He had been a cheesemonger, but failure in business and poverty had driven him into the workhouse, whither his wife had refused to accompany him.
She was last seen at one in the morning.

Three hours later her hat and jacket were found on the towing path by the Regent's Canal, and later her body was fished from the water.

_Verdict: Suicide during temporary insanity_.
Such verdicts are crimes against truth.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

For instance, a disgraced woman, forsaken and spat upon by kith and kin, doses herself and her baby with laudanum.