The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-06-11 00:00:00

lIRE.IIIIFUL ACCIDEAT 1.7.0.11 NEGLACT.

CnnowrlCP NQU EST -•••••nirsii/ly evening. at seven o'clock,
ass baps. al was hilt' is. the Cu ssssss atter r.wm, of St. Jathee's
Wok hour, lo fare HUGH LEN Is, FAQ Coroner, which bat
ti I twits teu o't hrl k, is. inquire boo, and by what nit.tus, a
11.0. i ankn..wu I Isar lying dead came to lot death.
. . .

Sirpheil Swome, live in lied Lyon-yard,
('omkepn► and am isomer to Mr. Oslnc-ne, corn-chand.
It r, Piece.ldly. I &tacit know the deceased; I urine spoke
to him, but was in the habit ef seeing hint daily fur •bout
threw mouth, ps•t among the twins of the houses in Mary-
le.lionr.street, Gr.litru.siluare, which were pulled down fur
tem Pete of the new Merit ; he used to be employed in picking
up bones, ulil rags, and such stitch s. i saw the deceased
*Mint au hour previous to his death sitting on some louse
re mending his clothes, mid two bags on the ground
pear where he sat, close to ■ puny wall iss Mary le-Bune-
street, formerly where Messrs. Mackenzie and ‘Vakeland's
tumor snit's!, bins whirls rains now belong to the Commis.
at 111 l era fur makiiig she New Street. About three o'clock
yessi rday aft, I WWI still sued at bearing • loud creole
111 Mory.le.lione-street, and rim to see if any accident bap-
pem d, odd perceived the party-wall had fallen down;
weld vier mid saw the deceased nearly covered with the
✓nbi•isl; with the a-sistauce of-two other men I took the
brrks off him, mid polled him nut; he was dreadfully
Arrow d, and apparently life le.'. I sent fur Surgeon Al-
rock, who came iu•tsutly, but the man was .lead; the
wall 1114 fell was • single prrty•wsll, about ten yards
to length and Iwo Clones high ; there were neither props iir
siepport it, nor fence to keep off the passeugers, though
it stood in a very public place, Find it wits probsibie that
had it happened sit hour later, 20 or 30 children might bis
killed, as they used to soar:obit there to play. The wail has
hero these several leollillS so • tottering state. About •
week or eight days ago, some Gentlemen who were passing
sent, the wall st lin a very dasigermia way; I went and
saw it was so, and informed a mall of she ursine of
who Is foreman or artisig manager to Mr. Thompson, Sur.
veyui 51. the Cummissiwier•, that the wall was very danger-
ous, awl if he did not gel it propped, it would fall and kill
isomeheirly ; lie Bred to a very farriers manner," It may
tall tout be will do nothing with it without orders
from my master." Shortly lifter the aceitleut happened,
lintelwe came to the spot, when I said to him, " Butcher,
I told you this would happen, • week ago, but you used so
precaution " The remaiiiing walls were propped yesterday
evening, after the occident.

Titoism. A 'cock, surgeon, sworn, raid" I live at 10. 4, Pic-
cadilly a little after 'beet o'clock yesterday afternoon, be-
low rent for, I found the deceawd lying near the ruin, un the
stir of the new street ; life was quite extiort ; though yet
was at, the hotly had uei they pulsetiosnor respiration. The bead
was dieadfully wounded, and the ribs on the left side west
!woken in, occasioned by some violent weans, sufficient, in
toy opinion, lu cause insicadiate death. I
used to means
for his recovery, finding it nvelees."
Mr. Francis Lambert, jeweller sad goldsmith, sworn, said,
" I live at Nu. 12, Coventry-bireet ; a little after three
.'slack yesterday I palmed by that wall, but prudence made
me walk at a (hairnet.; I saw the deceas.d within a couple of
plods of the wall, he stooped tit the art of picking up bones,
or stick !binge. I had nut gone far when I heard a violent
crash, and saw an immense cloud of dual arise, caused by
the falling of the well, which was wily a single brick thick,
about ten yards in length, and two atones high, standing
without a single prop to support it. As ►ooa as the dust
cleared I perceived the wall lying Ad, ss of placed to by art,
and saw one of the deceased's legs aud thighs from under
the 'wicks.

After the evidence Mat taken, the Coroner summed up.
He mated to the Jury, that it was clear she deceased came
to his that, by the accideatal falling of a wall, which it
appeared was neglected to he propped.
The Jury, after au hour's consultatioa as to the verdict
they should retorts, so as to prevent smiler accidents in fit-
lure, soil bring boute the chat ge to the imply through whose
tiegligestee the wall was permitted to stand is, that hassrol.
omit ant., to the danger of rommigers, returned the follow-
ing verdict Aceideatal Dente, by the fulling of u
wall." [Worland, twenty shillings.
To which they adtled—u The ins y cannot return 'hi. ver-
dict without crusts. iug the conduct of those permits whom
dotty ought to have protected the wall is its datstorrootis state
from interfering with the lives of his blejesty's subjects,
sisal they rtspiest that the (\frump, will transmit to the r .
notoosiimers of 11w New Street, with a cop, at the olepoosie
isk..o on this loopiest, an earnest how. shat they will calve
a strict suvratiestioosi to take place as to she fact. tie ro-on
c 1111 l moved, to us lire that a venter Ims atAssomer t esi iy
be
awarded agalnat Ilse Herb', at pasty that. the provit.ce of
the Jury woold admit, and thereby pteveoot vomtlar tecMI,MIS
from other buildissio moire the cognisance of the tumults.
NOW CI,"