The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-08-16 00:00:00

NRY BUSY.

Yesterday, at six o'clock in the evening,
itritnev, Ecq. Coroner, held an Inqais.tion, at
the Bar and Ragged Staff raSlie-house, nigh
Ground, Bankside, on a view of the budy of Mary
Busy, who was found hanging to a beam in her
letise, on Tuesday last.
The circumstatacs ~':ending this shocking suicide
are singular. It aiTe.tred La evidence, that the
husband of the deceased, who is an industtious
coal-porter, employed at Messrs. Dickenson aboi
Co.'s wearf, had lately received a legacy of between
fifty and sixty pounds, in consequence of the death
of A relation. The money being intrusted to the
deceased, she secreted it, and endeavoured oo keep
is trom her husband, by hiding it in such a
situation as she thought be could nut discover ; the
consequence was, a quarrel ensued, blows suc-
ceeded, and in the event, the husba... found the
money. On Sunday morning last, she Imeakfirsted
with him and several of his companions, apparently
in good humour; but s ion after used many incohe-
rent expressi•.ns, relative to an irdent to destroy
herself; and, riishing suddenly out of the house,
ra:. &Avis the %shalt Trost to Bla kfriars Bridge,
n vv .:lopes ,:de got over the coal craft, And plunged
into the riser. Ti:e parsons, vita) were in 11,9- com-
pany, to:owed, dragged het out, and took ber
ti,me„ v Lac .he shit.ed her wet cloaths, and aga,it
appeared easy in On the Monday
she expressed a desire to take a walk with tier hus-
kind, which the latter did not consent to; but
-erect to dine with her at the Windmill

inns& npnn beef maim, I,lllol4.*WirleWlbok•ile
thee went to work, and, itit,lwtsppointedlinse pro-
ceeded to dinner; the deicased was not there, the bad
mot been seen; and, on going home, the door was
looked: he saw no more of her during the day, and
finding the house shin up in the evening, concluded
the deceased was gone out : he slept out all night,
and on Tuesday resolved to break open the door ;
he accordi•igly did so, and found the bed had not
been slept in, the deceased's cloaths, which she
wore when she threw herself into the water, were
lying in ex one pair of stairs room, and the hus-
band saw nothing to lead him to believe she
had been in the house since Monday, until going
into the gar.et, a shocking sight presented itself to
his view.

The deceased appeared to have coolly meditated
her destruction. A beam ran across the room to
which she affixed her handkerchief, having a noose
made to slide with facility, by sweet oil, it quan-
tity of which stood on the fl ior in a vessel. A
chair being placed immediately a vier, the unfortu-
nate woman, having put the handkerchief round her
neck, kicked the chair away (it lay a. some distance),
and thus deprived herself of existence The huia
band, unable fr'in his horror and surprise to take
the body down, ran to his neighbours, sevetal of
whom ran up stairs ,tn the room where she was
hanging The deceasesi is suppbs.,l to have been
suspended a cinsiderable time. being quite stiff
viisen taken down.

loom the evidence given in the above case. the
Coroper and Jury were of opinion t:,e deceased de-
stroyed herself in a state of mmial derangement.
therefore returned a verdia—Ja.wacs,

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HENRY O'H \ KA. V-Vl.
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Yesterday afternoon, G. lioDiiSON Esq one of
the Coro era for the County of Middlesex, held an
inquest on the boily of Henry O'Hara, El at his
house, No.CO, Upper Eafon-street, Pimlico l'he par-
ticlulars, as appeared before she Jury, were as fah w :
Last Thursday, atsout three o'cl ck m the titer-
noon, Mr. O'kiara wt.; it. ;Pieta My, on horse-
back; the horse's for. feet was close to the kirh-
stone, standing Imo a the street. near Ao.-r.muse's
Livery :dawn.. pr,. was in cosiversat,,,n with one
of his friends. a Mr. Powell, from :lath, when a
post-chaise drove up, and thoogh the street was very
wide, and no great number o. risple present, the
pest boy rode against Mr. o,t lanes horse, when the
pole going hotirreen the hi rse's hind lags, triprd
him up with s.ich fnce, that Mr. O'Hara was
pitched off, and fell with his s ,le °tithe kitb st- Ise
an forcibly, toot r.ao teal of his nos were I,loaell, .1,; •
bent into his body. •
Surgeon Pays,ow. of Eaton-street, who attended
Mr. O'Hara, was the only witnes• examined, as no
person who was tiled present could be tound, Mr.
Powell being then in Oath ; Parslow was not
present when the unfortunate accident took place,
but he had the particulars from the deceased's own
mntith, which were. as already stated, As well as
from Air. Powell, who gave him the following ac.
count :
Mr. Powell was in Piccadilly on that evening;
he saw Mr. (PHara in conversation with another
Gentleman. When they parted, Mr. Powell came
up with Mr. 0.142ra ; they shook hands; Mr. Povr,ll
asked Mr. o.llara, who :de gereleinan was that he
just parted from. Mr. o.llara told him it was Mr.
Justice Bond.. They spoke a few words more. when
tl.e pact-chaise drove up, which caused the accident
already stated. Mr. Powell ran to help up Mr.
O'Hara. In the mean time the chaise drove away
without any one taking the name of the person to
whom it belonged. •
Surgeon Parslow deposed, that he believed his
death was occasioned by the above I,:cident, as from
the state of tl.e deceased's body, he believed the
ribs penetrated the lungs; he languished in great
agony until h•eiJay evening, when he expired. The
body appeared very much swollen. The Jury re-
turned a verditt nf—Actideutal
Mr. O'H. was a native of the Noith of Ireland,
and well known in the sporting world, being parti-
cularly intimate with win:: of the first charaders in
both kingdoms, among whom were Their Royal
Highnesses the Prince of Wales, and Duke of York.
He was in the 53d year of his age, and has left an
amiable wife to deplore his loss.. Mr. O'Hara, pre-
vious to his death, w ishei, if possible, that a Caircvner's
Jury should be dispensed with, but the parish officers
of St. James's, as the A:eident happen-A there, sent
to inform Mr. Hodgson, who summoned the Jury.