The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-14 00:00:00

NATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDRN2' IN 4LDERSGATE.

STREET.

INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning an inquiry was held at St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital by Mr. Wm. Payne, the City Coroner,
respecting the death of Joseph Bream), aged 47 years, who
was knocked down and run over by a Holloway omnibus, in
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il7lengate-street, under the following circuinslances :
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who
was a painter, residing at No. 72, Copenhagen-street, was
in the act of crossing Aldersgatastreet, last Friday morn-
ing, when an omnibus drove up rather faster than usual
and the horses knocked him down. The wheels passed
over him, broke his arm■ and leg. dislonated his shoulder,
sad inflicted other dreadful injuries. He was removed to
the hospital, where death put an end to bin sufferings. It
was stated that the driver had called out, but not loudly,
and the omnibus, though pulled up within sin yards of the
spot where the occurrence took place, was driven on
directly.
John Sill, driver of the omnibus, beds. No. 11,1163, said
that he called out, but deceased appeared to be deaf, and
took no notice. Witness pulled the horses on one side, but
deceased walked right on under the horses, and then fell on
his back, and the wheel, went over him. Witness pulled
up, but the passengers milled out to him to go on.
A police constable said that the railway that morning
was very slippery, as it had been just watered, and the mud
was of the consistence of grease.
Arthur Windett, the proprietor and conductor of the
omnibus, corroborated the evidence of the driver.
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death."

Ldotard, the tmpbze performer, is now at Madrid,
where he is to give repreesotations at the Prince Alfonso
circus.

AFFECTING CARL —A BROTHER AND SISTER
DROWNED.-An inquest was held at Upmioster on the 6th,
before C. C. Lewis, jun., Esq., on the bodies of James and
Lydia Puttee, brother and sister, who were accidentally
drowned, under very distressing circumstances, on the
previous Saturday night. It appeared that Lydia Sutton,
who wee only sir years old, lived at home with her went',
sod her brother James, who wee twenty years of age.
worked on the railway at Stratford, but CUM home on
Satorday night. About 7 o'clock on Saturday evening
an elder sister named Marv, the deceased Lydia, and
a younger sister named Sarah, went to Tyler's Hall
pond, on the common, for two pails of water. Lydia
had a drinking can with her. whieb she said she would fill
herself, and, though cautioned by her elder sister, she ran
down the sleeting hank of the pond end fell in head first.
The elder sister, Mary, holding by a post by the side of
the pool, tried to reach her, which, however, she could
not ; her brother James. attracted by her screams, then
etuae up, and *hippie' into the pond, woo got beyond his
depth, and was drowned. The bodies of the unfortunate
deemed were afterwards got out by a labourer named
Joseph Peed. A verdict of "Accidental death" was
returned, the jury requesting the coroner to write to Mrs.
Branfill, the lady of the manor, culling her attention to
the dangerous state of the pond, and requesting that •
prorr fence eight be put round to prevent a recurrence of
easular aocideuta.—Ererc Herald.