Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-03-16 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SHOCKING END OF A SPENNYMOOR  WOMAN.  On Wedneeday at the Auckland Workhouse Mr J. T. Frond. the Deputy Coroner, held an enquiry into the circumstances attending the death of Margaret Hautley (26). whose dead body was found yesterday morning in the River Wear, near. to Binchester.  John Huntley, miner, of Drake-street, Spen nymoor, seed: The deceased is my daughter. She left home on Saturday, the 2Eth of January. at about half-past six o'clock. She said she was going down tho street, and would come straight back. Instead of that she went to Binchester Blocks to stay with a family named Pearson. Ou the Monday Elizabeth Sarah Pearson came to my house to ask if the deceased bad returned home. I and my wife went in search of the deceased, and gave information to the police of her being missing. I never saw her from then until she was got out of the river. When she left home on January 26th I noticed that she was not quite right in her mini. She had had a complahit in her head for about nine years. She wandered in her conversation, and said they had all turned against her. I thought she was light-headed and locked the door, and took her hat 11.11,1 jacket from her. She begged hard to be allowed to go dawn the street, and I let her ro.  Elizabeth Sarah Pearson-, of Einchester Blocks, said: The deceased had been a companion of mine for two years. On the 26th of January she came to our holm°, and said her father had put her out. I noticed nothing peculiar about her. She stayed with us over the Sur.day, and I noticed something strange about it. On the Sunday bight I and the deceased with my father and friends went to Auckland for a walk. Coming back home the deceased at the Batts wanted to , drown herself, and said, " Nobody cares for me at home." I said, "I care for you," and my father threatened to hand her over to 'the police. We got bank about nine o'clock. On the Monday afternoon she left our house, and said she was going home. When my father came home bethought it best to look after her. My father and I went to Spennymoor to see if she had returned home. The deceased had a stepmother, and she used to say that she did not behave well to her. I have been in the house, and her parents never used to speak to the deceased. She said they did not speak to her sometimes for a fortnight together. The deceased often talked to me about making away with herself. • Joseph Harker, a miner, who was fishing in the Wear yesterday, spoke to finding the deceased to the river. Ile at once gave informs. Con to the police.—Joseph Lowe, of the Batts, spoke to getting the body of the deceased out of the water, assisted by some other men. Inspector Mutimer spoke to having the body of the deceased removed to Auckland Workhouse. The 1 ody seemed to have been in the water several weeks. There were no marks of violence about it.  The Coroner, in summing tip, referred to a paragraph which appeared in a Newcastle evening paper about the body having been mutilated. He said such paiagraphe cleated an erroneous impression, and had cansed him to be very cereal. He had even sent for a doctor that morning to have the body examined. The jury sallurued a verdict of "Suicide whilst in &state of temporary insanity."  A CIIITAIN CUBA !—lltdidOn'S Balaarn of Moretiound and Coltaloot te the host remedy for conshs, colds, difficulty of breathing, hoarseness tiglitnose of the cheat, or any affect,ois of the illest or lunge. One dose will relieve; generally effects a cure. &kat/tat you got "Iti.d ion's Balsam,' and don't be put off with a substitute. Prepared only by Padden and Co., Liverpool. In bottles, IA 10 and 2e 9d; and sold by moat respectable chemists Agent's for Stockton: Wm. Clarke and Wm. Hardcastle and lion, ; W. A. Graham. 4, Mill-lane, West Hartlepool: Clarkson. Brunswick-et. Middlesbru' : Robson. Linthorpe-rd, Stokeslcv Peassou. Llllll7ll CATHAETICUM PLLLS, agreeably sperl.ut fad, 21 Ml. 2.11. 01 all Manisa%