Widnes Examiner. — 1880-01-10 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

HIE SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT ST. HELENSThe inquerit on the oody of John Hatton (34), teamsemintaditc'er:nl7llConray. who tied "ivnadserherd6at'thtlfetrgrn. I Inn, Peasley-Cruss-lane, St. Helens, ou Wednesday after. I noon, before Mr. Barker, deputy coroner. It appeared from ! the evidence that the deceased hod been suffering from in, flammation of the lungs, end when ; n a state of delirium on ! Friday night he got out of bed and, without dressing, went out into the garden adjoining the house in which he lived aurPcut his throat. The wound being speedily attended to ! bad no serious result, but the exposure to the cold midnight air intenoified the inflammation of the lunge and caused ! his death. Ellen Lea, wife of Richard Lea, Old Sherdley Hall Farm, r Sutton, Skid that the deceasol, John Hatton, was her brother, and 34 years of age, and rent. married man, but had been living away from his wife seven years. He had lived at her husban,l's house between four and five months. , His health NO been very good during the thee he lived at ! "rkn mi beoom.'n. ".'4'le lith?:sgt ear, him tibet iF‘rdveaar' nhit sh egliw" note before eleven o'clock in his cern bed-room. He seemed Co be all right, hut had had a cold since the Monday before. A little later that night she SAM him coning in the house with her litishind from the back door. She noticed that he woe bleoling from the throat. She sent for lOr. Millighan, , who attended him until his death on Monday afternoon.. During the week he complained of • pain in biocide and spat. bloat. He ovoid not hare a doctor then. Deceased told ; her he had cut histhrost himself. Samuel Leach, nephew of the deceased, said he slept with him on Friday night. His uncle had twit in bed ell day having been unwell. He caw him at alma nine o'clock. He was awakend about 11-30 by hcering the deceased walking about in the room, but could not see him. Witness heard him goi, downstairs and then heard him unlock the door and sharpen a knife on the door-step. He then wakened his father and motto, and they went downstairs and outshle to him. Witness went down and sow his made brought in by his father. Itlcharil Lea, brother-in-law to the deceased, said that on the night in question his win cellist him or, and he went outside the house and found the deceased standing at one side of the building. He asked him what he WAS doing there and he then fell on the ground and said, "Oh! I'm dead my throat's cut. ' Witness picked him up and carried him r into the house. Ile !sail the knife produced in Ids right ! hand. Ile hod nothing on but his ehirt. the. Millighan,assistant to Dr. Griffith,, said he was celled in to see the man at 12-4,1 on Saturday morning. He exIlk throat and forma a wound three inches in length on the left side of the throat and about a quarter of an inch deep. Deceased was suffering front inflammation of the right hang at that time. Ile stitched the wound up and attended him up to the time of his death on Monday morning. The wound had not caused his death as it !was not sufficiently metre. Death hail resulted from inflammation of the lungs ercelerx,ted by exposure to the cold. Ile was in a state of delirium from effusion Liking place and was not responsible for his actions. The Coroner having summed up the evidtnce, the Jury returned a verdict be the effect that death had occurred from natural causes accelerated from exposure to the cold whilst in the act of attempting to commit suicide. •  ARRIVAL OF 'rate Qrstaw's ii-or,rry To Sr. Iltunws.—We Hotel laid week that the wife of Mr. Thomas Unsworth, of Bury's.lane, Parr Flatts, woo delivered of two girls and a hoy, and we have now to add that the Rev. A. A. Nunn, vicar of Parr. has received from the Queen's private aecretory the remittance of £3 for the woman. The application was made by Mr. Nunn, enclosing the certificate of Dr Millighan, Dr. Griffiths'. assistant.