The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1893-03-11 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE BY POLSONIMI IT TLASEIE.  THE CORONER ON CARBOLIC ACID. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Brahma& Hotel, Green.lane, Traumas, by Mr. H. Gherkin, district coroner, on the body of a woman noised Borah Morgan, aged about 45 yews, who resided et .5, Millbscak-eottageet—From the evidence it appeared that her husband Samuel Morgan was • striker. His wife had been in ill-health for some tame. Oa Thursday noon she went to Mr. Wood. cook's drag store in Church-road and pinhead from the manager, Mr. B. Ashley, between three and four ounces of crude carbolic acid, saying that her husband wanted it 10 mix with some wash for doing the walls and ceilings. The chemist waned her that the aid wee • deadly poison and mast be kept oat of the way of thildrea, and at the same time affixed two red Isbell! each marked "Poison" on the oateide of the bottle. At noon that day Mrs. Magog drank a large quantity of the aid and was at ones seised with intense piton. Her cries brought a neighbour named Hrs. La. to heat asistatioe, who sak.W what was the matter. Tbs woman pointed to the bottle of poison, and mid she had taken that. Dr. Knowles was at ouee sent for, and be arrived before her death, bat his each's. were auavailing.—Tbe Coroner, in sans ming up the evidence, said it was as skier as possible that the deceased had committed an set tff suicide. Carbolic acid wee ow of the most deadly poison. a person meld take, and it was very much to be Is gretted that such facilities were afforded for using is. All sorts of people, men, women, and children, could purchase &be staff from the chemist, who ecialditot hinder them from baying it. There wee no law to prohibit him from aillbg it. Ha Vibe Coroner) scald safely say that within the last twelve maths this MOM be the sixth or seventh OWN of pMemingby carbolic acid which be had had to deal with in-Birkenhead and the parish of Wallasey. A girl of fifteen might here • quarrel with her sweetheart and get into • {minion. She ran to • chemist and got a bottle of carbolic acid, and ofteotimee was cunning enough to take it slyly home, take it off to bed with her. and then when all the family were at net, swallow a quantity of it, enough perhaps to poison half-a-dome men. Such • cam had occurred very scantly in this neighbourhood. Other poisons were protected and required a sewed parson to be present when a purchase was made, and so with laudanum, and some other poisons bad now gone out of nes. Cabello , said, a deadly poison, was frequently used in eon& metes, and he supposed that was why there was no restriction !pan its sale. A child of seven years of age might go and purchase it, and say her mother had sent her. He had known cue recently parobeas • shillingworth, ma the mother had taken it from the child, gone with it to her bedroom, sad swallowed font or five ousts of it. Hely the previous day be wee thinking of proposing mow to the Beemeisey of ittele which might probably have the result of saving stone of lives. In the oast before them the deesesed had suffered from degreased spirits, bat did not appear to have threatened lode anything to benelf.—'llie jury, lifter • moment's eassiderstion, returned • verdict to the am& that dowsed had committed suicide whilst temporarily lallllllo.  This Kann fir. Loin's Ban, or