Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-11-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SUICIDE WHO DETESTED THIIO +.1% CITTTING.  A rained gambler named Francis Summer Roes (aged from 45 to Of, on whose body the Greenwich coroner held an inquest on Monday, left a doonme.it behind fano miring his reasons for the suicide and instructions to the coroner. In it he said The whole business is my own. My reason for committing suicide is because I have ruined myself with the cursed horse racing. I had made a lair little fortune at the Rama :oz years and years ; but easily got easily opent, until at last I have lost all. I cannot brace nu my mind to go back to Australia to my and • comfortable home, although I got the c,:er several times from • few friends in 15 procure • paisage and outfit for me on foal at sir mouths sight; but when I come to think the matter over and over, no, I would soontr L. death, yea, even twice mer again. O I cunt now throw up the sponge, considering the ino4 decent ;style of destroying my life. 1 c‘plied strong opium as the best mesas, as I alwaYs do. test these beastly methxls of suicide, !%1 shooting, throat-cutting, drowning and ail the rest; but of course I am well aware that all form,. of suicide are bad enough. I;ui .1  now think that this styie of destroying hie is the best, as it is the most docent, cleansed, and quietest style that 1 know o!." lld then di•tails that he intended taking over .7.;,3 opium pellets—" this mighty dru," he cislica .1 —"which 1 an well aware is more then t..a limes the arnor.nl required to HI 1111 person. But to be doubly sure ot my end hare taken this extraordinary amount of opium. 121°Wvo of 44111111 this amount is to Ind ad ptin, so, as you can understood, I w:11 actushy a.e with apoplexy, leaving the world in IsLea of peace, without pain, ache, or sigh." Thou no added that "to aisle% this corona and hia je ry 13 returning a verdict" he had posted with 1"1 o*a hands two sample@ of the drag ai Chg4rent Willa& On another papor was written for the coroner's jary. I request that the Jrr/ wdl give ardor* for the destruction of Ibt. mighty drug, as it may fal into the lauds of some persou uot acquainted with its 'accts. Notica Let the jury compere the letter addressed to the coroner with all papers found In my bedroom, aud limy will see toot all the handwriting is mine." The two posverl4 deemed to the &Kemal were signod Fowl. and had r.,:erenoe to his proposed return to kle• tralia.—A verdict of suicide while insane woe rr Nrued.  Larl (Julia Stannisgtou Novi ni diuberland. has boon privately sold se lair Minium Whim-Ridley, whose itAr don condo it adjoins. prolivrtf,  , - TIMM! IMITATION ANN sill awl drys'.', Clokltug and Netball ea, indirlag Mil •Ilsolt Um coke. Fee Owe spapw."l 1 611:Appa's (itemise Jujubes hi masses icili th 4 Clan IS nt the women% lb are excited by *OW a tucking. the ti ly eerie. la agreeable confeello,,A , beceluod autivel healing" _ oar in b,)%0,, - -Ji Co. Ile,ri:eo• *Me Neon, i a ~ Vii , ealliatiNi Mask" ' •' ,---73 C atoned, be Oa II .."7 f "1., . alma I I "Mist emotion, —...": ..i: • r"-,.., '• , ._.....31. 1 Weber at *OS*• • • '' ' ' ' I Nli "real tl owe, • "...Wank