The Sun. — 1823-08-30 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDES.  Yesterday evening there was an Inquest held at Bartholo. mew's Hospital, before Mi. Surt.TON,. Coroner, for London, on the body of Isabella Mary Madder, aged 60 years.. Mary Ryan deposed that- the deceased had been turned out of St. Andrews Workhouse, a fortnight agO,. and she came to lodge with her at Is. per week, but she could not pay that sum. On IVednesday last, atone o'clock, witness found her in her room, lying utter' a basket which she used in the market, with her throat cut, and bleeding. The razor with which she inflicted the wound was lyingclose to her upon a table. She was removed to the hospital, where she died next day. On her cross-examination witness said the deceased told her she had cut her throat through distress; that the overseers turned her out, and refused to relieve her any longer.—A Gentleman, who had been an over.. seer, and is still a member of several committees in the Liberty,. said the deceased had been in the workhouse in winter for the last twenty years ; in summer she used to work in the market. She applied, to him since last turned out of the house; he adviled her to apply to the Magistrates at Hatton-garden, but they had ordered her to be sent home to Ireland. She refused to go because she had no friends there; and she had been forty years in London. The Overseers refused to relieve her, andbe then advised her to sit at tlie step at the workhouse door till they took 'her in. Several of the parish constables were exa. mined, as likewise was the daughter of the deceased, awoman who is herself in indigent circumstances. A long.investigation took place between the Jury, who thought it was cruel to turn an Irish pauper out with no other prospect than starvation, tuless removed to Ireland, and perhaps then destitute; but the Coroner told them it was not their province as Jurors to consider any thing except what immediately related to the death of thadeceased. The Hospital Surgeon said, the wound was not very, dangerous, but there was a large quantity of blood upon the brain of the deceased. .Verdict—" Insanity." An Inquest .was held yesterday'et the Champion, Goswellstreet-road, on the body of Mary Deacon. The deceased, to it appeared in evidence, had been for some days preceding in a melancholy state of mind, and on Fridarevemng, the 22d instant, was found lying in her bed, by the mistress of the house where she lodged, in a state of extreme exhaustion. On being questioned, she admitted having taken a quantity of, oxalis acid; but when medical 'assistanee was procured, no induce. ments could prevail on her for some time to receive the anti. dotes which it was proposed to administer.. After a lapse of objections were overcome by.}yr fears, ainbodustutaheroene consented to tohetralccmeaiciiies to expel the poison; butthereinedied were applied too late,. and she' lingered ineitriinte agony, till Wednesday last, when she expired. Deems, the brotherof the deceased, deposed that .she had heel an illegitimate child; from winch she had been separated; and the loss of it had constantly preyed on her mind. The Jury re. ,  'turned a verdict of aelfanurder under the influence of tempontry mental derangement. Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Queen's Head, Fashion. street, Spital.fields, before I. W. URWIN, Esq. on the body of Mary Corsbie. William Wither, 5, Flower and Dean-street, Spital-fields,ipocket-book maker, deposed that yesterday morn. lug, about eight o'clock, on hearing the deceased, who lived in the same street, had hung herself, he went to her room, and saw her suspended by a silk handkerchief from the bed-post ; witness gave a knife to a young man present, who cut her down; had no doubt she committed the act her• self, and that she was insane at the time; knew her to have been frequently watched lest she should commit suicide.— Elizabeth Clarke was nurse to deceased; had attended her in the daytime the last two months • before she went yesterday morning the deceased had hung herself ; deceased had frequently been in raving fits, and was then with difficulty held down.—Elizabeth Williamson had known the deceased for the last ten months ; never thought her of sane mind ; deceased at• tempted to strangle herself more than once; she was 57 years of age.—Verdict—" Lunacy."