The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-17 00:00:00

AFRICAN TRAVELLER.

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CORSILLII, WILTS, FILDAT.

Captain Speke, the celebrated African explorer,
while shooting yesterday in thin neighbourhood with his
relative,fdr. G. Fidler, of Neeton-park, near this plain, shot
bimetal, In getting over a stone-wall, accidentally. Mr.
Fuller, seeing t►e captain fall, ran up to him and found that
t►e charge had passed through his chest close to the heart.
Ho warn only sensible for a few minutes and feebly said to
Mr. Fuller, "Don't more me." He died in about ton
minutes. A surgeon was quickly on the spot, but life was
extinct. He was 38 yam of age and unmarried.
THE INQUEST.

This eit4flooll the inquest wee held on the body by Mr.
Kemm, coroner for the liberty of Corabant, at the residemos
of hie brother Mr. W. Spoke, of Monk's-park, to which
place the body had been removed. The fint witness ex.
'mined was

Mr. George Fuller, son of Mr. Faller, of Nestoopark, who
depoesd.—About half-past two, yesterday, I lett my &Lbw's
holm with deemed for the purpose of shootiog partridges
De:treed had fired off both barrels before the accident oc
marred. About four o'clock I got over a low part of a lame
stale wall, and was about tiO yards from the place when I
heard the report of a gun, and looking round saw the de-
ceased standing oa the wall. Shortly after he fell into the
field, and on going to his assistance Hound him on the
ground with a wound in his chest bleeding, which I esdea-
roared to stop. He was then seasible and spoke to me, bat
did not lorig remain so. I stayed with him shoot five
minutes, and then left him in charge of the keeper
Daniel Davie, and went for assistance. I observed the gun
lying by the side of the wall, one barrel, the right was then
at half-cock, the other wee discharged. I heard very little
report, aad should suppose that the muzzle of the gun was
very near the body of the deceased when it went off.

lianiel Davis corroborated the above statement. He did
not ase the gun explode, but seeing his master ruonitig to-
wards the deceased he went too, and found him with a wound
in his side, and Mr. Fuller endeavouring to stop the blood
with his band. Heard the deoreed groan ore or twioe,
but could not say whether he was actually sensible or not.
Stayed with him till he died, which was about a quarter of
an hour after the discharge of the gun. The gun ass a Lan-
caster breechloader, without a safety guard, but should
think it was rte.

Mr. Saow, surgeon, of Box, was called in to the de-
creed. Found him dead on his arrival. There wes a wound
ha the left side each as would be made by a cartridge if the
mauls of the gun was claw to the body. There was no
other wound. It led ininn direction upwards and towards
the spine, paring through the lungs and dividing all the
large blood reels near the heart, but sot touching the
heart itself. Such a wound would cause death.

The Coroner having briefly addressed. the jury on their
molaecholy duty, and pointed out to them what he magi.
dosed was the verdict they should velum.
The jay uoansously recorded their verdict, " That the
deceased died from the accideutal discharge of his own gun
after living a quarter of an hour." They also appended an
expression of sympathy (or the family of the deceased in
their bereavemoot, which was a loes both to hit Wady and
to the whole oountry.

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