The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-09-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARYSUICIDE.  cattP On Saturday an inquest was held before P. F. Esq., on view of the body of a man unknown. The c o, , from the extraordinary nature of the death, which ble peared from the first to be suicide, excited consider interest. The first witness called was A life Richard Davine, who said—l am a sailmaker, Afr. in Preston-street. At present I am employed Y,i;,,or James Clarke, who keeps a shooting-gallery in 1%1:a-sof son-square. I was there last night, and saw dect:" Rat come in. He appeared to be a little in liquor, he,i,bree the not quite capable of knowing what he was about. 'with Ire gentlemen came in, and deceased had several shots rifle athnedmp,isbtootth wAitfhtetrhsee vreiflraelasnhdotpsi,stdoele. the worst shot of the lot. At this time I had a Jae:the pistol by me. Deceased picked it up, and fired his at rtaerlogaedt.ed it.r.. InDedeicaetaeslyedaftthere,nl ttoool uit p out ari off for the pistol, to have a shot with it. The pistol was then lying on a form. til it to about 13 inch I It is that now produced—[a good pistol, der,'" long in the barrel.]_ It was charged with gutio2w k the a leaden -bullet. He took it from—Tne, and-T 1-alb' le ealsedchsuari charged rifle which he had discharged out of his hands. was charging the rifle, I noticed the deceased 11°_,,rtli the pistol with the muzzle upwards, and pointed towards his head. Almost directly deceased discharged the Ply in and he fell down. I ran to him, and found a weunlice, his throat, just under the chin. I ran and called a P°_„sea officer. He came, and a surgeon was sent for. Dec dOl was taken away in a car, and this morning I saw WI wei at the Infirmary. When deceased came into the Ito he appeared to be perfectly collected, and aware of "e to he was doing. I did not observe anything to lead ni not think he was at all affected in his mind. It could site I handed e. have been an accident. He was standing right 010h-oth the target at the time. Deceased had had fifteen csi 0011 but had paid for only one. When searched, he ha a halfpenny in his pocket. otir4h' George Lloyd, who happened to be in the s.:° gallery at the time, corroborated the last witness 01 ore° of his statement. Witness went out for two or oft' minutes, and on his return he instantly heard the re, 1 and saw deceased fall. Mr. Brown, surgeon of the Infirmary, said ae.`-ther!: was brought there on the previous night, and insensible, with a gunshot wound in the throat, °l,,oode he died at about half-past twelve o'clock, Ile , J °tleaden ball, which had passed through the palates ° I'Ve base of the skull, and completely through the braill,;(l the ball was found on his taking off the skull-cap,t wound from it was no doubt the cause of death' the ball, flattened on one side, was produced.] in The inquest was then adjourned to MondaY'd so'„o hope that the deceased might be identified, °_,nbtil" other evidence obtained as to his state of mine" ,e further clue could be obtained. , 50 '.l Several pawn-tickets were found upon the 13011,00,1 of them with the name John Watson, and others Watson. He had on a blue short jacket, 13191 e01°; trowsers, laced shoes, and grey stockings; height sho plexion, dark hair, and small whiskers ; heigt" feet 8 inches.