A CORONER COMMITS SUICIDE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1819, 18 June 1897, Page 3

A CORONER COMMITS SUICIDE.

Some extraordinary disclosures were made at the inauest at Kenilworth on the body of Dr Wynter, coroner for Mid-Warwickshire. The deputy-coroner (Mr Ansell) remarked that with one solitary exception the inquiry was unprecedented in English history. Dr Wynter was the second coroner only who had committed suicide. The evidence disclosed that deceased some time ago became involved with money lenders. He got deeper and deeper into the mire, and had to sell all his pictures and plate and curios. These did not realise sufficient to free him from his creditors, and he borrowed sums of money from one loan office to pay the interest which had accumulated at another. He was to have filed his petition in bankruptcy, but on the Tuesday one money lender put in an execution for a large sum. Driven to his wits' end the unfortunate doctor, too ill to leave his bed, wrote out a prescription for himself, and sent it round to the chemists. It was for an ounce of prusstc acid. Half of this he drank, and of course died instantly. His housekeeper stated that a day or two before Dr Wynter had confided to her that his trouble was more than he could bear, and that he had prayed to God to take him, but He would not. He said he had a great horror of suicide, and d;d not know what to do. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound mind.