The National Register.
London, England, 1822-03-17 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

A respectable jury sat at the workhouse, in Gray's.
inn-lane, at three o'clock on Monday last, cod having,
avail the coroner, Mr. Sterling, viewed the hotly, which
I.y at the house in Rohert.street, they returned to the
jorv-rooin, and received the following evidence:—
r. Lewis liehdlev, 42, Great Janus-street, Bedford.
rsw, surgeon, deposed-1 was called to attend the de-
ceased on Saturday night last, a little after eleven o'clock,
at No. lb, Rohermtreet ; 1 was iminmed she had been
strutdcred, and therefore hastened instantly to the spot.
Uu entering the house, I observed the deceased lying in
toe passage,• on her rialit side, in a slanting position, the
htsal being on the floor, and against the partition near
the parlour door ; the lower extremnies were drawn up,
and Ma left leg was lying over the right; there was a
considerable quantity of blood on the floor, which had
fltaved souse distance, and there was blood also on the
ssaiuscot. 'fhe ear-rings were hush front the ears of the
deceased. .1 was desirous of ascertaining if iife was cx.
tine+, and 1 found, altnutigh there was sail some warmth
about the cheat, that rezpiration and circulation had en-
tirely ceased for sonic time. 'the extremities were quite
c Ad. 1 then proceeded untimely to examine what
1- ;tar), had been iiiitcted to produce death. I found a
deep wound on the left side of the neck passing from the
jovial, vein in a slanting direction towards the %emblem,
the instrument having di% ided both tine internal and ex-
ternal jocular vein, and caroted artery. There was
art other wound on the right side of the neck, near the
back part, extending towards the transverse processes of
the cervical vertebra!, probably inflicted with the satire
rat rnment as the former wound. I should think •it
oast have been a pointed double edge., kink, or some
ithsirunnmt bf that kiwi, probably about half an ihch
ecto,s the blade, that *as used in perpetration of the
horrid act. The other injuries were a few slight bruises
on the legs and arms, and use forcible removal of the ring
fi..gcr of the left hand ; it was cut MI at the second joint,
and probably by the same instrument with which the
o. her wounds were itacted. 1 du not .consider the
wound at the back of the neck would flare caused sudden
d..ath, but the di% isiun of the large artery on the left
sole, which almost commonic..tes with the heart, from
tar sudden rush of blood which it would occasion, Was
stall:tient to cause in.tantatteous dissolutiou. it might
he as Well to mention that both the wounds were stabs
and not cuts, therefore the instritinent must have been
sharp pointed. The bruises that I have referred to were,
in sill probability, produced by the suivggling of the de.
ceas: d, either prior to her receiving the wounds, or at the
t .me she
Mrs Sarah Chewy sworn. I live next door to the
deceased. About twenty militates before nine on the.
wain of the murder I was shuttling talking with the
deceased at her own door. I had borrowed an Italian
into of her, and had Laken it home. I knocked twice
at the door before the deceased opened it ; she had po
Lot, Vt'hilst we stood talking at the doqr a strange
tat rum past the decease, into the kitchen, and the de-
• Aged went down stirs to turn it back. I waited till
are Cattle tip stairs, and after a few minutes conversation
I wait away, and left her standing et the door. I saw
• iterson standing about the house at the time. In
about ten minutes alter I was told she was unordered.
Mrs Mary Earle was next ex:twitted. She deposed,
'bit a little before nine she was in her own mom on the
fast duur, next door to the house of the deceased; she