Custom House, and attached to what are called the " Legal Quays," deficiences to the amount of many thousand pounds have been found to exist bz reason of the removal of bonded goods without the payment of duty. This applies only to the " Legal Quays," and not to the large Companies' docks, the warehouses of which have not m examined.—Observer.
The Sun. — 1841-02-03 (London, England)

NEW TESTAMENT. This is an admirable little pamphlet, spirited in its style, clenching in its facts, and powerful and convincing in its arguments. It ought to be in the hands of every one who Mould know the true state of the question between the people and their State Church. The subject matter contains all—whether Churchman or Dissenters. All who believe in Christianity especially ought to informthemselyes sufficiently as to the right manner in which religion ought to Le supported. The author of the pamphlet now before us proves Dissent from the State Church to be founded on sound principles, and justifiable by Scripture as well as reason—urging with great powers of knguage the right of every man to worship God in the way he thinks best.—Leeds Times. Published and sold by II T. Chaffey, bookseller Chard, who will on receiving a fourpenny-piece in a pre-paid letter, send two copies, or eight for one shilling, to any address, free. Dennis, London.  Just published, price 2s. 61. APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure. By a M EMBER •t the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " lam impotent, and no- tit 4 live,"—Last's Records of s Suicide. Sold by Onm, hyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country, N. B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of Is.  This system ofjeduction in the premiums affords immediate benefit to the Assured, or enables them to secure iconsiderable bonus by effecting a new policy. Policies aro granted in London and by resident Committees at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, on Indian risks, at ♦ery advantageous rate., calculated from extensive data and tables, exclusively in the possession of this Society, to show the true risk of life during residence in India, and atter retirement from foreign service. By Order of the Board. DAVID JONES, Actuary.
The Sun. — 1841-02-20 (London, England)

FATAL FALL FROM A HOUSE-TOP.—At - ' . the Irish ng forward any measure to alter Poor-law as noon on Thursday, Mr. Wakley, M. P., held an inque.t regarded the appointment of returning.officers. Toe st t'se Mi idlerex Hospital on the body of Ann Lynch, age .•d 49 The te.timony of several witnesses proved that present ORMANB desea t. l's husband, a tailor. 1 ved on the second floor of The Marquis of N ____ Y, without admitting system had been productive of the hou e, No, 15, Blenheim-street, Oefereettreet, and the evils to which the Noble Earl alluded, begged to say that sl. e was in the habit of leaving him for weeks in sue- that tire attention of 'the Government and the Comceisior. On Monday night, after about a month's a':- miesioners bad been directed to the subject, and had sence, ehe retsrnei home, and, having opened the street had given directions that all future elections should be door with a latch-key, she proceeded to her husband's conducted as far as possible on an unobjectionable rooms. Finding t'..em locked, she went up stairs into the principle. He was not aware, however, of the necesfront attic, wheels she had no right to go, aid slept there sity for any alteration in the law. Mr. Nichols had for the Light. About ton o'clock next (Tuesday) mornstated that it was intended at the next election to try ing, h wring her landlady coming up stairs, and not wishthe experiment of appointing the clerks of the unions ing to be discovered by her, she stole int) the back attic, through the windpw of which she passed, and stood on the as returning officers, and be had no doubt it would be parapet, for the porpoits of poncealment. Whilst in that successful, as by that means they would steer clear of pcsiticn something frightened Lee, and she fell from it into political feeling. the area:—Verdict, Accidental death. the es Government.very sorry to The bear THE LATE SUICIDE AT BLACKFRIARS thatT hseucEhawrlasofthGe LiriEteNntGioAn LofL rttuoce.—On Thursday an inquest was taken before Mr. I clerks of the unions were in many cases appointed -4. St, Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of by partisan boards of guardians, and the evil, would Payne, es Thomas Henman, a plate?, aged 26, whose death was thus be perpetuated. It was his intention to bring forward a motion on the subject very shortly, and the oWnirig ledornystiefilifn;ffofthme Monday ystlraaseltes oTfhßel jacukrymanner in which the returning-officers were appointed would form a distinct feature in that motion. N
The Sun. — 1841-06-25 (London, England)

ADVERTISER.—It is certainly a matter of the first hr.portance, that the constituencies of the United Kingdom should ponder well and deliberately on the respective merits of the several candidates who may present themselves for their suffrages in the present election.' In few, lamentably few, instances, need it he expected that candidates will present themselves qualified in all respects to give faithful and effective representation to the sentiments of the electoral body. The course, therefore, for the latter to pursue, when they cannot find as good a representative as they could wish, is evidently to select the best of those who claim their confidence. A portion of the Chartists, however—a portion fortunately becoming small by degrees, and miserably less—appear resolved to pursue an opposite course, and when they cannot find a candidata cut out in exact precision to their own views, propose to supFort the worst of those who solicit their sweet voices. It is on this insen, te. conduct of those who vaunt themselves the elect a of freedom, that the Tories base their chief Lope cif triumphing over the public interests. For our own part., being anxious Only.for the best men to win, we would recommend that the candidates be chosen by the application of a sliding scale, and let him found to stand highest in the public confidence have the undivided voice of the Liberal electors. The Chartist who, influenced by a different and perverse feeling, gives his vote to a Tory, is guilty of an act of political suicide for which no plea nor palliation can be alleged in excuse, save that of temporary insanity. It is not our intcnion to plead the cause of the Whigs, and wherever better men present themselves these men shall have our support ; but are the Tories better men ? This is the question. Are the men whose Hie h .s been passed in continual opposition to the claims of the people, better than they who have always advocated at least a gradual concession of these claims, and against whom the chief accusation is a too great tendency to conciliate the very men to whom the suicidal Chartist would, in his most stupid infatuation, now give a preference ? Before we discard the Whigs, let us be prepared with better men to supply their places ; but above all things, let not the representation be abandoned to the Tories.
The Sun. — 1841-09-10 (London, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE.  Yesterday an inquiry took place before Mr. W. Carter, the Coroner for the Eastern Division of Surrey, at the ' Robin Hood; Kingston Bottom, on the body of Robert Fell, aged 35, who destroyed himself, by cutting his throat, on Tuesday morning, on which day ho was to have been married, after a twelve years' courtship of his intended bride. The following evidence was adduced : Frederick William Wallace deposed that the deceased had taken the beer-shop of him, and he had been acquainted with him for a short time. On Tuesday afternoon, in consequence of information he received, he went to the deceased's house, and found him lying on the bed with his throat cut. The deceased pointed to his throat, and said, " This is a bad job ; it.will cost a good deal of money, and I don't know who is to pay for it." He added, that he knew he should not be able to pay rates and taxes, and that he thought he had better leave it ; and he at the same time said it was a horrible job, but they were not at all times their own keepers, and he could not account for it. He then wrung his hands, and expressed deep regret for what he had done. By the Conosan—Witness bad not the least doubt that the deceased committed the act himself. John Williams, one of the keepers, of Richmond Park, deposed that he slept with the deCeased. About twenty minute, past five o'clock on Tuesday 'awning lie heard the deceased get out of bed, and he appeared to bo feeling about for something, and he almost instantly fell down, and appeared to be retching, and witness a, k2el if he was sick, and upon no answer being returned, witness jumped out of bed, and he then observed a qmntity of blood running from the throat of the deceased, and 11:,) was groaning violently. On lifting up the deceased he saw a razor covered with blood lying under him. Mr. Thomas Ellis Tapley, surgeon of Wimbledon, proved that he W:1,3 called no to sec the decepawd, and on examining him he found a, wound. op his tilroat Emu five to'six inches in length, and three inches deep. Witness'remained in attendance upon the deceased, and was with him when he expired. This being the whole of the evidence, the Jury returned a verdict "That the deceased destroyed himself while in a state of temporary derangement.'  •
The Sun. — 1841-05-04 (London, England)

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The Sun. — 1841-05-04 (London, England)

FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE.—Ayoung man of fashionable appearance appliedabout four o'clock on Saturday afternoon to the keeper of the column in the Place Vendome for permission to go up, but was informed that being alone it was not allowable. He was turning away, when a party of visiters came with the same intention, and, as this removed the objection, he ascended with them. While the rest were engaged in admiring the view from the gallery he seized an opportunity, got on the rails, and in a moment threw himself licadloog to 'the ground. When taken up, and carried to the quarters of the Etat-Major on the place, he was perfectly lifeless, having fractured several of his limbs, and received other mortal injuries He had neither papers, cards, nor any other thing about him by which he could be identified. Since wilting u hat appears elsewhere on the subject of Lord Cardigan, we have heard, and we are inclined to consider the report as authentic, that the Secretary at War has so far overeume the scruples of the authorities at the Horse Guards, in regard to his Lord,hip, that they have reluctantly decided that be must take the earliest convenient opportunity of "selling out." Mr. Macaulay is said to have convinced Lord Hill, that any further protection of his Lordship by the m:litary administration of the country, cannot fail of being productive of the worst consequences to the discipline and well-being of the Army ; and that unless his Lordship, at length, consents to the step, which circumstances have so long rendered necessary, a change in the management of the affairs of the Army will inevitably be called for, in a tone so imperative as to make a further resistance to public opinion dangeroui, if not iimpos ible. The Noble Earl has conseqtiently received notice to quit ; but is to be allowed the grace of having himself originated his retirement. The Sunday flogging affair has proved the last drop to the cup full of official endurance.— United Service Gazette.
The Sun. — 1841-03-12 (London, England)

UNPRECEDENTED CASE.—Mary Murgetts, an interesting young woman, was indicted for throwing herself into the river, with intent to commit felo de se. The prisoner pleaded guilty. The COMMON SERGEANT told the prisoner that her offence was one forbidden in the decalogue, and by the common law of England declared to be a felony. He (the Common Sergeant) had been informed that down to the present time she entertained a determination to destroy herself; hence, the best thing the Court could do would be to respite her judgment until the next sessions, and he hoped ere that time the chaplain of the gaol would be able to impress upon her mind the sin and folly of self-destruction.  The session terminated on Tuesday night, in consequence of several of the prisoners traversing until the next. sessions, which was convenient both to the Bar and the Bench, it being the eve of the commencement of their respective circuits.  The following were sentenced to banishment for the periods set against their respective names : For the term of Natural Life—Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace, Patrick Maxwell Stewart Wallace (the trials of these convicts occupied nearly four days, their offence being one of not unfrequent occurrence, but seldom prosecuted to conviction. ) For p Fifteen Years—Thomas Smith, Charles Powell, Daniel Monday, James Warren. For Fourteen Years—Joshua Page. For 'fen Years—Louisa Puddick (for shoplifting), Mark Goodyear, W. Smith, and Thomas Griffith. For Seven Years—George Hawkins, Charles Smith, Michael Johnson, William Carrott, Henry Coster, Nicholas Johnson, John Mitchell, George Hambley, Joseph Hambley, John Clark, Philip Young, Eliza Clark, Mary Ann Goulding, William Humphreys, Johanna Fogerty, George Collard, Charles Smith.  Imprisonment and Hard Labour in the Houses of Correction where their offences were alleged to have been committed, for the periods named, viz.:— For Three Years—John Thomas. For Two Years—Ann Harding For Eighteen Months—Joseph Howard, Thomas Barker Fitzjohn (for letter-stealing, the first and last weeks in solitude). For One Year—Daniel Smith, John Smith, John Tredwell, William Grant, William Arnold, William Kemp. For Nine Months—J. Birch.  The Grand Jury ignored the bills of indictment which were preferred against the following persons, who, by their fiat, were discharged from custody, viz.:—W. Golding, .John Mills, John Jones, Edward Newman, Moses Monday, John Melson, Charles Dahana, Eliza Wilson, Elizabeth Hilby, and Charles Edward Willis.  The Court at its rising adjourned to Monday, April 5.