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The Sun. — 1851-03-03 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE. Monday last, at Eardisland, on the body of an unfortunate —An inquest was held on man, years, a tailor by trade, who was found drowned on the previous Friday in a piece of water called Lady Pool, in the same parish. From the evidence of the wife of deceased, it appeared that he had been in a desponding state since May last, for which she could assign no cause, and since the Monday previous to his death she had noticed a very great alteration in his manner. It afterwards transpired in evidence, that the deceased was embarrassed in money matters, having become indebted to a considerable extent to Mr. E. Gould, draper, of Leominster. No proceedings bad, however, been taken against him by that gentleman, although repeated applications had been made for the money, and on the morning of the melancholy occurrence Mr. Gould waited upon the deceased at his residence, and after some conversation, requested to see the deceased's books, asking why he had not brought them to Leominster, as promised. Mr. Gould having gone from the house a short tiinee, the poor embarrassed man went up stairs to his childrens' bed and kissed them, saying, at the same time, "I'll sacrifice my life before I'll give up my books." He then went down stairs again, and shortly afterwards Mr. Gould, having returned, found that deceased had gone out. They soon discovered that he had left the house by means of the back door. After a short but fruitless search, the wife was fain to content herself with the idea that her husband had gone to a young man to give him instruction in a part of the tailoring business, such being his custom. In the evening, however, the poor fellow was found in the manner described. After a lengthened inquiry, the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity.'— Hereford Journal. MARRIAGE or
The Sun. — 1851-03-03 (London, England)

SUICIDE FROM LONDON-BRIDGE.—On Saturday evening a respectably-dressed female,ayparently about thirty years of age, was observed by constable Ball (Thames police) to precipitate herself from the third arch on the Middlesex side of the above bridge into the river. The constable was proceeding down the river in his galley, and had just emerged from under the arch, when the unfortunate female fell within a few inches of the boat which he was rowing. lie immediately endeavoured to catch her, but the tide running down strongly it was some time before she could be got out of the water. She was then alive, but presented a frightful spectacle, her head (having caught the buttress of the bridge in falling) being completely battered in. With all possible speed she was conveyed to the Old Swan Tavern, Thames-street. Dr. Groves was then sent for, who, having adminiatered all the aid his power wittleut effect, advised  SUN,  LONDON,  her instant removal to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. On her arrival at the hospital great exertions were made to alleviate her sufferings, but she expired some time after her arrival in the greatest agony. Several persons attended to view the body, but up to seven o'clock last evening it had not been identified.  ALARMING 'AND DESTRUCTIVE FlRES.—Shortly after eight o'clock en Saturday morning a fire of a very serious character broke out on the premises of Mr. Pezzy, upholsterer and cabinet-maker, Old-street-road, St. Luke's. It originated in the workshop, during the absence of the work people, and the discovery was not made until the whole of the workshop was in flames. A number of the brigade engines were soon on the spot, but although the firemen obtained a good supply of water, they were unable to check the fire before the workshop was entirely consumed. About two o'clock in the morning a house, in the occupation of Mr. Duncan, No. 3, Melbourne-place, Cambridge-road, Hackney, was burned down. The family were awoke by some person in the street, who saw the glare through the shop fanlight. Fortunately the inmates escaped from the premises in safety. About one hour previously, the engines had been required in Cleveland- place, Fitzroy-square, where an alarming fire had broken out on the premises of Mr. Matthews, carpenter and builder. The fire was not extinguished for nearly an hour. Most of the workshops were destroyed. The total loss of property at the fire cannot be far short of 2,0001.
The Sun. — 1851-04-30 (London, England)

DEATIL—On Friday an inquest was held at the Half-way House, Southwark-lane, on the body of Mr. George Merriman, aged 27 years. The deceased was a publican at East Boldon, and also carried on the business of a blacksmilt at East Bolden and Ryhope,. Being unfortun tely given to habits of intemperance, he some time ago got into bad company at Sunderland, and was robbed of 1501. During last week he had been drinking to excess, and on Wednesday night, about twelve o'clock, he was seen knocking at the door of a public house. Early on Thursday morning, a noise similar to that produced by a body falling, was heard by the.worlsmen employed at the bottom of the shaft of the A pit at Monkwearmouth Colliery. They immediately hastened to the spot, and found the body of the deceased in a fearfully mutulated state, and literally dashed to Pieces. He was only identified by some papers found in his pocket-book. It is generally believed, although not clearly ppraosas-eedd,atelwitytshbeettl,ewceeealslesdonhlaed committed suicide by entering working in th timber which.e was at that place.water the "low flat," where he would have considerable difficulty in gaining entrance to the mouth of the shaft, having to would have b fall at the rate of -tubs voaninden.a, qwualinetitwyeroef narrow escape, 292 fathoms, shaft about ten minutes previously, had a for if they had remained much longer they that an iron bar dashed to pieces by the body, which would or 1,752 three miles per minute, to the depth of Such was the violence of the fall, dead at the bottom of completely broke, e i7)sl,ifleegeitr.ig to the cage on which he fell was to his death thererdict—" Teat the deceased was found is the shaft of the pit, but how he came uEspit.rre As present Parliament. Herald. no evidence to show."—Sunderland Chronicle announces, on authority, REPRESENTATION or n candidate for the representation C°aritY, that Sir James Emerson Tennent intends becoming of Belfast on the dissolution of must —PaTrlihaemenßt. ellasi The best built fortune submit to time. —Eliza Cook's fourn2;i9d to hazard and There is an essential meanness • in the wish to get the better of any one; the only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.— Eliza Cook's Journal.
The Sun. — 1851-04-30 (London, England)

AWFUL DEATH.—On Friday an inquest was held at the Half-way House, Southwark-lane, on the body of Mr. George Merriman, aged 2.7 years. The deceased was a publican at East Boldon, and also carried on the business of a During blacksmith at East Boldon and Ryhope. Being unfortun4ely given to habits of intemperance, he some time ago got into bad company at Sunderland, and was robbed of 1501. ring last week he had been drinking to excess, and on Wednesday night, about twelve o'clock, he was seen knocking at the door of a public-house. Early on Thursday mornceased blue I,lga.noise similar to that produced by a body falling, was heard by the workmen employed at the bottom of the shaft of the A. pit at Monkwearmouth Colliery. They immediately pocket-book. haasiened to the spot, and found the body of the deproved, that the tearfully mutulated state, and literally dashed to pieces. in gaining entrance to was only identified by some papers found in his pass edgeways between the generally believed, although not clearly where had committed suicide by entering the "low flat," timber which was at that he would have considerable difficulty working in the shaft abouttmouth of the shaft, having to somea water-tubs and a quantity of had remained much narrow escape, for if theyplace. Two men, who were would have been dashed to peelei minutes fall at the rate of three milessupcehr es by the body, which would previously, had a longer they minute, io the depth of to the cage the violence of the fall, gshaft of the pit, but how he came TnactatTe deceased was found 292 fathoms , or 1,752 feet. on which he fell was thatdead anat itrhoenhbaattrombe ol ocntghien to show."— Sunderland completely broken. Verdict—. to his death there is no evidence Herold. Th ere is an essential meanness in the wish to get the better of any one; the only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
The Sun. — 1851-04-30 (London, England)

SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.- ster executed to a scale in convention, enc osed with- sume the survey suspen , which was peremptorily refused. Davis, Escl'' 'kites 11. trear rated by 28 Coloured Engravings. bers of the faculty in rrauceand, Ricord, and other eminent mem- -- I Ineat.Fa, am „ear the consequences resulting from excessive .in- illustrating the anatomy, et•ysic7l ith Fifty coloured Engravines, Yesterday afternoon an q s in ue t was held on the body of the in a' glass case 4 feet 4 inchesen length, and p feet 4 Volage surveying vesse • Malta on t e h 14th inst., with [ADyEwrisEmENTI-The follooing extraordiparY The pritioncrs were then conveyed back to II ev• - tne,ii„!l am Innen 1r lamentable effects on the system, producmg 08• Y, and Diseases of the Re- unfortunate man taken from the ornamental water in St. inches in width The Banshee, which left • ebire, the I? PACit ""'`.ls' Weak . productive Organs, explaining their et t Edinbureh. T *an Island t 1 th s was in por ear y is case as connected with Holloway's Pills cannot be lull" Wlll •••••••••••.••••••••.......... Cain' ' Pen Y. ea- n .ss, nervous excitement, and generative and the various Injuries that are rectums, uses, and functions, , James's Park on Saturday morning, at the Feathers, in Ritchie, Handyside, Princes-stree , . la , e we' mails for the loni public :-George Wright. .of High-street, Vauxhall* we college, t, tilt T 41. tr ''''rated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. habits, excesses. and Infection. produced in them by solitary Dean-street, Westminster. Mr. Bedford, the coroner, pre- The one is •a co curtest tigure i • completed, in somewhat under eight l known at Ell' P • V hll 11 here he former y ext The Weekly Dispatch, of Sunday n , ; s ottenes, aux a -wa , w ne to Margsr.ek neenteen _reats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in BY SAMITBL , specimens of sculpture. morning, hay ng . d usually employed. 'eh ten flys are his health had will contai I • 1 Iti to the OPen rshire. , , LA
The Sun. — 1851-05-24 (London, England)

GENERAL LEAVE TO THE ARMY.--Leave of ab" sence for the purpose of seeing the Exhibition has been give by his Grace the Commander-in-Chief to all regiments half borne, from the Ist of June to the 30th, one field officer, the captains, and half the subalterns to be allowed the indulgence each fortnight in the month; and it is the intention of some of the railway directors to allow officers, upon producing a certificate of their rank, to travel at the Govet°ment rate of charge of 2d. a mile, as when on duty. THE LATE SUICIDE ON TUN LONDON AND NOS 191; WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday Mr. Wakley, M.P., an inquest at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, 0" Pancras, on James Young, Esq., aged seventy-two, late o', 35, Augustus-street, Regent's-park, who, as has been ahead/ stated, committed suicide, by throwing himself under ~the train on the London and North-Western Railway. Mr' George Harris, the deceased's nephew, stated the deceased' who was a gentleman of independent fortune, had latterly suffered much from ill-health, which greatly affected big spirits. Sunday morning he appeared more cheerful than usual; and, after taking some coffee, left home to take e, walk. For a few days before his death he complained 01 pain in the head. On Saturday he made his will. He iflle the last man whom witness would suspect of suicidal jute': tions. Mrs. Emily Norton, residing at Park Villa Eesbo Regent's-park, was watching from the Victoria-bridge, the • arrival of the Liverpool train on Tuesday, which reached the London station between one and two o'clock, when Pet as the train appeared in sight she saw deceased walk from the right hand side of the railroad towards the rails ell which the train was running. When the train came OW to him, he halted for a moment, then knelt down, and soveloping his head in his cloak laid it upon the rails. She was so horrified, that she lost all power of speech. When she looked the next moment, the train had passed over ;the unfortunate gentleman, having severed the head diagonal, from the body, and leaving the mutilated portions several feet distant frem each other. The train, which consisted 01 six or seven carriages, was going at an easy pace down the incline plane. Verdict, "Insanity."
The Sun. — 1851-10-07 (London, England)

SUICIDE ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWA.Y. o'clock,O our.- ane, leading from P.M., the usually quiet n Sloactaul tdya y 0, f about Cold i a rb Brixton to Camberwell, was thrown into a state of intense excitement, from the following awful occurrence :—At the time in question a man in the garb of a painter, carrying some pots of colour and brushes, was observed to proceed down Pollard's-grove, a retired spot in the rear of the Green Man public-house. Shortly after, the report of a pistol was beard, and on persons proceeding to the spot the man was perceived running away, blood flowing profusely from his head. He had left the paint and brushes behind him, and carried in his hand a large pistol, but which a gentleman who followed succeeded in taking away from him. The alarm drew together several of the police of the P division from the Brixton station, who joined in pursuit of the wounded man. He, nevertheless proceeded, notwithstanding the great loss of blood (which was tracked the whole distance), at a rapid pace in the direction of Forest Hill, and, before he could be overtaken, rushed through the railway station on to the rails, and deliberately threw himself before the 1.20 down train, which passed over him, and thus terminated his existence. The body, dreadfully mutilated, was picked up and conveyed to the Dartmouth Arms contiguous. The name of the deceased, it has been ascertained, was James Harding, by trade a painter and grainer, and resided at 5, Elizabeth-place, South-street, %Valworth, and he has left a widow and nine young children to deplore their father's unhappy end. The cause for committing so dreadful and rash an act cannot be ascertained at present. Yesterday Mr. Carttar, the coroner for East Kent, held an inquest on the body, when, after some consultation, the jury returned an open verdict, to the effect—" That the deceased was killed by being run over by one of the South-Eastern Company's trains, but whether by accident or his own wilful act there was not evidence to show."
The Sun. — 1851-10-07 (London, England)

SUICIDE ON THESOUTH-EASTERN RAIL TV A..Y. On Saturday, about one o'clock, P.m., the usually quiet locality of Lold Harbour-lane, leading from Brixton to Camberwell, was thrown into a state of intense excitement, from the following awful occurrence :—At the time in question a man in the garb of a painter, carrying some pots of colour and brushes, was observed to proceed down Pollards-grove, a retired spot in the rear of the Green Man public-house. Shortly after, the report of a pistol was heard, and on persons proceeding to the spot the man was perceived running away, blood flowing profusely from his bead. He had left the paint arid brushes behind him, and carried in his hand a large pistol, but which a gentleman who followed succeeded in taking away from him. The alarm drew together several of the police of the P division from the Brixton station, who joined in pursuit of the wounded man. He, nevertheless proceeded, notwithstanding the great lois of blood (which was tracked the whole distance), at a rapid pace in the direction of Forest Hill, and, before he could be overtaken, rushed through the railway station on to the rails, and deliberately threw himself before the 1.20 down train, which passed over him, and thus terminated his existence. The body, dreadfully mutilated, was picked up and conveyed to the Dartmouth Arms contiguous. The name of the deceased, it has been ascertained, was James Hard' ing, by trade a painter and grainer, and resided at 5, Elizabeth-place, South-street, \Valworth, and he has left a widow and nine young children to deplore their father's unhappy end. The cause for committing so dreadful and rash an act cannot be ascertained at present. Yesterday Mr. Carttar, the coroner for East Kent, held an inquest on the body, when, after some consultation, the jury returned an open verdict, to the effect—" That the deceased was killed by being run over by one of the South-Eastern Company's trains, but whether by accident or his own wiltul act there was not evidence to show."
The Sun. — 1851-09-24 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ARSON AND SUICIDE IN FRANCE.  An extraordinary crime has been committed at St. Hippolyte, in the department of the Tarn and Garonnie. On the 11th inst., at about nine in the evening, tie house and outbuildings of a farmer named Aradel, commonly called Corrah, were observed to be on fire. Twenty or thirty people soon assembled, and were taki.eg measures to extinguish the flames, when the report of gun shot wee heard, and at the same instant the son of the mayor of Boulac, who was in the crowd, fell senseless and severely wounded. He was scarcely raised frorn the ground when a second shot was firod, and another young man fell bathed in his blood. The crowd, which had increased, then became panic struck, some ran off to Lauzerte, to inform the magistrates of what had heppened, while others, half stupifird, gazed about, trying to discover in vain where the shots could have come from. A third shot, wounding a third person, dispersed the crowd in all directions, and the flames were left to spread unchecked. The flash of the third shot was, however, observed to proceed from the window of a❑ adjoining granary, by two or three persons, who, not having themselves the courage to make further search, went to meet the gendarmes, on the Lauzerte-road, and informed them of it. They marched at once to the granary, at which there was no staircase, or means of entrance but by a ladder. The brigadier, regardless of the danger, instantly mounted, and was followed by his men. They found a young man seated on a stool with his back turned to the window from whence the shots had been fired. He was deadly pale, trembling, and his garments were dripping with blood. His left hand was leaning on a gun, and at his feet was a doublebarrelled pistol yet smoking. His face was one large bloody wound. His lower jaw was broken, and there was a hole in his forehead from which blood flowed in torrents. The wretch had just shot himself in the head. Although horribly mangled he still breathed. He was recognised to be Bartholomew Aradel, the son of the proprietor of the house burnt down. He was arrested and taken to the hospital of St. Lauzerte, where he soon died of his wounds. The explanation of this terrible drama is as follows :—Bartholomew Aradel, ruined by gambling, or nearly so, and owing money in all directions, resolved upon suicide. But he first set fire to his father's house, and then bid himself in the granary to fire at all those who attempted to extinguish the flames. It is supposed that he had meditated the diabolical project for seine time, as several cartridges, bullets, and a quantity of powder and lead were found upon him. Tue three wounded persons are happily expected to recover.—Galignani's Messenger.
The Sun. — 1851-07-01 (London, England)

HORRIBLE ATTEMPT AT MURDER  AND SUICIDE.  On Saturday night and early on Sunday morning the neighbourhood of the Barracks, in Silver-street, which has many years been a moral and physical nuisance to the whole city, was the se.-me of a most shucking crime, being an attempt at murder and suicide. It appears that a man named John Waters, a country labourer, had been residing in the barracks several months with a girl named Mary Ann Bush. Latterly they had disagreed and quarrelled. On Saturday, Waters asked the girl to "go home with him and be comfort• able," but she refused to live with him again. lie then asked her if he should dine with her on the following day (Sunday), and if so he would buy something for dinner. To this she agreed, and he then went and purchased some things for dinner and took them to her house. In the middle of the night, or about one o'clock in the morning, she went home in company with another man, at which time Waters was lying under the bed, as she thought, asleep. After the other man had left, Waters commenced a quarrel with the girl; they had high words together, and he caught hold of her by the neck, when she felt a sharp sensation, as though he 'as pinching her neck, and cried out " 0 John, don't murder me." Her cries alarmed the neighbours, and two men named Maund and Spragg forced the door, and one of theca knocked Waters down. Waters got up and ran up a passage, turning into a place where he concealed himself under some stairs. Maund then ran to the station-house and gave information to Sergeant Bateman, who was quickly on the spot. Manwhile two girls dragged Bush out of the kitchen to their own house, and finding her throat cut, of concealmentut,theytiedana,parnodn round her neck to stop the hemorrhage. Sergeant Bateoinnanpufolluinngd hWimateorust byi the n his ac collar, found that his throat was also cut. Policeman Workman then came up, and by his assistance the man was taken to the station-house, where also Bush was soon after conveyed, and Mr. Budd, surgeon, was speedily on the spot, and sewed up their wounds. That on Bush's throat was five inches in length, but no artery had been cut; that on 'Waters's throat consisted of two cuts, one of which had penetrated his windpipe. Both have been pronounced in a fair way for recovery. In the house where the shocking occurrence took place, Bateman found in the centre of the kitchen a great pool of blood and a pocket knife lying close by with blood on it; the knife had been recently sharpened. It is said that evidence will be adduced to prove that Waters had been seen to sharpen the knife, and that he had also threatened the girl Bush. True to her sex, however, she pleaded in his behalf when in custody, and endeavoured as far as possible to ward off the consequences of his crime. Her evidence was taken before Mr. Sidebottom and Mr. Pierpoint, on Monday, at the police station, and the case was remanded.— Worcester Chronicle.