The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-28 00:00:00

MUBDIR OF 4 WJFE BY HER HUSBANI

On Sunday last at /Regal:midge a poor stomas,
Denied Elias Hart was reorderd while in bed by her bee.
head, Edward Hurt. They both Need la • dall head
Bell-lires sot fey tram Go weddimus. The de* who
yes 44 years of age, had he watheet the We bed for wend
days from a 'sure *Nark of dlose. Se we reooeeriag,
though so weak es to be aselds to rise. Barg I. indigent
eireameeno" end her hugged absent tai of Ids time
trod had the Mini*, °Sow, Mr. Bread hod owed •
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1.0104.1, 1101,0liee+Procied

THE LATE SEWER ACCIDENT AND LOSS OP
THREE LIVES Al WHITECHAPEL,
COaomilie INWAST.
Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. Wm.
Baker, the coroner for the einem diehrion of Middlesez re-
named the adjoureed inquest at the London HoWtai
*ening the deaths of John Fitzpatrick, aged 22, Nlirilliam
Bingham, aged 26, and George Franks, aged 32, who lost
their lives in a sewer on Tuesday morniag last under cir-
cometanoesot a most painful character.
Mr. Alfred Turner, the clerk to the Whitechapel Board of
Works, Mr. Frisker, the district surveyor, and other mien-
title gentlemen, were present to watch the proceedings, when
excited the utmoirt interest in the eastern portion of the me-
tropolis.
The first witness called was
Edward Alfred Stacey, of No. 4, East Mount-terrace,
Whitechapel-road, assistant surveyor to the Hoard of
Works fur the Whitechapel district, who 5 that the
three deceased mesons were mea nders. were in the
employ of Mr. Thomas Enna, the ' end CM'
tractor, of Bardinge-street, Stepney. They were engaged
in excavating and destroying an old sewer far the
of connectisg the public and private drains and gull=
the deep sewer in the middle of the Whitechapel-read. The
men bad been employed about live weeks on the same work.
The old sewer was on the north aide of the main road,
and the deposit bed been removed from a portion of the
old sewer which had been filled up. At the point where the
men were st work It was sword neereary to nom more
deposit and being rep a lids Meer wee*, assest
the drains with the goon sewer In lieu of theold one. A
tunnel had been formed by the side of the gul on Monday
afternoon, and lour feet of piping had been Lid down when
the men left their work on Monday evening. At six o'clock
on Tueedey morning Fitzpatrick entered the tunnel to pro•
reed with the work. At eight o'clock he bad completed ten
feet more, when be placed a piece of board in front of the
pipe. Ile C/11110 back at half-past eight and had to
remove the brand he had left at the end of the pipe, and
while he was doing so a rush of foul sir came out of the pipe
from the main sewer, which caused him to fall to the bottom
of the Moth, which was twelve feet deep.
By the Carcase--Then were openings at venom prate to
let off the find air. There was one Friction of the old newer
cut away and the brick run up, and the oonnexion had boen
made into the shoot from the gully which had been made
.01, previously. The inlet had fallen down and
st the traffic of the sewer, and a few bricks had been
removed to make the drain act when the deposit was die •
turbid sod reedend noxious by generation of gases, which
veers diacharge4 where the men were working.
A Jung—When did the men last go down into the main
sewer I'
Witness—Os Monday sight to make good the connexion
pipe. Freaks was the last man who went down on that
otouloa. Oa Tuesday morning Franks and Bingham were
etimilleg ea the top of the hole and raw Fitzpatrick fall from
Nee ids et the noxious vapour. They went down to assist
Moe, whoa they both immediate)] fell from the effects of the
Ina 'Mel Mr. Fitzpatrick and Bingham died immediately
as apt, and Franks expired shortly afterwards. The
ass Ineepser went to mint the others but became effected
erne a raft of timber. Another man named Hives
sftsdsaasfdsd end was rendered insensible, although he had
aillguld. The latter two were still alive in the
rfileffs Meath they were inarnaible when taken out of
By is Osemer—Holes had been made from the old sewer
ate tin odd sewer for the purpose of carrying off the foal
drew sithey. The deposit had been accumulating fur many
pars, sod several drain. ware still running into the old
sewer. The new sewer bed been connected about fourteen
yews. Every precaution was followed out in the trans-
mits of the works for the safety of the men. A light
bilis( lowered to the bottom of the examine would burn.
The Jury—The tide in the Thames bad no effect upon the
sewer, although they were connected with the river.
Berch—You have stated that then is a ounitaion
Ida the river Thames. Do you think the men wage in any
way slimed by the fuel air imuleg from the locality men-
amid r
Winters—No, ale I believe that the accident arose from
the cause I have arrigned, and that three is no remedy at
present to peed Enka_ the evil.
Jelled%WiNYssßualgette, thewerbeerto tbeMetropoliten
Board of Worts, was next celled, and said that the present
amen wee being mead out by tholocal beard, the
, Taw set of perinsemt which referred prelim's'''. to main
' esteem Wilms he
received notice that works weft to be
! emetracted in the &Mot main sewer. On Tuesday bet
witness nulled the seems of the accident four hears after the
eceideat.
Comer—Can yea suggest any remedy ?
Witness—lt is a very wide question, sod I have consulted
Dr. Lullaby, the reeding Moir of the City of London
Cake, with a view of divining means to prevent such acci-
dents. Them tea plea of detecting the eve noxious gems,
and Dr. Lethehylies thesalliset etpresent underhie emseider-
mina. The nun will he tarns in a few days. Tba
seem coo &Gabe bed !ohm the seems= precaution, and had
been used to the yolk 1w yam. There am be no &Debt as
to the mere of the secidied. The sewage should be discharged
at eight thin end bodies water pared through the new
sower, read the rasa Amid apneas& the openings with
pest ovation.
The Corner mid the information was very valuable, and
might Pe•Wilt mordents in Ware.
By Dlr. Toiner—The mem adapted by the distriet board
seemed to be
The Coroner end that the inhabitants had no doubt sof-
heed been deficient drainage, sod the present means were
being reacerted to tor the better eissadwg of the district.
By the Faeroes—lf them had been a trap_at the month
of the sewer the warn night probnly ban taken
Plwv
Mr. Samuel hemp Buret, the redden medical oiler of
the London linepltal, said the Mena wee hinki to the
institution about 9 o'clort en Tensaw, mensfaff. They unit
here gamey been bemired of Ws, °vim_ to the pinion
effluvia songMr the airdinne I.a wen awarbed
at the speAsiNt the sewer, more especially from the rod-
phuretted whichtGente sefecleat to cause
death im The gan had given forth a mephitic
V•pour to the Inetsbe pen of the hospital.
There were no melts et lint every appearance d
peenne dying frees peinampas. The question was one of
• sadlary ettander arras sheald be opened at
this seem d the par Min this hot weethw. Measures
might have ben MOM ft bars prevailed the deans at the
Wen pram by better andlation of the old elm. They
hada send machine in min the MOO for disinherit
none and other places, which me deal would have bees
Ihiruseful in the present mnt a
Henry Robinern nicker. 9, Ampton-street, Gray'e-
tria-road, surveyor to the Whitechapel District Hosed et
Werke, stated that he had superintended the works in con-
sequence of complaints hem the inhabitants of the roadside
in the Whitechepel district. Witness bad found the beer
meets of many buildings decayed, and the destruction of the
old sewer was decided upon. The work proceeded sans-
fedora, until the accident occurred, on Tuesday morning
last.
The jury, at the close of the evidence of the last witness,
proceeded with Mr. Burch, the eminent surgeon, to witness
the proems of a new appiratue, et present in use in various
pate of the beep:ital. The machine is of a simple character,
mad has been adopted with great success in various parte of
the institution.
The coroner and jury expressod thenewlves satisfied with
the machine, and they were unanimously of opinion that it
could be brought beneficially into ace In purifying the foul
air emitted from sewers and other places for the protection of
human life.
Mr. Burch added that the inmates of the hospital bad sub
fared born the effluvia emitted from the opening of the sewer,
and the workmen could not be too awful in approaching the
excavations end new openings in old sewers.
The jury concurred, when
The Coroner summed up the evidence in • clear and dis-
tinct manner, after which
The jury returned the following verdict:—" That the de-
r:mud penman died from the nonioua and mephitic vapours
emitted from a sewer in the Whitechapel-road while exca-
vating for an improved desinape."
The inquiry having lasted several hours then terminated.

US FRAUD UPON THE ODD FELLOWS.—James
Charles Cos, the late Frond muter of the Manchester Unity
Order dOdd Fellows, who is now in Southampton Gaol as a
daiwriltse with to the funds of the order, will te
arreanna, ss seen ea lie term of imprimement mime, on •
at embers** the Odd Fellows' funds; and, if cow-
the punishment will be transportation. It is now
sesertninal that Cox has misappropriated nearly 8001. of the
.fonis ell the eider, • liege porn of which belonged to the
acrd farad set mat for the relief of Odd Fellows' widows
mad Whet le much regretted is the anempt of the
elder= of to. eider to screen Co. from punishment.
Had k not tea fir the omega and determination of the
lost alleeta may deltas see had-weeliag men, one at
the needs Oat was ova dahrontsil with poor men's
sev weld Mee Public confidence
i• the See* et Ing==elieken in the ork
Rey 411 to. Ihrminlior Unity, three& the malpractices of
Om, era dm Weary with which they Umbers viewed by
alms den eidelesinalam of the ender, tad great maabere
age enessail Mimeo the order la itensertmeme. Con eon,
emenrimeemalmate get Mama a somber et the
Team Oen& sed • gnardlem of the pore sled
engeleiel pease unbemeW ocatiameee waii felt in
_err ow Steps will be taken to lapel
IbMieLlerbia Town ConadL

Tim ramps or Lux Asevamter..—Yeateirday
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Alia * al the Auden Mr.
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