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The Sun. — 1853-05-18 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE BY A CLERGYMAN.—Great consternation was created at Horncastle in consequence of a report that the Rev. J. T. Clark, the respected vicar of the parish, had committed suicide. The rumour upon inquiry unhappily proved too true, It appeared that the rev, gentleman had been for some time past suffering from a desponding state of mind, for which no rational cause could be assigned. Upon the recommendation of his medical attendants, he was advised by his friends to try the effects of change of air and scene, and consequently he had been absent from his parish for several weeks. On Saturday morning he returned home, and in the course of the afternoon he shot himself. This distressing affair has naturally created a feeling of the most intense excitement in the town and neighbourhood, where the lamented gentleman was highly respected, not only for his extensive learning and clerical abilities, but also for his charitable and benevolent disposition. In him the poor have lost a kind and active friend. He leaves a wife and large family to lament his sad end. The unfortunate gentleman had held the living for not more than five or six years. The Egyptian yacht which was run into in the Channel, and was obliged to put into Southampton about a week since, was docked yesterday at that port to ascertain the damage. She belongs to an unele of the Pacha of Egypt. Her whole framework about the spot where she was struck was literally twisted with the force of the concussion. Had she not been built of iron she must have sunk. Her costly and magnificent furniture, such as sofas, chairs, &c., have been taken from her much damaged, and are now in the possession of Mr. Buchan, the ornamental carver of Southampton, to be repaired. The tassels of the sofas and other articles of furniture are of &dd.  FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of
The Sun. — 1853-02-17 (London, England)

SUICIDES ON WATERLOO-BRIDGE.— wanted to know about ? said Waterloo. Ha ! Well, he had seen a good deal of that work, he did assure us. He had prevented some. Why, one day a woman, poorish looking, came in between the hatch, slapped down a. penny, and wanted to go on without the change! Waterloo suspected this, and says to his mate, "Give an eye to the gate," and bolted after her. She had got to the third seat between the piers, and was on the parapet just going over, when he caught her and gave her i the police-office next morning she said it was n charge. At trouble and a bad husband. "Likely enough," along ofobserved Waterloo to Pea and myself, as he adjusted his chin in his shawl. " There's a deal of trouble about, you see— F and bad husbands too I" Another time a young woman, at twelve o'clock in the open day, got through, darted along, and, before Waterloo could come near her; jumped upon the parapet, and shot herself over sideways. Alarm given, watermen put off, lucky escape. Clothes buoyed her up. " This is where it is," said Waterloo. "If people jufnp off straight forards from the middle of the parapet of the bays of the bridge, they are seldom killed by drowning, but are smashed, poor things ; that's what they are ; they dash themselves upon the buttress of the bridge. But, "you jump off," said Waterloo to me, putting his forefinger in a button hole of my great coat, " you jump off from the side of the bay, and you'll tumble, true, into the stream under the arch. What you have got to do, is to mind how you jump in 1 There was poor Tom Steele from Dublin. Didn't dive Bless you, didn't dive at all I Fell down so flat into the water, that he broke his breastbone, and lived two days !" asked Waterloo if there was a favourite side of his bridge for this dreadful purpose ? He reflected, and thought yes, there was. He should say the Surrey side. Three decent-looking -1 kin men went through oils day, soberly and quietly, and g and went- on abreast for abo'ut a dozen yards ; when the middle one, he sung out, all of a sudden, "Here goes, Jack !" and was over in a minute. Body found ? Well, Waterloo didn't rightly recollect about that. They were compositors, they were.—Diekenir " Household Words."
The Sun. — 1853-08-02 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.  One of the most appalling suicides ever reported occurred on Sunday morning at the house of Mrs. Burnes, fruiterer, London-street, Greenwich.l. The unfortunate deceased, Lavinia Mary Cuthbert, was a married woman, who, with her husband, for some time past, bad been in the employ of Mr. John Shove, corn dealer, but had been lately discharged. It appears that on Sunday morning, about 11 o'clock, deceased went-to her bedroom, and, after a short time, was discovered to have ripped open her stomach with her husband's razor, and before medical assistance could be brought to her aid she expired. An inquest was held yesterday evening before Mr. C. J. Carttar, at the Prince of Wales. Mrs. Margaret Mace said : I reside in the same house with deceased, whom I have known about two years. Deceased and her husband had lodged with me about two months. On Sunday morning, a little before eleven, Mrs. Cuthbert was below stairs talking with me, and about half an hour afterwards I heard a noise which I at first took to be the howling of a dog, but afterwards thought to be moaning. ' I was then on the first floor, and I went up to deceased's room, upon opening the door of which I saw her lying on the bed on her back, with her feet on the floor. Her clothes were up, and in her right hand she had a razor, and her bowels in her other hand. There was a pail by her side. When I entered she seemed to know me, and turned and struggled, but did not speak. I immediately called assistance, and sent for Mr. Gay Shute, the surgeon. I turned her round and laid her head on the pillow. I took the razor from her hand and laid it on the table ; after that she grasped her flannel petticoat. She died about twenty minutes afterwards, just as Mr. Shute's assistant arrived. Her husband was out at the time in his garden at the back cf Church-passage. He had left the house before I spoke with deceased, and did not return till he was sent for. Her state of mind was  very low, particularly on Saturday and on Sunday morning. She seemed depressed at the thought of going away from her mother, as was arranged for Wednesday, her husband having taken a place at Newbury. This evidence having been confirmed by other witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary derangement." Two envelopes, on which the deceased had written in a neat and clear hand, were found in a shirt, and the contents seemed to lead to the conclusion that it was one note, and was as follows :  " My dear Charles' —I know it must come, and the will third shock I feel drive me to utter madness. To my dear friends it is better to know my end than to see me in a lunatic asylum. Do not let a lot of strangers handle me about. lam quite clean and have on all that I require. I wish my mother to have the box and the bundle, and also my furs, because she has nothing to keep her warm in winter. You can dispose of my other things as you like. I should like to lay in the same grave as my dear father, May God forgive you, as I hope he will me, and may you get another wife who will love you as I have done. " Your unfortunate wife, "
The Sun. — 1853-12-29 (London, England)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.  fit. 100 h. 100 5 30  Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest on the body of Bardolph Theodore Heasse, who had committed suicide after making a desperate attempt to murder his wife. Francis Hays, who lodged at the same house as the deceased, No. 15, King-street, said he had known him for the last six months. He was about 34 years of age, and a tin-plate worker. Last Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, witness heard the cry of "Murder," and rushed upstairs to the second floor landing. He there saw a woman in her night dress ; she said, " I am murdered." Witness helped her down to his own room, and soon found that she was covered with blood. Witness ran for a policeman, whom he found at the corner of Nassau-street, and they proceeded upstairs and found the deceased making a gurgling noise in his throat, and the blood pouring out from a very large wound. He was lying on the bed, with one leg and arm hanging off it. There was also a very young child lying on the bed, and it was covered with blood. The policeman sent witness for a doctor, but he had to go to five or six places before one could be found at home. When witness returned two surgeons had arrived in the house. The poor woman was subsequently removed in blankets to the workhouse. Hannah Hodgkin, the mother-in-law of the deceased, stated that she lived in Spalding, in Lincolnshire, and came up to town on last Wednesday, to attend her daughter in her confinement, which happened on the Wednesday morning. The deceased sent the letter and the money for her. He seemed very good to his wife ; in fact, so much so, that his wife said they were more than usually comfortable. On Saturday night last, a little before seven o'clock, he asked her to go out to market with him, and she did so. He left her at a tea shop in Grafton street, Soho, saying that he would be back in a minute. Witness, being a stranger, waited for two hours, lest she should be lost. At last she was fetched home, and what she saw there nearly sent her out of her mind. Her daughter and the deceased bad been married eleven months, but she had never had eleven minutes comfort with him. He bought a razor last summer, and in a quarrel stated that they should both go off together in one bloody bed. She wrote to witness about his bad treatment and jealous temper, and witness sent for her to come home. She had left him upon one occasion. On Saturday, he appeared very kind and considerate the whole of the day—so much so, that witness was rather surprised at it. He never showed any disposition to do his wife harm before witness.
The Sun. — 1853-08-26 (London, England)

THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN GOODMAN'S-YARD.—On inquiry at the London Hospital yesterday, we ascertained that the wretched man Mobbs, is in a fair way of recovery, and that hopes are entertained whatever may be his future fate, that he will not become a victim to his attempt on his own life. The gates of the hospital were literally thronged during the whole of yesterday by persons who were inquiring after the state of the murderer ; but, of course no one was al-'owed to see him, and the morbidly curious in such maters were fain to be content with the answer that he was not dead, but somewhat better. Although it is perfectly correct, as stated in the brief account of the occurrence which appeared in this journal yesterday, that the drunken ferocity and brutal habits of the man had latterly gained for him amongst his illiterate neighbours the soubriquet of the " Whitechapel Haynau, ' those who knew him in early days speak of him as an amiable and agreeable man. The nature of his business as a wine cooper, however, exposed him to an amount of temptation against which he was not proof, and he became an inveterate and confirmed drunkard. This habit, once acquired, was fed by a consuming sense of jealousy which he entertained of his wife ; and, if report speaks truly, his suspicions were not altogether without foundation. However this may be, there is no doubt that it was in a moment of drunken jealousy that he perpetrated the fiendish crime with which he now stands charged. The unfortunate victim of his atrocity appears to have been rather a good-looking woman ; but she is frightfully bruised, and her face is disfigure by two monstrous black eyes. The man is of rather small stature, and appears to be about 40 years of age.
The Sun. — 1853-08-26 (London, England)

SOUTHWARK.—ATTELIPT TO STRANGLE A WIFE. —Just as Mr. Combe was about to quit the bench, Mr. Charles Stephen Moore, the keeper of the City of London beer-shop, in the Borough-road, was brought before him by Guest, 62 L, one of the warrant officers, charged with attempting to strangle his wife, Mary Moore. The complainant, a well-dressed and rather good-looking, middle-aged female, stated that she had been married to her husband 20 years, but latterly he had become an habitual drunkard, and was frequently in the habit of ill-using her. On the previous night, while she was in bed, he came into the room and seized her by the throat, with the apparent intention of strangling her, but fortunately her two sons and a lodger rushed to her assistance and prevented him. He had by his dissolute habits nearly ruined them, and she was positive that unless he was restrained by the law he would murder her.  The prisoner, whose features were very much deformed, said that it was all false what his wife had stated. He never raised a hand to her in his life. He had beer, twenty years married, had four sons, and had always been kind to all. Mr. Hill, who attended for the wife, said the prisoner had more than once attempted to commit suicide. One time he shot himself and the ball carried away a portion of his face and jaw, which was the cause of the deformity, and the other time he hung himself, but was cut down just in time to save his life. He had also been confined for two years in a lunatic asylum. Mr. Combe—Do you mean to say he is insane now? Mr. Rill said he was per:ectly sane when he ill used his wife, and that was so frequent that rite was compelled to come for protection. The prisoner declared that this was a trick to get him out of the way, concocted by his wife and a very bad man. He never ill-used his wife at all. Mr. Combe said she had sworn to it, and he was bound to protect her. He should therefore call upon him to find two sureties to keep the peace in 201. each, and in default he must be committed to prison. The sureties not being forthcoming, he was removed in the van to Horsemonger-lane Gaol.
The Sun. — 1853-08-26 (London, England)

SOUTHWARK.—ATTEMPT TO STRANGLE A WIFE. —Just as Mr. Combe was about to quit the bench, Mr. Charles Stephen Moore, the keeper of the City of London beer-shop, in the Borough-road, was brought before him by Guest, 62 L, one of the warrant officers, charged with attempting to strangle his wife, Mary Moore. The complainant, a well-dressed and rather good-looking, middle-aged female, stated that she had been married to her husband 20 years, but latterly he had become an habitual drunkard, and was frequently in the habit of ill-using her. On the previous night, while she was in bed, he came into the room and seized her by the throat, with the apparent intention of strangling her, but fortunately her two sons and a lodger rushed to her assistance and prevented him. He had by his dissolute habits nearly ruined them, and she was positive that unless he was restrained by the law he would murder her.  The prisoner, whose features were very much deformed, said that it was all false what his wife had stated. He never raised a hand to her in his life. He had been twenty years married, had four sons, and had always been kind to all. Mr. Hill, who attended for the wife, said the prisoner had more than once attempted to commit suicide. One time he shot himself and the ball carried away a portion of his face and jaw, which was the cause of the deformity, and the other time he hung himself, but was cut down just in time to save his life. He had also been confined for two years in a lunatic asylum. Mr. Combe—Do you mean to say he is insane now ? Mr. Hill said he was perfectly sane when he ill used his wife, and that was so frequent that she was compelled to come for protection. _ _  The prisoner declared that this was a trick to get him out of the way, concocted by his wife and a very bad man. lie never ill-used his wife at all.  Mr. Combe said she had sworn to it, and he was bound to protect her. He should therefore call upon him to find two sureties to keep the peace in 201. each, and in default he must be committed to prison. The sureties not being forthcoming, he was removed in the van to Horsemonger-lane Gaol.
The Sun. — 1853-07-22 (London, England)

SUICIDE FROM DISAPPOINTED LOVE.  Yesterday, Mr. G. S. Brent held an inquest in the Kensington Workhouse, on Abraham Giles, aged 23, who committed suicide by blowing out his brains, under the following melancholy circumstances : Henry Westbrook said that, on Monday night, he was alarmed by the report of fire-arms in Warwick-square, and, upon hurrying to the spot whence the noise came, he found deceased lying dead on the pavement, his face and head being shattered to pieces, and a horse pistol, recently discharged, lying at his side. Witness instantly procured the assistance of the police, who removed the body to the workhouse. A powder-flask and several pebbles were found in deceased's pocket. Catherine Tedding, servant to Miss Patrick, 5, War. wick-square, and deceased's sweetheart, a very pretty interesting girl, about 20, and who was deeply affected, said that she kept company with deceased twelve months, when, at the desire of her friends, who were opposed to her marrying him, she discontinued doing so, which fretted him very much. He told witness three months ago that he had loaded pistols at home, and would shoohimself. On Monday night he called at her mistress's house, and, speaking through the area railing to witness, said that he came to bid her good-by, as he was going to the country. After about ten minutes' conversation, she shook hands with him, and bid him good night. Shortly afterwards she looked out of her. bed-room window, and saw deceased, who was standing in the same position as she left him, deliberately discharge a pistol into his mouth, and fall to the ground. (Here witness nearly fainted, and had to be led out of the court. After her retirement three letters, couched in the most affectionate terms, and written by the witness to deceased were read.) Sarah Giles, deceased's mother, who was convulsed s, ofe r dwrietshaziehf,imssaaidif tinhahtiosnbetste andnight wentin question taiaoynias.dehce waseased going with h ae fwrireonted tao letterCrem otrone whom he was madly fond, stating that as she would not marry him, lie would shoot himself, and fall at her side. CatherineGa Tedding dens. The same But as deceased was in the best spirits, and as she looked upon it as a threat to frighten the latter, witness took no notice of the letter. Deceased had a brace of horse pistols for some months, one of which he took out on Monday night, leaving the other loaded at home. Mr. Stanhope, deceased's master, said the deceased always conducted himself with the greatest propriety until Monday morning, when upon witness remonstrating with him upon going to the country, he peevishly replied, " Well, then, you must get some one else to do your work, he abruptedly departed. The coroner, in summing up, observed that this was the second inquest which he bad held within a brief period upon a person who committed suicide under precisely the same circumstances. Verdict---" Insanity."  -
The Sun. — 1853-11-10 (London, England)

DEATH FROM CHOLERA IN HORSEMONGER-LANE PRlSON.—Yesterday Mr. Carter held an inquest touching the death of Eliza Brooks, alias Lovelace, a prisoner, confined there under remand, who died from malignant Asiatic cholera. Mr. John Keene the governor of the prison, stated that the deceased was about thirty years of age, and an unfortunate female. She was committed by Mr. Combe, one of the magistrates at Southwark Police-court, on the Ist instant, for at tempting to commit suicide by casting herself into the River Thames. That was the second time she had been in custody for a similar offence. Elizabeth Harvey identified the body of the deceased, whose real name was Eliza Lovelace, but she once lived with a man named Brooks. Witness added :—I heard of her being confined in this gaol last Thursday, and I came and saw her. She then complained of being cold, and that she had no appetite, through the effects of being in the water. I saw her again on Monday, having received a letter from the governor, stating that she was very ill. I then found her in the infirmary. She was then sensible, and she said that she did not think that she should live long. Every kindness was used towards her by the prison authorities. Mr. William Harris, surgeon to the gaol, said the deceased came under my charge on the 4th instant, suffering from diarrhoea. • I did not think her weak, nor that there was any cause to expect cholera. It was the second time she had been committed for attempting to commit suicide. I ordered medicine, the attack being at first very slight. On the sth instant she was better, but on the next day she was brought into the infirmary to me, and put to bed. Jane Weston and another female prisoner and the matron attended her. I understood she had purged and vomited a great deal during the preceding night. She had also suffered from cramps in the legs. She made no complaint when unlocked by the turnkey. I saw her in a state of collapse—cold, pulseless, ,and clammy. The purging was not frequent, but copious, and of a rice colour. The vomiting was incessant, and I reported her to be in great danger. The Coroner—What is your opinion of the cause of death ?—Mr. Harris— Malignant Asiatic cholera. The Coroner—Was she medically treated for that ?—Mr. Harris—Yes ; I gave her brandy and water at frequent, intervals. Her thirst was intense. The Coroner—Have you anything to explain as to the origin of the attack ? - Mr. Harris—No, I have not. Diarrhcea, was not prevalent in the gaol. We, however, have had a few cases, but none exactly cholera. There was a serious case of diarrhoea on the 22d of September last. Ido not attribute it to the state of the prison, which has been recently properly drained. I do not think the disease was caused by the locality or diet. I think she died from natural causes. The jury found their verdict, " That the deceased, Eliza Brooks, alias Lovelace, died, from malignant Asiatic cholera. Tim