The National Register.
London, England, 1814-12-11 00:00:00

CORONER'S IN.,'JUESTS.

ThurvdAr art was held at thy Cr)ivn, Wehtmiutiter-hridee,
on itt.• b..tty o hi Stevenson, late a s.tritllcr in Westtiiiiiste!-rand, who
wat, 1011,A on'Tnestlay he Zephyr, the Atag at As,ley's Th• titre
Mr. Parker, r ne of the proprietors of Ilse Theatre, sta•ed, that he It id
the ear,. tit th • slog, w hie,' belongs to a loreivne- named Gamier now
in Frntt-e. r had heels applied to set era! ti.res to take the
aitiutal away. h:lt arideeted to do so ; it ;vas kept in a stall near the
stables. tht tsday las wit..es. was preparing to teed it with tur-
nip., V 4 hen he haw tie. deceased, who had been employed last summit
to make a collar or It Iter for the sing. Findioc it was tight, the wino
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having grown fat, he called to Stetr-nson, and a,ked whether it could
not be altered. Deceas d said it could. After a leo• minutes converia-
tiro, they went towards the stall, and on the approach of 11r. S. thesis;
made a dart, fixed hint with his horns against tit, wall, anti cored him.
The %..itness /sari g a stick, bent the ',tag and forct d hint to quit the de-
ceased. Stevenson then appeared with hi. hotly bent to the cround, a
rrotstsiou of blood issued front the wound, and in a shott time after the
accident he expired. Witness had previous to the ..cident told hint

the animal we. dangeroue.
Mr. Cook, surgeon, Westminster•road, deposed, that he was required
by a messenger, about one o'clock on Tuesday, to go to Ashes's. a se-
rious accident having taken place. He found Ur. Steverson lying on
a %hinter, he had received a wound on the superior and anterior part of
the thi,h, in the dimwit' artery. taro inches and a half in depth, and had
rig rktibt there was a division of the femora! oriel!, and femoral vein.
Arterial action had ceased. and from the nature of the injury, he con.
tidered the wound mortal; deceased was placed in a warm bath, but
not by the direvion of 111,. Cook.—Verdict, Accid,:ntel Death.
The stag is forfrited to the Archbishop of Canterbury as a deoddnel.
Ton pounds are to be giv.en as an equivalent.
Satitaly se'tinight an inquest wfaisi!ieirildn)
ailch
ttlitrevi t,
Secretaries'
.hn wastaries'oiii found
dead in
Grty's Inspscoare, on the body of
dead in his bed, in his chambers, on the secant doll, at No. 9, in the
square. It appears that Mr. Hinckley was between fifty and sixty
years of age. and of a most eccentric wanner of liviu ; lie provided
every necevoiry he wanted, and hardly tver permitted any one to enter
.34 chambers ; lie bought in whatever he vvantigi at night, such us his
etals, Are-worst, bread, kle.c• and if lee heard bread was to rise next day,
he went the precedinu evening fur his half-quartt rn loaf, to save a far-
thing. Ho. always went to the cheapest chandler's shop to buy his
butter, or rasher of bacon, and wa; 'consequently wel!'known in the
neighbourhood of Gray's inn-lane. All last summer lie was known to
be up at three o'clock every naori:ing, with a plaid clua; over his
shoulder.; in this manner he walked rotted the square, went into the
eifferent passages and seeress cries. in order to pick tip .ny thing he
found lying there. Part of last summer lie had an old woman aho
officiated as his laundress, lighted his fire, and cleaned his chambers;
to this woman he paid 2d. for each morning he required iu r services ;
to save this txpence, during the later part of the summer he did
all
himself; lie (leeried his place and emptied his own •lops. lit. wag
heard talking of going to Scotland during-last summer; and iu tl.e
latter end of A -gust \lr. Hinckley being missing, lie was supposed to
have gate t Scotland. Days, weeks, and inoliais, however, passed,
and his chambers remained shut, nor vas there any ioqeiry tide by
any of lei. friends. It at length began to be wi•ispered Nowt* the
porters of the Intl, that pet-linos be might be dead in his bed ; and to
satisfy their own ctniot.itv they agreed to get a ladder end rear it
against the window of his bed.rooot, tt latch looked into the geed ns.—
James Hubbard, one of the wirers of the Inn, deposed. that he and
three more of the porters procured a lone laddar, and placed it to Mr.
Hinckley's bed room window, which they opened and went in, and on
nsuirawnie the curtains at the bed feet, he saw the appearance el a
person lying in the bed: the face was as black as ink) and complett ly