The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-24 00:00:00

DEATHS FROM VIOLEA CE.

Yesterday Mr. Brent, the" deputy-coroner for
West Middlesex, held inquests on the bodies of three
persons alleged to have died from injuries sustained
in encounters with Irish labourers. The first was
held at the West London Hospital, Hammersmith,
on the body of John Bailey, aged 16, a militiaman.
It appeared that on Tuesday last the deceased in
his military uniform was near the Old Greyhound,
Fulham-fields, talking to a little girl, an acquaint-
ance, when Dennis Shea came up. He said deceased
was striking the child ; Bailey replied that hewould
lay his belt about him, and took it off. Shea seized
the belt and threw the deceased down and stamped
upon him and kicked him in the right side. Bailey
then got up and said "If you will fight me fair, I
will do so." Shea appeared afraid, and no blows
were struck. The deceased immediately cried out
to a man standing alongside " Oh, Mr. O'Connor,
do catch hold of me; there is something like pins
and needles going through my side." The deceased
became sick and was taken to the hospital, where
he was admitted in a state of collapse from some
internal injury. Stimulants were administered, but
he died on the following day at half-past 1. The
post mortem showed no external marks of violence,
but internally was a cyst on the liver containing
about a pint and four ounces of blood. There was
also bleeding in the bowels from congestion of the
intestines. The cause of death was rupture in the
wall of the cyst produced by external violence. The
deputy-coroner advised that before a verdict should
be arrived at the suspected person who had caused
the death should hear the evidence adduced against
him. The jury agreed with this opinion, and an
adjournment was accordingly come to.—The second
inquest was held at the Kensington workhouse on
the body of Patrick Hare, aged 20, a labourer,
lodging at 4, Terrace-court, Chelsea, who, it was
alleged, died in a pugilistic encounter with another
labourer, John Sheen. The encounter took place
near the foreign entrance of the Great Exhibition,
consequent on competition in removing some lug-
gage from a cab. They had two rounds, and Sheen
gave deceased a blow in the chest, when he fell
backwards and instantly expired. Mr. Christian,
surgeon, of Thurston-place, Brom pton, saw deceased
on the stretcher, dead. He made an examination
after death, and found the deceased had died from
effusion of blood on the brain. The effusion, he
thought, was produced by the excitement of the
scuffle, and not from the blow. The jury returned a
verdict that deceased died from effusion of blood on
the brain, consequent in a conflict with John Sheen
by misadventure.—The third inquest was held at
the Black Bull tavern, Tottenham-court-road. The
name of the deceased was Dennis Murphy, a la-
bourer, who had received an injury from a neigh-
bour by fighting, without provocation, eight or nine
months ago, and died, it was alleged, in consequencehi.
of the injury received, in King's College Hospital.
The body, previous to the inquest, was buried, on a
certificate from the attending surgeon, alleging as
the cause of death concussion of the brain. He
stated before the coroner that he gave such certifi-
cate by advice of his superiors, for if he had done
otherwise he would be most likely engaged in a
legal inquiry. The deputy-coroner, under such cir-
cumstances, said he should discharge the jury, and
should not order an exhumation unless proper
grounds were offered to him that would demand
such direction.

MILITARY BUTCHERY IN PERSIA.—A leter from
Teheran, dated the 18th ult., in the Levant Herald, has the
following :—" On the 27th ult. 55 Turcomans were brought
here as prisoners, and shot in a barrack outside the town.
They were tied up to the walls by their hands, and a de-
tachment of 100 men fired upon them at 40 paces with such
bad practice that the detachment had to be changed six
times, and nearly 4,000 rounds of ammunition were ex•
pended before the wretches were slaughtered. The whole
affair lasted nearly vn hors and a half, and several of the
victims received as many as 30 shots before life was bulleted
out of them. So much for the firing of the regular Persian
troops. The Mushir ed Doulep (who was ambassador in
England) made an ineffectual endeavour to sava the lives of
the Turcomans whose execution I have just mentioned.
M. Anitchkoff, the Russian Minister, also used his influ-
ence, but with no better result, as the Shah had unfortu-
nately gone out hunting,
ng,iainadd didhe nhoetereturn until
doubtless
haftteer
ltihveesbouf the wretches was
wretches would have been spared, and we should
have been saved the pain of witnesssiog so horrible an exhi-
bition as their execution in the way narreted presented."
The directors of the Commercial Dock Company
have agreed to recommend the general court of proprietors
on the 13th June, to declare a dividend at a rate of 5 per
cent. per annum, together with a bonus of 1 per cent., bath
free of i.11C01120 tax.