From the Kentish Gazette, 23 March 1810.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

On Thursday morning, Mr. Gutteridge, Master of the "Portland Arms," Troy Town, went into the privy, and with a clasp knife, endeavoured to stab himself between the ribs on his left side, with this intention he gave himself four severe wounds, but none of them being fatal, with a most fixed determination to destroy himself, he drew the knife.

From the ribs of the left side, in a diagonal direction across the navel towards the bottom of the abdomen, on the right side, then thrusting his left hand through the wound, he drew out some of the intestines, together with a part of the omentum, which he absolutely cut off, and the divided parts fell to the ground. He was discovered in this mangled situation, and carried to his House, where Surgical assistance, having been procured, he was washed and put to bed. Desperate as were the wounds, which this unfortunate man had inflicted on himself, they did not terminate his existence till after a lapse of nearly four and twenty hours, he died on Friday morning - Family misfortunes which had preyed upon and broken down his spirits, are supposed to have led to the melancholy catastrophe.

From the Kentish Gazette, 23 March 1810.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.

Yesterday week, Mr. Gutteridge, master of the "Portland Arms," Troy Town, Rochester, went into the privy, and with a clasp knife endeavoured to slab himself between the ribs on his left side, with this intention he gave himself four severe wounds, but none of them being fatal, with a most fixed determination to destroy himself, he drew the knife.

From the ribs of the left side, in a diagonal direction across the naval, towards the abdomen, on the right side, then thrusting his left hand through the wound, he drew out some of the intestines, together with a part of the omentum, which he absolutely cut off, and the divided parts fell to the ground. He was discovered in this mangled situation, and carried to his house, where surgical assistance having been procured, he was washed and put to bed.

Desperate as were the wounds, which this unfortunate man had inflicted on himself, they did not terminate his existence till after a lapse of nearly four and twenty hours, he died on Friday morning. Family misfortunes which had preyed upon and broken down his spirits, are supposed to have led to the melancholy catastrophe.

From the Kentish Gazette, 27 March 1838.

DEATH.

March 15, in Troy Town, Rochester, Mr. John Andrews, landlord of the "Portland Arms," aged 57.

Kentish Gazette, 3 July 1849.

Mysterious Case.

Mr. Thomas John Laughton, one of the salesmen at Smithfield, who has for many years past resided at Rochester, was brought home on Tuesday evening in a state of insensibility, arising from severe contusions about the head and body, and expired the next day without returning to consciousness. A coroner's jury assembled at the "Portland Arms," Troy Town, on Saturday evening, and commenced their investigation of the case, which it was found necessary to adjourn till Thursday next, to afford an opportunity of ascertaining how and by what means he came to his death.