Suicide of a London Merchant

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 19, 27 July 1886, Page 4

Suicide of a London Merchant

At the coroner I*,1 *, court, Mr W. E.Baxter,'- recently, inquired into the cause of the death of Louis Dunfour, aged 665 a mtrchaut. of 60, Mqorgate street, City* who committed suicide " by hanging at his office. Walter Burrows, son of the office-keeper, deposed' <that on Thursday morning ! he went into deceased's office, and ( found him Bitting in a chair. He appeared strange, and witness, on examining him,, discovered a piece of twine tied round %is. neck and, fastened to a iiatpegin t|ie wall. Hfe seemed to be quite dead, and on the police being fetcheithe body was cut down. It ■was cold and stiff, and lite had cvi--Gently .been ! extinct several hours. Further evidence showed that two letters yfeik i discovered lying on the office table. One was addressed- to his son and the other to his wife. Both ".written in French, and showedithat deceased was much distressed. 'Tfee, letter addressed to Ms son stated that his liabilities amounted to and. that he had nothing with which to- meet. these debts, for his account at the bank had dwindled down tp.Ss, and. there waaa bill of gale on' jkhe furniture, The letter concladedas follows:— "I can stand it no longer.; JSyitrade is gone ; I- am penniless, and my daughter, deserted by her t bad husband, and'^eft with' .five oh^dren, has crippled me." Dir Applefard .deposed to being called to see the deceased at his office. He was quite dead! The : body was leaning forward in the chair, which caused the twine' to become tight. Death had, therefore,' resulted from strangulation So tight hadtlieoord become that it; was lilerally buried in the flash of /the neck.: The jury returned * a verdict of • 'Suicide while of unsound naind."^-EBglish paper.

- Listen to your Wife, v The .MantQiester Guabdiah, Juae Bth, 1883, say*?— ' At one of the • "Windows?' Looking^ on the woodland ways ! With clump* of rhododendrons and great masses of Mky! blossoms ! !.'! " There was an interesting group. .. „ It included on who had Been a ''Cotton Bpinner^' but was now so Paraiyzedl!! That he" could only bear t« lie ia a reolining position. This refers to my case. I was^firsi Attacked twelve years ago with " Lpcpmoter Ataxy" (A parafytic disease of nerve fibre rarely ever cured) and -was for .several years barely able, to get about. ; ' And for the last Fire years not able to attend to hi? business, although Many things have been done for me. The last Mperimcnt being Nerve

stretching. Two ytfars ago I wu vated into the Home for Incurables ! Near Manch«« ter, i» May,' 1882. I an :^o "Advocate" ; "For anything in the ttbape of patent" Medicine* ? , And made many objections to my dear wife's constant urging to try Hop Bitters, but finajlyrto pacify her — Consented ! ! ■ I had not quite finished; the first bottle, when I felt a change come over me. This was Saturday, November 3. On Sunday morning I felt *o utrong I said to my room companions, '• I was sure I could '•Walk! ,:/:>'•. . So started, across: the floor and back. : I hardly knew how to contain myself. I wa« ail/overrthe house.- 1 am gaining] .strength each" day, and can walk quite safe wiinoul any ; . j "Stfe* !'* I Or Support. Very gratefully yours, j John Blackbcbn - '■ ,- i MASCSffKsrkB, (Eng.) Deo. 24, 1883. i;| PkOSKCDTE THB §WIMDI.EBS J ! j If wiu'n-you call for American Hop Bitter* [see : gr.een twig- of Sops on the white lab'fl and X>r Soules name blown in the bottle), ike vendor hands out anything but American- Hop. Bitters' refuse 1 it kud ! shun that vendor as you " would- a ! viper V ' ontl if *h€ihas'. taken your money i on any-i thing e£s/?, indict him for -the fraud add sue him. forfdamages,'f«r .the. swindle, and, we will <pay j;OU , liberally for the convic^ tinn. u^ .'•■ '■ .... ' '•% -■"*'' '-. !.'■ '-; "V.I