The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

307

CORONER'S INQUEST.

A■ iequisitioit was held ou Monday last, at the Christopher
inn, Eton, before John Mulder, Esq. one of II• • Coroners for
the county of Hunks, in consequence of the death of the Her•
Edwin Hallied. The Coroner moil Jury proceeded to view the
body, end having proceeded to the Christopher 100, the exami-
nation of witta proceeded.
John Lewis deposed that he was servant to Lord Craven, and
wee iu attenduce at Etun upon his Lordshi.'s three soils, and
upon the deceased. Tie young gentlemen only arrived, for the
first time at Elution Saturday, where they were placed tinder
the care of the deceased, who came on Friday. On Sunday morn•
ing, about seven o'clock, Mr. 11. accompanied by the three you,:
gentlemen, went out. The deceased returned awl breakiasted
at his lodgings, and whom' heard him say, that the young gen •
tlenien were to breakfast with It master of Eton school, and them
be examined. After breakfast the deceased dry aced himself,
and went to church. When lie returned abut one o'clock he
looked melancholy, About twu the young gentlemen went to
dinner, and the deceased went to his own room, saying he shenki
dine out at six. Wittiest' rea.sined down stairs till six o'clock.
expecting to be called, and surprised that Mr. Bethel did cot
ring, he then went up and found the parlour and bad-roam
doors shot. He opened the bed-room door, and there saw the
deceased lying, as seen by the Jury, quite dead and rile, and a
razor in his right hand. Mr. Hathed led been tutor to tha
three young gentlemen about six or seven years. During the
last mouth witness hail occaeioaall♦ discovered a and melody
frown upon his timiutenauce, which lie Gould not atitilaute to
any particular circumstance. lie had not given less eatifactiert
to Lord Craven, and he wee beloved by every budy. On Sue.
day morning the deceased did not spoilt as usual to witness.
looking very dull. Ou the previous Saturday he tooled as
usual.
The Rev. George Romney Green demised, that the three
sons of Lord Craven were with him Ull Sunday morning, from
half past cut ea to a quarter post ten, for the purpose of being
excained preparatory to their entrance at Eton school. The
boys were emidoyed in writing coda an exercise. About a
quarter past ten Mr. tilted o one to see what progress they
hail made. Upon lookin4 at their exercises the deceased ex.
preset-11 disappointed. H.• caked if !tad was ell time
had done ; and said, " they had done better with him." Wit-
nes. replied, lie thought the be-• ;.3d done a► well as could
he expected, cousideria,r their situxtion ;—he was a stranger to
and they were perhaps under the influence of
Tisey Ind been slow, but very correct." ‘Vitnesa walked to
Eton with deceased, after morning service at St. George'a
chapel. The deceased frequently expressed great anxiety
about his pupils. Alter • plume, witness endeavoured tochasge
the subject, asking deceased if lie knew alto would he the sew
Warden of New College Ilia answer was in an altered.lone,
anti with an altered look, and his words were to this pompon :
" I don't trouble myself about :hese things now, my mind is
solely occupied by toy Iriya." Witness was surprised at the
answer, to which be replied in a very low and faltering voice.—
He was evidently mud. depressed. —Hie deceased resumed the
subject of his pupils before they parted in college.
Mr. John Stretford, surgeon of Eton, was, called to the de.
ceased about,aix o'clock oat Sunday evening, and on entering
the chamber found him quite dead, the body lying es ♦iewed
by the Jury. The jugular vein and the external carotid artery
trete divided, and a dreeilful heituurrLage bad ensued, wbids
was the muse of his death.

The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and then delivered Choir
verdict —•' That the docea.rd CAMP by hiA death by hie owls
band, in a Et of temporary derangement."

L. Owen %%^s executed at Cartiarvon last week
for a hi,;hway robbery and attempt to murder, near Llaorwst,
It wits attended with mimic singular eirmiti.steitera :•- So septa,
*lianas and prejudiced are the honest NV..lsh inhahitams of .tat
.. mountain region," that no carpenter in ulna loon could be
procured to make a gallows; and at last the jolt was under-
taken and completed at Penileli. It was brought to Marfa • 1p
Scioot, in the dead of the night ; but there was again a serious.
dilemma, for no one could he engaged to erect the fatal tree-. to,
and it would not have been erected had not the sheriff em-
ployed his own servants in the work. Other didieulties still
presented theniselt es—a cart must be had to convey the con-
vict, and accordingly the cart of a carrier was fixed upon for
the purpose, but the woman to whom it belonged, with tears
in her eyes, besought the sheriff' not to bereave her of her
bread, for if the cart wan taken, no one would in future stiffer
their goads to be conveyed by it. This appeal was irresistible,
and it was given up. At last the name was taken Truth the
cart of a respectable innkeeper ; the vehicle was coloured
dark, and the culprit was carried in it. Mite. the ..xecotion
was over, there was not in individual who could muster op
courage to take down the widows, and it was 'binding a few
days ago, to the great terror of the neighbourhood—male mid
female, The prisoner's mother, we hear, vas present at the
execution, and fainted away. Slur wan with Orem ',amenity
romeyeil away in the sheriff's carriage. The horror which
was depicted no the, fares of the multitude, when the wretched
matt was turned MI, is said to be iodescribable. The hang-
trine, in returning to Cheater by the mail. was ITCoabibed by
the passengers, who joined io the general turn out ; the coach.
man was obligel to give him an ejectment; till them
would the passengtrs proceed. .--
iNouLaT.—Olt ThurAlay last, n atii'ven.
meta, on Friday, a Coroner's inquest was he llie Boar and
Grove tavern, Deptford, on the body of Nl:cleael Higgins; aged
it:, whose &nth was occasioned by receiving blows in a pugilistic
eimuunter.—A servant of D. W. 'limey. IL q. of l.oampat Hill
House, Greenwi,h, stated, that lie saw the deceased and a young
man, named Jones. go iota a field to fight a pixlied lastale. A
ring was formed—the decetved entered the rtng and }tripped.
Jones also stripped, and they shook Innis. Each was attestant
by a second, and a persen stood with a watch to keep the time.
As soon as the tiartie. sh.m'a ham's, they exchanged Were. Tile
deoeu.sed hat the brat of toe battle during the three *aroma& g
in the fulfil) Jones h.: el edeceased a severe blow on tl,e templet
w!ticli mat him staggering. Titer fraught for about a wan an a
an Imirr, a hen the tleceiried exclaimed, .• I will have no more• of
It." lle thee looked very ill, and anIIIIIIMTITIO irlllersaebie. fib
way carried to use Ilrichteparre' Arras, fern thence to the Din.
rosary I loase, ma] attera :mit to Iti• mother's, where he expired.
- The Jury "'cited for a ',ant time. and rem neil a verdict ef
:11anstaugoter against Janes, tic principal, and ili.hol and
Varner, the two amin ts. Tit n r Mt. MbSaladOj—ajoiles aid
Hillary were committed to Maidstone gal.
!IL! exceit•or til Itor live. l'e::;.• Beauvoir, late of
llownham Hall, in the erin.7 of E;. ex. raid last week the awn
of 3s 0001. to the S!anip Olime, 1,1114 the duty on 710.0401 ,
payable to the resichiary lega•e.:, Thylt lid lir.:oo, now diehasd
Jenson de Bettivoit. Tins firtun rte leg.' a: was no relation to
tie testator. Aimee Soave,!. were eth: e left in /e.tycies._
,i
The immense promrty •es beers:at:ten hi. e t "tutor in liven*
,lent of ht, I echo:4 e::m. s, which are oWinsi lerali e value. la
...rhino ts tins prod: :km. wc.dth„ tliedeitit'n: pileieind.llllll6lo.
Witted sill the day ei La.ltsdi, a it% Med SOK a yaw !