Saturday 22 Mar 1845 (p. 3, col. 3) INQUESTS. ----- (Before Mr. CARRICK, Coroner.) At Greystoke, on the 7th instant, on view of the body of Caleb GREENHOW, husbandman, aged 23 years, who committed suicide on Wednesday evening. The deceased returned from Penrith on the previous Tuesday, very dejected, owing, as is supposed, to proceedings against him before the magistrates on that day, wherein an order in bastardy was made upon him. He rambled about in a most unsettled state of mind, from house to house, during the Wednesday, and expressed to several neighbours his intention to take away his life. Between eleven and twelve he left Joseph WILSON's. His conduct excited the suspicions of Mr. WILSON's servant girl, who followed him and used her endeavours to prevail on him to go home. He, however, passed his father's house, and on her again urging him to enter, he threatened to strike her, and drew from his pocket a rope. The girl became much alarmed, and ran back to call up his family. His father and brother returned with her, and heard a noise amongst the bushes, in a fence two or three hundred yards from the road. They hastened to the place, but too late to prevent the fatal deed, for deceased was found hanging from the branch of an ash tree. He was cut down immediately, and his corpse borne home. Verdict-"Suicide during temporary insanity." At Penrith, on the 10th instant, on the body of a male new-born child, whose body was found by two boys in a hole in the wall of a tunnel running underneath the road leading between Penrith town head and Edenhall. It was folded in a white coarse cotton sheet, and a good deal decomposed. Dr. WICKHAM made a post mortem examination, from which it appeared that the child had not breathed. Verdict-"Still born." On the 25th March [sic], in the Three Cannons' lane, Scotch-street, Carlisle, on the body of John SOWERBY, aged 66 years, who, on the preceding day, was seized with a vomiting of blood while walking along Scotch-street, and died in a very few minutes.-Verdict "Natural death." At Hall House, Threlkeld, on the same day, on the body of John BOWMAN, lead-ore miner, aged 57 years, who committed suicide by cutting his throat. About three weeks ago he started from home to go to his work at Greenside mine, his son accompanying him to the summit of the bridge, where he left him. It appears that the deceased had been shortly afterwards seized with a fit, had remained in a state of insensibility till noon of the following day, when he was found in a very exhausted state. He was removed home. Since then he has shown symptoms of insanity and very desponding. He walked out on the day of his death; his daughter went in search shortly after and found him lying by the side of a brook with his throat cut literally from ear to ear, and marks showing that he had made as many as six different incissions [sic] before he effected his tragical purpose.-Verdict "temporary insanity." At Cumwhitton, on the following day, on the body of Mr. John BROWN, jun., cattle dealer, who also took away his life by cutting his throat. The deceased had been paying his addresses to Miss ROUTLEDGE, of Fenton, for twelve months or so, but whether they were received or not did not distinctly appear; at all events she had not given him any encouragement of late, and attention on the part of other suitors had excited his jealousy. On Friday night he told his companion that he was going to visit Miss ROUTLEDGE that evening. There was not evidence to show that deceased had seen her on that occasion. On the following morning Mrs. ROUTLEDGE found him lying in the byre with his throat cut, and quite dead. Verdict "Insanity." At Brampton, on Wednesday, on the body of Mrs. Mary WILLAN, widow, who fell from her chair on Tuesday evening, and died instantly. Verdict accordingly. At Botcherby, on the 20th instant, on the body of John CARSON, gardener, aged 56 years, who fell down in the house of Thomas ROBINSON, Esq., and died immediately. Verdict-"Natural death." After the conclusion of the proceedings the coroner stated to the jury that in consequence of Dr. OLIVER having left Carlisle, he had appointed Mr. SABBAGE, the superintendent of police in Carlisle, to receive and forward all communications relating to the office, and begged that they would let it be known in the neighbourhood so that as little inconvenience as possible might be felt by the public. (Before Mr. LUMB, Coroner.) On Wednesday, the 12th instant, at Tallentire, near Cockermouth, on the body of a child named Christopher SMITH, aged three years, whose death was occasioned by his eating a piece of bread and butter, strewed with arsenic, which he found concealed behind the plates on the dresser, it having been placed there on the Sunday night previous, by the child's mother, for the purpose of killing vermin. The unsuspecting child ate the poisoned bread on Monday week, and lingered in great agony until the following day, when death put a period to its sufferings. The coroner explained to the jury the law on the case, and put it to them to say whether or not there was such culpable and careless negligence on the part of the mother as would amount to manslaughter. The jury, however, after retiring for a time, returned a verdict of "Accidental Death." The Jury then sent for the mother, and reprimanded her in severe, but suitable terms for the gross neglect of which she had been guilty, and expressed a hope that the melancholy result in this case would be a warning to all, as it showed the great danger of using deadly poison in such instances.-At St. Bees, on Saturday last, on the body of Ann DIXON, aged 72 years, who was unfortunately burned to death on the preceding day, by her clothes having become ignited, whilst sitting by her fireside. Verdict-"Accidental Death." (Before Mr. THOMPSON, Coroner for Westmoreland.) On Thursday week, the 13th instant, on the body of Thomas NICHOLSON, a maltster and innkeeper at Bolton, near Appleby, aged 27. Robert NICHOLSON, of Gilts, farmer, deposed that on the previous evening, about seven o'clock, a horse with a saddle and bridle on, but without a rider, had come down the road leading from Orton and stopped at his house. Shortly afterwards a person named Thomas HAYTON passing by, witness informed him of the circumstance, and requested him, should he learn who had lost the horse, to make it known where it was. HAYTON had not gone more than one hundred yards before he called out that he observed, at a distance of about half a mile, a man lying upon the road. Witness then took the horse, and accompanied HAYTON, but before they had reached the person he had got up, and was proceeding to meet them. On coming up to him he appeared to be cold and stupid, and on enquiry, witness elicited from him, that being rather intoxicated he had fallen asleep on his horse and had been thrown off and dragged in the stirrup; he did not, however, then appear to be tipsy. Deceased mounted the horse and returned with Mr. NICHOLSON to Gilts: his head was observed to be bloody, and he had also received a slight scar on his left temple. After remaining a short time, and partaking of some coffee that had been prepared for him, he started for home. The horse, which was a young spirited animal and uneasy to ride, deceased did not seem to exercise proper control over, but suffered it to proceed at a very fast pace. Witness and family waited to watch deceased ascend a hill, observable at some distance from the house, but a valley intervening between the places, they were unable to view the road all the way to it. The horse was seen rising the hill alone, and on their hastening towards the spot they found deceased laying at the foot of the declining hill, bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth and a cut on the right temple. When they reached him he was alive, but did not survive more than three minutes after. Witness was of opinion that the horse had tumbled in descending the hill into the valley and thrown deceased from him, and the wounds and bruises had produced death; and a verdict to that effect was returned by the jury. Deceased was a person much respected, and has left a wife and young child to deplore his untimely end.