The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-21 00:00:00

DEATiI OF 4 BOXER BY FIGHTING

•n inquisition was held on Friday night, before Thomas
Esq. counter for Westminster, at the Feather's
Tare-ru, Dear.-street, near Westminster Abbey, on the body
of .l.ebn W ilsuu, aged 21 year., abuse death was occasioned
by blunt which lie received in fighting a pitched battle, on
Sunday ve'imight, at Milbank, near the Penitentiary, w itle a
ineen named Edward Horner. The battle was for five guineas
a TM, deceased had fought many battles.
Al r. John Drew ,assisteent surgeon to Mr. Langdale, of No.
3.6-urge-street, West 444 4 Wel, sworn a—On Tuesday night
I e•a I was sent, at the ieqew,i of th.• parish officers, to attend
ear,. the deceased. I sun him about seven o'clock in the
cr aing, in bed iu a hoot intim of a house to eys'-build
ircc Ness way, 11 estate instre. 1 ttt i t him ; lie was quite
be usclee,. Mid I u:,derstoted that h had remained EU ADCe
kiesiolay morning. I (Awe ved a swelling upon his neck unit. r
the tight err, appal cut ly the efircts or a blow. Ills right
side was wholly paralysed. I bled him, us is usual in such
cat• s, and ad neared ua•diciars; but without I ITect. I
saw him again the saint re ening, had his head cleaved, and
applied a lotion I called again the nest muruiug, and found
tin alter/item in him. Mr. Langdale also called upon him
Wednesday, and every 10.9111UUCC wilt rendered to him that
was likely to restore him. 1 ca.led again on Wednesday
night, at 11 o'clock, and found him dead. A violent blow
on the ear would produce the effects that 1 have a itlitvsed
oil view Mg the deceased's body. A blood-vessel in the bead,
net doubt, was rapt's, cd by the violence that he received.—
A fall would doubtless produce Ihe caner relents.
' Thomas Saiguy sworm—l live in New way, Westminster.
knew the deceased he ails 21 y eats of age o hen he died,
du not know how the qunerel originated beta Ceti the de..
ceased and the other young nom. Ido not know the other
youvg man's name ; they call hint Horner. 1 wu. t inning
up St. Ann'.•laue on Saturday hest, about nine o'clock, and
heard the deceased say ill the man that be fau,,lit wills,
•" 1 shall light you to-morrow morning." He was sober. I
understood they had been lighting before. Holmes asked
the deceased what they were to fight fit t The deceased
" I shall light you rti suite o'clock tu•oorow t• ton-
ing, and that is emougii." Horner said, " I would sooner

it:itd' with you than light with you, in (know you wulgite
me tt ;twit' beating.° Tbr deceased max ered," 11.) ou don't
c,Utu• at tie time appomtLd. I will jump upon your brevet
ulsetst wet- I meet you{ and it 1 don't beat you. tatty I
to•ea bloat my ILI Nita) to h.ht :mother mmi." The dr.,

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ceased had been a fighting man. I have seen him fight a
dozen times before. About half-past nine o'clock on Sun-
day morning the deceased set off to Islillbank to meet Horner;
I and others followed. limiter came about twenty minutes
tiller the deceased an ived at Millbank, with some friends.—
When Horner arrived,' he and the deceased threw up their
huts, a ring ens formed, and they began to fight. They
fought for about a quarter of an hour, and Horner could not
COWL' up to the scratch when time aas culled. The deceased
of coui se aon the battle. The ring was broken iu. After
some time homer recovered, and aas ready to tight again.
The deceased said that he was a Ming to fight again. Tue
►ing was again made, and they fought three rounds more;
the last round but one they both fell. They deceased could
not weak; he was raised up by his second ou his legs, and
fought another round. He stood before Horner, and thrust
out his list to strike him, and Horner struck him in return.
The deceased fell. Ido hut know if Horner fell during the
last round. The deceased one senseless when taken up, and
was carried to a doctor in Idurshatu street, aho bled him,
but it did nut recover him the least. There were bets laid
during the tight by the seconds ;and others. The deceased's
second did not urge him to continue the tight, but wanted to
take him assay several rounds before lie teli senseless.
Thy• Coroner asked if there was any fusilier evidence, and
receiving au amasser in the negative, he addressed the jury.
Ile said that he was himself passing the l'euitcwiary when
the light, a hick cu.t die deased his life took place. A more
disgraceful scene, perhaps, never was ezhibited, and it was
it disgrace to n Chriwisis country that such brutal and illegal
practices should lake place on a Sunday morning, without
the interference of the police. Not a Sunday morning had
elapsed for a number of weeks. without a boxing match
taking place at Millhank, and lie trusted that, fillet this event
the police would abate the nuisance. The Jury would, no
doubt, be satisfied that the deceased died front the effects of
the blows orfAlls when fighting; and lie would state to them
that the law ats clearly defined upon the subject of boxing.
All the twilit:oldies laid down to be an unlawital practice,
anti the law aahl, that " justifiable sus Old
where the death of a person had been caused by accident, of
where, in a sadden affray, a person killed another in self
defence. But in a cause like the present, where the parties
met some days after the original quarrel, and deliberately
stripped to tight fur money, and during the illegal act one
Milli received violent blows that caused his death—claws
:timed at parts of the body of the most dangerous, and likely
to produce sucn an effect, lie could find no excuse for it. It
was clearly " manslaughter," in the eye of the law, unless
the jury thought the act was attended attic malice, and t hen
it ails " minder." Verdict—" Manslaughter against Edw.
Horner."

NOR 11:1Y.

The following notice was posted on Monday last
at :
Lloyd's

MONDAY, OCT. 150--Extract of a lever from the agent at
Landetiuttl. in Norway, dated September 22 :-.•• A new Light-
house is erected on this coast within my district in Christiana
river, within Fader Light, which is very useful to guide ships
in dark nights naming or beating up or down the river, the want
of a light on these Fuglehuk Rocks having proved fatal to many
vessels.

" The Fuglehuk Rocks are the three south-east of BoHazen*,
lying outmost rocks; they are lying close to one another in a
straight line from south to north. The Light-house is 42 feet
above the surface, and is a light eclipsed every half minute, to
distinguish it from the Fertler Light, and will for the first time be
lighkal on the Ist of November next.
In case the wind and sea are so high that a vessel in the
night cannot beat up from the coast, which is very difficult, as
the current sets on the shore in heavy galore, and not having a
pilot on board, she may with safety now run for Ferrier Light,
and from thence steer for the new Fuglehuk Light, where a vessel
in tolerable smooth water can keep her cruising in sight of the
Light omit the horning; she will always keep her place, as the
current from the Drum and Christiania river is under her lee
side; or if the vessel has a pilot on board, he will from thence
at any time run the ship to a good anchorage."