South Eastern Gazette, 11 October 1853.

Suicide.

A young woman, named Eliza Bateman, aged 22, residing as chambermaid at the "Clarendon Hotel," attempted to commit suicide on Tuesday week, by cutting her throat with a carving knife, inflicting on herself three severe wounds. She was found by a porter belonging to the establishment in an underground passage leading into the garden, bleeding profusely, and surgical assistance having been promptly procured, she was removed to the union workhouse, where gangrene ensued, and she died yesterday week. An inquest was held on the body on the same day, when it was stated by her brother and other witnesses that deceased had always been flighty and eccentric in her manners, and was believed to have been grossly imposed upon by a young married woman with whom she had formed an acquaintance in London. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity."