The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-03-20 00:00:00

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nom& -Quack Dociering.—An adjourned in'
mesh was held on Friday week, at Borkley Inn, near
Frame, on the body of a young woman, aged 17,
who lived with her grandmother and aunts, grocers,
at Berkley. At the first hearing, one of the girl's
aunts was examined, hut her evidence only corrobo-
rated that of the witnesses previously examined.
A /.4 inOrtrin examinatiou was ordered t 4) be wade
by Mr. J. Parsous. surgeon, of Beckington. who was
the first witnessexamined, said: I made a po4 morb-la
examination of the body on Saturday week. The
external &mamma:As of the body was that of a young
woman, apparently under 20 years of age, in god
condition, but for the time much decomposed. 1/u
the right side, just above the hip, was the mark of a
burn or seald of about a week's standing, six inches
long by three inches wile, entering through the
whole thicknen of the skin. On the natis or seat
were two patchn, each about the size of the palm of
the hand, iii a similar condition ; all over the body
were appearances of recent scalding, more apparently
on the inside of the thigh. The neck and cheeks,
awl in the inside of the right arm, the skin was
removed as if by the applimtb in of boiling water. On
opening the body I found the contenta of the head
healthy in all respects. In the chest I found the
lungs full of blood, but nut to a dangerous degree:.
The right side 'if the heart I found the walls of the
cavity thin and discoloured, but not diseased. There
was eifusion of bloody fluid in the cliebt hich may
probably, from the condition of the body, have taken
plate after death, but was not sufficient, if existing
before, to have caused death. The stomach was
nearly empty, some brownish pasty matter only
covered a portion of its inner surface, and the
portion so covered was of a pinkish hue, as if from
the effect of a strong stimulant. All the other
organs were healthy. I believe the mum of death
to he the extensive injuries to the skin by seahling.
Mr. Thomas Harding said: I was in Mrs.
Morgan's on the 23rd February. I heard groaning.
Mrs. Morgan, grandmother of the deceased, was
there. I asked Mrs. Morgan who it was, and she
and it was Enima (meaning deceased). I said why
don't you send for a doctor, she appears so very ill.
Blie then said she had had an emetic, and thought
she would do very well. I advised her to send fur a
doctor. She made an eloservatiou about the expense
- that they charged so very high. She was groaning
all the time I was there.

Louisa Heath, servant to Mrs. Morgan: I knew
deceased, she lived with us. She was taken ill about
a fortnight ago. She appeared to have a cold • she
had two vapour baths. Miss Morgan prescribed and
adiuinistered the medicine I carried the water
matairsand the bricks. We sat her in a chair and put
a pan under it, and put two red hot bricks in the pan,
and then poured boiling water on them, and covered
her all over with a blanket. Miss Morgan afterward
put three jars of boiling water to her, one to her
feet =lime to each other sides. Deceased screamed
out when she sal in the bath, and complained of its
being too hot. Sophia Saish helped us to give her
the bath. Deeeareil died about Tuesday morning.
Mr. Hurd, surgeon of Ironic, eatue about 3 o'clock,
and she was dvud.

Sophie Naisi:-.The last witness came to me on
Shrove Tuesday and said they were going to give
Emma a vapour bath, and wished me to come down
and help them. I said what are you going to do ; •
what is the matter? I went with her, awl Mrs.
Morgan was there. I said don't trust anything to
me, as I don't know anything at all about it. I
found deceased in the parlour, and she went upstairs.
Deceased sat in a chair ; we put the water in the '
bath, and then put a hot brick in it. Mr. Reynolds
was in the room all the time. 1 was there all the
time; she said it was too hut. She sat there about 20
nainutes to half an hour. When she got up Mr.
Reynolds said we were to rub her with towels, and
apply vinegar and water with towels; next day we
applied it again. She was in the loth about 20
tumutis, and deceased cried out several times and
got up. She 'creatural out several tunes, and com-
plained of its being too hot. Mr. Reynolds said
she must bear it, or it would he of no use unless she
was brought to a proper sweat. Mr. Reynolds
opened the blanket once or twice.
Emily Morgan, • young woman, said: Deceased
lived with us. She complained of being ill on the
16th. She said she was cold. We gave her some
pills. The pills were obtained at Mr. Dyer's, in
Frome, Mr. Stevens' agent. On the 17th she com•
plained of a pain in the back part of 11,.w
Saturday she coughed, and she had an emetic 6iveu
her, and she continued ill. 1 was present two or
three minutes when the deceased took the vapour
bath, and she complain sl of the bath being too hot.
I put the bottles to her side; they did wit touch her;
there was a wet cloth round the bottle and a flannel
outside ; cannot amount for the burns on her solo.
Mr. llolroyd was consulted and he ordered the bottles
to be put.
Ilobert Reynolds, a miserable-looking man, and
nearly blind, mid : I am au organist, and live at Mrs.
Morgan's, at Berkley. I have known tlmeasral
about 12 months. 1/n Friday, 17th February, she
complained of headache, and didn't get up. I con-
sulted with her aunt and asked her what had better
be done for her, and her aunt said she had better
have two aperient pills, which we gave her in the
morning, but they did not act ; we gave her two
more the mane night. The next morning we gave
her an emetic, consisting of lobelia, blissl root, scitaiii
cabbage, and cayenne. I was present when she took
the bath ; she screamed once ; we all put our hands
inside the blanket to try if it was too hut. We gave
her hot water, she drank about (An, pillow !
conbit:tell with Mr. Iltdroyd, of Frouw, about the
case, and he came to see her at once.
Nlr. Ibilroyd was then called but not sworn.
The jury, having consulted for about 21 minutes,
returned the flhowing verdict :—" Died from
natural causes, accelerated by the neglect or inad-
vertency of certain persons, whom the jury wish to
name --Mr. Holroyd, Mr. Reynolds, and the Misses
Morgan."
T.tesvox.---Lord Taunton has been elected a
Trustee of the British Museum in place of the late
Lord Macaulay.
The First Somerset Militia are to assemble in this
town on the 27th of April 'text, for 27 Lays' drill.
The number of 111101 in this regiment is 743.
rums Ditsam.—One day last week Mrs. Elliott
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of Nlotikton ileatlifitild, near this town, died soil.
denly whilst sitting to tea at her niece'n, Mrs
Sereondie, of Fore-stroet,.in
.this town. The cause

of death n. as disease of the heart. An inquest —was
hal on the body on Thursday week. before Mr.
onekton, and a verdict of "Died by the visitation
of (;u1" was returned.

A man, named John Please, died at our hospital on I
Friday week from the effects of injuries he received
by the wheels of a wagon pinning over his left leg on
the let of February last. Au inquest was held on
the body on Saturday week, before Mr. Curdwent,
deputy-coroner, when a verdict iu accordance with
the cireunistances was retunied.
At the Guildhall, on Saturday week, a woman
named Manley, of this town, was charged by Mr.
Mosey, butcher, with stealing 211 m. of beef from his
stall in the Taunton market on that day. She WAS
alit to prison for 14 klaye.—Niekoles _Valle, of
Blagdun, was fined 1.55. for overloading and ill-
treating a horse. Mr. Taunton preferred the eem•
plaint on behalf of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Annuals, and the witnesses were two
ladies, named Quartley, residing at Haines-hill.
Cumin.- -We notice in a recent Gazette that the
sheriff of the county, Robert James Elton, Esq., of
Whitestounton House, has been appointed one of
Her Majesty's Deputy-Lieutenants for the county,
and we bear that he his appointed our respected
young townsman, Walter James Tucker, Esq., as
his uuder-sheriff, and the Rev. James Atkinson, of
Hollingwood, near Manchester, his chaplain.