The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1879-06-07 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

SINGULAR CASE 'OF SUICIDE AT  • BEDWORIIIII.  On Thursday evening, an inquest wairbeld at the Bull's Read Inn, Bedivorth (before Thomas Dewes, ,Esq., Coroner), on view of the body of William Trickle, a tailor, who was found dead in bed that morning, at his home in Congreve-square.—Mr. William Linney was foreman of the jury.—Hannah Neale, of Bedworth, spinster, said:. I live next door to the deoeased's house. He was, I believe, 52 years of age, and a tailor. He has been drinking very heavily lately. I Saw him last night, about 5.3(4 He was nut sober. He went to his house. I heard nothing more of him until 9 o'clock this morning, when I was called to his house. He was lying on the bed in the room where the jaryhave seen him, dead. Dr. Orton was sent for, and also Sergt. Poultney.—,Bichard Ponitney deposed: I am Sergt. of Police, stationed at Bedwoith. This morning about 9 o'clotk, I was called to the house of deceased. He was lying On the bed, dead. I took charge and searched for a bottle, which I understood he had last night been seen with; I could not find it. Between 11 and 12, I went and made a further search, and in the pantry, amongst some coal, and covered with a brush, I found the bottle produced, labelled " Laudanum ; poison. James Hinds, Pharmaceutical Chemist, Coventry." It was empty.—Michael Thompson, of Bedworth, druggist, said: I knew deceased. On Monday or Tuesday last he called on me. He was sober, although he had been drinking very heavily. He said he had been drinking for a week or 10 days. He asked me to give him something to do him good, and said he had had no sleep for several nights. I gave him a soothing draught, and told him to go to bed. —James Hinds, of Coventry, druggist, said: Soon after 10 yesterday morning, deceased called at my shop. He asked for a pennyworth of laudannin. I gave him the quantity. He looked at it, and said he wanted the bottle filled. I asked him if he had been in the habit of purchasing it in quantities. He said he had. He brought the bottle produced, which was not labelled, and I asked him what he had been in tile habit of giving for it when the bottle was filled. This wae to ascertain the quality. He said " Let me have the bottle filled with the best; my wife will soon know the difference." I filled the bottle, which is a 2oz. one, with the best. He paid is. for it. Before I gave it to him, I labelled it as it now is. I told him not It let his wife take so much of it as she had been in the habit of taking, as, it was so much stronger. The laudanum I supplied would be more than sufficient to destroy deceased's life. The bottle had recently been used for laudanum, but of inferior quality to that, I supplied.—Dr. E. W. Orton deposed: This morning, about a quarter to nine, I was called to see William Trickle. I found him di/d. He was upon a, bed downstairs, lying Upon his back, and was dressed in his usual daily attire. I eoasider he had been dead some hours. I have since made a pm- werten examination upon  91 •  lIUAL ii IS •  it6redloe  the body, and am of opinion that he died from the ,Jaudwrium, soosleratecl , by eploohol.— Thilt • deceased destroyed himself by taking laudanum, and that there is no evidence to show the state of mind he was in at the time."—lt will be remembered that a brother of the deceased a few yeark ago. N t_  committed  suicide