The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-27 00:00:00

THE LONDON

THE INQUEST,

jLAYER V. KAY AND OTHERS.—In this ease - a special i Mr. W. Carter, the -coroner for East Surrey, MlD-
ury was sworn. It was en action on a charter party. Mr. ; menced an enquiry at four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon
Aspinall appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Brett for the in the boardroom of the workhouse of St. Mary, Newing-
ton:- By direction of the coroner, a auryi_consisting of a
defendants. The plaintiff is a shinbroker in Liverpool, and
superior eless 'of persons Taken from the immediate
owner of the ship Neia, and the defendants are' Messrs,
Thomson, Finlay, and Co., also of Livarpool ; ant, the neighbourhood 'of the gardens, was emnannelled. Thecorcnier stated that if there was' any eriffenian who had
action was brought to recover £5O, being the freight on 25 been •suinmo▪
ned -on the jury who wags in any way can-
tons of copper at £2 the ton, under the following eircum- sniteted with the 'gardens, he trusted that when his name
stances :—ln December, 1855, the Neva was at San Fran- was called he would consider it advisable and prudent to
eiseof and .Waii there chartered by Mr. Thomas Bell, en retire. Mr. Oliver said he held a few shares in the come
behalf of Ballingall, Thomson, and Oo..'for a lum-sum of 'Pall
.L y, and if that WPS reed to be a disqualication,
.500, for the round voyage from San Francisco top Merit- he would at once withdrpaw.resu The coroner thought itfi should
lan; in Central America, and therce to Liverpool—the be considered a diaqualification. Mr. Oliver then retired,
charter party being, that the ship should carry all such law- ''and another gentleman withdrew on account of a disqual_
et nn
saenioft
the
part
tel goods as the charters or their agent should offer, and for teation. The coroner said
Dsaeidddfiinveetobodersawer.e lying in that
the charterers' benefit. The cargo to be shipped being dye- c;:iisiee, and one e
wood, the captain informed the charterers that he would : ',,kro-uld • Itw would save ticapnand evxe'
Pgo and see the body of Grace Skipper,P at DogciliunrYg.
require some ballast. They suggested that copper would ton Grove, which would obviate the necessity of another
serve the purpose, and directed him. to call on Torre, rased Some ob course
Knight. and Co., and ascertain if they had any for shipment..
on sworn
the ground that j
it ection
to
this
was not customarywas to
Tsrre, Knight, and Co., replied that they had, and shipped empannel juries to enquire into the deaths of persons
2.5 tons in the Neva. On the arrival of the ship in Liver- lying in different parts of a parish. The coroner said it
pool, the copper, was delivered to Finlay, Thomson, & Co., was very usual, and not only so, but the coroner had power
on a delivery note—a freight note—and the question at Jto summon a jury from another parish 'if he thought the
iesue.now was, whether the' copper was shipped for the
interests of justice demanded such aconrse. The coroner's
benefit of the charterers, er received as ballast by the cap- suggestion
edsv as theeeneadgerdeetdo to,vieawnd
tthhee'l
juordyi,esbeoir
Samuelsworn tain for the advantage of the owners. The jury considering allneda rtd,r Harriet ,Pro Mathew, Harriet' Johnson, Elizabeth
that it had been shipped for the benefit of the charterers,
returned a verdict for the defendants,
were in the workhouse; the last. at 4, Dobson's-terrace,
Mead, Harriet Barlow, and Grace Skipper The first five
ACTION FOR CRIM CN. —.TONES V. ELLIS This
was an Doddington-groye. Afterwards they proceeded to
action brought by the plaintiff, to recover damages for inspect the building in which the accident occurred.
criminal conversation with his wife by the defendant. Mr. Coppock and Mr. Holmes, two of the directors ;
Mr. Simon was counsel - for the plaintiff, and Mr. Tyler, the manager ; Mr. Diggings, the superinten-
Mr. Tyndall Atkinson counsel for the defendant. dent ; Mr. Ellis, the secretary; Mr. Jones, the architect;
The plaintiff is a beer-house keeper and brass-founder,
re- and Messrs. oore and Addleton. the gasmen of the
siding in Portland street, Vauxhall road, and the defendant
gardens, attended the enquiry. The relatives of the
is the son of Mr. Ellis, well-known as a brewer in Liverpool, deceased were professionally represented by Mr. Silvester,
solicitor; Mr. B me, Mr. Emit!), Mr. Pratt, Mr. Burl,
and it was alleged that the defendant, having frequentlY Mr. Mills, and M• . '.'^: d. 'Mr. Chester, the
restry.ecwlerk
called at the house on 'business, availed himself of the represented the board ef guardians of it. lay y, N Mg'
absence at work of tho plaintiff to seduce his wife, ton. Mr. Junes, the s aieitor of Size-lane, attended t-
James Bennett examined :—I fun a watch fioiqber. I watch the pro.Qedinil on tho part of' Mr. Scott, the
know the plaintiff, Thomas Jones and his wife, end also Nrr, builder of the hall. , The jury were absent an hour
Robert Ellis, the defendant. I remember going to the and a half. On tlicbir retort, evidence was taken with
plaintiff's house, in Parliament street, chant three months regard to the identification 0 r the bodies lying at the
before last Christmas. There were four other persons with workhouse. The following was the principal evidence
me, and one of them was Thomas Woodcock. When
w taken :
e •
John Heard. a tanner, residing at 8, Alice-street,
went in Mrs. Jones and Mr. Ellis were in the back parlour
, 13ertriondae New-road," was called. and identified the
. .
and they then went into the front room. The ale which body of the deceased, Samuel
.5.111 e;
we called for, not being brought, Woodcock went and looked brother. He continued t o sag—My rbdrO tha se
thatnd Io of
h . s
through the key-hole, and saw Mrs Jones and Mr. Ellis in together to the Music-hall at Sunday afterrnaoon laswtetnot•
the act. He said, ~ Jem Bennett, look here." I went and 'hear Mr. Spurgeon preach. We arrived there about ten
saw them too, and when I opened the door, Mrs. Jones said, minutes before six, and went into the first gallery from
"Hallos, my old man ;" and laughed. (Laughter) I the floor. We had been 'there about ten minutes or a
shook my head and walked out. The witness was cross-exa-
quarter of an hour when we heard a cry of "Fire 1" and
mined by Mr. Atkbson, but his evidence in chief was un-
then the people began to • rush out in dreadful confusion.
shaken, Thomas Woodcock examined : lam a butcher. I When the alarm was given we were close to the door, and
went to Jones's' beer-house about three months before we rushed to the staircase in the north-western tower. I
Christmas. I saw Mrs. Jones and Mr. Ellis go into the lost sight of my brother in the confusion, and never saw
him again alive. When I last saw him he stood beside me
in the gallery. I saw no appearance of fire,
front parlour. After waiting for about twenty minutes,
and the file not coming, I went -and peeped through to say from what part of theuilding theernroarrap.
Fire hly,
the key-hole. I saw Mrs. Jones and Mr. Ellis lying arose, Susannah Heard, wife of William Heard, cousin
on the sofa. I called Bennett, and we went in. of the deceased, said she, with a cousin and her little boy
I did not long stop in the room, because " I could not cheek ' and husband, accompanied the deceased and his brother
it." (Laughter.) To Mr. Atkinson : Jones has since been John to the Surrey Gardens on Sunday evening. They
sold up. , Mrs. Campbell, wife of a bricklayer, also depo'ed all went into the first gallery of the building together, and
to having witnessed the act between Mrs. Jones and Mr. stood behind the back seats, about a couple of yards from
Ellis on another occasion. This concluded the evidence • the door in the north-west tower.q. They had been there
with about twenty minutes, when the people in the first gallery
his reputed wife, was non-suited.
AND ANOTFIRR,--This was an action
but the plaintiff,:having failed to prove his marriage began to rush to the door, and witness, her husband, and
FELL V.
her little boy were carried towards the stairs. She never
ANDERTON
saw the deceased, Samuel Heard, after the rush. She and
to recover £ll4 Os 3d, balance of, an account for goods sold her husband, and boy, got through- a window at the top
and delivered. Mr. Brett appeared for the plaintiff, and of e stairs uon the roof of the -refreshmktt room. There
Mr. Cenway for the defendants. The plaintiff is a tea and was then no peprson on the roof besides themselves. They
coffee mereh nt, and the defendants are tea merchants, all of walked towards the further end of it, but finding no means
Liverpool. The question b3tween them was simply one of of exit from it they :returned to the window through which
account, and also the delivery of certain goods, The jury they. had-eseaped on to the roof-of the refreshment room,
found for the plaintiff.
anlas they did so they saw four or five persons lying
GLYNN v. Cooora.—This was an action brought by a' these apparently -dead. She •could not: soy that Samuel
porter, to recover damages from a stevedore, for injuries Heard, the deceased,"was one of them., ,She believed how-
ever, thatawhen found dead "en the stairs he was Out of the window on to the roof- by a policeman.' When oshnet
received by him from a bale of cotton falling on his leg
during the unloading of tayessel, which injuries, he alleged, and her husband were prevented getting down stairs she
to have arisen from regligenee on the part of -the saw several policemen at the bott
1e430 sejrueams s,
,pu a
dr
theci stairs endea-
defendant's men. Mr. Bair-appeared for the plaiutiff, and vowing to stop the •people coming dui: on
Mr. Simon for the defendant. The defence was that the of the crowd behind was so great that illn Ito
accident, had occurred through the plaintiff's own careless- upon the backs Of her and her husband anpde but
ness. The Jury bland for the plaintiff, with 40s. damages. them. She was sure the deneased must have lost his life
DAVIEI V. AinISTRONG.—ThiB was an action fer an on the staircase. There•wae a woman standing near her
alleged illegal distraint. Mr. Brett appeared for the plain- husband on the—stairs, and when the crowd slackened a
tiff, and Mr. Aspinall and Mr. Hutton for the defendant. little—whichlt did •when the balustrades gave way—he
took hold of her to, prevent her falling, and he found she
The defendant, is a borough rate collector, and on the Bth
the life in that
deaad_.e She he.ltdhhrekr littleaal boyshe b
before
rya
vrteehde
hisneck
ii over:
of May last bailiffs entered the piaintiff's house in Cable- was
street, under the defendant's authority, and seized her
plan; us t rs
toli e , before
heard nl o anla'rem, given o
furniture for ra+es alleged and claimed to he due of a person narned Higgins. - The plaintiff was absent when the

ush took

emus was made, and, On

return, she wrote to th

defendant, who told Ler, in reply, that
was in the hands of the bailiff's. She wrote tt
him several times after, but could not get back her
property; and at length it was stated that the defendant
said if she had money to go to law, he supposed she mint
do so." It appealed that Higgins is brother to the
plaintiff. Higgins was examined himself, and stated that
the mods seized were not his property, and that he told the.
bailiffs 90 at the time. The day the goods were seized they
were offered to be given up for 16s, and next day a demand
of £2 15s was made. He was in arrears at
the time of the seizure for a house in Carpenters-
row: The inventory which was given at the time the
seizure was made, set forth that it was on account of rates
due by Jamei Higgins, for a house in Carpenter's-row.
The defence was that the goods were not the plaintiff's,
but that she and Higgins were combining together for the
purpose of defrauding the borough rate collectors. The
jury found for the plaintiff with £5 129. damages, being
£2 for the wrong seizure, and £3 12s. the value of the
goods.

the matte

m, and

The bodies of Elizabeth Mead, Harriet Mathe
Harriet Johnson, were identified by their relatives.
Harriet Barlow was identified by her husband, Jabez
Barlow, a .chairmaker, residing at 19, 'Bath-street,
London-road. She was 30 years of age, and far advanced
in pregnancy.

Sere-rat other persons were examined, but their evidence
threw no further light on the accident.
It being now past nine. o'clock, the inquest was
aajourned at this stage until Friday morning at ten
o'clock. Before separating, Mr. Woods, the secretory to
Mr. Spurgeon's chapel in Park-street, Southwark, stated,
in reply to a question by Mr. Dormer, the foreman of the
jury, that a collection was made in the hall after the
accident, but it was not done by any person who was a
member of Mr, Spurgeon's congregation, nor was any
authority given by any of the office-bearers to make it.
The fact was that a number of the nisney-boxes were
standing about the hall, and some of the people on leaving
put money into them. Other persons, unauthorised,
carried some of the bows about, and in that way £9 was
collected, which would be distributed among such of the
relatives, who were poor, of the persons who had lost
their lives.

Previous- to the adjournment the husband of Harriet
Barlow, speaking for himself and the rest of the relatives
of the five dead persons who were conveyed to the work.
house after the accident, said he wished to express the
gratitude due from • those relatives, in common with
himself, to Mr. nest, the tnaster of the establishment, for
the humane 'consideration and kindness they had received
from him in their visits to the workhouse, under circum-
stances of severe bereavement, and for the respect he had
shown towards the remains of those who were dear to
them.

LOSS OF THE BRIG J. W. COLLINGWOOD,
FEARFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW.

attain Stamp, late master of the lost brig J. W. Col-
ling wood, of Sunderland, and the other survivors of the
crew of that vessel, have arrived at Sunderland, and give
the following particulars relative to the loss of that vessel.
The J. W. Collingwood left Quebec on the 20th of August,
and for upwards of a fortnight had tolerably favourable
weather; the winds while crossing the banks of Newfound-
land were generally adverse. On the 2ith September,
when in lat. 50 56 N , and lon. 13.12 W., was overtaken by
a gale from the N.W.; the sea rose very high, and the ship
laborred very heavily. Next morning she became leaky;
the pumps were got to work and kept going, but the water
gained considerably. About 11 a.m„ after a part of the
deck load had been thrown overboard, the ship was struck
by two heavy seas on the weather side, which threw her
over on to her starboard beam ends. All the crew suc-
ceeded in getting on to the ship's broadside except one
boy, an apprentice, named Robert Brunskill, who was
unfortunately drowned. The rigging was cut, and the
masts broke by the deck, and the ship rose upright.
Everything that was loose had fallen from off the deck
whin the ship was on her broadside, and what was fast
was washed overboard, so that the deck was completely
swept, and the ship rendered a waterlogged wreck. The
provisions being all washed overboard, the crew were
reduced to starvation. The storm moderated, and by the
30th the wind and sea were tolerably calm. During the
eight days that the crew (seven in number) were on the
wreck, they had no sustenance whatever except an old
shoe, in which grease was kept, that was found after the
storm. One of the crew happened to have a box of lucifer
matches in his pocket, with which a light was obtained,
and a fire was made. The greasy shoe was roasted,
divided, and eaten. On the 2nd inst., a brig came near,
which was of the same name as the wreck,, viz., the
Collingwood, of Glasgow. The sea w heavy at the time,
but not so as to prevent the boat from being manned. A
boat was put out of the brig, having a tow-rope attached,
but no person went into her. She was towed past the
wreck, with a view for her to drive so near as to permit
the crew to get into her ; she did not, however, go so close
to the wreck as to 'admit of being boarded, and all the
wrecked crew were so weak and exhausted that none of
them had strength to swim in such a sea. Although the
boat lived, none of the Collingwood's crew seemed dis-
posed to man the boat to save the lives of the unfortunata
sufferers. Ultimately the boat was sent adrift, and was
seen by the wrecked crew a considerable time afterwards.
The dolliiigwood proceeded, and left the helpless men to
their fate. On the s'll inst. another shin, the Volga,
Captain Jefferson, of Boston (U.S.), timbei laden, from
St. John for Hull, hove in sight of the wreck and beat up
to her. A boat was put out and manned with five men,
who took the crew off the wreck. They were taken on
board the Volga, and treated with kind attention: 'On
the 14th all the crew, except the master, were by their
own request put on shore at DungenesS. The master
continued op board till the 17th, when the Volga arrived
at Hull, where he safely landed, Captain Stamp and
crew are very grateful for the extreme kindness they
received while on board the Volga.

FRIDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

The Coroner, Mr. Carter, resumed the proceedings,
and a number of witnesses were examined, whose evi-
dence: all tended to prove that the alarm of " fire,"
and 4, the roof," appeared to have been preconcerted
signals of a band of miscreants, whose intentions, no
doubt, were plunder. After lengthened proceedings, the
jury ultimately returned a verdict of "accidental death,"
and stated that it was the opinion of the jury that
althozgh the staircases of the Surrey Music Hall were
sufficient for the purpose they are intended for, yet they
considered the construction was not of that character to
.render them safe, more especially when a large number of
.persons were anxious to leave the galleries in haste. The
'treads of the staircase were much too narrow, particularly
near the hand-rail, and the descent too steep. The jury
trusted,
therefore, that the directors would give their
immediate attention to the subject.
The Surrey Grtrdens Company intend holding a general
`rneelifig on 'Wednesday next, the 29th inst., on which
occasion the accident will undergo full consideration.
The meeting is to be held at the gardens.

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al ways clean and
good, will prevent that accumulation of
oxi -ie which spoils the finest writing, and destroys the
best pen ; by means of this inkstand, too, the amount of
ink taken up by the pen can he easily regulated."_
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QUEBEC FORTIFICATION'S. - The Quebec Mercury states
that there is hardly a point at which the fortifications are
not being repaired or improved. A new and very strong
blockhouse is making below the flagstaff, and ve-
- ' "

ry extensive

by no mea

)ove the point,
lding in a more formidable
battery and

manner,. near why,
from the citadel have lately been construc'el, communicating
with the city over the north-eastern glaos,
THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON A WITNESS
.--
In our columns of Saturday there appeared a brief notice
of an attempt which had been made to poison a number of
witnesses subpoenaed on a trial at IVorcestorshire Quarter
Sessions, the parti, s to be tried being a private and sergeant
its the 23rd 4egiment, and a cabman named Tipper. The
witness being sufficiently recovered to give their evidence,
the trial of the s,ddiers and cabman came off, and ended in
a verdict of not guilty. Tipper was then taken into custody
the
on the charge of being concerned in the attempt to poison
, a man, named Bury, being charged as the
principal who administered the poison. The enquiry
before the Worcester magistrates occupied two days. It was
shown that I3ury purchased forty-five grains of opium, and
put nearly the whole of it into a quart jug of ale, which.he
offered to the witnesses to drink; and he was gonainitted
for trial, Tipper was discharged for want of sufficient
evidence,

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TERR AND
IFIC PATAL FALL—On the forenoon of Thurs..
„..,
day a shocking accident occurred in the new warehouse
now
nearly erected for Messrs. John Foster and Sons, of Black
Dyke Mills, in Well street. Bradford, by which a joiner and
builder, in the employ of Messrs. James Wilson and Son,
the contractors, named Samuel Fawcett, 38 years of age,
lost his life. The warehouse is seven stories high, with a
winding oval staircase in the centre, running up the whole
4
way. The top is not yet covered in, and Fawcett had, in
the,course of Lis work, to walk along a plank thzown across
the opening;previos I.Y bent by his when in the centre, the plank, which had
s weight, cracked and broke in two,
when the unfortunat9 man was precipitated downwards the
whole of the seven stories, or 78 feet, Re was taken up a
Mr. Terr it was ascertained that his legs and
corpse at the bottom, and on his body being examined by
arms werey, surgeon,broken in several places, his body otherwise
shockingly crushed, and the skull badly fractured. It is not
known if the deceased himself put up the imperfect plank
across so deep and dangeroui a chasm.