A TRAINER'S DEATH
DETERMINED SUICIDE. N BEOATJSE A HOUSE DID NOT WIN. (Nt Association— copYrtiaiiT.) !.London, January 4. Edwin Couch/tho Newmarket trainer, who committed-suicide at Exeter, was passing under; the /namo of Matthews, but: it -is supposed jthat his real aiamo was Breen, and that ho was a Comishman,
Standing befoT* a mirror in the hotel, Couch fired thrice-at himself with a revolver. T}iß third shot penotrated his brain. The market' dinner was proceeding in the room below, but tho shots were not heard.
Couch was very excitable, and ho was disappointed, at' the non-success of tho racehorse Morcutio, which he expected to win tho Derby or, somo other big event. Tho draft of of which ho had charge was consigned to Couch's old employer at Perth. ,
VERDICT OF INSANITY. (Reo. 'January 6, 1 a.m.) > (l , ' London, January 5. Couch had lately been drinking. The jurj returned a verdict of insanity.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 7
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151A TRAINER'S DEATH Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 January 1909, Page 7
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