The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-05 00:00:00

DEATH IN A POLICE CELL IN THE CITY.

Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy-coroner for the City,
held an inquest at the police-station, Bishopegate-street,
last evening, on the body of Robert Harris, aged 42 years,
who died in the cell. on Monday morning.
Police-constable Wm. Custance 774 City police, said
that on Sunday evo.in; at half-peat 8 o'clock he found the
deceased in 6mi:re/lurch-street covered with mud, and
supported by tw., or three men. Witness supposed that
deceased had heel, run over, but he said that he had nut,
bat that whenen r Le got drunk his legs failed him.
Witness took him to Seething-lane Police-station,
but there being no room for him there, he was
removed to Bisho,..g.tte station, where he was put in a
tell made purposely for drunken people. He lily down on
a wooden couch which had the top elevated a little, so
that his head .h 0.11.1 i.ot hang down. Witness saw no
more of him. He wrA a keeper at a Lunatic Asylum, and
was en his way to visit his wife, who lived in Portland-
tad, when he fell in Gmcechnrch-street.
Wesler Jacob proved taking the charge against de-
cwto had evidently been drinking brandy. He said
kismet "I will join the pledge (or the police) tomorrow."
He did not complain of being ill.
It. Bromley, ii r.Lty police, said that he visited the
deceased four time. in the cell. He was snoring heavily.
At a little after 1 o'clock on Monday morning he was seen
to he apparently A doctor waa immediately sent
for.

Mr. F. Gordon, surgeon, said that he arrived about 1.311,
and found the al quite dead. He had been dead an
hour. The post a. -artem examination showed that death
had been caused ty the rupture of a vessel on the brain.
The deceased smelt strongly of brandy, and heavy drinking
would accelerate such a death. The symptoms of drunk-
enema and apopla,..v were so similar that often even medi-
cal men were thews:hes deceived.
The jury returned a verdict of " Death from apoplexy
from nataral csuhes."

LONDoN Ommst-sas. Yesterday evening Dr.
Lankteter held an inln est at the We Tavern, Kentish-
town, on the body of Mr. Frederick Holmes, who met his
death by falling from an omnibus on Saturday evening last
while in the act of descending. It was shown that the de-
ceased was perfectly sober, and in his usual state of health,
that the rails on the top of the omnibus were 23 inches in
height. and the deceased had stumbled over them in pre-
Pule& to come down. The jury said the condition of the
uondon General inhnibus Company's conveyances is Mil-
t-dal, tbot the rails on most of them are so fr.tgilo
t those who grasp them are in many cases lured to their
asstrortios. The Coroner concurred in these remarks, and
Wiled that he v...ry huquently held inquests in cases similar
to the present. Ti.e jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
del__Xlt: but with tho following special rider, which they
ed to be transmuted to the General Omnibus Com-
rele;3---" The jury are of opinion that the ascent and
tto and from omnibuses as at present constructed
lire exceedingly dangerous, and that the rails erected tide omnibuses omnibuses are not sufficiently high, and they further
ime that if the rails bad been higher on the omnibus
ma', which the deceased fell his life would not have been
escrifla.d.o
NEW Manisernarrus.—The following is a list of
~,,t4° now eery magistrates appointed for this bores
irgh
efd Saniuelson Esq., H. T. Wilson, Esq. Edward
Esq., Alderman Thomas Dover, Alderman
YpYyry Bennett, and J. G. Livingston, Bsq.—ldreePlwa
Edwin Plumer Price, Q.C., of the Midland
wait, has been ppointed to the Recordership of York,
°Want by the death of Mr. Hindmaroh.