The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-08 00:00:00

PRICE sd.

RARE CASE OF A SECOND AND
DISTINCT INQUEST ON THE SAME BODY.

Saturday a fresh inquest vas held at the Valiant
Troopsr, Oxford-street, before Mr. Gell, assisted by Mr.
Higgs, on the body of John Boutall, a veterinary-surgeon,
aged 52, late of No. 32, North-row, Grosvenor-square.
A former inquest was held on the same body last Monday,
before Mr. Gell, at the Guinea, North Bruton-mews,
when the Jury returned a verdict of " Died by the Visitation
of God." The Jury on the present occasion consisted of
fiteen new Jurymen and eight of those who sat upon the
late inquiry. The room wr.s crowded to suffocation with
horse-dealers and livery-stable-keepers residing at the
West-end.

Mr. CELL addressing the Jury, said that they were ma
under rather extraordinary circumstances. On Monday
last he heard of the sudden death of the deceased, and
issued his warrant for an inquiry respecting it. The result
of that inquiry was a verdict of natural death. He had no
suspicion of anything contrary, but on Wednesday last he
found at his office a long statement sent by a number of
gentlemen residing in that neighbourhood, who expressed
themselves extremely dissatisfied with the verdict already
given, and that they were prepared to prove that deceased
had from the fleets of poises). He wrote to those gentle-
men to say that he did not consider himself bound by any
law to open a new inquiry after he had granted his warrant
for the burial of deceased, and after his age and the tine
of his death were forwarded to the registrars.
He advised the gentlemen, therefore, to apply to
Lord Chief Justice Denman, as he was Chief Coroner
for all England, and a deputation of them did so. The depu-
tation after this interview told him that the Lord Chief
Justice wished to see him at Guildhall, where he was then
sitting in his judicial capacity. He waited on his Lord-
ship, who asked him es !tether there were any precedents
for a second inquisition, under similar circumstance s. He
( Mr. Cell) answered that he knew of none, and that
nothing like the present circumstances had occurred
within his krowledge for the last forty years. His Lord-
ship said, " I will consult some of my Learned Brethren
in the House of Lords upon the matte,-, and in the mean
time you ar.. perfectly at liberty, and have my sanction, to
else a second inquiry to be made, for if by any chance
c ch a case should come before me at the Old Bailey, your
r inquiry.
suet verdict would stand come in the way ofjustice." The
lirsult of this conference with his Lordship was the pre-
seeJ. Barrow, sell., surgeon, of D av:es-street, on
the previous day, in canjunction with other medical men,
opened the body of deceased, and haviner removed the
stomach, and tested its contents, he found that when they
were acted upon by the proper tests, they produced
Prussian blue, which convinced him that deceased must
have swallowed a large dose of prussic acid, and that
death was caused thereby.
Mr. Samuel Gould, who was a witness on the former
occasion, since before last Christmas, was book-keeper to
deceased, who was a remarkably healthy man, but who
of late was extremely distressed on account of pecuniary
difficulties. Oa Saturday last, between two and three
o'clock, he found deceased lying dead on a bed, in pre-
mises belonging to him, in Bruton-mews. He again
stated that it was his opinion that deceased died of grief.
—( On the first examination this witness said that he did
not believe the rumours about poison, but that it was his
firm conviction that his employer died of a broken heart,
in consequence of the ingratitude of persons to whom he
had too kindly lent large sums of money.)
Wiliam West, of No. 31, South Holton-street, deposed
to having found a wine-glass under the bed on which de-
ceased lay. At the bottom of it was some prussic acid.
Mr. Alexander Bartley, of No. 251, Oxford-street, knew
deceased for the last twenty-five years, who was very much
altered in his temper within the last year. On Saturday
week last Mr. Shackell, the livery-stable-keeper, of Ox-
ford-street, told him that deceased had forged a bill of
acceptance on him. Upon this intelligence he (witness)
went to deceased's house, but he was told by his son-
in-law that he had gone away saying, " Good bye, I shall
see you no more." Witness then went to Mr. Gould,
and from him he learned that deceased was at the
George and Blue Boar, whither witness went, and found
deceased in a room up stairs, leaning over a table and weep-
ing bitterly. Witness persuaded him to sit down, and en-
couraged him by telling him he would get over it, and
that money would be got to pay Mr. Shackel. Deceased
then confessed to him that he had forged bills to the amount
of 2,000/. upon Mr. Richards and Mr. Martin, of Oxford-
street, on his own son-in-law, and on Mr. James Clarke,
and lastly on himself (witness). He said that M. Wee-
don, a horse-dealer, of Church-street, Blackfriars, had
broken his heart, and that he had paid him ( Weedon) in
one year the sum of 2,0001. interest, or rather discount, on
bills. Decsased added, " I have heard that Weedon is
worth 20,0001., if he is, 15,0001. of it belongs, if every man
had his own, to John Boutall." Deceased also complaina I
that much of his embarrassment arose out lof transactions
with a person named Jackson, a money lender, residing at
Pimlico. On the morning of the fatal transaction an exe-
cution was put into deceased's house. Deceased had
written a letter to him, in which he stated he could never
hold his head up again, .and which concluded with these
words, " I pray you look after my poor family when I am
gone. Oh, God, lam mad, mad, mad."
The Jury, after a moment's consultation, returned the
following verdict—" That deceased took poison whilst
labouring under temporary mental aberration, produced by
pecuniary difficulties. "—The inquiry lasted four hours.

HARD TIMES IN NEW ORLEANS.-The
Bulletin of the 16th says, the scarcity of money is a sub- '
ject of general remark. Harder times have never perhaps
been felt in New Orleans. The cause of this state of
things is obvious. The situation of the banks is such as
prohibits them from discounting or affording accommoda-
tion. The suspension of specie payments, forced upon
them by the recent crisis, has subjected them to a for-
feiture of their charters. Until restored to their privileges
by the Legislature, th,y arc disabled from extending their
circulation. An Act to relieve them from this disability,
is now under discussion in the House of representatives ;
and the pecuniary distress which now prevails extensively,
and is pinching every business man in the community, im-
peratively calls for immediate action.—New York Paper.
STATE OF TRADE.—We have nothing new
to add to our Report of last week. Wools, yarns, and
wages remain stationary. The demand is dui for the
home market. In the shipping trade there is a little more
doing. —Leicester Mercury.
STRIKE AMONG THE SHIPWRIGHTS OF THE
TYNE.--A " strike" has just taken place among the
shipwrights of Messrs. T. and W. Smith, of St. Peter's
Dock, and some other shipbuilders of the Tyne.—Car-
lisle Journal.

QUICK;:SAILING The brig Maypo, George
Seymour, Commander, belonging to Messrs. T. and J.
Brocklebank, sailed hence the 17th of July last, and ar-
rived from Valparaiso, 21st instant, making the passage out
in the very short space of 82 days, and home in 90, being
the quickest voyage on record.—Liverpool Albion.

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SHOCKING DEATH.-On Friday last an in-
quest was held at the Angel Inn, Rochdale, on the body
of a man named Roger flalliwcll, who had been missing
thirteen days, during which time diligent search had been
made after him. The last time he was seen alive was late
on the evening of the Bth inst., going up Yorkshire-street,
in a state of intoxication. Oti the following day his hat
was found near the dam or lodge of Messrs. John Rhodes
and Brother's factory. This circumstance occasioned it
to be thoroughly searched, but without success. On
Thursday last the owners of the factory were prevailed
upon to let off the lodge, in order that a stricter examina-
tion might take place; but this proved as fruitless as the
first search. At last it was suggested to examine the corn-
mon-sewer, into which all the refuse of the town, as well
as the water from the factories, runs. The person who
undertook this search found the poor man's body in the
sewer, near Blackwater-street, at a distance of 200 yards
from the lodge, near to which he is supposed to have fallen
into the sewer, and otust have been washed down by the
water to the lower part of the town. The body presented
a most shocking sight when brought out; the face and
hands had been almost eaten away by the rats, and the
identity of the deceased could only be proved by the dress
he wore. —Bolton Free Press.

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF FOREIGNERS IN
DlSTRESS.—Yesterday the Annual General Meeting of the
Members of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Dis-
tress was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street.
John Labouchere, Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair. F. E.
Horneman, Esq., read the thirty-second annual report cf
the institution, from which it appeared that the receipts
for the last year amounted to 2,8131. 4s. sd., which in-
cluded the following subscriptions Majesty the
Queen 100/, HA. Majesty the Queen Dowager 251, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Bent 101. 10s., her Royal
the Duchess of Cambridge 10/. 10s., the Duke
of Cambridge 30/ , the Duke of Wellington 50!., Earl
Stowe 30/., Peter Caesar Labouchere 50!., W. Stone,
Esq., Dulwich, 105/. Instances in which relief was
granted 2,490 ; of these new cases amount to 234 ; and
persons provided with passages 157 ; which left the total
amount of instances of relief from the establishment of the
charity at 52.259. The disbursemerts amounted to 1,869/.
The report having deplored the death of Peter Caesar
Labouchere, Eq., the literal supporter of the Society.
concluded with a powerful appeal on behalf of its exhausted
funds.

ELOPEMENT —A very lamentable eircums!ance
has occurred in the family of a gentleman holding a high
official situation in Dublin. His daughter, a lovely girl,
has eloped with her father's groom 1 She was in the habit
of taking equestrian exercise, which b-ought her into dully
communication with the servant. This is the second case
of the kind in that city.

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DEATH OE JUDITH GRISI.—Last week
Norma was to be performed at ti,e Od on, when the play
bill was suddenly altered, and La Sonnambula was an
nounced instead. The cause was neither an indisposition
nor a caprice, but the death of Giulia Grisi's sister, poor
Judith, who sang with so much feeling and expression i;
La Strauirra, and enacted BeHines Romeo as it has never
been played since. Judith Grisi has died at Rome, a Plitt
cess, as all the Italian Cantatrices are. —Paris Print.

Little quiet Bognor is likely is become notori-
ous, as the gentlemen of the long robe will probably have
to blazon forth the attempted elopement of a clergyman's
wife with a son of Esculapius. The lady is the mother of
three children; and it is said that the circumstances con
nected with the case exhibit an unusual degree of disgusting
depravity. We hear that the lady is at present under sur-
veillance in th• house of her father or brother in London.—
/high ton: Guardi‘i it.