The National Register.
London, England, 1814-01-09 00:00:00

ACCIDLATS AND OFFENCES.

11xvrisonotNAny C se.—On Wednesday evening, the wife of
Al r. Mann, who keep, the AT .rgois of Granby public-house, in Gray's.
modne, lett her home, telling her busbanu that she had got an
order fur the Sans Pare 1 Theatre, and was to take a lemale
friend with her. Tietw..en ten and eleven o'clock a j Anneyitian
Inaer, whom the husband I; new, called, and told him that
t ii wile
Ihid been extremely ill, mid had been conveyed to an ar;thecary's
in
Fleet-street. Ile also (1, that, instead of a female, he
himself had been with her to the the litre. Ali. M. lop.tened to the
t, found his wife in a state of insee,aibil ty ; and the opil ion of the
Alodical Gentleman was, that something of a narewic eature had
been admitii-teied to her. Ile also informed Mr. M that she had
been conveyed to the shop by alive men, who slat d that the, had
hrought her from a house of ill fame, but refused to tell where thy
lonise %v.'s situated, or to give any account of. themselves. Mr M.
took her home ie. a hackney coach, and the nest morning the biker
called to enquire atter er s elfare, when Mr. M. tawnier, him that
she died ut three o'clock. On examining the hods, some seveto
licuises were tumid on her thighs and shoulders.—Mr. M on Thursday,
staled the mysterious circumstance at Bow-street Office, when the
baker was Min for ; but he persisted in the statement he had made to
Mr. Mann, :Hid evinced no symptom of guilt. lie w -s. therefore,
dismissed ; but dim. cted to attend before the Coroner's Jury.

The Inquest was behl op Fri,lav ut the house of Richard Coombes,
the slat) i the White Garduns, Gray's-inn-lone, be-
lure Geol;.:e limlgson, E.g. The Jury assembled at one o'clock, and
alter byttn4 sworn, sent to the Alitiquis ui Cirunby ittailic.house to take
view of the body.

The Surgeons opened Ole b,,dv, and the head, the better to alcer-
iaio the cause of her death. This operation took op alit Enter, (luting
ante the Jun had to wait in an anti-toom, and ;liter Joking a
view of the boos, hey returned to the jury-room at the Whi!e

Mr. jallleS Chemist, in Fleet-strect, said, that about hall-oast
ele ten o'clecl. ou Wednesday night, he was sc ttt fur to the Son Hotel,
neil. Temple-bar, where he was biliwined !here was a Lady in a most
.la:,gerous state, having been taken suddenly ill. Ile i.ccoidingly
etit to the boils', and in the pad uir, stretched on a sofa, lie saw 11itt
t:eceased lay in a state of insensibility,
Mrs. Perry, c inisttess of the house, two servant maids, and the
ionvneyman bak r, where the cinly persons beside in the room. Ou
esaminiug the di ceased, he became alarmed at her state, and lie sus-
pected that she had t..ken, or that there was somethieg improper
ael
ministered to I.er; he supposed she had taken laudai,um, hut on
looking round tl e room, he saw nothing except a bottle and two glasses.
which stood on the table, in which there was the appearance of some
wine. fle communicated his opinion of her danger, and be was re-
quested by the other parties to permit her to be ti..ken to his house to
save her charucier, inid that her husband might be scut tor, as it was
a house of ill fame. To this request he consented, and she was re-
moved to his house ; he sent tor Mr. Owen, a surgeon, in Chancery-
Jane, who, When he saw her, was of opinion it was an upoplectill tit*,