Named Entity Results, C. E. Earle

Suicide --Lieut. C. E. Earle, of the Palmetto Guard, of Col. Slean's 4th Regiment of South Carolina volunteers, killed himself instantly yesterday evening, about 4 o'clock, by jumping from the eastern 6th-story window of the Ballard House, fronting on Franklin street. Lieut. Earle fell a distance of about one hundred and ten feet to the pavement below, breaking his skull in several places, also his arm and legs. After the first alarm was over the body was removed to a room in the lower paLieut. Earle fell a distance of about one hundred and ten feet to the pavement below, breaking his skull in several places, also his arm and legs. After the first alarm was over the body was removed to a room in the lower part of the building, and the Coroner (Dr. Peachy) notified to hold an inquest. There seems to be no doubt that the act was committed in a fit of temporary insanity. The reporter learned from Mr. Powers, clerk of the Hotel, that he arrived there last Friday night, and, after a sojourn of a day or two, complained of indisposition, whereupon Dr. Pollard was called in to attend him. The latter yesterday left word for his patient to be watched, as he feared some attempt on his life from his appearan

Guards, Gregg's regiment, writes a communication to the editor of the Dispatch from Charleston, under date of August 12th, in which he says he regards the statement made in this column on the 9th inst., relative to the death of his kinsman, Lieut. C. E. Earle, of the Palmetto Rifles, "as unfair, improper, and highly objectionable in several particulars," and desires to know the "authority for saying that insanity is hereditary in the family" of the deceased. The Reporter was at the scene of thebut the facts elicited can readily be ascertained by addressing the Coroner. He is informed by a gentleman that it accords with his recollection that one of the statements made before the jury was to the effect that insanity was hereditary in Lieut. Earle's family, and that statement was appended as part of the verdict of the jury who were convened to ascertain the cause of the death of the deceased. It is hardly necessary for the Reporter to say that he could have no conceivable motive for ma