The Sun. — 1844-04-22 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN A WORKHOUSE.—Yesterday, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Horn of Plenty, Globeroad, Mile-end, on the body of Thomas Moore, aged forty-six, a coal-whipper, and for the last few days an inmate of the Stepney union workhouse, Mile-endlane. It appeared from the evidence of his wife, that for three weeks previous to his admission to the workhouse he had been light-headed, and one day teok the kettle off the fire, and seated himself in its place, and had it not been for her interference, ho would have been burned to death. He was a very sober man, and an excellent husband and father, and she attributed the deraugement of. his mind to over study, but she did not say of what. By the advice of his confessor, Father Arabin, he was removed to the workhouse on Tues day week. Parker proved finding the body of deceased dead, and suspended by the neck from a rafter in the water-closet, by means of two handkerchiefs, at noon on Thursday. Half an hour before witness gave him some tobacco, when he answered that probably it was the last he sLould smoke. Witness en deavoured, h• 2 said, to cheer him, and addednlai deceased since his admission always appeared very melancholy. Mr. Story, parish surgeon, said he was called to deceased, and attended, and found that he had been promptly cut down, and was quite dead. He had been an infirmary patient, and although he laboured under depression of spirits there was nothing in his words or deeds to create a suspicion that he would destroy himself.—Verdict, " Temporary insanity."  Ever since the accession of Sir James Graham to the Home Secretaryship, merciless executions and as merciless murders have been the order of the day. The accursed office of the hangman has been no sinecure ; and the abandoned have profited as they ever have, and eder gtust profit, by the murderous examples set 'them by their rulers. A reckless disregard of human life is fast spreading among the people ; consequent, we verily believe, upon the inhuman executions which have recently taken place. After the accession of her Majesty, and before the Act of Parliament was passed which vested the Home Secretary with the exercise of the most odious prerogative of the kingly office, we believe that only one execution took place in England; and it was generally observed at the time that the crime of murder grew rarer in proportion as it became known that it was not without many tears that her Majesty could be brought, at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to sign a death-warrant. But Sir James Graham was troubled with no such compunctious visitings, and the dreadful results are distressingly and alarmingly conspicuous.-1-hdi Advertiser.  At the Brentford Petty Sessions on Saturday, a boy named John Kingston, aged fifteen years, was brought up before the magistrates, charged with having made a most desperate attack with a stone on a boy nam,-cl Robert Edwards, thirteen years of age, by which his life was in imminen: danger. It ppearcd the prisoner and Edwards were engaged with other boys in loading grains at the brewery of Messrs. Coles and Co. at Twickenham, and while at work they were paid by beer instead of money, and many of them wt re in the habit of getting tipsy upon their allowance. The prise ner and Edwards quarrelled on leaving work, and the former, in the height of his anger, ran to him and beat him on the head AN ith a large flint stone till he fainted from pain and loss of blood. He. was taken to an hospital, and had only recovered sufficiently to appear then in court. The prisoner acknowledged the assault, but said he was provoked by Edwards having thrown stones at him. The bench committed the prisoner for trial.