The Express. — 1857-10-13 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN FLEET-STREET POLICE STATION.  Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. W. J. Payne, the deputy coroner for London, held a long inquiry, at Mr. Watson's, the Barley Mew Hotel, Saliebury7square Fleet-street, respecting_ the circumstancesattending the death of Mrs. Ellen Watson, aged 42, who committed suicide in the Fleet•street police-station, on Saturday night last. Hill, 315, of the City Police, said that on Saturday(lenirsN't last, at a quarter to ten, he was celled to take the doomed into custody, He had seen her in Chancery-lane, the same night at aght o'clock, surrounded by a great crowd, and also her husband ; they were outside the Mitre Tavern. She wee creating a great disturbance, and had been drinking. She was also calling her husdand bad namea, and he, in consequence, advised her to be quiet and go home; but after doing so she returned again, sad appeared in a very excited state. She then mated a still greater disturbance, and with the assistance of another constable she was taken to the station-house, and locked up for protection. There was no one else in the oall when she wee put in. He left the station soon after that, when she was hallooing. Edwin Hills, 381, of the City Police said that he received the deceased at the station, when ihe was not sober, and appeared rather boisteroue, and kept calling out for her " husband." His duty wee to visit the cell, and he did so, and he saw her ate quarter to 11, when .he asked if her offence was • bailable one, and he replied, " Not in the state she then was." He eaw Ler again at • quarter past 11, which was the last time, when she was suspended, or partly so in the cell, by means of a stocking round her neck and Listened to the bars of the window. lee called for assistance, had her cut down, and sent for medical eminent* ; but she was deed before the surgeon arrived. Mr. James Watson, of No. 1, Crown•court, Chancerylane, said that the deceased was his wife. She was not habitually given to drink, but the loss of her former husband and son had affected her mind and made her do strange things. In addition to which, she had a daughter at a school in Pimlico, and owing to his having to practise at the court, he was unable to go with her to see the child, and she said that she would never be able to see her again. He haart her talking loudly in front of Mr. Pearson's, the Mitre, in Chancery-lane. She had been excited from the previous evening, in consequent* of his calling upon some friends to ' play upon the piano"! Reenters, and they were doing so; she cried, " You villains," and as she Tel going over Black; friars-bridge she took off her bonnet and shawl, end said that the would not go home amain. The policeman wanted to take her into custody, but she then repaired quietly home. By the Coroner—He believed that jealutuy had a more ex' citing effect upon her mind than the drink she took, but there wee not the least ground for such a suppoeition. Mr. Henry Austin, managing clerk to Mr. Watson, said that he had known the deceased more particularly during ' some time. Hs had always found her in a most impetuous temper, and the slightest thing would upset her mind. Her house was not what it ought to be,owing to her own conduct. By the Coroner—Her excitability of mind would lead any one to believe that she was intoxicated. There was no ground whatever, not the slightest, for the Imputation of Jealousy. Acting Inepector Harding, of the Fleet-street division. attended to watch the case on behalf of the authorities, but from the summing up of the learned Coroner there appeared not the bast blame attributable to the police, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity," when the panful inquiry terminated.  RESIGNATION OP TILE LIVERPOOL COUNTY COVET Junoz.—Yeatcrday morning, when Mr. Pollock, judge of the Liverpool County Court, who Is about to resign uponoffice in consequence of ill-health, had taken kis went the bench, Mr. Lace, president of the Liverpool Law Association, addressiniLli,is honour, read a resolution of that body, exr high same of Mr. Pollock's conduct and ability alretgicialandPleitrir of hi their nsg.itedl reshilteratronmfol'tal heag: . Pollock, in reply, referred to the co-operation and support he had received from all tanks cad dames in Liverpool. Rio he is Mr. D. K. Blair. The death of the Rev. Dr. Irving Clerk, Canon. Remdeaneri of the Cathedral Church of Rochester, Chaplan to the Queen, and Perpetual Curate of Chatham, Kent, renders vacant also the Viewer) of Sterminater Marshall. near Wimborne. The thing, with Its chspolriee of Lytcbett Minder, Coda Mullen, and ilamworthy annexed, ia wroth about LOOM a•vear, and is in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of kton College, Windsor.