NEWBRIDGE SUICIDE.
Mr W. J. Everett (deputy coroner) held an inquiry at Newbridge on Tuesday into the death of Morgan Edwards, a labourer, 33 years of age, who committed suicide by hanging on Saturday evening last. Margaret E. Edwards, sister-in-law to deceased, said he had stayed with them since he came back from the front about two years ago. Deceased had not worked on the day of his death or the day preceding. He was very strange in his manner at times, and had threatened to do away with himself several times since he had returned home. Deceased had suffered from enteric in South Africa, and both witness and her husband had to keep a watch on him frequently to prevent him carrying out his threat. On the day of his death he was absent for about half an hour, and as he appeared ill when he returned witness requested him to go and lie down for a little sleep. Annie May Saunders described how she went up about 5.30 on Saturday evening, when she saw deceased undressing. At that time the handkerchief by which he hung himself was placed on the dressing-table near. Witness was requested to call deceased later, and then found deceased hanging from the bedstead. Deceased was cut down by his brother, and Dr. E. Thomas pronounced life to be extinct. The jury brought in a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst temporarily insane.
The Cardiff Times, Saturday 16th April 1904
The Evening Express, 12.4.1904, reported that the residence was 18, Panteg Terrace, Newbridge, Monmouthshire, and also that Saunders saw a muffler on the dressing-table, and that that was what Edwards hung himself with.
He was possibly the Morgan Edwards whose birth was registered in Newport, second quarter of 1870, as the death was also registered in Newport.
