The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

IMPORTANT TO SURGRONS.—The Deputy Coroner, Mr,
Statham, held the following inquest yesterday :—On the body
of Margtret Allen, of Blenheim_street, the wife of a sailor,
who is at sea at present. The mother of the deceased said
she (deceased) was in the habit of drinking, when she could
procure it. On Monday evening the witness was called to see
deceased, whom she found insensible. She ran to Vauxhall-
road dispensary and saw the porter there. She told him that
her daughter was very bad. The porter brought the doctor.
The gentleman (Surgeon Brown) now present is the doctor she
saw. Told bin) her daughter bad been taken suddenly and
dangerously ill. He asked her if she could speak ? and she
said no. She asked would he come and see her? and he re-'
plied " I will not." He told her to fetch a bottle, and she
brought one. He asked her could the deceased sit up ? and,
she replied no. SLe asked would he come and see
her, as she was dangerously ill? and ho said he would,
not, but gave her the bottle. She %bon said "You,
will not come ?" and he said he would not. She said if
anything takes place between this and morning, you will
have to be answerable. She went back and found her
insensible, and she (lied in an hour afterwards. In reply to /qr.
Brown, the witness said you did Rot tell me at first theb
ro reasonugiyou
did not go and see her. I did not take notice whether there
t
was a man standing in the shop or not, when
bottle. Surgeon Brown was then sworn : The woman, he said,
requested me to go immediately, and I said I could not, as I
had two other cases to attend, but if she brought
me a bottle I
would give her some medicine. She went for a bottle without
a word of complaint, and brought it. when she came back a
case of supposed poisoning had been reported before she got
there. I deemed this the more urgent case, and I told her I
could not .go to her case in consequence of
the poisoning case.
My object was to give her some medicine and to visit the case
in the course of an Imur, if she would take the medicine I had
given her. She snatched the bottle out of my
hand, and
threatened to report me, and walked out, and I did not see
her again. There was no one in the dispensary at the time
who could have attended to the case. Mr. Grimes, another
sI couldtlr trotgn'clrn have sent him crime
just assh,e was
going away the second time.
because the woman had forfeited
all claims to the charity in consequence of snatching
the bottle out of myhands, and threatening to report
, and having
me ['acme insolent. The commit-
tee' forbid us to attend any one who is insolent.
Surgeon Kemp stated that he bad made a post modern exami-
nation of the body. There were no marks of violence on it.
The cause of death was apoplexy, and excitement or natural
causes might produce it. The excitement might have been
reduced by other than natural causes. I doubt very much,
from what I saw of the body, whether, if a surgeon had seen
her an hour before her death, her life might have been saved;
it might have been prolonged, but I question whether she Mil
ill an hour before her death. 'fire jury at once found a verdict of
'" died of apoplexy", but how brought on, there was no evidence
to show; and, added the foreman, " The jury are unanimously
of opinion that tire coroner should censure Mr. Brown." The
coroner said he had no power to do that ; but, of course, Mr,
Brown heard what the jury had stated.