The Sun.
London, England, 1838-04-23 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Thursday an inquest was held in Newgate on the body Of
Peter Holding, aged thirty-seven, a convict, who died to
prison of a broken heart. Mr. M'Murdo, surgeon to the prison,
deposed that the deceased came under his notice early in the
present month. He was in a very low depressed state of
mind, hut suffering from no disease. Witness offered to re-
move him into the infirmary, which he refused, on account 01
several of the inmates being seriously indisposed with the pre-
vailing fever. On witness putting questions to him as to his
feelings he placed his hand on his heart and said, ,‘ It is here
I feel the pain ; lam sure I shall never rally." Subse-
quently the unfortunate man was tried, convicted, and sen-
tences) to seven years' transportation. After his sentence no
became rapidly worse • and, notwithstanding witness's atten-
tion, he died on Tuesday.
CORONER—Have you been able to ascertain the cause of his
death ? Witness—l am of opinion that his death was the re'
sult of mental depression, popularly termed a broken hearf
and not of any disease of organic powers. what
Juror—Allow me to ask you, Sir, as a medical man,
the term broken heart" implies ? Witness—Such docsl
exist in the human species ; the hearts of animals frequently
burst from over exertion. I should be sor,-v to aPPIY d, ,
term broken heart as a surgeon ; it is a malady of the Inihner
and not of the body. 1 have known instances in this and other
prisons where culprits died from acute mental depressioil
with-
out the presence of any disease whatever.
A Juror (addressing the Governor) wished to knew bor.
long the deceased had been in the prison? Mr. Cope re-
plied, three weeks only. He was tried and convicted at the
last sittings of the Central Criminal Court for stealing a
quantity of lead from his employer. He (Mr. Cope) had un-
derstood that the unfortunate man at one period was a brick-
layer and builder in a good way of business. His condition at
the time of his commitment to prison was most pitiable, from
mental depression. After his conviction he became rapidly
worse, until his death. He (deceased) was evidently a roan of
strong feelings.
Sir Moses Montefiore (sheriff) had no doubt, had the de-
ceased been acquitted of the offence he was charged with that
he would have been then alive. When he (deceased) came to
the prison he was a fine, healthy-looking man.
Mr. Cope, the Governor, said that the deceased had been
supplied with every nourishment. About an hour before his
dissolution he drank a pint of beef tea.—The Jury returned
a verdict of " Natural Death."
Another inquest was held before Mr. Payne, the City 7
Coroner, at the Newcastle Coffee-house, St. Mary-at- Eli" 1
on the body ofJane Parker, aged thirty-eight. The decease°
had for some months been in rather a poor state of health;
On Monday last she went to Blackwell for the purpose of
taking leave of a daughter who was on board a convict ships
preparatory to her transportation for seven years to New South
Wales, she having been covicted of stealing a watch from the
person of a gentleman, on the night of the fire at the Royal
Exchange. The parting greatly affected the poor woman,
and on her way home she was heard to say that she should
never get over it. A few hours afterwards she fell (low*
dead, with scarcely a struggle. Verdict—" Died by the
visitation of God."

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BIRTHS.
On the 19th inst., in Russell-square, the lady of Ceo. Pardue,
M.D., of a son.

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At Honiton, Devon, on the 17th inst., the lady of Pearce Nes'
bitt, M.D., of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., in Guildford-street, Russell-square, the lady
of/Thos. Croudace, Esq., of a son.
On the 28th inst., the lady of J. D. Thomson, Esq., High Sheriff
of Brecknockshire, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 19th inst., at Greenwich, the Rev. Barwick J. Sain''
Rector of Alderton-cum-Grafton Regis, to Susan Louisa, third
daughter of John Sutton, Esq.
On the 19th inst., at Kensington, Clement Dale, Esq., of Ray-
mond-buildings, Gray's Inn, to Mdrion Christian Montagu, second
daughter of the late Colonel J. W. Taylor, of the Hon. East India
Company's Service.
On the 19th inst., at St. Clement's Danes, Benjamin Heir
Starey, Esq., of Newington.green, to Ann, eldest daughter of NY•
Butterfield. Esq., of Norfolk-street, Strand.
On the 19th inst., at St. George's Hanover-square, the Rev
John Grant Lawford, of Aylesbury, Bucks, to Phcebe, third daugh-
ter of the late W. Dawson, Esq., of Turuham-green.
On the 17th inst., at St. Mary the. Virgin, Oxford, Mr. Hewett,
of Holywell-street, to Sarah Susan, third daughter of Mr. Ed"
wards, of High-street in that city.
At Louth, on the 17th inst., Thomas Shepherd, Esq., of Bever-
ley, to Elizabeth Maria, second daughter of the late T. B. Phillips,
Esq., of Louth.

DIED.
At Standing Stone, near Wigton, Cumberland, on the 11th inst.
Miss Lewthwaite, aged 72.
On Saturday last, in Park-lane, Lady Emily Montague, Sister to
the Duke of Manchester.
On the 15th inst., in Brunswick-place, Old Kent-road, Mr.
Samual Webb, aged 59.
At Guildford, on the 19th inst., Emilia, wife of J. M. Meggisonr
Esq., and eldest daughter of Sharon Turner, Esq.
On the 19th inst., in London, aged 9, Edmund Vernon Good-
enough, second son of the Very Rev. the Dean of Wells.
On the 19th inst., in Charterhouse-square, Charles Speakman,
eldest son of C. Webb, Esq., of Oxford.
On the 19th inst., in the City-road, Annie, wife of Mr. William-
son Lamplough, aged 27.
On the 11th inst., at Greenwich, Isabella, widow of J. I3ollis,
Esq., formerly of St. Petersburgh.
On the 16th inst., in Duchess-street, Portland-placo, Ralph
Lascelles, infant son of J. Marston, Esq.
On the 14th inst., John Cheape, Esq., of Rossie, Fifeshire, in
his 80th year.
On the 13th inst., in Milton-street, Dorset-square, Mr. Henry
John Crowley, aged 31.
On the 18th inst., Thomas Needham, Esq., Cashier .f the Bang
of England, aged 6').
On the 18th inst., in Beaumont-street, aged 4, Henry, youngest
son of W. Theobald, Esq.
On the 18th inst., Sarah, wife of Mr. G. Trickett, of Great
Smith-street, Westminster, aged 30.
On the 16th inst., aged 47, John Caleb Lowell, Esq., of the
Paragon, Blackheath.
On the 17th inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Susan Yerraway, late of
Carshalton, aged 80.
On the 15th inst., at Tunbridge Wells, Georgina, second slaugh-
ter of Lieut.-Colonel Owen, aged four years and nine months.

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of Middiesex.—Monday, April 23, 1838.