Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1889-05-17 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SUICIDE AT THE BEIDGEND WORKHOUSE. , TR I!. INQUEST. •  Oa Weans:dn. lost kit. E. B. Rome, district oaumor, atteuded the Dridgenti Workloads as an inquest tin the body of an old man named Soldmon A 4.1.4 (60 yeaael,who it appear,' had committed suicide on she prorious niuhL Mr. T. Sunslibery was °lumen foremen of the jury. llonjainia licassagsr, master of the workhouse, said U./ ou Use previous day, between half-past four and live o'clock, Soldoma Adams sowed...lMO Into the workhouse. Hemtne from Liandifodwg, sad was admitted under au order front the Whying °facer. if. wan mated to be ill, softening from consumption, sod conesqusuLly was pltced I. the sick ward. Witness an hien, and had a conversation with htut. do seemed melanoma afar the journey. Be camels a claw carriage. He had barn in receipt of ottudoor relief since October, sad lately he expressed a wish to mile to the IsOuile. Witco.. Oil not riee him after he loft tins in the sick ward in erne of Annie Dario, the nurse. That morning When he got Up ho beard that Adams had committed suicide during Use tight. if theu sem fur Dr. &unfelt. Annie his nor, nurse et is.. sick ward, mid that tinoinon Annus wits admitted to her wised between four and live o'clock the previous evenuag. He scemed a 11001, exosumsd after his journey. HS Cu. mat to had at once. He had acme milk, as IA could not take soy thing else. She saw him last KU. between nine and tea o'clock. 'fliers were raven men sleeping to the sesuo roes on deceased. Sapposing them wt. something U. lOWA.' WWI Adall. 000 of Uw other men would at once attend no bit°. At seven o'clock thst inorotng 000 0, the ' men mune to her and told her that Adams had I out hie throat. fine went to the rnoin ot oIIC4, aod found decessed in his bed lyiug str tight on his back shit hie heads stratghs down by his side. ate an a lame gash in. his throat, and sins sawn knits by his left Laud side. (The huild was pro, duead. It noon Urge pocket-knife, covered with blood.l Witness saw mate blond no his throat it. was gaits dead. She bad o eoneereatiati with blur on ilia previous evening. Ile did roc seem tow and deprmawd. She said nottilug about his innate. Ho was uoutded with a slight cough. He swelled silly eiseerful. Flu usl,l nothiog about lou telations.  Edward :Swell said he WM One of the inesetse of the etch ward. kle iris Fleapits( nest to •doeis toe LIM provieua night. He had very litale talk wadi bioS. as Adams lobo vary uneasy with , cousidug. Will.. wont to Led .about nine J'elucs. Decuaguil appeced very slant . of breath. Ha odd nothing speCisl to attract his attention. Witnase most to sloop ! !about onu and he woks again about ! ' Cur o'clock. Ho saw the deceased lying do , very quietly in bed. Hu cut up last went to the! I deceased about hallpasn fun and Saw his Uintat . cut, aud observed Haulm war wile deed. H 0....: the koith produced by his hit atm aids. tie did I not touch hito or the knife. About sit o'clock he told Ust nurse eboui it.  By a Juror: He had not aeon the knife  --Mr.—ideesenger. mid the deceased offered the knife to hint, with other things, the poivious evening. He allowed UMW to keep their =ire.. 'fhb Coroner cod be would add that to Mr. Measabger's ovicetwe. Polacweergeent Dtvies raid that about ten o'clock that moromg he visited the workhouse, after having beard of tho ours. In company with bderard Sheen he taw the body of the demented. It was lying en the back, with the right arm dorms the breast. The knife produced was lying baween the left ...in and the body. Th, knife was covered with blood. It appearoo to be very sharp. ghere WAII a great gull in Adams's throat. Dr. Randatl rand he 114V1 We body ebout eleven o'clock that n.ornisig. It woe lying in bed en deecribed br b,rgesiot Dorm. It second stiff and cold. Br iouutl an irri,rior on the len wile of the neck of about three inches in length. It started from the point immethetaly below tile angle of the jaw. There way another wound abut thus wares ri length bivientux about half an inch further back, and extending to the larynx. There were two puuctuied wouus about • Quarrel of inn 10011 lower down urrespomliog With the point of the keife. It appeared that the deceased hod made two stab. and two cots. None of the big weenie were cut. 'Dime was a great doll of hemon hags. Dammed died from loss of blood caused by the wounds. Ilse body Yeas so much emulated by soma wasting disease—probably unsumption--thet there ewe oot much blood in it to lows. He felt 'ensiled that the wounds were self-indieted.  The Coroner Do you find that n wasting theme* like consumption causes rery great despondency? Dr. kandall said he did. One of the juror* Mr. J. D. Walter.) mid that they ought to have sane inert part/calm axing the eirenniatanave of the man slid his sumo of mind before lie came to Ole workhouse. The guardians ought to have tendered Wein some information on,the point. Mr. Memenger said that the man had been before the beard since last Octrbor ell and on, and be Iliad been offered the haute two or three times. gue- I.oa gave hits, out-door relief, and fu. ring.. &annoy the old man became e •dmitted into the workhouse, in tie change would.Mi him good.' fie the previous melt from the relieving _. It me. by the instructions of the guardiann that he mime in notate carriage. It was on the certificate of the noodual offieer up at Llitodyforing that he was removable tint ha was brought I down. Them was rio MM.:sties whatever that ths menu veld Ins affaued. wrdkA of veasaraltsed reeieide while la a state tampers:7 Anwar was interned.  ed heen 'Me guardians 'lived in lodgings. rinzious to be edmitted hops that the oh received to.. racer. 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