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London, England, 1830-08-23 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1830.

for a time to the solemn investigation. Mr. Sweet.
man, brother-in-law to the deceased, rose and said,
that he must take the liberty of requesting that the
Juror be ordered to withdraw, as it was quite evi-
dent that he was perfectly incompetent to decide
upon so important a matter as was then before the
Court. This observation made the drunken Juror
still more obstreperous, and at length the beadles
were compelled to take him by force out of the
room. He resisted violently, and kept the house in
an uproar for nearly a quarter of .an hour. He said
his name was Marks, and that he had lived at No.
38, Mornington-place for 15 years. A. gentleman
named M'Cannom was then sworn in his stead, and
the inquiry proceeded.)
Solicitor, to Mrs. Roddis—Were there not large
quantities of fruit brought to the house, and con;.
slimed by Miss Cashin and her sister ? Witness
Perhaps a dozen of plums or so were occasionally
left at the house in a day, but not within the last
fortnight.
Solicitor—Did these young ladies eat the plums
in the morning, when they were in good health ?
Witness—l never saw Mrs. Cashin or her daUghters
eat a plum at all.
Solicitor—Did you ever say to Mrs. Cashin, that
you thought eating so many plums had caused her
eldest daughter's illness? Witness—Never. I re-
cellect Mrs. Cashin one clay said that Miss Ellen
Cashin had a fulness in the stomach, sad I said I
thought she must have eaten something that dis-
agreed with her. Mrs. Cashin, on that occasion,
said, that Mr. Long's patients must. have whatever
they chose to eat and drink without restriction.—
The young ladies after this had purple grapes, and
the plums were discontinued. They never went
out but in their carriage, and could not have bought
any plums without its being known.
Solicitor—Was Mr. Long aware that the deceased
ate so many plums ? Witness—Do not know that
he was.

Solicitor—l think the witness ought to have com-
municated it to him. Witsiess—l am sure she did
not eat many.
Examined by the Coroner and Jury—The de-
ceased was in perfect health before Mr. Long caused
the wound in her back. She stated that to her
friends in Dublin, to whom she wrote.
Solicitor—While you were attending so kindly
upon her, did she not speak of having a bowel com-
plaint ? Witness—She first complained of her
stomach on this day week. Her stomach and bowels
were not, I think, in such a state as would be likely
to be produced by eating too many plums.
Solicitor—Had she a bowel complaint or not ?
Witness—l cannot say more than that she laboured
under violent sickness, and there appeared to have
been a revulsion of nature produced, which Mr.
Long said was part of his system.
Mr. Wakley, the editor of the Lancet, here said,
he was requested by the brother-in-law of the de-
ceased to ask a question or two of the witness if he
had the Coroner's permission.
The CORONER —lf you please, Sir.
Mr. Wakley—Was you in the habit of seeing the
deceased every day before the wound of which you
speak was made ? Witness—l was.
Mr. Wakley—Do you think she had what is
called it bowel complaint ? Witness—l know
nothing officially of any bowel complaint, nor do I
think she laboured under the malady thus described.
Mr. Wakley—Did she ever complain to you of
any indisposition previous to the wound being made ?
—Witness—No : on the contrary, she told me she
was in perfect health.
Mr. Wakley7-Was the wound made intentionally
or accidentally?—Witness.--Intentionally, I under-
stand.
hirii NwVaaskmleia—deDidNne
I4vlirt.Lsoenz say for what pur-
pose No.
Mr. Wakley—l should have asked you first who
made the wound ?—Witness I did not see it made,
and do not know of my own knowledge.
Solicitor—Was you informed why and when the
wound was made ?—Witness—l was informed why,
but not when.
Solicitor—By whom ?—Witness—By Miss
Cashin herself. She stated that Mr. Long said it
would prevent any complaint which she might here-
after have to be troubled with.
Solicitor—Did she state whether Mr. Long was
applied to, or if he volunteered to make the wound ?
—Witness—l cannot tell. It was on my express.
ing my astonishment at the nature of the wound that
I was informed of the course that had been adopted,
and I then learned that Miss Ellen Cashin was also
a patient of Mr. Long's.
Solicitor—What was the nature of Miss Ellen
,Cashin's complaint ?—Witness—l cannot say. Miss
Ellen Cashin died this morning.—(The statement
of this fact produced a most powerful sensation in
the jury-room.)—I have been told that she was
treated in the same manner as her sister.
Solicitor—What sort of appearance did the spot
of which you have spoken bear? Witness—lt had
a very dark and angry look.
A Juror—Did both the sisters reside in your
house, and did Mr. Long visit them both. Wit-
ness—Yes; latterly, when Miss Cushin became so
ill, he was sent for, but before that they visited Mr.
Long. He does not usually visit his patients
they go to him. Miss Cashin used to go with her
sister before she became a patient.
Juror—ls there not some kind of secrecy ob-
served in Mr. Long's practice—l mean, are not his
patients bound to secrecy in some way? Wit-
ness—l understand there is something of that sort.
I do not know whether Mr. Long was made ac-
quainted with the nature of Mr. Brodie's prescrip-
tion when he came on Monday evening. It was
sent to Mr. Pounces's to be prepared. Ido not
know at what particular time Miss Cashin first be-
came a patient of Mr. Long's. She had nothing
the matter with her ; she had no complaint, but she
said Mr. Long's treatment was to prevent any
disease in future.
Solicitor—Was she aware that her sister's back
was bad ? Witness—l do not know. Mr. Brodie
saw the deceased's back.

Solicitor—What opinion did you form of it when
you sow it ? 'Witness—My impression was that
there was very violent and extensive inflammation,
which if not stopped would produce very serious
consequences, and I told Mr. Long so; and his
reply still was that it was part of his system.
Solicitor—Did you point out the spot you have
spoken of to Mr. Brodie ? Witness—l did not
call his attention to any particular part of the wound.
Solicitor—Why did you not ? Witness—Be-
cause I thought it would be presumptuous in me to
do so to so eminent a man as Mr. Brodie.
Solicitor—But why should you have mentioned
it to Mr. Long, and not to Mr. Brodie ? Wit-
ness—lf I must answer that question, it wasbecause
I thought Mr. Long a very ignorant man, but I
knew Mr, Brodie to be otherwise.
By the CORONER—The inflammation extended
all over the back on both sides of the vertebra. It
was at the top part, between the shoulders. The
ladies were strangers to me before they came to lodge
in my house.

Juror—When was the wound made The Co-
ItONEtt—The witness cannot know, because she did
not see it made.

The witness, whose examination lasted nearly
two hours, then signed the deposition and withdrew.
Mr. Benjamin Collins Brodie sworn---1 reside at
No. 1G„ Saville-row, and um a surgeon. I never
saw the deceased but once during her life time. I
wax sent for on Monday last to 32, Mornington-

place, and I went between five and sii o'clock. I
first saw in the drawing-room a young lady who
appeared to be labouring under an affection of the
chest. I went up to a bed-room, and there .I saw a
young lady who was said to have a wound in her
back, which it was wished I should see. I looked
at her back end discovered a slough, which might
be.as large as the palm of my hand, all round
which the skin was discoloured to a considerable
extent, as if it had been inflamed, and was now
threatening to become a slough also. Her stomach
was very much disturbed, and I was told that
she brought up whatever she swallowed directly.—.
I prescribed what in my judgment were suitable
remedies, and said I would call on the follow.
ing day, believing at that time that, although
she. was very ill, she was not in immediate danger.
I was told that the inflammation in the back which
produced the sloughing (which term, perhaps, I
should explain to the Jury, is Py nonymous i t
mortification, or nearly so) had been produced by
an' application made by a Mr. Long, who had been
consulted, but of this I have no actual knowledge
Myself. On the following day (Tuesday) I called
again at the hoUse, and found that the young lady
bad died that morning. I requested that I might
the body, and on examining the back, I found
that the sloughing had very considerably extended,
and I concluded had been the cause of her death.
That is all I know and all I can say. I have no
knowledge of how the wound was produced.
Solicitor—Might not such a wound have been
produced by a blister ? Witness—On a person of
very susceptible constitution it might. I was told
that she was not ill at all before the wound was
made, but that it was made to prevent her from
going into a consumption like her sister. On that
subject I was informed her mother was very anxious.
fly the solicitor—Any considerable stimulant
applied to the skin of a person of extremely suscep-
tible constitution may possibly produce mortifica-
tion. A common blister might produce it, but it is
not likely. I did not see what application had been
made to the wound, but was informed that it had
been poulticed. I was informed that her stomach
would not bear medicine, but what I gave her
stayed. The wound in her back was quite sufficient
to account for the state of her stomach. The slough,
as I saw it on the following day, was quite sufficient
to destroy any one.
Solicitor_Did you observe any particular spot ?
'Witness—There was a red surface the size of a good
large plate, bat the sloughing was not so extensive.
The centre of the wound was quite black, the
rest red.

Solicitor—lf you had seen her on Friday, do you
think it likely you could have done her any good ?
Witness—l think it very likely, though to be sure
I am unacquainted with her constitution, and there-
fore cannot speak with certainty.
A Juror—Do you think the application made by
Mr. Long to her back was the cause of her death ?
Witness--I think so, from what 1 have heard.
Juror—Would inhaling produce such a wound on
the back? Witness—Not alone.
Juror—ls there not 6me secret in Mr. Long's
practice ? I mean, does he not profess great se-
crecy, and bind down his patients not to divulge hiS
mode of treatment ? Witness—l have heard so.
Solicitor—Might not eating a large quantity of
plums cause inflammation in the bowels and stomach,
and might not that inflammation extend to the back,
and show itself eventually in the form in which you
saw it ? Is it not possible ? Witness-74 don't
know what is possible, but I never saw any -thing of
the kind. It could not prodoce such u slough as
that upon her back.
A Juror—,)Tou did not, I think, consider her in
danger when you first saw her ? Witness-1
thought her very ill, but not in immediate danger.
Juror—Could the appearances you have described
have been produced by inflammation of the bowels?
Witness—Certainly not. The sloughing could not
have been produced by that.
By the solicitor—The sickness and disturbed
state of the stomach would not have occasioned the
slough, but the slough was quite sufficient to ac-
count for the sickness. The effect of any external
application would depend, of course, in a great
measure, upon the constitution of the patient. I
was told that the deceased was in good health ten
days ago.
A Juror—Do you think an application of the kind
that has been mentioned likely to prevent consump-
tion ? Witness—Certainly not. I cannot imagine
how such a thing could be.
The CORONER—WouId you consider it warrant
able practice to produce such a back in order to pre
vent consumption? Witness—l should not.
A Juror—Would you think a tumbler of pore
wine the best composing medicine for her ? W

lieSS-It might have been very good for her, if the
stomach would have borne it; but it certainly was
not calculated to quiet her stomach as it then was,
Juror—Did you not say she hail been murdered ?
Witneas-1 did not mean murdered in the literal
sense; but I believe I did say something of that
kind; and my opinion was, that she had, in conse-
quence of the treatment she received.
Solicitor—You have said that the effect produced
by any external application would greatly depend
upon the constitution of the patient. Then Mr.
Long's system, although not beneficial in this in-
stance, migi.t be so in others ? Air. Brodie (smil-
ing and shaking his bead)—l cannot say any thing
about that.

A Juror—lf you had visited Miss Cashin Wore,
and had seen the sloughing increase, would you not
have thought there was danger ? Certainly.
Juror—Would you have thought she was going
on well ? Witness—No, I have not seen the body
since the (lay she died, but I have no doubt that the
sloughing was the cause of her death.
The Coroner and Jury, with Mr. Brodie and Mr.
Wakley, then went to view the body, and on their
return several of the Jury expressed a strong desire
to have the body opened; one of the gentlemen ob-
serving, that although there could be very little
doubt as to the cause of her death, and although
they would willingly spare the atitcted mother any
further trial of her feelings, yet the case was one of
such vast public importance, every possible informa-
tion must be obtained.
An elderly person sitting at the table, who said
he was a surgeon, said be hoped the jury would
hear evidence that Mr. Long had to adduce on his
own behalf. He (the speaker) could bring forward
testimony in contradiction of what bud been stated,
and be himself knew of fifty cases within these two
months in which Mr. Long's system had been tried,
and not one instance of a failure.
The solicitor said, Mr. Long's professional repu-
tation was at stake, and he trusted the Jury would
bear both sides.

Mr. Sweetman, brother-in-law of the deceased,
said there would be no objection on the part of the
relatives to having the body opened, as it was neces-
sary for the furtherance of justice.
It was then directed that the body should be
opened immediately, and the inquest was then ad-
journed until Monday (this day).
Mr. Long was in the house during the inquiry,
and was accompanied by Mr. Van I3utchell, and one
or two other persons of advertising celebrity.

A lobster, weighing 71114., wa found the
other morning, in some shallow water, at Illark.-rock, by
one of our shrimpers. It is supposed to bare remained
too long among the rocks to make good its retreat. Nome
small oysters, about the size of a shilling, were encrusted
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