The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-01 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

On Saturday afternoon a highly respectable jury
were summoned by Mr. GELL, Coroner for West-
minster, to inquire touching the death of Mr. Wm.
Ginger, bookseller to the Westminstsr school, of
No. 21, College-street, Westminster. The inquest
was held at the deceased's late residence.

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A report having been spread that the deceased,
who was about 63 years of age, had met his death
by poison, the utmost interest prevailed in the neigh-
lbourhood, where he appeared to be much respected,
as to the result of the inquest. When the jury re-
turned from viewing the body, the Coroner observed
that notwithstanding he had known the deceased all
his life (they having been schoolfellows), so altered
was he since his death that be (the Coroner) could
not recognize a single feature of his face.
The Jury also, who knew him in his life-time, ex-
pressed much astonishment at the alteration.
Mr. Henry Frederick Holt, a surgeon, of No. 24,
Holywell-street, Millbank-road, having been sent
for, reached the residence of the deceased about
half-past nine o'clock on Friday morning; he found
him lying on his right side in bed, perfectly insen-
sible, but making what medical men called a "ster-
torous" breathing, and he was foaming at the
mouth. The face was quite purple, and the pupil
of the eye was most peculiarly contracted, showing
evident marks of great pressure on the brain. Wit-
ness tied up his arm, and took no less than forty
ounces of blood from him, which had the effect of
relieving the breathing and relaxing the pupil of the
eye. Mr. Clapton and Mr. White arrived soon
after the witness had bled him, and they approved
of what lie had done. The room was then exa-
mned, and on the dressing-table was found a glass
with a weak solution of laudanum and water in it;
the quantity in the glass was very small, not exceed-
ing half a tea-spoon full. Witness remained with
the deceased until he expired, which was about ten
minutes or a quarter of an hour after the stomach-
pump was used.

rite witness was questioned at some length as to
the appearances of the eye in cases of death by
poison, and death by pressure on the brain (apo-
plexy) : he stated, that the pupil of the eye appeared
widely different in those two cases : opium would
cause what was called a " saucer" eye, that is, the
pupil would be dilated; whereas, in case of pressure
on the brain, the pupil would be contracted, as it
was in this cage; consequently he had no hesitation
in saying that the deceased died from a depression of
blood on the brain, causing a fit of apoplexy.
CORONER—Is it not unusual for persons labouring
under apoplexy to bleed so freely ? Witness—Oh,
no, certainly not.
CORONER-.-I thought it was.
The witness said, that if a person labouring
under apoplexy took a small quantity of laudanum,
it would accelerate the apoplexy. Seeing how weak
the solution in the glass was, if a person had taken
the whole glass full, it would occasion no injury.—
The witness himself had frequently taken a much
larger quantity, and the late Mrs. Alsop (Mrs.
Jordan's daughter), when she lived in Millbank-
street, used to have, every day of her life, India pint
of laudanum of the witness, which she drank off in
a tumbler. The deceased had a medicine-chest in
his bed-room, in which was a bottle containing about
half an ounce of laudanum.

The Jury returned a verdict—" That the death of
the deceased was caused by apoplexy."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW.STREET.

On Saturday Thomas Davis was placed at the
bar before Mr. Haus, charged with having stolen
a quantity of plate, the property of John Motteaux,
Esq., of 92,- Gloucester-place, and Beach-well,
Wells, Norfolk.
Mr. Motteaux stated, that on Friday, the 12th of
February, he left his seat in Norfolk, for London'
and on the same day stopped at the house -of Mr•
Ayres, of Cavenba►n, in the same county.
Thomas Hopkins was under-butler to the last
witness. On the evening of the 11th of February,
he placed in a box by his master's directions, two
dozen of large silver forks, one dozen and eleven
table spoons, four gravy spoons, four sauce ladles,
twelve dessert spoons, eight tea spoons, six salt
spoons, a pair of sugar tongs, and a dessert spoon
and fork, both metal. Witness put the box con-
taining these articles into the dicky of his raster's
carriage, and set out for London on the following
morning, and at night arrived at the house of Mr.
Ayres, with whom the prisoner was living as but-
ler. The witness then proceeded to state, that he
assisted in putting down his master's carriage into
the coach-house of Mr. Ayres, at which time he
saw the plate•box secure, and buttoned up the apron
of the dicky. The groom of Mr. Ayres locked the
door of the coach-house. Witness assisted the
prisoner at dinner, after which he brought the plate
on a tray to the pantry, where witness assisted him
in cleaning it up. The prisoner said he should take
the plate up stairs to his own bed-room. Witness
asked him why he wished to do so, and if any thing
had been stolen from the place. The prisoner re-
plied, " No," hut he always liked to have the plate
in the room where he slept. The witness then sug-
gested the propriety of his placing his master's plate
in a more secure place than the coach-house, but the
prisoner replied, " it is not worth your while, as the
groom is to sleep where it is deposited, and it will be
as safe there as in your bed-room," adding, " no per-
son can break into the coach-house without his (the
groom's) hearing it." Witness went to bed about
twelve o'clock, and the prisoner slept in the same
room. The prisoner got up the next morning at
seven, saying, that he .had to waken his master.
Witness came down stairs at a quarter to eight
o'clock, and at about ten he went to the coach-
house to assist in getting out the carriage, when he
found the apron of the dicky unbuttoned, and im-
mediately discovered that the box of plate was
gone. Witness told the prisoner to tell his master
what had happened, but the prisoner seemed alarmed
and confused, and told the witness to go himself.
Ellis, the officer, here produced a metal spoon and
part of a metal fork, which the witness identified as
part of the property which had been stolen.
Mr. Motteaux also spoke to the same fact, and
produced another spoon exactly similar to that
which had been identified.

- Ellis, the officer, from information received by
him, traced the prisoner to the Union-hotel, Jermyn-
street, where he found a box belonging to him, in
which he found the metal spoon produced and iden-
tified by the last witness. On apprehending the
prisoner that day, he found upon his person the part
of the metal fork which had ulso been identified.

Sir R. BIRNIE asked the prisoner if he wished to
say any thing in his defence.
The prisoner had nothing to say then, further than
to observe, that it was not he who committed the
robbery.
The prisoner was then remanded, to give time
for the produCtion of the groom of Mr. Ayres.
At the evening sitting John Hemmings, a smartly-
dressed young man, was brought in custody by a
police constable, before Mr. HALLS, charged with
having attempted to steal a diamond pin, value 101.,
from the person of Mr. Edward Archbold, at the pit
entrance of Covent-garden Theatre.
Mr. Archbold stated that he was pushing his way
into the pit about ten minutes before, when he felt
himself pressed upon by a man, and in a moment
after he detected the hand of the prisoner on his
cravat. Suspecting his object witness seized the
prisoner, and gave him into the custody of the
officer now present.

The prisoner declared that he was a respectable
young man, and followed the profession of an artist,
in Tottenham-court-road. He was perfectly inno-
cent, he said, of any attempt to steal the gentle-
man's pin.
Mr. Archbold observed, that the pin which the
prisoner wore appeared to be a diamond.
The prisoner admitted the fact, and said he had
purchased it the day before at a pawnbroker's shop
in Tottenham-court-road.

Mr. HALLS asked Ford, the gaoler, if the prisoner

was known to him.--Ford—Yes, your worship, I
know hint►.

Mr. HALLS—What is he 2—Ford—A swell thief,
your worship. He has been at this bar about a year
and a half ago, and has since been convicted.
Mr. HALLS said he would not trouble Mr. Arch-
bold to come forward to prosecute the prisoner, as
he should now deal with him in a summary manner.
He was then sentenced to two months' confinement
and hard labour in the House of Correction.