A coroner’s enquiry touching the death of James Warren, an old age pensioner, of Rushden, aged 73, was held at the Oakley Arms, Rushden, on Monday, before Mr. J. T. Parker, coroner. Deceased’s body was found on Sunday afternoon by a man named Aubrey Baker, in a pond known as the Moat pond at the back of premises occupied by Mr. G. H. Skinner, butcher, Rushden. Deceased had been missing from home since the previous Thursday. Mr. H. W. Rands was chosen foreman of the jury. Annie Fletton, 42, Washbrook-road, Rushden, daughter of the deceased, said: I identify the body as that of my father, James William Warren, who resided with me. He had been a baker and butcher but retired from business 15 years ago. He was 73 years of age, and had nothing but his old age pension. I last saw him on Thursday, when he came in for his dinner about 12.30. I got his dinner ready but he didn’t eat it. I had had reason to speak to him about being dirty, and I suppose he did not like it. He had been in the habit of drinking, and I had reason to speak to him about it. On Thursday he left his dinner and went away, and I never saw him alive again. My husband looked for him, and left the door open in the hope that he would come in. Information that he was missing was given to the police the same day, but he never returned. He was an habitual drinker and of late he had seemed queer in his ways. He had told me once or twice that he had got lost in the street. He had never threatened to do away with himself. His body was brought to my house by the police on Sunday afternoon. Aubrey Baker, shoe operative, 20, Glassbrook-road, Rushden, who found the body said: Yesterday at 1.45 p.m. I was walking up the side of Mr. Sartoris’s wall, and a boy called my attention to something in the water. I jumped up the wall and saw a man in the water. I went and informed a policeman and returned with him to the spot, and assisted him to take the body of a man from the water. The pond was in a very quiet part of Mr. Sartoris’s park. I knew the man well. P.C. R. B. Mattack, stationed at Rushden, said: From information received from the last witness I went to the Moat pond and found the body of deceased lying on his back. His face was not under water. There were no marks of any struggle either on deceased’s body or on his clothes. I got the body out. The water was about two or three feet deep but there was a good depth of mud. Dr. H. S. Baker, Rushden, said: I knew deceased and had attended him twice during the past twelve months. On one occasion he had fallen down and broken his ribs, probably as a result of excessive drinking. I examined the body and found he had been dead over 48 hours. There were no marks of violence on the body. Latterly his mind had degenerated. The foreman of the jury said that he had known deceased during the past two or three years, and his mind had gone. He was as simple as a child. People had occasionally done him the mistaken kindness of giving him 1½d or 2d. to get a pint, but his state of mind was not in his (the foreman’s) opinion entirely due to drink but to old age. The jury returned a verdict of “Suicide whilst temporarily insane.”