The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-18 00:00:00

Sad Death of a Gentleman at Brighton.

On Saturday afternoon the Brighton borough
coroner held an inquest on the body of Mr. Alex.
Baring Bingham, a young man about 28 years of
age, very highly connected, and who until lately
held a commission in one of her Majesty's cavalrY
regiment. The evidence showed that deceased had
been stopping at the King and Queen Hotel, Marl-
borough-place, Brighton, for three weeks past, oc-
cupying a sitting-room and bed-room on the first
floor front. About one o'clock in the morning of
Wednesday last he returned to the hotel after
being absent during the previous evening. Between
that hour and half-past three, when last seen by
Mrs. Funnell, wife of the landlord, he had two
glasses of brandy and water. He then appeared
tipsy. Mrs.Funnell could not say positively whether
he was so or not. She and her husband slept in a room
adjoining deceased's bedroom, but she did not hear
him stirring in the house after she went to bed. The
key of the front door could not be got by deceased
if he wished to leave the house, but he might have
opened any of the other doors of the hotel. About
a quarter-past 5 o'clock a police-constable named
Packham was told by a labourer going to work that
a man was lying in the roadway opposite the hotel.
He went there, and found deceased lying on theroad
about 3 feet from the kerb, groaning and breathing
heavily. He was dressed, but his waistcoat and troll'
sers were unbuttoned. Packham thought he was
drunk, and took him to the police station. When
seen by Inspector Barnden, he was quite insensible,
and was sent at once to the hospital in a cab, reach-
ing it about a quarter to 6. The house-surgeon
applied the stomach-pump (having been told the
circumstances under which the deceased was found),
and then gave restoratives. By half-past 7 deceased
had recovered his senses, and uttered the words,
" Capt. Bingham, King and Queen." Upon this clue
Mr.Blaker went to the hotel to make inquiries, and
till his arrival it was not known that deceased had
left the house. In the evening Dr. Carter, a medi-
cal attendant of the family, visited the deceased at
the hospital. The unfortunate young man earnestly
pleaded to be removed back to the hotel, and Dr.
Carter complied with his wish. When he arrived
there he was so far recovered that he was able to
walk upstairs without assistance. He refused to ey
how he got from the hotel to the street. Mrs. Fun'
nell deposed that when she questioned him he said,
" Pray, don't speak about it." He also said, " I
wish I had not done it." The police-constable on
the beat was called, and said he passed the hotel
about half-past 4in the morning, and deceased Was
lying in the road then. Deceased seemed progressing
favourably till late in the forenoon of Thursday,whell
a sudden change for the worse set in, after which he
sank rapidly, and died about midday. A post-morteM
examination was made by Dr. Carter and Messrs•
Blaker and Jowers, surgeons. It showed that three
of deceased's ribs had been broken, and that there
were two rents in his liver, one large and the other
small. These lacerations and the internal hemorrh-
age therefrom were the cause of death. The
question was how they were caused. It appeared
that the window of a room adjoining that occupied
by deceased had been found open in the morn-
ing ; but as the parties who occupied that room
had since left the hotel, it could not be proved
that the window had not been left open the pre'
vious night. There is an iron railing running
along the front of the hotel, and a person either
falling or jumping from a first floor window would
almost for a certainty come in contact with the
rail. The jury took this view of the case, and re-
turned a verdict saying that deceased died from
laceration of the liver, caused by falling out of a
first-floor window while in a state of intoxication•

FOOTBALL.-ETON COLLEGE V. CIVIL SERVICE.
—This match was played at Battersea-park on Friday
last, and, after a most splendidly-contested game, resulted
in a draw, noither side obtaining a goal. It is only fair to
the Etonians to remark that they had somewhat the best
of the game throughout, and on more than one occasion
" penned" their opponents in a most uncomfortable man-
ner. The following is a list of the players :—Eton.—W•
W. Phipps, E. Lubbock, T. H. Fhipps, K. Slanen
Hall, S. Seymour, Parry, Hamilton, Muirhead, Nollnan,
and Gibbs. Civil Service.—A. Bateman, F. Deacon, B.
Freeth, J. Kirkpatrick, Q. Hogg, H. U. Malkin, M. Mac-
kenzie, G. Philipps, G. B. Voules, C.t G. Waudby,
Wearne.
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