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FfNlL AOT OF DEVOTION
Ib'hiiid Ibo death of Captain Edward Howe Ki-licr-I!owc, of Thoniconibo, Hiiihl f'ord. found |mi"onc<l on bia seventy seventh birlhihiy, ¡it Loivcr HulxrtiVH -I ii-vt, lies a pul belie story of unselriKh ni'ss, says " Lloyd's Weekly News " of the Ililli of -Vovpiniier.
The captain ' was one of thc blender bund of Jhdurlnvn. survivors, and bad lulen a stillerer for years.
-\t the inquest at Westminster on Wed no-day Captain 1'islicr-Rowc's non, a major in the tire.lier (jllards, siud his fal her had been ¡1 captain ill thc 4th l>rn
s!«>n (iuiiids, KIHI: was 11 ./.I*, of London and hui«';.-, and deputy lieutenant for the bitter county. He had suffered for a very long time from illness. He hnoVa. I»:il acerb-lit when limiting before he mar- ried, abolit forty-live yean ago. He was seven years on hi* h.ii-k,.'iuwl then got better. 'Jtieii he strained himself again in lifting a largo-table, which laid him on his luck da- another three years. Tho
injury was to the spine, ami he .suffered
gi cat pain at times.
Thc ( nioner : 1 am told cyanide nf polu-illili will have to bc considered in eeiineetion with bis death.
Major Fisher-Ruwe : I think very likely lie univ have had tin- idea cf Mich'a thing
in bis mind hr sonic time. I think he thought he was killing my mot her. I think he did il entirely from au unselfish juinl of view.
1 he ('.?inner : He thought the attention ¡he ivquired was telling on your mother
very nindi ?
Major l''U!ici-l!o\ve ¡ Ye*, and my feel- ing is li- did it to lolieve her.
Linly Victoria Isnliella Fisber-Itowe, thc widow, wlin is the daughter of the first l-:¡-il nf Itnveiiswvnlli. said that while lying awake on Sunday night »he heard a noise ia her husband's room and thought he bad nightmare. The now' being rc|X'H tcd. she went in. She spoke to bim and inised In's head, and theil rung the licit for . - .¡-.I un", bul nobody heard. Then «he b-fl him mid feK-heil her imiid. Looking by I he licdsidc she saw ii small glass, and, laking it up. said to (lie maid "Ile hm been Inking laudanum." " He often said lie wombi n d live lung," continued l¿tdy Virlonu: "bul I knew lhere was nothing nigaiiiealtv wrong and «night to combat the idea with nil my power. On one orea - : ion I tonk hi- hand und asked him to -wear thal, be would not take anything ni- lla airy! liing bi himself. He would not; hut ns lie was ipiile bright. I thought no inure ahoiit it."
Dr. Philpot, nf (Wier Square, said that he -..-nv O'plain I'V-her-ltoue niiee. a week Mini' his death, a great trimble living ¡11
ninia. Ile w:i~ railed al a quarter to Mm n'elncl; un .Monday uinrniug. Thc glass fourni near Captain Fisher-Howe'« I "-ide 1-.M1I lin .1 pnri' In url:i II ? i ni nu top of -.nue -all-, \ .?hi'iiiisi who bad analysed thc erv-tnU said that they were cyanide.
The'('opiner: Laudanum and cyanide, that i- a iiuuliiiiati:ui I have not heard of before. Have voil seen a ease before ?
Dr. l'hil|ioi :'l)r. 1'rcvliergor, who made the po-! -mol t '-ai .'.vanuiialinn. stated Unit
the cvniiiih' c,;n-.eil (lie death. Hie lau- danum playing btu a --niall part, nwing to il I eil,g ;': 111111-11 -l.iwi'i- pnisiin.
Thc mlitriii il a ucrdirl nf^ suicide dlll-ili'.' li'ltipihill \ i Il-:i Iii». V. due (o ¡II -.iinnia. iiinl e\pre-.eil their sincere syui |i;ithv with lin- fi.ly._