The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-24 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday morning an inquest was held by Mr.
Carter, the coroner for Surrey, at the Lambeth
Workhouse, on the body of Mary Charrett, aged 38,
who died under the following singular circumstances :
—The deceased and her husband, George Charrett,
were in the service of Mr. Dymock, the banker, at
his residence near Forest-hill, Sy denham, but in con-
sequence of her intemperate habits her husband was
at last obliged to give notice and quit his situation.
They left on Saturday, the 7th of August, at eight in
the evening, intending to walk to London across
Peckham-rye. By the time they reached this spot
the woman became so intoxicated that she lay down
upon the grass, and, notwithstanding the remon-
strances of her husband, she remained in that condi-
tion all night. Early on the following morning a
policeman came to the spot, and advised the husband
to take a cab and remove her to some coffee-house.
lie adopted this suggestion, and after endeavouring
ineffectually to obtain admission at different places
they drove to the police• station, and thence to An-
sell's coffee-house, Lower-marsh, _Lambeth. Here
the woman went to bed, and the husband went
out for a walk. After dinner he went out again,
but was not seen to return. In the evening
Mr. Ansel' heard a heavy tall in the woman's
room, and, on going upstairs, he knocked, and
the woman replied that she wanted some water.
On being asked for her husband, she said that she did
not know where he was, and that she could not find
the door in the dark. An entrance was effected into
the room, and the woman was found lying on the floor
much bruised about the head. She was lifted into
bed, and the husband was discovered hanging in a
closet in the room and quite dead. An inquest was
held on the body, and an open verdict returned. The
woman was removed to Lambeth workhouse, where
she remained very ill. It was assumed that the hus-
band, exasperated at his wife's conduct, had beaten
her dreadfully in an attempt to kill her, and then
hanged himself. The woman, however, in her lucid
intervals said that she received the injuries by falling
about. She died from the ef%cts of them on Friday
last. The house surgeon, who examined the body,
found that the cause of death was rupture of a vessel
in the dura mater and inflammation of the brain, the
result of external violence, but how inflicted he could
not say. The jury returned a verdict in accordance
with the evidence—viz., that the woman died from
injuries produced by violence, but how she came by
those injuries there was no proof. It is somewhat
remarkable that at the first inquiry no medical evi-
dence was called as to the nature of the injuries
in-
flicted on the woman, as, had it appeared
that
were most likely to have been inflicted by
band, his state of mind might have been inferred from
that and his subsequent aelf-destruction. husy-

liberated from
LPVT, -------
-'—• OF A PRISONER FROM A RAILWAY' TRAIN.—
On Fr.'
luay Sergeant Richardson, of South Shields, took into
custody, for robbery, a porson of the name ot John Brown,
auwditdhshutihetieod; prisoner handcuffed.
alias Quick, a native of Shields, on his being
Morpeth gaol, where he had been for twelve months impri-
o the carriage and fell
soiled. The officer conveyed his prisoner
st
to
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town they left by the eleven o'clock train, travelling in a
tpeirtwdeecnlasnsroopckenieycawrrhiaingsej,
bncyjetrYh'wi
slaefsaepileow going_ to to 11 o w him, but was
pasEklngers The train at.
ownattchheinragilhs.is Igo:0%0ton
prudently proven .
ntbue
mber timeo was walk ng pace, and the prisoner
in. search of the
was observed to get up and with a limp along the line.
As soon as the tra.slackened its ace at the High station,
socs,ve
&dine
Instantly
attli
the officer returned in p.ursint. An alarm was given, and a
but although the officer was
to
the
not more than ten
fugitive;•
minutes in returning spot where the escape took place,
f
and an active search w made, no tidings watever c
be obtained o the lost as
prisoner , who remains a t large, and
ould
evades the vigilance of the police.
The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. II
who has been suffering from indifferent health, has flaky),
in town from Germany, considerably better. arrived

Tun BOILER EXPLOSION AT BURNLEY.--BURNLEY
SATURDAY EVEXING.—The fears entertained for the reco-
very of four of the persons most seriously injured by this
terrible disaster have, we regret to state, been fearfully rea-
lized, death having terminated their sufferings. George
Whitaker, 17, mechanic, died at ten minutes after eleven
last night; William Winterbottom, 29, warper, at a quarter
before one this morning; Joseph Townson, 51, warper, at a
quarter before five this morning; and John Thornton, 39,
weaver, at a quarter before six. The names of the other
persons injured are as follow:—.Richard Jackson, weaver;
Robert Ileys, weaver; George Whitaker, warper; Robert
Jackson, weaver; Samuel Bracewell, smith; Peter Robin-
son, overlooker; and William Watson, overlooker. Several
of these persons are so severely scalded as to remain in the
greatest agony, and are by no means out of danger. a
Little
more can be said as to the causes of this sad accidentttn 0
was stated yesterday. An inquiry will be opened . tn
a Court-house on Blonday, when doubtless a full inwarteition
tarks
will take place, pending which we must defer any
we may make on the subject. '
Inverness-
THE Moons.—The weather has been
pituous for the grouse shooters this seastn.
but the birds
Inverness-
shire the ground has been in a very bad state.,s.ongs
, are occu-
pied, plentiful and strong. Most of then
bagged,nn but the re-
pied, and a good deal of game bas been
least num. In turns are not at all Mind to those ofbeen veryn
better, and the Dee
Aber-
deen and Banff shires the sport hasn good condition and.well
side heather promises to
supplied. In the western be in the game is remarkably
il RNMENT AND THE F.MHEyt-
THE FRENCH uO,V3,
Le Corse, a large and handsome
MEN. —SHIELDS, AUG.
to the French Government, is at pre-
war-steamer belongings e
h has two tenders cruising off the
plentiful, and the shootings thus far have been good.
isent in our harbour.
t .number of French boats are engaged
in the herring fishery,
the uponGovernmenk en
side our boats, the
our men, and thatthey are paid a premium by
what they catch. As they fish Om-
ni very frequently act in concert with
urchase fish of them instead cf engaging
and purchase
Hence the watch set upon them.
coast. It appears that
themselves in i. 6
been a considerable take of herrings a
There has days, and, notwithstanding great quanti-
ties last few. into, .
they
during
by railway the interior of the collet,' ,
sent
Some of
Lies are s
selling as low as 7s. 6d. per thousand.
have been
Penzance boats have been very successful.
the
Lynn to South-
' LONDON, AUG. `4l.—The Endeavour,.
.this coast
impton, was ruu down off Dungeness 21st nut