The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-02 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
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Monday, an Inquest wa, held at the Trintnphant Chariot,
Halken•street, Grusvetior.plare, on the bodies of Mrs. Mary
Kirby, and Geo; ae, her infant, 19 months old. who died in
run:rgnenoe• of being tiret by .a coachman. 1.11 Stind.iy night,
tie.tr Hvtle-park corner, when its 4 gie with Mr. Kit oy.
Mr. W. Pittlitan„house suraeoit at the hospital depti.ed, that

the mother and child were brought to the hospital on Sunday
ta•t. lie ctia.ohied Mary Kirby. awl found several fruettivem
of the rises on either side. also a ft arture on the left th•gli. Ile
perceived something wrong dhow the of the infant, witty!'
he cmild not at that time speoitieally determine PI). Wit n'
attended them both till they died —the child on Motrhy morn-
WWI the toothier the same evening. lie 11 el silll.t• operv.ul
their bodies, and disrovet rd in th it of thu child two of the
bonus of the back ac .ti and A rapture 1,1 the liver, &Wit
produced profuse Wee:ling, and whir li WAS the range of him
death. lii • both, of Mr . Kirby live ribs %ter fractured im
the right Mile, and four on the left; the broken part of some of
the ribs had ulcerated the lungs. . .

T. Henry deposed, that on Sunday eeeling he was on the
top of Smith's Chelsea coach, going from town. The evening
was dark ; the C:l4Cil pas,ed a little falter than ostial ; thew
was ;mother roach a hem I of them with lights, which ke:it on
the Lett sill.: of the raw!, Alt S cos- 'man pr,wee led ra-
ter to Cie right, hut di,' n it go so fir t ) right as he might
have done tiil he ran against stritethiliz. hoz witness could no!
see what. II • w 3.4 cer;aia that ntp• r. n spoke to the conch
mom to m tice way. Fl., coahl nut 4ly w'ziet!ier the thing which
was roil it4aitio W:l4 triset or not, lit • rireo ostaace isai so
momentary. The coachman did not stop ; he a speared merry
ti:l the aceident, but scarcely sooke at cr it liap:moe.l. Hr
wa, a hoot 19; W. 14 more to the right than to the aiidd'e .)f the
road, end the witness imputed n ) titslt to him. except his no!
being 00 the proper ride sit the road. Th... coachman WJ4 eer-
soher. _

A tjentleinan who resides Cliar.wq street, St. Ja:ne.ol.
stated, that he was na:•ily: in knizat•ariilze, on the hospital
Side of the w iy, about 111, yams of the turnpike; it WO not so
1141 k but he could ,ee eareia4e.: 'Ai the Other side of the war.
heard a halal et% front the 0n7,,,,,,e side of Or ‘4 ay.
as also a crash AIM which he in.tandi ran ~eroy,
the was, and saw a lao se in the shafts Of and the on
'lnv side. lie saw noth coach sad :it; before illy Accident; the
coach was on the wrong slit.• of the road—it was going at a
good sudoging trot, faster than lie thott:ht N roach oltiht to DI,
at that Haw of night.—This was all the evi,J•nee
the Coroner asked Mr. )(wily if lie wooly wish to say any thief;
to the Jure. Mr. tin fly said, he in •;•ely wished to state that
he did ea‘i wit to the co...chat in, and hail ..e stopped at th at
time, he gas scn.itle that nollong fatal %%wild have occurred.
Notwaltstan hoz this, however, onwit d lava. W:l4 to to are
been appreheallytl 1.1.0111 the eokeihsion between the vein' ;es
they at that time so near each other. The Coroner tlieo
reeapitillatei the evidence, and the Jim. Lirouttlit in a verdiet
of Manstaughter .1-4tCo it A •so Wright, the caaeluntii, anal a
warrant was issned for hi.(l,•ten.ioa, he hae•u:h..ea eu'remittril
av ifs Magistrates or NIA. I:torough-street Odiee. A lone: din-
-ian then ansaaist the Jary.ia,n.r:latiso• tq the vante
In lae fist I on !Iv! (-)4711 a...1113it6e4, as WhiCil was
at fi v•II at
Wednese.sy an inquest was held at the Mitre pul,V.e.lion,z. in
Niare.co Ely-plac". Holborn. on the lrxly Sqttir !I, of Ely-
place. Mr. lir.rne t,. a sur:t.on, St..lohn-street. s aid—" On Man
lay morning I ; ta visit Mrs. of is, Tara.uill-strze.
who was in dot,;-!rous labour; Eel I fn ri i tout it was ii:ussary t
redeem arao2aratiost. Dr. Squires was ant tor, WllO lipeclily arrival;

he looked as well as I have seen him for several years; in fact, I COM.
pliirientisi him on his looks. We consulted on the subject, and agreed
on the openition. The Doctor than sat on the bed-side to observe ths
operation, which was performed by me. In about two minutes after
he fell en his fax on the bed; I lifted him up. and found he was in a
fit; I plaied him on a chair and bled him, bat he expired almost
hum :lately." Verdict—Died by the Visitation of God.
Wednesday an inquest was held at the Black Horse, Blackwell, on
the body of le Itutcaitison. M Ste of the Traveller, of Peterhead. A
boat in ,viiich the deceased was returning to ki 4 ship on 8-indity even-
, ing, was driven on a ship's cable, by which he VIM precipitated into
the water and drowned. Verdict—Accidental Death.
Wedneiday an inquisition was taken at the Sotted Dog, Strand-
lane, uixei toe body of T. Holmes, a porter, io the service of Mr. R.
Diu; ridge, wireonanufactater, in the Etorout•h. who fell on Monday
afternoon. on the steps of the late Temple Coffee-house, in Devereux-
court, an -2xpircl in a few minutes. It is supposed the deceased died
for warn; a, it appeared on the inquelt, that he was only employed
oc-arionally.by Mr. Mimi:ridge. and he only had 3s. per week allowed
by the poriso of Chr. • Chure:i to aipport himself and a wife and two
children. Mr. Radnor, surgoon, Surrey-street, Strand, saw the de-
emsed about 13 minutes after he was taken ill; all pulation had
coarxl, and he was getting cold; the means he used were ineffectual.
Sarah Rowland, of No. 8. 1141*rd-court. said ,he saw the d„weevied
fall; it was on Monday afternoon; she ran up to him, and caught him
her armi; he app fired to be dying; a surgeon was sent for, but he
died before the ioirgoon arrived. The Jury returnod a verdict of—Died
by the Visitation of God.
Monday evening, an inquisition was taken at the Magpie public-
house, Wood-street, Cheapside, upon view of the body di% Braham,
who cut his throat on 4 iturday morning. A servant girl, residing in
the house, stated that she was awoke about four o'clock on the mom-

ing mmtiooed, by the deceased going down stair to the kitchen.
where he remained same time doing something with the knives and
forks, and which were afterwards fowl I strewed about the floor. He
men returned up stairs, and witness came down about six o'clock. A
short time before seven, the deceased again d.seendei from his bed-
ruom to the kitchen; but finding the witness there, he retreated up
stairs to the tap-room. His look at this time were wild, his shirt
collar unbottoned, and he hold a razor in his hand. The witness then
followed hint to the room, but the windows wore not then opened to
atthril her an opportunity of seeing him. As she entered tie door,
however, she heinsl a gush, like the noise of a water-cock; and sus-
pecting it was blood, site alertned the house, when her master and one
of the lodgers mine down, and found the deceased weltering in his
blood, with a razor beside him. on the floor. He had cut himself hi
three several places in the throat, so effectually, that although medical
assistance was iminalietely procured, he did not survive many minutes.
The witnesses all bore testiinony to the melancholy state of the mind
of the dmeased, who cunstantly expressed a wish to be reLssed from
the world, owing (as he stated) to the ounduet of his wife, by whom he
I had twenty-one children, I,at who, it appeared, loft him to cohabit with
another man. Verdict--Insinity.
Satualay sennight, an higuost was held on the laxly of T. Smith,
of West Fide, Sussex, w!io. in a fit of desperation, shot liimaif
thmugh the heal. Vonliot—lnsanity. Ile had conceived a man
violent passion for a young woman in the service of Lady Gage. which
alio slighted. la one of the letters found upon hhn, lie amuses her
with having trilled with his affection, with having driven him to the
public-house, and finally, to self-murder. Ile was a tizio young 'nat.,
about 23 years of age. The girl is only sixteen.

Serelnc.—Wednesday, a man of genteel appearance was seen loi-
tering about Park-lane. in a very dejected state; he was observed
ga into the Park at Grosvenor-gate, and to walk round the Queen's
Itasin, occasionally putting his hands in a posture of prayer. In this
mintier he cantinual about two hours; but at last he sprung over the
railing into the water. Some persons who saw the trauma-alma-Tea
to his assistance, and got hint out• but quite dead.
SINGULAR St:len-ie.—flaw of the most singular suicides ca'r heard
of occurred lately at a boarding-school near liirmiughtun. A young
Ludy, it appears, bud been set a task, and felt indignant at being ob-
liged to learn it oat of an oil book, while to me of the other scholars
were indulged with new ones. She went next day to an old woman in
the neighboarhosal, and told her, that she had had a singular dream,
vas. that she was dead, and had been ear:Lxi to her grave by such and
snen pun.; ladies, naming some of her companions and young friends,
and cited the old woman what she thought of it? who replied, " that
she pat no faith in dreaous."—A few days aft •r, when walking with the
other sehalars, she loitered behind. and malting her escape from the
party, drowned herself in a pool near the school. She left her hat (or
bonnet) art the edge of the pod. wawria was pinned a letter for her
parents. eatreating their forgiveness for such a rash act: she therein re-
quaNted to have thr bearers tie lAery ywitig ladies who she had said she
dreamed hail carried her to her grave, and enclosed some locks of her
hair a inzatnnoi of frienishija She was oily stoat eleven years of
an:, an I the dandhter of very ecliptic:able panenti in the raighbourlicaxl,
won are roes ns iabla for tie doer of their child.
A-Ire:star AT Stiletl3l:.—.t few nights ago, a person informed
the parole of the Town Hall. Hiseoton, that an assistant to a chemist,
in Great East-steect, had alai-mai the family by his menacing car-Auer.
and required their immediate interposition. Two of the patmle, con-
sequently the premises, and foottat the person in ow of the
upper roams in his shirt, with a dirk in his haled. On perceiving the
parole, 1w called oae of them by name, and presented his weapon,
smith tile 01:40: struck aside with Ids sword. 'nasals:ale!, he plunged
the dirk into hi. ova sreast, and instantly fell. On raising him up.
and questioning hint. it was found that lie had swallowed Laudanum
and arsenic mixed, but from the elnets of which a timely emetic in
the end relieve(' him. The dirk had struck against a rib and glanced.
or his destruetion hart ben certain; bolt hopes arc entertained of his
reeavery. A love atFair is the catia of the catastrophe.
Wednesday morning, about six olelorls, a decent drained man, ap-
parently an paws of age. was iinnight into the watch-house, at London
Midge, where h: camplained of severe illness. A physician was im-
mediately sent for, hat 'ere his arrival the man expired. Previous to
his dissolution it was unaerstool from Jinn that he was from the
neighbourhood of Ipswich, but this is all that has been ascertain al
csoncerning him.
F.`CECUTIONS.—P. ated 21, car:vides, at the Winchester
Assisi-4 of violation, anti W. Nayler, aged Y 5, of a burglary, were
executed, pursuant to their sentence,. at the tiny in that gaol. Tliese
unliskqes men diet trait' penitent; and were so deeply alfected in their
Lat moments as to be serve aide to support themselves.
Stith and Andrews, left foe eaccunon et Guildford Assizes, sue ea.
this Oay.
Tourslay last the awful sentence of the law was carried into effect.
at Pennen.len-heath, on eight criminals who have been coavirted at
the late alaidstane Assizes. Amelia them w Brown, Connor, and
Curby, far noishina; the Coromandel hoy of Cie dollars; Vowyer. fior
cantina and stabbins(,; Wens, for &to-glary; Mafiris. who powned eat
forget( Rank of Englund 11. Imam at Chatham; Donald. who inters"
a forged check on Alas Ntirier, 3 draper at Salem-Mai; heel anothsr fur
forgery. They all beintscd with grad penitefiee,
it cs Per ts run cv.ds: It \V Als 11.-1111'1 ion for ton ate voting
W in. Wilt/ W.VA expected to salter trailottinisterang poison
to her slat. run-law, has had the +if lies senteoteci past-
tamed slit the Isar uf Seattimber, conseameame of ao
in her favour, 114YiliZ bean forward. d finial her native place
anal its auciality. sieved by mane than tuner lanouleed people.
A gentie 11411 ILI the tieiglanimrhaaad of 1-111 k teas the %nisi ptw-
not-or of this humane pi ',reed:roe; and whilst we appaand the
ate& we nanot aulonire the Imitatively and uo,de getinrasiay which
armaateil his estalotet. Mr. Jamieson went °sir wth the
aeoitao a to Carlisle, alai branalit the reviille 164,11. Lord b... 11.-
e!"ltes, the forem in of the late Oranal Jury, Lard Mutton an I
tile li.rl Leeson:l are represented as Milli!' haul-cat
the pri.oater's behalf, whose emetic' i. penitent mil re•itm d,
We tr.i:t that a 1411; ceaoricre may vet be graiateit, partiettl4rty
vheu it is that 113 life was forielie•l by ! a .!,
which sic now is fill) ccnsisle was berth cruet ad ihaatJoistol.
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