The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-06 00:00:00

deceenel replied, " akk. Gem.oi, you won't know me long." •
They continued until they rasa,d Camden Church, Peck-
ham New-road, when the decessea hub. witness "Good by."
—Harriet Bright, aunt to deceased, eat, vied that he called tome
her on the day he left home, and in "'wee of ewes?"'
lion he asked witness if twopennyworth of laudanum would
poison a person. Witness asked him wby he made such
ridiculous remarks, but he made no anew.se• He left, her
house in the evening, and witness bad not seen borneste*.
—Mr. Chas. Lodge, of Peckham, surgeon, min he was salted
to see the deceased on the morning in questina,
and found
him in a state of coma, apparently suffering form :5 narcotic.
Witness used the stomach pomp, and adopted eighs'T neCeS-
airy remedies, but, notwithstanding, the demand ,espired
the same morning. Witness bad since made a post nk'rtem
examination, and from the appearance of the contents of the
stomach he was of *pinion that the deceased bad died fn. `os
the effects of a narcotic, which had produced congestion f
the vesse's of the brain. Other evidence having been taken,
the coroner remarked on the extraordinary nature of
the case, when the jury, in the absence of more de-
cisive testimony, returned a verdict, " That the de-
ceased died from congestion of the brain, but what gave
rise thereto we, the jury, have no positive proof."—
MANSLAVORTEIL—By C. J. Cutter, Esq., the coroner for
West Kent, at the Hull Trader tavern, Greenhitbe. The
deceased, who was a labouring man, was named Thomas
Carter, and was 48 years of age. On Saturday afternoon
last he and a female crossed the river from Essex, both being
at the time the worm for liquor. The deceased, on getting
to Greenhithe, lay down in the road, and soon fell asleep.
Shortly afterwards a person named Thomss Gerrard, the
superintendent blacksmith oa the Smith-Eastern Railway
works at Greenhithe, who was also the worse for drink,
came along on horseback, The animal, on seeing the de-
ceased lying in the road, shied, when Gerrard rode back
some distance, and then attempted to make the animal gal-
lop, so as to jump over the unfortunate man, hut no sooner
had it got up to him again than it shied for the second
time. Gerrard commenced whipping the animal, to make
it either pass by or to leap over the man, but without effect;
and the deceased suddenly awaking found the nose of the
horse near his face, when he gave the horse a slap on the
mouth, and cried out "Don't hurt me." Gerrard, ex-
asperated at the men touching his horse, and being
in a state of semi-inebriation, jumped off his horse,
and dragged the man into the middle of the road,
and then with both hands be lifted him up, forced
him back against a wall, and afterwards struck him a
couple of violent blows. The deceased immediately fell to
the ground, and the accused mounted his horse, and was
riding away eta gentle trot, probably not being aware that
he had injured the deceased. Several persons who were near
at the time went to the poor man's assistance, when they
found him dead. Gerrard was quickly brought back and
taken into custody.—Mr. Seceombe, a surgeon of the town,
who had made a pm! mortem examination of the body,
proved that death was caused from the rupture of some.of the
vessels of the brain, and pressure of the spinal cord, pro-
duced by the violence he had received.—A great many wit-
nesses were examined, who all agreed to the ill-treatment
the deceased had received teem the accused, and they were
unanimous in stating that be had given no provocation what-
ever to the man.—The learned Coroner summed up the evi-
dence at great length, and the jury returned a verdict of
"Manslaughter" against Thomas Gerrard, who was forth.
with committed to Maidstone gaol to take his trial at the
ensuing seizes.