Faversham Gazette, 25 October, 1856.

SHORNCLIFFE.

Painful Suicide of a Soldier.

On Monday morning an inquest was held by Mr. Delasaux, at the "New Inn," Cheriton, on the body of Joseph Insole, a sergeant-major in the 6th Enniskillens, who shot himself on Friday morning. The deceased had, up to this time, borne a very high character for integrity and probity in his regiment; his good qualities were many, and much appreciated by his comrades, over whom a gloom has been cast by the melancholy event. He had served through nearly the whole of the Crimean campaign, and was decorated with medals for Balaklava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol. No precise knowledge has been arrived at as to the cause of his committing the rash deed; but the reason generally alleged is, that there were serious defalcations in his accounts, which he was unable to make good. £150 is confidently stated as the sum that is short; and it is presumed, with great apparent probability, that the prospect of discovery and disgrace so weighed upon his mind as almost to deprive him of sanity. The deceased was to have been married on Monday morning to a young woman named Fanny Jones, of Canterbury. Evidence was given at the inquest corroborative of the foregoing details, and a verdict of "Temporary Insanity" returned.