The Sun.
London, England, 1807-02-28 00:00:00

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- ST. akturnotomrw's fIosriTAL.—Mr.SLIFILTorz;
the Coroner for London, and the Jury which Were
impannelled on Tuesday last f'or'tlie purpose,of ipves7,
-tigating the canse*of the late melancholy catastrophe,
in the Old 13 iiiey, List night terminated their in-,
quiry, after perhaps the longest sessit— that was ever
held by a Coroner's Jury. •Thi'y Sat'three days, and
for a great many :boors-, each day, during. Which
tune they examined Upwards of 100- witnesses ; so
that the most minute scrutiny has ..been had as to
every circumstance that could by probability lead to
a discovery of the first cause of the final events .that
took place on Monday last in, the Old Bailey.
At six &clock yesterday evening witnesses were'
called in the first was Mr. W. B. Godfroy,.a pupil
iti SCBartholOniew's Hospital. He desiTibed the
state of the crowd in nearly the same manner as
the other witnesses had done. He ~vas thrown down
upon some people, and some others were on top of ,
him After sufferinga great deal of :pain by the.
weight up3n his body, and the confined position in
which-he was kept, he got up, and was brought into
a shop, where he saw two dead bodies, and in the
inner part of the shop a man in a, tit. That person
gave his address, Goldsmith's Hall, Foster-lane, and
was,carried away in a Coach. He saw J. Thorn, the,.
pyernan, down on the ground ric,!ptly opposite Mr.
Hazle's oil shop,• but' could not inform the Jury
what threw him 'nor whether any other per-
son fell over hiM.

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. Thomas Worster, a pyeman, who stood about the
middle-of the street, at a short distance from the
rail which was fixed across 'from the East to the
-West side of the Old Bailey, at the end next. St. Se
pulchre's church, deposed, fiat the rail broke down
with the weight of the people. The force of the
people tumbling off the rail knocked him down on
the top of his basket, and he rolled over it. Several
others tell down upon him, and he was. nearly
squeezed to death; however; he was, after; seine:.
time, brought out of 'the crowd, alive, and is now a
patient in St. Bartholomew's. .
James Divine, weaver, also a patient in the RCS-
pital, gave a most melancholy pi&ure of what passed
on Monday morning.. He had been:- down amongst,;
the -ruin,.of inortality for aboutfour or five minutes;;
he found his ca Fe to be so desperate, that he stood
up on the bodies; he recollected—that he had one
foot placed upon a rilan';:fltee,. and the other-1.)6o
some_ one's throat-e- the pile-of bodies was at least- as-
high as a table, and he jumped up from the heap on_
the heads and shoulders of those that stood near
him, and then crawled-along onbis knees and hands
on top of the-people's-heath till-he-got to,a=window, •
where be-was taken in, and_after some short time
was so far recovered as to be able to bear-heing car-
ried off to the Hospital. -
Thomas Oliver, Robert Hewitt,-and
gave nearly a similar description.
The evidence being- closed, the Coroner observed, .
that he had not the smallest doubt [lett the Jury
werelong since 'satisfied as to what was the imme-
diate cause of the people's death, upon Whose case
they had assembled, namely, that they died by_com-
pression, being trampled upon, or by suffocation.—
He had continued his research, however, with a view
to find out, if possible, what .it was that occasioned
the first falling down among the people. - They
must see that this was in some degree connected
with some local circumstance ; the .accidents
were confined nearly to one spat. He must, there-
tore, conclude that, as the carts had. stopped up
the greater part of the entrance at the south end of
the Old Bailey:, the current of the people that flowed
in towards the plxfotai was like a -great body of
water that is propelled by a powerful force behind
into a very narrow passage before it ; • when it has
passed through and endeavoured to expand itself, -it'
dashes round with the greater fury On every side.
No doubt, however, there were.many instances of.
individual weakness., or other circumstances peculiar
to the case of every individual that had suffered. '
These points, hewever;'it Was impossible for thein.'
to ascertain ; and it rested with them to deter,mine,
, on some general Verdiet that would be sufficiently
Comprehensive to embrace -every case that was then.
-before them.
Afi-er this the Jury deliberated for a considerable
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,length of time ; and then agreed, upon a ver,tel of
- which the following is: the substanee t---:rhat on •
Monday morning last, the Several 'persons deceased '
• had assembled in the Old•Bailev, at the North-wesi•
end, near the 'West side thereof, and opposiie Great
Green Arbour-court.; that Many carts and`carriazes
were placed across that part .of the old. Bailey by'
some person or persons unknown, which considerably •
narrowed that entrance to the said street or place ;
that a vast numbts;r of people iAd also collected there
for the purpose of seeing the execution of criminal,
which was to take place ;hat morning ; that the pas--
sage being 'narrowed in manner aforesaid, caused a
considerable degree'of confusion amongst those who
were in the crowd, arid were pressing to get forward
to see the execution, in consequence of which se-
veral persons were compressed, trampled upon, and
stiffocated ; that the deceaSed persons were among
the number of thoSe, who, thus suffering,' died
through compression, being trampled upon, and
suffocation.—The Court broke up at balf after 12
o'clock.

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but. few White or Glev Pease or Beans of both
sort:, each of which fetch better Prices ;- there are
some furthee Arrivals of Oats, and this Trade sup-
ports its Price; Rape Seed is a trifle dearer ; Flour
as our last, and tine American 445. to 48s. per barrel.

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