The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-18 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

An Inquisition wu taken on Wednesday evening at the Board-
room of 3liddlesex Hospital, before T. Stirling, Esq. on the body
of James Pulling, a journeyman painter. aged thirty years, who
died on Saturday night last, in consequence of falling down a flight
of stairs while in a state of intoxication.

It appeared that soon after the fatal accident. Mr. Bryce Pyman,
an apothecary, of Castle street, East, was called to attend the de.
ceased, whom he found lying in his clothes on a bed, having evi.
dently been very dangerously injured on the head and stomach by
a fall. His companions who surrounded him were all in s state of
intoxication, though somewhat sobered by the fright. By Mr.
Pyman's directions, the deceased was removed to the Hospital,
where he died in about three hours. One of his fellow-workmen,
Joseph Shallie, who had been of the drinking party, gave the
following evidence :
I was with the deceased on Sunday at a public-house, in corn.
pany with two others, and we drank four pots of our own country
beer. We are Bath men. We had some beef steaks, and two pots
of beer for dinner, but the deceased did not partake of it. I then
went with him to Little Portland-street. Ile was a little intox.
jested, and said he had been drunk the night before. He went up
stairs to call for Joseph Myles, who said he would not go out again
that night. The deceased swore he should, and laid hold of him
for the purpose of making him do so, when Myles, said well I will
go. There was no light in the room, but I heard a rumbling noise
from the falling down of the deceased, and Myles and I ran down
stairs. We were like brothers, and lam sure there was no larking
going on.
The Jury joined with the Coroner in reprobating the excesses in
which this drinking party indulged, and found a verdict that the
deceased met his death in accidentally falling down a flight of
stairs while in a state of intoxication.

SHOCZING ACCIDENT.—An inquisition was yesterday talon
before Thomas Higgs, Esq. at the Triumphant Chariot public.
house, Oroevenor.place, on the body of a young man of the name
of Thomas Mitchell, who was accidentally run over.
The Jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the body, which '
presented a most shocking spectacle, the head being much torn
and disfigured by the wheel (tithe cart, which passed over him, and
a piece of the skull bone having been renurred, so os to lay part of
the brain open to view. This had been done when the ease became
desperate, and while the deceased was in a state of stupor, in the
hope that the pressure oo the brain would tnereby be relieved.
Mr. Frederick Marsh, pupil to Mr. Laisne, surgeon, of Orme.
nor.row, Pimlico, stated, that the deceased was brcught to him by
some men on the evening of the 7th of November; lie was very
much injured, and Mr. Laisne not being at home, witness pro.
cured a conch, and had him conveyed to St. lunge's Hospital ; he
was quite sensible, and said he had been ruts over by a cart;
does not know who the men were that brought hint.
The Coroner told him he had done wrong in not making an in.
quiry, and requested him to be more cautions in future.
Mr. Pitman, house surgeon, at St. tteorge's Hospital, stated,
that he examined the deceased on his being bronght titter. His
face was covered with mud; there was an extensive lacerated
wound on the left side of the face ; the bone of the head had been
laid bare for a considerable distance, and one of the bones of the
face fractured. Every thing proper was done for him, but after
lingering in great agony tiX the morning of the 141/1 test., he then
fell into a stupor, and expired on the evening of die same tier.
No evidence was obtained of the manner in which the melancholy
catastrophe occurred, beyond the statement made by the deceased
when at the Hospital, which was, that he was walking along the
edge of the pathway of Orosvenor.row, and the night being very
dark, he made a false step and alipt down into the road, and a cart
passing at the instant, one of the wheels came in contact with his
face. The driver did not stop, and deceased could not say whether
he was conscious of the accident or not. Some men came tip to
the spot shortly after, and conveyed him to the house of Mr. Laisne.
Verdict—" Accidental Death."