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The Leeds Mercury
Tuesday 28 April 1896
The Nelson Tragedy
At the Nelson Town Hall, yesterday, an inquest was held by Mr. Robinson, district Coroner, relative to the death of Hargreaves Hartley, aged 26, cotton weaver, 20, North-street, Nelson, who, after committing a murderous assault upon his wife, committed suicide. - Mrs. Eastwood, of Cop-lane, Haggate, the deceased's sister, said that last Thursday night Hartley was at her house, and then tlaked and looked "wild;" whilst James Duerden, who was in the shop when Hartley purchased the revolver stated that when he asked what he wnated the revolver for he replied that it was "to blow his dashed brains out." - The Coroner said that there existed a communication apparently written by the deceased , but which, he thought should not go to the Press, as it contained charges against persons who could not, of course, answer them. He (the Coroner) did not think the letter would be of any assistance to the jury, and it was scarcely the letter of a sane man. - Eventually the Coroner handed the letter to the jury for private perusal. The jury afterwards expressed the opinion that there was nothing in the letter casting any blame upon the party mentioned in it, and a verdict was returned that the deceased committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.
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