Cockett's Remarkable Suicide

Coroner Oakes continued the inquest yesterday afternoon in the case of Wïlliam Cockett. Cookett's con duet alter he had taken the enormous dose of strychnine was remarkable. He stood at the bar of the Monroe avenue saloon, where Mr. Harvey found him, calmly oonversing with several persons, "without betraying to the unpraeticed eye the slightest ill effects of the fatal drink. Affer one of the bystanders had given him a drink of salt and water (on the presumption that he was intoxicated) he deliberately lighted a cigar, smoked serenely, and called for a glass of beer. Even ftfter it became kuown to thecrowd that he was poisoned he laughed goodnaturedly at the consternation every face betrayed, and insisted on treating the crowd. " What is your name f aske.d one of the party. " Wouldn't you like to know?" he replied, witli á sarcastio twist of the lips. " I've been dronk for two days, and all I want is to brace tip a little. Just you fellows let me alone and give me a rest." When the pólice arrived and eoaxed him to walk he obstinately refused until his senses began to deserfc him. Even then force was necessnry ; bilt he hung on to his cigar until it was all consumed. One advocate of heroic treatment, who seemed to recognize tlie need of keeping him awake, slapped his face and rubbed his ears vigorously. To those proceednigs he replied witli tauntuig speech and a grim smile of defiance. He refnsed to open his mouth to .idmit a stomaoh pump, and a screw-shaped instrument made of lignumvitse was forced in between lus teeth. . He closed down on it so hard as to bite the threads off, rendering the instrument worthless for future operations. One muscular policeman slapped him on the back, and remarked, in an encouraging tone : "Well, old man, you are not gone ret." " All right," he responded. " Iknow I am not gone, bnt I'm going all the same, so flre away vith your stomacli guns." - He viewed the oporation of bleeding with the same calm indifference to results, and from first to last, at least so ong as consciousness remained, he gave no sign of the agony vith which he