The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-16 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS, lk.

REM 111/LAINI.F 13rLIVElt AVIS AND TEIIDIFIC, Lrke'.—(ln
List, about three o'clock in the afternoon, as llr.Moss,
(11111)11, ilAii !CD his gig a few minutes to the care
of his pupil, the horse took fright, and rah tin•iously along Wind-
sor "fer,.!ce, at the end of which is a railing to protect the pas-
senger from a previrive of 130 irect y the animal made a dash al
the railing. an .1 cleating it, the gig became entangled ; two
chimney so•eep lad:, with great presence of mind, seeing, the
awful sit italiou ut the young titan, ptdletl him oat of the gig by
the skirts of his coat, 'is hen inetneiliately ;after the coping stogies
gave way. and hur=e and gig were precipitatea down a fall tot.
120 feet, and, of course, dashed to atom-.

'rwstlay list, Mr. Jaynes IVootllititve. lately a bacon-factor. in St.
Peter's-square. Leeds, was apprehended at York. of a change of for-
gery. nod on the ft4lowing morning was conveyed to Leeds for the pur-
pose of beim examined by the MagiAratcs at the Court lions?. On
Ids arrival at Leeds he watt taken to a public-house for refreshment,
where he contri..-ed, in the momentary almence of the pnion to whose
care he had been entriened, to cut his throat front ear to ear. Surgical
assistance was itunnsliatelv prooared, and the wound sewed up; and
notwithstanding the depth and extant of the secund, his recovery is
considered ac a pndirdde event. This cle.perate atterapt upon his life
rea3 made with a &sect knife. which the prttoner had concealed in his
pocket.
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Saturday se'nniglit, John Kirkby, of March, in the He of Ely, far •
mer, was arreited oss debt, by Oeorge Smith, a special bailiff. and a,-
si.stants. About live o'clock in the afternoon. Smith, eith tour others,
went to the house of Mr,. Burton, sister to Kirkby, where he was se-
creted, but they were repulsed; he returned again three hours after,
with a number of assistants,when Kirkby, who was found behind a par-
tition, with a pistol in kis hand, were he would shoot the first man
who came near him. Smith proceeded notwithstanding to execute his
warrant. w:ien Kirl.by fired his pistol, whereby he wounded Smith in
f:e stomach and hi, shirt and ..;:aisteout were set on fire, and much
burnt. Kirkby was afterwards secured, altd brought to the county gaol
early on Sunday morning, and a warrant has since been issued against
him, charging hint with feloniously shouting Smith, fur which offence
he is to take his trial at the next assizes.. Smith was much hurt, al-
though he is not considered in great danger.
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A man has been committed to Brecon prison far cutting the throat
of a young woman who was preprint by him, at Davynock, ott Wed-
nesday sennight. The harilened monster, on hi, einunination before
the Magistrates, requested a rope, that he might be hanged!
Monday afternoon a bricklayer of the name of Mitchell repairing
the top of a house in Crown-court, Rutsell-street, fell front the top and
was killed.

Monday rooming a avtnan who lied at Chelsea went into a baker's
shop and asked for a loaf of bread ; the baker put the loaf upon the
counter t and as she was tendering the money for it, she fell on the
floor and instantly expired.

SvlclDr..—Sunday evening Mrs. James, an elderly Lady, mother
of W.I. James, solicitor, living at No 19, Red Lion-square, threw
herself from a three pair of stairs window into the street, and was
killed on the spot.—Tuestlay an Inquest was held, when the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Accidental Death.
ATTE,IFTS AT St iciDE...—A yonng woman, of the name of
Fisher, living servant at a Baker's in Bermondsey-street. hung herself
Saturday sennight from a p.m in her bed-room ; she was discovered in a
few minutes by her inheres-07 reason of the noise she made in throw.
ing down a table oh which she stood ; her mistress cut her down im-
mediately, and nic heal assistance was sent for, which, after two hours
spent in using the means neconnnemled Mr the restoration of persons
stiiikated, eucreeded in reOtanng her to life: she is now perfectly re.
covered. The recent death of her father, and the circumstance of her
mother and two sisters being reduced to the workhottse, is the supposed
cause of her desperate attempt.

Monday an Inquest was held at the Cheshire'Cheese, Statey-street,
Strand, on the body of Arn Odle, servant to Mr. Ornanhey. l'hc de-
ceased returned home 11 on Sunday night, and at six on Monday
morning her corpse was found a most dreadful spectacle, in a passage
leading from the cellar. A candlestick was on the stairs, end a small
piece of candle a short distance from it. The enly conclusion that
could be formed was that her clothes caught tire while descending the
stairs. Veniiv.--Acciderual Death.