From the Dover Telegraph and Cinque Ports General Advertiser, Saturday 1 May, 1841.

INQUEST

On Monday last an inquest was held before Mr. De Lasaux, Coroner, at the "White Horse," in the parish of Minster, Isle of Thanet, on the body of Samuel Walker, who had hanged himself the preceding evening. The deceased was a carpenter, and it appeared from the evidence of a fellow-workman, that he had been employed in the erection of a telegraph in Kingsdown Wood, but which he had been unable to complete, in consequence of unfavourable weather, and being very anxious to do so in order to commence erecting another near Minster Mills; the delay had caused him great uneasiness, and it is believed so preyed upon his mind that it eventually compelled him to commit self-destruction.

The Jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity."