The Suicide of a Tradesman in Hoxton: On Tuesday forenoon, Mr. J. Humphreys held an inquiry at the Bell tavern, Felton-terrace, Hoxton, respecting the death of Mr. Charles Pincent, aged fifty, who committed suicide on Saturday last. John Goodrich said that on Saturday afternoon, he was called by Mrs. Pincent and he broke in the door of deceased’s room at 15, Little Norris-street. He found deceased hanging by a rope to the bedpost. Mrs. Georgina Pincent, 15, Little Norris-street, said that she had been living apart from the deceased since last Tuesday, on account of some difference. Deceased had often threatened to destroy himself and the witness also. He used to say, “That the Regent’s canal would be his bed,” unless his circumstances mended. He was a cheesemonger. She returned to the house at two o’clock on Saturday, and finding the door fastened she called in the last witness. Another witness proved that he had stated to his son, “That he should not live till night” and “that he had frequently tried to destroy himself. The jury returned a verdict of “Suicide while of unsound mind.”
[see also London Evening Standard: Tuesday 1st September 1863]
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Referenced
GRO0127 Devonport: Charles Pinsent: 1812 – 1863
GRO0361 Devonport: Georgiana Caroline Henly: 1838 – xxxx