The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-16 00:00:00

CO 120NERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday after 000 a highly respectable Jury were asseethivi
before Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, in the Committee-oaten
of Camberwell workhouse, to inquire into the death of a yowl f,-
male unknown, who expired on some lege of timber in Sonia,
ainy:on-street, Camberwell, under very mySterious circumstance,.
The Jury having been sworn, they pmeeeded to view the bod,
The deceased seemed to beldam' twenty-five years of age ; the .i;
dressed in a gown of choe colour ground with a nu°a
stripe, black Leghorn bonnet with crape round it, a tooimnr
cap and a light-coloured whittle shawl. lier hair is biack,
twm
f inches.
ais marked with the smallpox, und her height is about five fee:
o
Mr. Wm. Phillips, of bla.tha.street. Camberwell, sehoolmsin-
stated, that on Saturday afternoon last, between three acs fou:
o'clock, he saw the deceased sitting on some logs of wood, in South;
ampton-street, labouring under a violent sickness. ge emeed ber
tip, and despatched a messenger for a medical gentleman,
tto,..e
spirits of hartshern was applied to her nostrils, hut she !tame ak.
most immttliutely. Witness spoke to her several thrum, bu:oe
was totally unable to answer him. When the doctor came, cue.,
was very shortly, he pronounced her dead, and advised her btu,'
carried to the workhouse, which he ( witness) assisted In daitg,
and
when there, some salts, or oxalic acid, was found in her pocket. He
had no knowledge whatever of the poor girl, nor did he :meta,
immediate cause of her death.
Mr. John Brown, a surgeon, residing at Camberwell, souls
that en Tuesday right he analysed a quantity of drug tow
in the possesion of the deceased, and he had no doubt i: eu
oxalic acid. He had also examined the interior of the sounpet.
and from the general aprearance it presented, he vas of
Mon thut her death was occasioned by her taking a pump, of the
poisonous ingredient.
This was the only evidence produced, and the Coronet bionic
addtessed the Jury, they returned a verdict, " That the decepaecs
death was occasioned by taking a quantity of oxalic acid.'

Another inquest was held before the same Coroner. at the Jolly
Gardeners, opposite Lambeth-walk, on the body ofJohn Dight,
ag-d 62, a pauper in Lambeth worlthumte,
The deceased, it appeared, was brought there on Thursday
and he then complained of violent pains in the stomach and shon'.
nest of breath ; in consequence he was placed in the sick ward,
where every attention wart paid to lii case. From his first bring
brought in he appeared in a very desponding way. On Il
evening, about five o'clock, he went to bed, and soon after be
jumped up, and ran to the other end of the ward, naked. tbea sit
himself dow by the fire, and from thence he proceeded about too
yards, and fell on his knees. The nurse instantly went up so hits.
and entreated Wm to return to his bed, lest he should catch cold,
His reply was, " Let me pray." He. however, did go to Lad,
and on the nurse going to him &short time after, he was lying c;
Iris face on the pillow ; she attempted to turn hint round, Thu
she found, to her astonishment, that he had cut his throat is a roast
shocking manner, and the bed-clothes were soaked with blood; be
was quite dead, and the penknife with which he committed the
horrid deed was ultimately found among the bed-clothes
The Jury, after some deliberation, returned a ',Tulin, " That
the deceased cut his throat whilst labouring under temporary
Insantty."

FATAL. OCCURRESCE.—Yesterday evening a Jury IF at sum.
maned to Uuy'a Hospital, pursuant to the warrant of Thomas
Shelton, Esq., Coroner for London and Southwark, to inquire as
to the death of James Collins, a young man late in the empioy of
Mr. Turner, the eminent tanner of Bermondsey.
It appears, from the evidence of a number of witnesses, :bat the
unfortunate young man, only rd years of age, and a trasteortv
servant, was driving his employer's cart, loaded with tan, along
the Kent.roatl, towards Woolwich, last Thursday week, end b•.
tween the bridge of the Surrey Canal and the Halfway Boum met
a wagon drawn by fire horses, loaded with straw, hejangiag
Mr. IFiggins, farmer, at Burnt Ash Farm, Lee, in Kent, and
driven by William Alai, when, by some negligence vet esti,'
accounted for (the evidence on that point being very conflicting).
the wagon and cart can'e in contact, and the wheels got rangier!.
the deceased, in his attempt to prevent it, was crushed *dread.
fully that five of his ribs were broken, one of them piercing ba
lungs, of which he died in excruciating torture in the Bogota' on
Monday.
The Jury afforded the case their utmost attention, ereat.esur.M.
ing the witnesses most strictly, the investigation lasting three book
but nothing being elicited sufficient to warrant a verdict of Mo.
slaughter against Muff, the driver of the wagon, the Jury returned
that the deceased met his death accidentally, and a &Gaud of IL
un the wheels.