The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-10-24 00:00:00

CORONAR'S /X UESTS.

Tom'ay evening. about right o'clock, an Inquest,
.vas held at St. Thomas's Iln.pitat, on view of the
body of Thomas N.irman, who cut his throat, nn
ourday evening last, in a hackney-coach, whilst
coming from Vauxhall :n the Borough.
John Corrihs. driver so the hackney-coach No.
21 t, stated. ji,t no s thirstily ev.ming, between five
lard S:X o!clock, the dectassialt accomomi od by a
person,. app tree.' y a ticket-porter. caileJ him from
ol the soil f, in the Bomugh, and ordered him to
drive to Vaush ill. The potter got nut of the cre.cli
at IQe,+ingtun turnpike, and left the deceased alone,
who ordered the Witness to proceed to Vauxhall.
When hr got to Vauxhall. however, he was ordered
hack ; tint before hr had proceeded far on his return,
the deceased ao sin dirrael him to turn about, and
drive back to V oishall. Oa their arrival at the
to which th.• IVitness had been direeled, the
dere ised gave him a letter to deliver: boa, imme-
diately searching it out of his hand, sail, " It is not
a time to det;vvr i: now; chive hack again." On.
arriving at N-wingtou. the Witness asked the de-
ceased. where he would he put down ? who said.
e•here you toidc me rip. He accordingly drove to
the end of Uninn-street, where he got down and
opened the coach-door, and called to the deceased
several times. The deceased not answering, the
Witness supposed he was asleep, and put his hand
upon his knee, when he felt something wet; being
very much alarmed, he shut the door again, and
drove to the White I lorse, in Union-street, where a
gentleman, named Mills, and another person, got
into the coach, and found the deceased, sitting on
the seat, with his throat cut in a most shocking
manner; his cravat, and a razor, covered with blood,
lying by his side. There were no signs of life re-
maining.
A medical gentleman, a friend of the deceased,
stated, that early iii the summer the deceased mct
with an accident, wlsir.h had been attended with
spitting of blood; it had been necessary, for the pur-
pose of aiding his recovery, that he should be kept
quiet, and not permitted to see any one except his
own family ; this necessary seclusion had very mush
increased his natural lowness of spirits, and brought
on a tit of despondency ; the bodily disease had been
removed, hut the mental one con inned, and that to
such a degree, that his family; by the advice of Dr.
Simmons, had come to a resolution, however re-
pugnant to their feelings, to place him under the
care of some proper person, the day following that
on which tin, melancholy event took place.
A relative of the family was present, whose testi-
mony agreed with that of the last Witness.
Tne Jury returned a verdiel of /.chary.
The deceased was about twenty-six years of age,
and possessed of a handsome independent property.
On Saturday last, as a fine boy, about sir years of
age, the son of Mr. Horseman, of King's Head-
yard, Tooley-street, was playing in the yard where
the Cross Keys Brewhouse lately stood, he fell into
a stream of water, and was drowned. A man pass-
ing ley shortly after, and seeing the body, immedi-
ately plunged into the water, and brought it on
shore, but too late to preserve its life. The Coro-
ner's Inquest 54t on the bahy last night, and, atter
hearing all the evidence, gave their verdia —FornJ
breached.