The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-23 00:00:00

!HE FATAL PALL OP HOUSES AT LIMEHOOSZ

INQUEST.—{THIS DAY.)
This morning Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex
coroner, held an investigation at she Loudon Hoepitel into
Ithe cause of the fall of houses in Eastfield-street, Lime-
' house, ma last Tuesday morning, by which a boy named
George Edward Head, aged four peen, who was peeing at
the time, wee killed.
Richard Read, the father of the deceased child, said that
be was a teicklayes, sad resided at 60 Linsebenesetsset.
Os noonday morning last, shoat 8 delock, he wee at break-
feek and the deceased was seat oat to boy milk. The &t-
-ossed took soother little boy with him sad set out. Is a
few situates etterweed• there wee the nosed of a
terrific crash in the street. Willows raa out,
_and nor
that the whale trout of 171, Eastfieldotrest, had fallen
eat into the roedway, brieging with it part el the
freak and roofs of the homes on either side of it. Witness
gno idea that anything had ha .mened to his eoe and he
ets rafter to hold over his head while be eate;ed the
hoses to rescue wheel'se might be in it. Be found no one
*see, however. When he came out his wife met him
and told bim that dee ed
had been buried by the
brides in the street. Winless took him to the
b~but he died before adransion. Witmer
carefully examined the premises. He could
Hedge of their condition for he was a bricklayer
himself. The catastrophe wee oesesioned by the bad coo-
struction of the premises, There was no parlinieg ; the
mouth-pieoes of the rafters were merely nailed, they were
sot tied in any way. The remit was that the front load
back of the house were note nd together and the span
roof being plead os th praised there outwards sad the
fall was the result. The brickwork and the mortar were
good. Witness admitted that purlisiog wee not uncom-
mealy neglected in such boons, hat, be said that .as re
Ruch the worse for the public ; tt ought to be used in all
houses, and it was improper to omit it.
Elizabeth Belles, 8, Eastaskletreet, said that on the
morning In question she was 'Alin at work at her mildew,
whom she ease the demand and another child walking on
the pavement at the opposite side of the street. There WM
wily a rumbling seise, and the brickwork of No. 171
fell out. She saw one of the first bricks that fell strike the
diseased as the temple.
Mrs. Fanny Sophia Bonner said that she lived at 171,
Eastfieldotreet. Three weeks ago she informed the collector
' who called every Ilisiday that the online of the frost room
had given way over the window. He looked at Readmit that
ha would tell Mr. AMA the laiodlord. She heard no more
of it till Tuesday monolog last, wins bee lodger called her
no and said that she was afraid the ceiling was giving way.
Witness had her two children with her on the Loading
while she was talking to the lodger. Suddenly there was
a crack, and in two minutes the frost of the house fell out.
Wham picked up one child and the lodger the other, mod
they got out tato the rear of the premises the best way they
could, and so mowed. Mr. Atrell had bees to the
hones on the Saturday previous, lied he brought a
bricklayer with him os the Mosday. It was
settled that the brieklayer was to come cia the Tuesday
moraing ad take off the Wee sad put them on again, hat
it wee a wet. windy day, sod no doubt that was the ceases
why he did not come. Witness thought that the high wiDd
and the rain bed partly brought the house down. She had
DO appreheasion of the fall whim she spoke about the ceiling
ving
gi way.
Mr. James Edsoesten. Crowe-court, Old Broad-street, an
architect, and other entwines' having boss mantissa, the
jury returned a verdict " That deceased was killed by the
trout of the house, No. 171. Bonfield-street. follies out
over him, sad the jury say that the landlord of the mid
house had received snlinent wanting el the dangerous state
of the house, and ought to bare shred it sp."

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LORD PALYRILSTON AND SKI LATE BRONTEREZ
O'Bsres.—" I think," writes • imerespondeot of the rinses,
Mr. W. B. Cockburn, of Horbitry•cresoest, Notting-bilk
0I ma very asl7 illustrate the truth of the sentiment in
the first intense is you leader on .he death of Lord Pal-
merston, ' that he was ono of the kindliest of mos.' --
Western Oltrims, • well•known chartist mid ultra. The private view of the Thirteenth Annual
political leader ia his day. fell into • state of genteel Winter Exhibition of Oatf net Pictures, the contributions of
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