The Telegram. — 1900-10-23 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

THE INQUEST.  The district coroner, Mr. E. Q. Lonch, eat on Tuesday a:ternoon in au unoccupied private !louse at Lower Chilton, to enquire into the circumstances attending the sad event. The Rev. M. (2. Goodturd was chosen foreman of the jury. The first witness called was Harold Feaver, brother of deceased, who detiosed that he first saw his brother about 6 a.m. on Monday, in the farmyard. He complained to witness of feeling unwell, and intimated his intention of seeing a doctor during the day. He stated that he had Mont very little since the previous Thursday. About five minutes to 8 witness found deceased suspended by an ordinary rope from a beam in the waggon house, his feet almost touching the ground. He took the body down, but life was quite extinct. Further cross-examined by the Coroner, wanes* stated that, to far as lie knew, deceased bad nothing to trouble him whatever. He had never, in witness'e hearing, threatened to commit suicide. He was a little depreesed at times, and, as a rule, rather quiet in his demeanour,  Herbert Sherreo, a lad employed on the farm, next called, deposed that al,ut 7.30 a.m, deceased came into the stable where witness was, and going to a stall, took up a piece of rope, going afterwards with it in the direction of the waggon house. Edward Sherren, farm labourer, also in deceased's employ, stated that he saw his late employer in the Barton about 20 minutes to 8, with a piece of rope in his hand. Witness afterwards saw the body and identified the rope found as that which be had seen in possession of decease I gestated.  Prior to Wing Dr. Flower, the Coroner, addressing the assembly, cheracteris6d the event as the saddest which had ever come belore him, or, he ventured to think, before any Coroner. Only a very short time ago life for the deceased gentleman seemed to have everything that was cheerful and good. He had married only recently. The poor fellow, from some cause which could not be explained at all, bad been found hanging in his own waggon-house, haying undoubtedly committed the unfortunate act himself. _  Dr. Flower then gave evidence. Witness deposed that he was called to deceased shortly after 8 o'clock on Monday morning. On arrival he found the body had been removed to the house. Examination revealed the mirk of a rope round the neck clearly defined. Deceased had frequently consulted him for dyspepsia. So recently as August 27th last he ha I been suffering from an acute attack of the malady, complaining of a geod deal of pain and con-equent depression. The Cause of death was unooubtedly attributable to asphyxia, there being uot sufficient drop to allow of the neck being dislocated.—ln reply to a juryman, witness Mated that it was quite possible for a person to be the victim of an acute attack of dyspepsia, and fur the time being to suffer deep depression, with its consequent loss of self-control. —This concluded the evidence. Addressing the jury, the Coroner expressed the opinion that there was no doubt the deceased bad, whilst in the grip of the malady referred to by the doctor, lost, for the time being, the power of sellcontrol, and the idea of relief being afforded by immediate death presenting itself, he had availed himself of it. lie assumed that because there was 110 evidence to show that deceased was not of sound mind during the intervals precedieg the attacks of the malady. It was for the jury to say whether deceased took his life at a time when the Dowers of self-control were deficient, or whether be wilfully and criminally committed the deed. In that case they must return a verdict of felu-dese. He did not thiuk, however, they could arrive at the latter conclusion, as no possible reason had been assigned tor such an act. He thought it his duty—and he was sure the jury would agree with him—to offer their very deep and sincere sympathy to the lady who was so lately a bride but who now was a widow, and also to the members of the family in their sad bereavement.  The Jury returned a verdict ot-'7Suicide whibt temporarily insane," the foreman expres,ing, on their behalf, hia entire concurrence with the sympathetic sentirm.nte, exprtissed by the Coroner,