Bell's Weekly Messenger, No.1782, Sunday, May 23, 1830.
On Thursday afternoon an Inquest was held at the Champion, Goswell street road, on the body of Mr. Charles Marshall, aged 22 years, late a clerk in an extensive mercantile house in the City, who committed a most determined act of suicide on Tuesday night last, by shooting himself through the heart. The deceased was found by his brother, lying on his bed-room floor, bleeding, and a pistol, which had been recently discharged, was by his side. A letter was found in the deceased's hand-writing, imputing the cause of his destruction to some misconduct of a brother clerk, and to some defalcation in the accounts. He has been very desponding for some days. Verdict—Temporary Insanity.