The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-11 00:00:00

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CHATHAM, MONDAY.—The Daphne, 18, Captein Fan-
shaviv, ettmo to Chatham this afternoon to be paid off.
Sinbad naval lighter arrived on Saturday with stores
from Plymouth and Portsmouth.

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Carter held an i,teuest at the
Hero of Waterloo, Waterloo-road, on the body of
George Charrott, a coachman recently in the employ of
Mr. Ditn.ck, the banker, residing at Forest Hill,
Mr. Charles Ansel!, the keeper of the Bridge coffee-
house, 52, Lower Marsh, said on Sunday last, between
five and six o'clock in the morning, the deceased end his
wife were brought in a cab to my house from the Tower.street police-station. and I wiss induced to aceornmodwe
them with a bed. first
They were shown to the back
floor room, and the woman who was very tipsy was as-
sisted to hod. After that the deceased and the
man..
who had brought them to my house left together; but
deceased sown after returned. He appeared very
distressed at the conduct of his wife, who had a pair of
black eyes. In the course of conversationd her
he said much
misconduct had been th cause
situation at Forest Hille , the oft his leaving his
he repeatedly spoke about rogh previous ; and
was bringing upon herself the disgrace she
both remained there thewh 1 aud
hiin
and other refreshments, but shef)e day ;
withboth
,d
andly duringon m tyli eday . he had dinner
too. They
had not. I saw them
The woman was covered
told me it was is conse asking how she got them she
eence of her falling about. The
deceased got some
he also administered to lotionher which he applied to her eyes;
ho evinced the utmost
after h
the evening solicitude about her, and towards
getting a little bettertlving some tea she appeared to ho
I w • Between 8 and 9 o'clock, whilst
as in the kitchen
a noise in the at the back of the shop, I heard
rooll Om
above, as if from some one falling
heavily on the
I found the door o r; and on going to ascertain the cause
fastened on the inside. I then knocked;
but not being able e
eying the wget a satisfactory answer, and, fan-
'c to
man might have hurt herself, I got on the
leads of the back kitchen, and, opening the wiudow of
the room, it d entere by that means. I then opened the
door, and
- meg out to my servants to brier, a light ;
he,
however, mistook what I said, and brought a
knife. I took the knife from him and laid is on
the
washstand, and he immediately after brought
mo a candle. I then, with his assistance, lifted the
woman into bed; directly after which, on looking
round, I found the man suspeoded by a cord which he
bad taken from a box he brought with him, to a hatppg
on a cupbo3rd door near the side of the bed. I imme.
diately cut him down, and sent for Dr. Served], who
promptly arrived, and pronounced him to be dead, I
also sent for the police, and they conveyed the woman
to the Lambq t: ken Workhouse, and the man was t: k
ea to
the deadhouso.
By the ConoxErt—lt must lave been his own act; the
woman t o
woman could not help herself.
The CORONER—Find she any knowledge) 0 his f ,•
b s being
in the position you found him in?--No.
In answer to further questions, the Witness stated that
when deceesed was talkiug about the
; ..conduct of his wife,
he appeared very low•sp.re,ed, and even
cried. The lash
time witness saw Ccceased alive was about:
and when lie went up to the room 4131 o'clock;
On 1, •
'Canal' the fall, he
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