The Express. — 1866-08-03 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE ON THE NORTH LONDON RA IL WA Y.  An inquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, last evening, at the Queen Elizabeth Tavern, Graham-road, Dalstor, respecting the suicide of Joseph Gosling, aged 75 years. Ellen Gibson, No. 9, Arundel-street, Kingsland, daughter of the deceased, said that her father was a mariner. He had lately been in great distress, and • few days before his death he discharged himself from the Hackney workhouse. On Sunday last witness went to see him in the German Hospital, where be had been removed after he bad thrown himself under a train. He said, "If I had had a night's lodging this would not have happened." If any one was to blame for what had happened, blame was certainly attached to witness's sister and to her husband. On Friday he went to the house of witneee's sister and her hue. band, and at 10 o'clock at night they turned him out of doors, and he lay down on the cold stones near his daughter's house. The husband then came out ; he told a police-constable to move him off the stones, and said, "If you don't, I will kick him off." It was very bard to turn an old man out at that time of night. Witness had only two rooms to live in, or she would have given him a lodging. He had made three attempts upon his life, and he was not a man of sober habits. On Saturday last at 6 o'clock in the evening the deceased entered the Stoke Newington statior of the North London Railway and paid RI. for a ticket for Dalston junction, and be was then allowed to pass on to the railway platform. George Naylor, fireman, said that at 6 o'clock last Saturday be was standing on the engine of the Broad-street down train when he saw the deceased walk to the front of • train at the Stoke Newington station, jump off the platform, and throw himself in front of the engine. The buffer of the engine struck him on the head and knocked him down. The train, which was the up one, was entering the platform at the time and witness called out to the guard " There is a man under the engine !" The engine ran over the man's legs and feet. Dr. A. Burgess said that the deceased was admitted into the German Hospital on the night of the occurrence. There was a severe wound on the aide of the head, and his leg was so utterly smashed that amputation had to be performed. He expired on Monday from the effects of his injuries. The Coroner said that when the eon-in-law of the deceased found the old man in his house at night he ought not to have turned him out, and compelled him to sleep upon the stones. He might have waited until the morning even if he had an objection to • person who drank being in his house. The jury returned • verdict " That the deceased died from the effects of injuries received through being run over by a certain railway train under which he had thrown himself for the purpose of destroying rife, whilst in a state of unsound mind."  - - • Eton College will close to-day (Friday) for the autumn vacation, the Great Western and South Western , Railway Companies running special trains for the con'evince of the boys to their homes. An extra week has ' been given to the school on account of the marriage of Princess Mary of Cambridge. Ku.