The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1893-09-09 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SVICIDE'S MOTIVE FOR  ENDING LIFE.  An inquest was hold at Market Ilarherough on Thursday last week on the body of Mr J. A. Nunneley, who had formerly carried on business as a wholesale grocer there, and who committed Suicide by shooting himself with a revolver on the previous evening. The evidence showed that when the deceased left Liarborough twelve months ago he said that if things did not improve it would be enough.. make him make an end of himself. He had suite been a spice agent, but had been much harassed by business troubles.—The Coroner read the following letter addressed to him by the deceased:— August 29th, 1893.—1 am shout to end my life because I believe that in the cruel cirmnistances in width iilatied it is the best thing I can do, not only fur myself but for others. In fact, lam in honour botind to de it. I have no money left, and without it I can carry on no business, and I know that at may time of life it is almost impossible to get employmeat of any kind. It Isuc, ceeded in doing so it would be at such a small salary that I could not possibly keep up my life 'policies. The premiums on these are due very shortly, and I cannot pay them. The pelleies have been in existence many years, and I dare not -let them Mese. If I did, there would be nothing at all hi case of toy death for my wife and family, and, moreover, I should never be able to make good a sum of Money placed-in iny heeds long ago, by a relative whose sole eouree of meome almost it is. Through various causes moats so diminiihed, while expenses increased rather than otherwise, and the business in which I was engaged for many years ceased to pay (as I know is the case throughout the conntry in similar ones), and as I 'could not dispose of it as a going Concern, I wound it up at a heavy loss in order That I might ii pmsible pay pay everyone what I owed them. Another lucrative buelness to which I might have reasonably expected to succeed I WP.9 deprived of under eircuulatances about which it is useless saying anything further. Weedier or not you and the Juts will and me to be of unsound mind I cannot tell. Fossil. I cannot say myself. I know what anxiety I have had for months and years past; it may well he so, though I am net conscious of it. As publicity will probably be given to this letter, I will add that I trust that it any of my old friends, or anyone who has any regard for me, has any opportunity they will not forget to do anything they can tor im poor wife and children, 1. by finding something for the boys to do, or in any other way they can. 1 density it will be said ,by sonic who have never known what it is to be in such a desperate dilenmia, and to whom We is easy and pleasant, that it is s cowardly act which I have done. l'ernaps so I dare not live and know that my last chance of leaving anything whatever for my wife (it is very little as it is) had gone, and that the lady to whom I have referred was reduced to perhaps the workhouse through my default. At the seine time it will, I think, require some courage and resolution to do the deed which will separate me from the best of wives, from children whom I love, and which will out me oft fte ever trip a life which, in spite of anxieties. I have much enjoyed.—l am, sir, yours faithfully, 3. A. NUNNtLZY. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide whilst of unsound mind."  A duel between M. Charles Lalon, ex-deputy, and General Young, candisla.te at the recent eleetion, was fought on Friday week in Paris. A the mooed bout M. Lalou was wounded in the righe hand, and the doctor having decided that this placed him in a position of inferiority, he antagonist's seconds put an end to the duel. On Wednesday the,,mrborough magistrates had before them Robt. Swalwell (40), formerly a wellknown cattle dealer. on a chame of havingatolen from a till at the Ship Inn, Falsgrave-road, Scarborough. He pleaded guilty, and the Chief Constable said the man had evidently been of splendid physique, and he was now simply drinking himself to death . —The Chairman said the Bench, as an act of charity, would Commit him to -4 for *use months.