Suicide in prison. - The death took place, by suicide, of Victor Townley, who was found guilty of the murder of Miss Goodwin, near Derby, and sentenced to be hanged, but escaped the gallows, being respited on the report of medical men who visited him in the condemned cell and pronounced him insane.
Latterly he was imprisoned in Pentonville Prison, and this morning, as he was returning from the chapel, he killed himself by jumping over the staircase railings.
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