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left, and deceased was removed to the chemist's
Davis certainly struck the first blow.

Mrs. Devine said that when the people called on
" Coward" after the man that ran away in the firs

fight, deceased said, "I don't care whom I fight."
Directly afterwards witness saw him fighting with
Davis. Deceased was mad with drink, and dread-
fully excited.
Mr. Dawson, landlord of the Two Ships, said that
deceased was not drunk, and witness refused to
serve him only on account of the sort of people he

was treating. Deceased struck Davis first. When

Davis knocked him down a very stout man struck
deceased on the head while he was getting up. It
was rumoured that he was kicked, but witness could

not see whether he was or not.

Dr. J. Starling said he found deceased just dead.
There was a slight wound on the right side of the
hea3, and an abrasion on the neck. The chest had
been much knocked about.

The court then adjourned for further evidence.

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SHOCKING 111IPALEMEN7 OF A CHILD.

1 An inquest was held before Dr. Lankester, the
Central Middlesex coroner, at the Bank of England
'lavern, Cambridge-place, Paddington, yesterday,
touching the death of Sarah Jane Finner, aged
th'ree years, the infant daughter of James Finner, a
waiter, lodging at 66, Hampden-street, Harrow-
road.

The evidence of a printer's boy, named Webb, of
63, Hampden-street, was to the effect that on Wed-
nesday, about five p.m., as he was passing on the
opposite side of Hampden-street, he saw the de-
ceased child leaning half-way over the balcony on
the first floor. In another instant she fell down
headlong from the balcony on to the iron railings,
and became impaled by the head. She then fell
from the railings into the garden. Mrs. Finner, the
mother, ran out from the house and picked her up
in an insensible state. He (Webb) ran for a doctor.
Mrs. Firmer said she left her children together
on the first-floor, where they lived, with the window
open at the bottom. The eldest child was seven
years, the next four, and the deceased three. The
balcony was of the ordinary kind, and as safe as
most of them. Her attention was attracted to the
deceased lying in the garden by the screams of her
other children. Shortly after the dreadful occur
ranee a medical man arrived, and strapped up a
terrible wound in the head caused by the iron
spikes. She took her to St. Mary's Hospital, and
she died in an hour after admission.

Mr. J. M. Packer, house surgeon to the hospital,
deposed that he attended deceased on being
brought into the hospital. She had a severe
punctured wound, penetrating the skall, and en-
tering into the brain. She was in a state of coma,
and died within an hour.

The Coroner, in remarking on the shocking na-
ture of the case, thought there was no evidence to
show that any one was to blame ; and the jury re-
turned a verdict that deceased died from a wound
in the head from falling upon an iron palisade.

DEATH FROM DESTITUTION AND
ALLEGED WORKHOUSE INBUIVANELE

ADJOURNED IN QUEST.

Yesterday morning the adjourned investigation

into the circumstances of the death of Elizabeth
Wilmott, otherwise Lloyd, aged 49, which involved
a charge of inhumanity against workhouse officials,
was resumed by Mr. H. Raffles Walthow, the
deputy coroner for East Middlesex, at the Marquis
Cornwallis Tavern, Curtain-road, Hackney.

The evidence taken on the previous occasion went
o show that deceased, having been seriously ill for
some months, and being reduced to extreme poverty,
applied for relief to Mr. Rogers, relieving-officer to
the union of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, but that he,
after an interval of three days, called at the house
No. 61, Charlotte-street, Old-street-road, and said
that he " would do nothing," and left without giv-
ing any succour. He subsequently, it was deposed,
refused to submit to the Board of Guardians a certi-
ficate from respectable tradesmen as ,
to aeceased's
good character and the urgency of the case. She
died on last Wednesday week from exhaustion from
disease and want of proper
food, and the body was
found on the following Saturday, shockingly ema-
ciated and huddled up in a coroner of the unfur-
nished room, where it had been placed by her hus-
band, who himself d occupied the other corner.
'
Mr. Merchant now said that the deceased's hus-
band behaved very brutally to her.
Mr. Rogers, the relieving officer implicated, being
examined, said that he had called on the deceased
the day after receiving the message, and told her
and her husband that it would be necessary to make
application to the board. When he proceeded to
make inquiries as to their means the husband became
very abusive, asked if his wife's condition was not
sufficient to satisfy
him, sad would have no cere-
mony, The wife came afterwards to apologise, and
he gave her an order to attend the board on the
following day: He did not consider it a case for
relief, as they were earning 10s• a week, and it was
'owes unless Where the appli-
not his duty to visit

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER IN SOHO,

Yesterday morning Mr. Langham, the deputy
coroner for Westminster, held an inquiry at the
Vestry Hall, Dean-street, Soho,respecting the death
of John Radford, aged 32, who was killed on Fri-
day last under the following circumstances.
Mr. J. Radford, 147, Southwark-bridge-road,said
deceased was his son, and was a very steady man
and of very temperate habits.
J. R. Holmes said that on Thursday, at half-past
two o'clock, he came into Dawson's public-house,
Wardour-street, drunk, but able to stand. Wit-
ness's little son ran in, and said that the deceased
had just given him twopence for nothing, and asked
him " if he could fight," making him show how.
The deceased ordered and paid for some gin for an
acquaintance of witness's, named Crawford, who
then, at his request, sang the " March of the Came-
ronians." Deceased then turned round, and
caught hold of the hand of a tall young man be-
hind him, and gripped him so tight as to hurt him
very much, and bring him nearly to the ground
He asked him to wrestle, and they scuffled along,
but Crawford separated them. Shortly afterwards
deceased left the public-house with witness and
Crampton, and they met the man that he was trying
to wrestle with. Deceased struck him on the chest,
and he striking in return, they fought three rounds
when the man ran away, every one calling after
him "Coward ?" Deceased ran after him, but fell
against Mr. Pepin's window, and on the flags. His
head did not strike the ground in witness's opinion..
He started up instantly, but did not continue to
pursue his antagonist, but ran in a sort of circle
back to the public-house, where he found a man
named Davis standing, whom he struck and fought
two rounds with. Davis struck at last two heavy
blows which knocked him down, his head coming
against the kerb-stone. He never spoke after, and
was carried into Pepin's shop. Davis was drawn
into the fray, but he then made no attempt to with-
draw, but fought with the greatest energy. He
had been on the drink for a fortnight.
Fredk. Claydon said that he happened to be pas-
sing along Wardour-street at the time in question;
and he saw the first fight, when the tall man, now
in custody, ran away. Deceased went back to

wards the public-house, and met Davis, when some
words passed between them, and Davis struck de-
ceased. The words were spoken in mutual anger.
Deceased was knocked down, Davis falling over him.
In the second round Davis again struck violently,
knocking deceased from the middle of the road to
the side, where his head struck the kerb. Davis

Mrs. Wriggleworth described the fight between
deceased and his first antagonist, and said that in
that fight he evidently received no hurt. Davis had
been drinking with the deceased in the public-house.
Witness could not say whether they had any words
when they began to fight outside the tavern, nor
could she say who struck the first blow, They closed
in directly. After deceased was struck down on to
the kerb Davis made a kick at him, but whether it
took effect she could not see. Witness saw de-
ceased was dying and called the police, who followed
Davis and arrested him. Deceased appeared to have
had plenty of money about himr and the other man
seemed to stick to him on that account.
Wm. Smith, a shopboy, said that after the first
fight Davis said something to deceased, who strait
him in consequence.