Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-05-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE AT BAILIFFE  BRIDGE, INQUEST AT THE PUNCH BOWL INN.  On Monday forenoan, Mr. Wm. Barstow (district coroner) held an inquiry at the Punch Bowl Inn, into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Diekinion, dyer's labourer, of Booth's Buildings, bleb-Wane, who committed suicide by hanging himself in the bedroom of his house on the previous Thursday. The following comprised the jury :—Messrs. P. Glover (foreman), D. Hodgson, S. Booth, E. Stead, T. Smith, J. Kellett, J. Wainwright. W. Cornwall, R. Ramsden, L. Smith, and S. Wilkinson. The jury 'having been sworn proceeded to view the body at the late residence of the deceased, where it was laid out. The first witness calla I was ARTHUR DICKINSON, who stated that he was the son of the deceased, and was 17 years old. He last saw his father alive at half past six o'clock on Tuesday morning, when he left him in bed. Proceeding, witness said : He told me to lock the door, which I did when I went out to work. On my return at about half-past five o'clock in the afternoon I found my father suspende i by the neck with a rope from a 'beam in the bedchamber. lat once ran and informed a neighbour. My father had been very much addicted to drink for the last few weeks, and had been very strange. He has often told me he would do away with himself, and the last time he said so was on the Thursday morning, when he said "Lock the door and take the key away with you; you will never see me alive again," During the previous night the deceased was rambling in his sleeep, but I cannot tell what he was saying. In answer to the Coroner, witness stated that his father was 53 years of age, and worked as a dyers' labourer at tickle Bridge Dye Works. Witness had two sisters and a brother, who resided with their mother in Branksholme equare. His father had not spoken very much to him latterly, because it had generally been eleven o'clock at night when he came home. P.C. ARTHUR JACKSON, who is stationed at Bailiffe Bridge, was next called, and stated that he received information of the occurrence at six o'clock on the previous Thursday evening. He went into the house and found the deceased hanging from a beam with a rope round his neck. Witness cut him down, but the deceased was then quite stiff and cold, and must have been hanging a considerable time. He did not think anyone had been to see the body before he got there, except the last witness. The attempt at suicide must have been very determined, because deceased had had to push out his lest to enable himself to hang. NANCY RAYNER stated that she assisted to lay the body out. Deceased had no marks of injury about him. She lived near to the deceased, but had not seen him very much. The last occasion on which she saw him was on the previous Wednesday morning, and he was then intoxicated. ibis was all the evidence tendered at the inquiry, and after a short delioeration the jury returned a verdict that " Deceased had committed suicide by hanging himself during a state of temporary insanity."  To THE Dr ky, —We send any•lnstrnment we keep for the ours t f Deafness or Noises in the Head to your home on approvel,—Union Drug Co. _ Ltd., Zepolisl Itaulione, Ogford.atreat Login W.C,