Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-02-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

REFORM.  SUICIDE AT 1.101.1.1NW00D, On Tuesday, Mr Molesworth held an inquest at the Albion Hotel, Drury• lane, on the body of John Henry Holt, who committed nuicide or Saturday last, by hanging himeelf in the back yard of the house where, with his wife, he lodged.—Esther Molt, of 65, Drury-lane, aaid :lie deceased was thirty years of age, and was • stoker at Holliowood Gasworks. He list left two children. She and ilecereed never querJelled except when he took drink In the .iourse of bin life he had drunk very heavily. Prior to he death he hid not been at home fir a week. He committed suicide while witness wan at. tier work—Maria Ileginbottom, siattr of the deceased, said atm lived in Daute-street, Dukinfield. During his absence from home die deceased had stayed at her house. He gave no reason for going to wituees's house. He had Lteen in the habit of going, especially when he WPB out of work. The deceased had not been at work for over a week before he committed suicide, and spent moot of hie time in visiting pub:it:onuses. Jena. Wroe (fifty seven), of 58, Drurytune, a cotton operative, said he bad known the deceased about six mouth. Saw him standiug in a corner of the yard, and blood was oozing from his mouth. Ile (witness) gave an alarui, and it wos subsequently found that he had hung hiinself with a rope at:at:had ton nail in the wall. No one made an attempt to cut the holy down. The witnoss, who in a cripple, raid he was terriifled, and it be had out chid down the body would have Wien againat him end knocked him down. He woe also told bye man that the body should not be cut down until the or. rival of a policeman.—The Coroner said it wat lamentable ignorance on the part of the people around toot they did not cut the body down. Ole did not think it would have done any good in this cuse but it was the duty of every man to do what he could to save the life of another Police Constable Campbell cut the body down. in the pocketA of deceased's clothing wits a letter commencing : "Dear Wife.—This is all through you and toe and that." The eloset of pap ron which the letter wee written was torn through the middle and one part was missing. on the Friday when he left his work he received £1 tie. 8.1., all of which he spent in drink before the Monday following, and he then began to borrow money from his comrades. While he was at his cistern house in Dukinfield he ....rowed the sheet of paper in question and an envelope from her but she did not know for whet per. pose he wanted it.—The Coroner having summed up, the jury found that the deceased committed suicide whilst in a otate of temporary insanity.  Sir Bob. La spite or ;much acorn. Repealed the high duties on core ; Rot Alloock's Coro ,hield ha. wholly re-peel'd  'I he yorns that in enguise were born...  AL L CO-CV; ‘FO iiFFLATizi; ;713-I;;;;clmitted by tens of thousaade to be the best cure for corns ever made. They allay the pain of the worst corn as d by magic, and the tightest boots can be worn with ease.—[ADV  SHOCKING DISCOVERY AT Hy.—On Thursday afternoon while two night•soil men were engaged in emptying a ashpit in George-street, Hyde, they came across a bundle which on be ing examined, was found to contain in a shockingly decomposed state the dead body ohm in faut child, apparently about three days old. The men at ouce handed the body over to the police, and an inquest will shortly be held. Furthez particulars next week.