The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-18 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS•

Saturday an inquest was held at the Mansfield Aril
Kentish-town, on view of the body of a fine youth, name':
Charles Pritchard, aged 14, Woo terminated his existenee
by throwing himself from a two-pair of stairs window I.OLe.
the street. - The greatest excii?nient prevailed in the weigh'
bourhood, in consequence of a A rePellY
,I,een treated
cru 0
that deceased had, for a series o;'years',.
of business
by his father, a master tailor in a good '
the New-road. town, de'
oenerally circulated r
John Elliot, of No. 1, Spring-place, Kentistb• et
posed that on Monday, the 4tla instant, as he was LOl- me
breakfast, he saw deceased, who was staying at the P',_
house, fall with tremendous force from above, on to 10
door-way steps. Witness lifted him up and conveyed hiel
indoors, when he was put to bed and attended by a sur-
geon, but-the injury which was inflicted on him, partial"
larly about the head, terminated fatally. The height from'
which he precipitated himself was 4.5 feet.
Sarah Fenn, the landlady, stated that deceased was the
son of Mr. Pritchard by a former wife, and that he Oh°
father) had married a second time. About a fortnight lig°
deceased (whom she had nursed in his infancy) came to her
and begged that she would favour him with a lodglegt:Bs
he was so ill-treated at home. She accordingly gave
shelter and food. On questioning him as to the naturede
the treatment he had experienced, he said that he
been put into the cellar and ci uelly beaten with think rope!.
by his father, who, during the period of the infliction 01
torture,tl a placed deceased's face against a pillow in an
cier

that his cries might not be heard. -
Some further evidence was givtn both for and against
the father.
The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and the
Jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased died from the
injuries he received by throwing himself out of wiedl,'
being at the time in a state of temporary derangenacnt,
duced by excessive fear arising from the ill treatment of bid
father."
The investigation lasted some hours ; and on the fat
leaving the Mansfield Arms, on his return home, be
loudly hooted and abused by a crowd which had .
lected in the street.
On Saturday an unusual degree of excitement was
fested along the shores of the river near to Shadwell, Rat'
cliffe, and Limehouse, by the report that the body of a Mt:
without either head or legs, had been picked up in„,tp,,;
river. Upon inquiry we found this to be the fact.
trunk was in such a state of decomposition as to afford 11
evidence whatever as to whether the injuries the ma°
sustained were caused by violence or accident. At tifc;
o'clock an inquest was held at the Marlborough's
Fox-lane, when the only evidence adduced was, as to il;
finding of the body, which lay in the bone-house of Sh'
well burial-ground, and exhibited such a horrible mutilaties
and decomposition to which mortality is subject, that the
Jury were able to take but a casual glance.
The Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased
elatel/8
found drowned, but from the extremely decomposed 5
of the body, it was impossible to ascertain by what mese
he came by his death, or whether he had suffered foul
violence."
On Saturday an inquest was held at the Adam and El:
Inn, High-street, Kensington, on view of the body of gar•r
`e
Smith, aged thirty-five, who committed suicide by 13°4113"
herse
Some bad
of the poor woman's relatives said that 0"e feff
been very unhappy since the death of her mother,
months back.

Verdiet—" Temporary mental deragement."
THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF `4.

WIFE AND HER PARAMOUR.
Of
BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, 14.—Two examinatto,a.-
witnesses on the part of M. Volant have just taken plae
with closed doors, when the only parties permitted to b 6
present (with the exception of the witnesses and the par'
ties deeply interested in the result) were the Procureur
Roi, the counsel, and the Greffier, who took down the Jet
positions. The clothes which M. De Cottigny left behind
him, in his precipitate retreat through the window' °a
Madame's bed-room, after the second pistol of the injure,.
husband had flashed in the pan, were produced and Wane;
fed by the police-sergeant as those he discovered in tu
room of Madame Volant, after she was wounded by bet
husband. Another witness proved the inexpressible,' t°
have belonged to the seducer. Several others were 00
called, who proved having repeatedly seen M. De Cottign:
go to M. Volant's house, and remain there for some
tim
during his absence—a fact which was telegraphed by 8..`
frail partner by putting back the white drawing-room cw;
tains, which were always closed when the husband was .110,
home. The depositions on the part of M. Volant's 01
nesscs, at both the examinations, have been forwarded t 0
the High Court of Donai, for the Court to decide „belie;
the CaEC should be tried before the Correctional Court °(1
St. Omer or Boulogne ; but as the offence was committed
within the jurisdiction of the latter tribunal, it is esPeete
s.
p
that the trial will take place here in about three week e
There w ill be two proceedings—the first will be against
Cottigny, for an infraction of domicile, or unlawfully eO,
tering the premises of M. Volant at night, and being dt
vered in bed with his wife. This offence will sill°%
the party to at least two years' imprisonment, and 3" ha
according to the discretion of his judges. Fotthe
second offence (that of crim. con.) proceedings must red
taken before another tribunal ; but it is rumnti" r
that the families of the respective parties *ill entleanud-
to prevent such a further exposure as a se-he-
trial will inevitably hazard, by effectinc, a divorce -0,
tween M. Volant and his wife without the publicity of Pr_b
ceeding in a Court of Law. A deed of separation, in stle'd
an event, between M. and Madame Volant, will be 04%0
by the Mayor, and in the presence of two Avocets, and
then affix their signatures to the stamped document' liete
this, according to the French laws, amounts to a comp the
divorce. M. de Cottigny, it will be remembered, to
partner of M. Volant. An application has been made
the Chamber of Commerce, on the part of the latter, fe,,,
dissolution of partnership, which will take place bel.e'e es
trial. As soon as it has been decided by the batill e
Dana', where the case is to be tried, M. Volant jab
to surrender himself, pro forma, to the police authordn.s.
on the charge of firing at and wounding his wife it% the
De Cottigny will also have to surrender hirusell, ,"e. h is
charge of infraction de domicile. At the trial, le- a
moon-
looked forward to with the greatest interest, B°T,lnet; lig"'
secrets and intrigues are expected to be broug-: too, the
The parties being twe of the leading men in the
scandalmongers are all on the tip-toe of e
Madame Volant has nearly recovered from the eff t A
the wound ; and she has, it is rumoured, twice at _
the
to commit suicide. Her husband has not seen her sine'
lamentable affair occurred.
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BIRTHS.
On the 15th inst., Mrs. Charles Street, of a daughter. Not,
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MA R li I E D. the b,
On the 13th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea Francis Eliza-
eldest daughter of J. Dickens, Esq.,. to H. Burnett,' Esq. nr, of
On the 12th inst., at Worksop, Notts Mr. John titer of
King-street, St. James's-square, London, Sally, daughter 0
Hodgkinson, Esq., of Kilton, Notts. f TT,
the 13th inst., at Stepney Church, T. Teape, Escl-' ° late I.'
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DIED. relict
TrOeinawtnhye,4Eths:st., at Ham, near Plymouth, aged 74, 31311•
of the late George Collins, Esq., and only child of S. Pollol°'
On the 13th inst., at Wickham, near Canterbury, the 00115°P
of Commander J. H. Boteler, R.N., aged nine months. rO.
On the 12th inst., at Streatham, aged 86, Betty, widow o.
Rev. P. Taylor, Vic of Titehfield, Hants.
On the 15th inst., Maria, eldest daughter of Mr. T. l'A h° •nt.:
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, . i.v MITBDO YOUN,
bLrand, at Tile Sart Claw, 1\ O. 112, strand, in the °4°
of Middlesex.—Monday, September 18, 1887.