Suicide In A Watch-House.
CORONER'S INQUEST..-Mongay afternoon, an inquest washeld at the Three Tuns, Belton-street, Long-acre, before THOMAk STIRLIN,G Esq. Coroner,on the body ofa young woman, who comn- miuted suicide in St. Gilcss watch-house, on Fridav night last. The beadle deliveed the name of the deceased to the Coroner as " Jane Bennett," but intimated that he had been unable to procurc any information for the Jury relative to her connexions. rhere was nothing particuar in the case; the wretchel woman seemed to have destroyed herself in a fit of intoxication. The Jury returned a verdict-" That the deceased committed the act in a state of temporary derangement, brought on by excessive drinking." The Coroner then drew up a document to the vestries of the united parishes of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and SL George, Bloomsbury, which stated-'r That the Jury empanelled to in- quire into the death of Jane Bennett, who hanged herself in the watch-house of the said united parishes, having, in consequence of a memsage, visited the watchlihouse, and gave it as their opinion that the watch-house was inadequate to the confinement of sixty persons, which number they understood had beein frequentiv confined there, and .hat numerous instances of suicide had taken place in the watch- house, whicit, in the opinion of the Jery, ought to be built on a areer scale, ansd in a more airy situatton." Rather a sittgular accident took place after the jury had deliveredi thteir rer4tict. An announcement was nafle to thejutry that a young wvoman, wio kniew something of the deceased person had been tound, on which slie was introduced to the jury, under tie name of Jane Bennett. The resemiiblance between lier and the deceaseAi was so great that a hoax was suspected. The witness was then aworn, wben it appeared that she had been confined with the deceased in the watch-house, and had been drink- tog porter with her and Ann Smith at the public-house in Broad- street, St. Giles's. It tturned out that the name of the deceased was not known, and that the jury had been sittingupon the bodyofpoor Jane Bennett, who waa now a witness before them, and who made a most candid confession that she was an unfortunate woman. The Coroner was therefore obliged to erase the nante from the inquisition paper and the document he hiad drawn up, and to insert "on the boe of a woman unknown." A he Coroner said it reminded hint of a late occurrence at Isling. ton, where an inquest was held on the body of an individual whose me was not known, .t in the course of examination she was meis- taken fo another person, w,hose name was applied to her, ane the deceased was buried by the friends of the person missing. The fri .nds went into mourning, but subsequently the individual for whom the deceased was taken made her appearance. SUICIDE IN A 1VATCHI MOUSE,