The Sun. — 1825-02-01 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  DESPERATE SUICIDE OF' AIR. JOHN BROWNE,  MATE OF THE WATERLOO EAST INDIAMAN.  Ait Inquest was held' at the-Tow u-lull, in Gravesend, before SAMUEL Mays: Esq., .the Mayor of that town, and Coroner, and a respectable Jury, touching the death of John Browne, Esc., the second officer on board the lion. East India Company s ship Waterloo,. lying at Gravesend : It appeared that the deceased, who was only twenty-six years of age, had been in the East...lndia Company's service from, an early age, and-from his assiduity as an officer, and his demeanour as a Gentleman, had gained the esteem of all the officers and men on board, as well as that of the East India Company, who had it in contemplation, after the completion of his next voyage, to give him the command of one of their vessels. About five years ago he formed an acquaintance with a young lady of' rather humble origin, but considerable personal attractions, which continued up to the committal of the fatal deed.. By this correspondence he ?rad incurred the displeasure of his friends, who endeavoured by all means in their power to dissuade him from the connection, but all their efforts proved ineffectual. About five weeks since the Waterloo arrived at Northfleet, and immediately after the deceased proceeded in a post-chaise to London, to the residence of the object of his affections, and remained with her till Sunday se'nnight, when it was well known that the Captain would on the Monday join the vessel to proceed on the outward-voyage, and it was necessary that all the ship's company should be mustered in his presence, and a report thereof orwarded to the India House. About mid-day on Sunday the deceased arrived in a post-chaise and four, with the lady above alluded to and her sister, from London, at the East India Arms, Northfleet. In the course of the journey thither the deceased fired a pistol ball through the chaisa window, which was demolished, and threw the ladies into the greatest alarm, yet they did not attribute this act to any aberration of mind, as lie told them not to alarm themselves, • The deceased and the ladies remained at, the Inn that night, and about ten o'clock on the following morning, he took his leave of the females, who proceeded back to London by post. The parting was very affecting, and the deceased shed tears. He then jumped into a boat belonging to a waterman named Jones, and desired him to row him to the Waterloo, that had dropped down the day before to Gravesand. On reaching the vessel within 100 rads, the waterman asked bins whether he would like to go up the starboard side; the deceased answered he should; and at the moment the sculler turned his head, he placed a pocket pistol to his head, and the ball entered just above his right temple, and lodged in the cavity of the brain : in a moment he was a ifeless corpse. Mr. Holliday, surgeon of the Waterloo, instantly attended him, as also did Dr. Park, of Gravesend, but of course could render no assistance, and lie was removed to Mr. Johnson, the undertaker's. The deceased attempted his life twice before ; once by shooting himself, and the other by taking a quantity of laudanum. The Jury immediately returned a verdict of " Insanity."—The body of the deceased was interred on Saturday in Milton church-yard. It was followed by his brother, who is an East India merchant, and four midshipmen belonging to the Scalesby Castle.  SHOCKING CASE OF BURNlNG.—Yesterday evening an Inquest was held at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before T. SHELTON, Esq. on the body of Ellen Carroll.—Elizabeth Gilbody deposed, that she resides in George-court, 01d-street-road. The deceased lodged at her house for the last two months. Last Tuesday week the deceased, who goes out chafing for her livelihood, went to a house in Brunswick-square, and returned about six o'clock in the evening. Witness opened the door for her, when she was horror-struck at the spectacle the deceased presented, her clothes being literally burnt off her back. Witness was informed by the, deceased, that she had fallen into the fire whilst endeavouring to put a large saucepan thereon.— Verdict—" Accidental Death,"  A G 110 ST.-At a farm in the parish of Red" nail, and near the town, there is a dwelling-house which has long been reported to be haunted. Several tenants who inhabited it in succession, abandoned it after a short residence, alleging that their slumbers were so much disturbed by the nocturnal transactions of their ghostly visitants, as to rent-der their removal necessary. However, as the tales whicl they circulated were •in general discredited, a new tenall witx speedily procured as the vacancies followed in succession. Some time in the month of June, 181 G, the good woman of house intimated to her husband that on the falling of anY heavy substance on the kitchen floor, it produced a WWI • sound. On hearing this he resolved to search into the cause of s° extraordinary a circumstance ; and having dug up the floor, be discovered, at some depth below the surface, two large flat stones, covering a kind of vault, apparently filled with cinders' Having removed these, lie found some black mould, internii%. ed with teeth and fragments of human bones. These were care: fully preserved, and being submitted to the inspection or surgeon in the neighbourhood, he concluded they were the frag-: ments of some full-grown person. Nothing has transpired tha.' can tend to unravel this mysterious deposit. The house was age • forsaken by its inhabitants, and we know not whether it be yet tenanted. It is singular that the under surface of the s:ones which covered the vault, had all.the appearance of having- bee! exposed to the action of fire. On this phenomenon, if soft, it may be termed, but one opinion can be entertained, so P" as the human remains will furnish evidence, and probable coil' jecture may be allowed to speak. It seems to have bee; the body of same person that had been murdered and reduee' to ashes, to conceal the fact. But by whom the act was perPeli trated, with what circumstances it was attended, in what cg° was committed, we must be content to leave unknown until the earth and sea shall give up their dead.—( Plymouth Journal.)  The sharp frost on Tuesday night and Brett' nesday morning produced in the suburbs of London ice of tilier, enormous thickness of about one-third of an inch ; but such was its rarity and value, that carts were seen hurrying in everie direction, to skim the ice from the surface of the ponds. Tiler was not a ditch or a horse-pond, from Kensington to Hammer; smith, Brentford, Acton, &c., but was visited with as much earnestness as divers mining and other share-holders will Ip, and by look after both principal and interest.  •