The Sun. — 1844-09-16 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.  An inquest was held before Mr. Payne, on Saturday evening, at the Tower of London Tavern, Towerstreet, Waterloo-road, on the body of Mr. Thomas Noy, aged fifty-two, late a clerk in the Army District Pay-office, Duke-street, Westminster, who committed suicide on Friday morning, by hanging himself in his bedroom, under the following distressing circumstances :  Police-constable 177 L stated that he was celled is about nine o'clock on Friday morning, and found the deceased hanging by a rope behind the bedroom door. He immediately cut him down, and sent a brother officer for Mr. Sewell, surgeon, upon whose arrival, in about two minutes, life was quite extinct. Mary Noy (daughter of deceased) said her father had been very law spirited for some days. He was indebted to the landlord for rent to the amount of 71. 19s. 6d., who had threatened him to distrain on his goods, unless a portion of the money was paid on Friday. Deceased had recently been discharged from his situation ; but it appeared from the evidence of a clerk in the Recruiting Department, that hopes had been held out to him of a re-appointment, and he had received his salary up to the 30th of the present month. The police, on searching his room, found two lett. ters, written in pencil, one addressed to the coroner, the other to Mr. Legge, his landlord, of which the following are copies :  " 14th August, 1844. ' Mr. Coroner—l am in my perfect senses, therefore there is no occasion for a jury. I wish you to send my body to Westminster Hospital, if in your, power; for I received good treatment from that in, stitution about twelve months since, and I have no other legacy to leave them. Pray comply with my wishes if in your power,  " Sept. 14; ,)0" THOMAS NOY." minutes to Six, A.M. " Mr. Legge—You see what your precipitancy has brought on. Did you think I would see a broker in No, never.1 Had you waited a few my place ? weeks everything would have been settled, but your avarice and miserly propensities are well known to me. Do not touch an article of Mrs. Gibb's things, as you value the curse of a dying man. Her rent is paid to me to the 20th of August last, and when her daughter tomes from the country she will pay you what is due from that time. I shall lay the same inveterate curse on you if you touch any article that belongs to Mary in her own right, such as clothes, boxes, &c. " THOMAS NOY." " There will be sufficient of my property to pay you, and a surplus to hand over, as, according to law, there is one-and-a-half year's interest too mach charged in your account." It appeared that a portion of Mr. Legge's debt was for money lent at at 7} per cent. interest. The jury returned a verdict, "That deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."  The contemplated alliance between Lord Loftus, eldest son of the Marquis of Ely, and Miss Hope.: Vere, daughter of Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere, and niece to Lieut.-General the Marquis of Tweeddale, Governor.of Madras, is expected to be solemnised at the close Of the ensuing month, when the noble bride elect will have arrived with the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro from the Continent. 

Article type: Incident