The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-07 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Last night Mr. Carter, the Surrey coroner, held an kg:.
quisition at the Black Bull public-house, Rotherhithe!
street, touching the death of Mary Davis, who was found
di owned in the Thames on Wednesday under the following
circumstances : a• i
The body presented a most dreadful spectacle, being
a state of advanced decomposition.
Mark Harrington deposed that he was a labourer. While
he was proceeding down the river on Wednesday night
last he observed a body floating down the stream.
rowed to the spot, picked it up into his boat, and convey"'
it to the Rotherhithe shore. In a short time a shell erag
brought and the body was taken to the bonehouse. The
he
witness observed no marks of violence on the body. her
wore a bonnet and her dress was all open behind. On her
left arm were the initials 'l'. B.
James Collyer stated that on Wednesday, the 27th ult.,
be took two persons into custocl3l, of the names of Charles
Westmacott (Captain of the Alesborough boat) and Robert
Webb, on a charge of being concerned in the death of the
deceased, who was an unfortunate female, and whose death
took place on the same night. On the following morning
he took them before Mr. Alderman Lucas, at Guildhall,
who, after hearing the evidence, remanded them till the
body of the deceased should be found. The captain was
afterwards bailed, and the other remained in custody. The
evidence that was brought forward was that about ten
o'clock on the night of Wednesday the deceased was seen
in company with the prisoners and a female to go on board
a barge moored off Hamburgh Wharf. In about a quarter
of an hour a bustle was heard on board, when one of the
watchmen going to the epot he learnt that a woman bad
fallen overboard. The captain was at the time endeavour-
ing to get at the deceased with a long boat-hook. He (the
watchman) saw the deceased in the water. When d:agg
were procured the deceased was gone.
Sarah Lowers stated that she went with the deceased
and the person in custody on board the barge. While she
and the captain wero in the cabin a cry was heard on deck
that the woman was overboard. Witness saw the captain
endeavour to save the deceased by putting out a long boat-
hook, but she was carried away by the tide, which was
running down very fast. The captain finding
boat-hook would not reach her jumped into a boat, but
before he could get away from the vessel the deceased had
sunk.
By a juror—When she went into the cabin the deceased
was sitting on a plank, which was placed from the barg°
•o a vessel adjoining. She had been drinking during thin
course of the evening. The son of the captain, a child II
3 ears old, saw the woman fall overboard. The deceased was
25 years of age. that the
Collyer said that the watchman of the wharf statei tO
the Magistrate that if the captain had given the alarm when
he saw the deceased in the water she miglith we been sow'
Other evidence was adduced, which corroborated the
above.

The Coroner summed up the evidence at some length-
The Jury, after some consideration, returned a verdict of
" Accidental death," and that the conduct of the captain in
suffering such a boy as his son to witness such immorality
was most disgraceful.

The Animal's Friend Society (not the SoeretY
usually called the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals) last week caused four men to be imprisoned for
seven days at Dover for having worried a cat with a dog
till it was nearly dead. But the agents having submittal
a case of great cruelty to an ass by a fellow who had
violently kicked the poor animal, and pulled it with the bit
ready to break its jaws, were greatly disappointed by Mr.
Latham having expressed that he thought such treatment
could not hurt an ass, and that the case was consequently
dismissed with costs on the prosecutors. At Union Hall
the Society caused Joseph Isles to be fined 15s. for cruelty
to a horse, and the cab driver, 238, 101. to the master for
great injury done to I is horse ; also the hackney coachmen
1,753, to be imprisoned for ten days on complaint of the
Hon. Secretary for a similar offence.
On Saturday last an operation was successfullV Per-,
formed in Exeter of the utmost importance to the Medico
profession, and of still greater interest to persons labouring
under pulmonary complaints. A young man of the narfie
of Tucket hai been afflicted for nearly two years with a"
abscess in the lungs, which had increased to such a height
that his case was deemed utterly hopeless, and he nan'e
to Exeter for change of air. Mr. Tucker, surgeon, cf.
this city, having about seventeen years ago 'performed
da
successful operation on the mother of this young man, f',
as she is now alive and well, he naturally made apPlina",ie,
to him, and consented to submit to have an incision Ins
in his side. Mr. Tucker having,'hy means of the stetho-
scope, ascertained the seat of the disease, most skilfuliY,
performed it in less than three minutes, wl en a quantity."'
matter, amounting to upwards of a quart, tr 33 ouncesperial measure, issued from the orifice. His cough
been most harassing and incessant, not being able to "Jr:
himself in a reclining position for fear of suffocatioll,
in constant pain, and he had no rest for more than n—ed
months. Ho bore the operation with great fortitude, an
is in a fair way of doing well.—Western Luminary.
At the Seine Assizes (Paris), a man named GaY
was charged with having caused the death of a young vir°'
man named Bertre. It appeared that the body of tb;
deceased had been thrown out a window into the street, tu
the window being one of those called a guillotine, from their
narrow dimensions, it was believed that the prisoner first..
murdered his victim in the room, for it was the opinion nt
several witnesses who had examined the window, that
would have been impossible to eject any one from it caPathe
On of struggling or offering any resistance whatever.
bed-clothes there were, moreover, a number of bloody stain-'
and these were smeared, as if something had been droa's
over, them ; and, at the post mortem examination, it
discovered that the poor girl must have been intoxicatecel:
from the quantity of wino found in the stomach ; and °hat
marks were found on the body as to warrant the belief t
violence had been offered to the deceased before she was
murdered. The prisoner was found guilty of wilful mug big'
and sentenced to twenty years' hard labour. He heard dis_
sentence without uttering a word, but appeared much'
tressed throughout the trial.—French Paper.
The truth of the Scottish adage, of a man's
the waur o'twa strings to his bow," was strikingly e.rirn,
this season on the farm of Mr. William Jamieson, I("'isst
Kilbirnie. On the 28th February and Ist
March a
this gentleman sowed a field of 11, acres with beaus (1:',I; oa
cast), but in consequence of the very keen frost whic in
terwards set in, they made but a very sorry appearaPeguit.
braird, and it was evident a failure would be the re the
As summer advanced, Mr. Jamieson ploughed drrildi was
beans, and on the Bth, 9th, and 10th of June, the ne'rnade
sown with bear. A fine healthy, regular braird soon -; the
its appearance, and so rapid was the vegetation, that
crop grew six inches per week for six weeks in sunnes'cat
On the 25th and 26th ult. a superabundant crop was
on ks,
down, yielding no fewer than eleven hundred and
six st
of
ten massy sheaves in each ; the grain was well filled an
a
excellent quality.—Ayr Observer. S
m°us
Numerous imperfect skeletons of an enor ode
have been found imbedded in the banks of the Cli'exas
River—supposed to be bones of the mammoth
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BIRTHS.
On the 4th inst., in Q(een Anne-street, Cavendish-square' tl
lady of G. Burrows, M.D., of a daughter. , General Jan
On the 18th ult., at Paris, the lady of ieutenant-
Murray. of a son.

James
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Franks, of Clapham-common, tow Jane, third daughter of the
Mr. Stea, costfo
On the 5 neth , atd Radstock, Somersetshire, le _ eidest
Curteis, E
sq., of Christ College Cambridge, to Mary Anne,
daughter of the Rev. R. Boodle, Rector of Radstock. e core'
On the sth inst at Christ Church, St. Marylebone, th
rites of
moray having been'pleviously performed according to thdest soil
thef Roman Catholic Church, Edward A. Burrow, Esq., eviyab etil
cJ. Burrow, Esq.,-of Carleton Hall, Cumberland, to .
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GrOOannntlG DIED. Caroline,
tethyheeF2r6datnhienst., in reen-street, Grosvenor-square,
widow of the Ron. Basil Cochrane, of Portman-square. . _ore,
Francis,
fourthin
sUonmythßeronoko-ns.trxiereitilaGmraonsvdenAoirrssfinest,
aged 5 years. si.'
On the sth inst. in the Strand, John St. Mawe Tatlow,
of Trinity College, 'Cambridge, aged 21. late
On the 29th ult., at Cheltenham, Mary Ann, relict of the ;
Captain Flint, R.N., and sister of the late Sir tamford Itarl:hetser
and, at the same place, on the Ist inst., Emily Dorothea, dal*"
of the late J. . Hull, sq. .d ..rosCP
On the 4thWinst., CapEtain George Bevans, of Carobri ge
Hackney, aged 94. A, 10
On the 3d inst., at Grove-lane, Camberwell, aged 78, "' „, ""
Bull,
Oformery of Aunel, Sussex.
n the Islt in,t. , r
atd Guernsey, aged 58, William Currie, 14(1"
many years of Calcutta. '—
..., Twyeli,
On the 2d inst., Emily Mary, daughter of Mr. J. E.
Fore-street, City. ” Lieut.
On the I Ith ult., off Madeira, on board H.M.S. "Pearl,
Edward Williams, R.N. aged 37. native of
On the 30th ult., aged -12, Mr. Luiz Jose Simoes, a r',.9,1,,j0g
Lisbon, many years Secretary to the Imperial Brazilian Ay"
Association —..e.

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