SHOCKING SUICIDE.-On Satu...
SHOCKING SUICIDE.-On Saturday night an inquest wvas held at the Admiral Carter public-house, Bartholomewlse, before T. SErELTOi, Esq., upon the body of John Walsh Fairbanks, a young man, about 25 years of age, the son of reputable parents, residing at Walsall, Staffordshire. It appeared the deceased had been a clerk upwards of three years in the employment of Messrs. Atkinson Eldrid, and Son, saddlery ironmongers, Fore-street; that they had latterly missed some of their property, but, from the re- spxtability of the deceased's family, and the high opinion they entertained of his integrity, their suspicions were never, until within these few days, directed towards him. He was on Friday prearing to leave town on the following rnorning, when 'Mr. Mlmrid, about three' o'clock accompanied by an offlicer, ciled at his lodKings, No. 19, BarAholomew-place, where they found him sitting in the parlour; after communicating the object of their visit, he went up stairs as if for his hat, entered his bed room, and (with his own razor) cut his. throat, so as so nearly separate his head rom his body. The jury, on hearing the evidence addaied,.return- ed a verdict of!nairnity. Saturday a reprieve vas received at Lancaster, frorm,Mr. Justice Baylev, at York for Joha Atkinson, nowunder sentence of death J'twforgery, in Liverpool.