The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-15 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

t7RDEn..-Last night an. Inquest, which had been twice
adjourned, touching the death of James Murty, who died on rri--
daylastin.4t. Bartholomew's Hospital, in consequence of wounds
lie receivatin an affray with a man named Gantly, last Satur-
day night tt;ree weeks, at the Coopers Arms, West Smithfield,
was resumed before T. Siiip..TON:, Esq. and a most respectable
Jury, in the COunnittee-room at the Hospital. About 30 wit-
nesses were examined,. the majority of whom stated that some
animosity existed between the deceased and Candy; that they
had fought before the night of the fatal affray at the Coopers'
Arms Alone, and having met there on that night, Michael
Mealy_,- who was in company with the deceased, advised him to
go away., which he was proceeding to do, but that Gantly in-
tercepted hint in the passage and struck him,' and that a man.
named Michael Cline held his hands whilst Gantly kept beat-
ing him' about the head, and another man, named Thomas
tio:inre,"kept the people away, and prevented their giving any
attStitatici't the deeetised, till he was covered all Over• with
bloOdffront,nunierout wounds on his head ; and when they let
go AL4r,hold he fell,. and whilst down-was kicked bz
SOnie of the Witnesses Swore that Gantly had some instrument
with`Which he wounded the deceased. Others swore they had
not seen any such instrument; that it was a fair battle, ant
. Clines and CloYne only kept an open. space for them to fight,
but never touched the deceased. Mr. Wheeler: the house sur-
genri;- said the' deceased had ten ationcli upon 'the head ; some
wero art inch long anti three' quarters of. an inch deep ; hut the
chief Wqn.rul, which was on the left side of the forehead,pene-
traledtif scull. He could not discover any facture; he
thraight suelywOunds might be prod-need by a man's fist, and'
-had no d,oubt-hut the internal iniurT was the,eause of his death-
The ury ',found a _verdict of " Murder. agains t Gan
and a74-erniet'of " Marislan Otter. against ClineS hnd Clovne."
SiticinE.—An Inquisition was held yesterday at the house
of Mrs. Miason, the sign of the Crown, in Leigh-street, Red
Lion-square; before Ti-iti;',las STIRLINO, Esq., Coroner,. on
viEW Of the body of'Herbert Brace, Esq., an elderly gentleman
of independent fortune, who put a-period to. his existence by
hanging himself-in the house of Mr. Birch, coal-merclumt„ in
that street. It appeared that the deceased; who had a house in
Brighton, ettine.tolown afew days ago on visit to his brother,
who lodges in the house of Mr. Birch, and since his arrival in
town he showed symptoms of mental derangement. On Mon-
day morning, not coming down stairs to breakfast, his brother
and-the servant-maid repaired to his man 50 knote if he was
unwell, and there found him suspended by a handkerchief
and shawl from the bed tester, quite dead and cold, having ap-
parently hung -for several hours. The Jury, after hearing the
evidence, returned a verdict--' That he came to his death by
hanginghimself, being at the time in a state of temporary men-
tal derangement."
DREADFUL AccIDENT,r-Yesterday morning an inquisi-
tion was taken before Mr. Unwin, the Coroner, at the White
Hart, Ilooper's-square, Goodman's Fields, on view of the body
of John hoops, aged 19. The deceased was a German, and
worked at the sugar-house of Mr. Rhodes, Hooper-square.
Ile was employed, with others, at' three o'clock yesterday
morning, in moving lump sugar from the ground floor of the
sagar.house to another floor, which was accomplished by means
of a rope with a noose, into which the loaves were put. Seve-
ral were removed in this manner; but in one instance the loaf
becoming diitengand; unfortunately fell from a height of about
twenty feet on the deceased's head, and killed him on the spot.
Verdict—Accidental Death.

SINGULAR
,DEATlL—Yesterday an inquest was held at the
Monster Tavern, 'Willow-walk, St. George's in the West, be-
fore A. GELL, Esq. Coroner for Westminster, on the body
of James Matthews, a boy whose parents live in that place, and
who about a week back had been imitating the Indian Jugglers,
in svttallowing a sword. Some of his school-fellows attempted
to dissuade him from it, when he swallowed a black lead pencil,
and it stopped in the passage to the stomach, and could not
be removed till he died on Monday. Verdict—" Accidental
Death.",

NEW MARKET-lIALL.-At a Meeting of the
Committee at the Town-Hall, on Thursday, the 3;h ir.stant,
Mr. FOf:LIOTT, in the Chair—present, Henry Potts, Esq.,
William Pownall, Esq., John Fletcher, Esq,, John Finchett,
Esq.—Mr. Folliott spoke to the following effect : " Gentlemen,
I consider it a duty incumbent on me, which coincides with
my inclination, to explain to you, why 1 have solicited this
meeting to be called, which the Mayor and Town Clerk
have handsomely acceded to, more especially as the „last
meeting was postponed to October, in consequence 'of my
motion, from a representation of Mr. Fletcher, that the
Proprietors of the .New Linen Hall could not treat for the
sale thereof, before their Annual Meeting in that month,
which 1 now find to be a misunderstanding bctivceri Mr.
Fletcher and a gentleman who manages their concerns here ;
having since received the intelligence from the proprietors
in MancheSter that they were ready and willing immedi-
ately to treat for the sale of the same, and to send a proper
person over here, to survey and value: the premises, upon a
Gentleman being empowercd by this Committee to require
it. I shall therefore move, before I sit down, a resolution
to that effect. I am accused of vacillation on this occasion,
but which I think is not doing me justice, for I yet give the
preference to the scite behind the Feather's Inn, which I
originally had the honotir to- recommend at the very numer-
ous and respectable general meeting upon this business,
which was nearly unanimously apprOved of; yet 1 am of
opinion that the New Linen-Hall may now be purchased
upon very advantageous terms,. being informed. that it is
not intended to open it again at the fairs here, ;for its original
design, the sale of Irish linen. I therefore mote; that this
Committee request Mr. Finchett to write to the proprietors
of the New Linen Hall of this city, resident at Alanchester,
to ascertain upon what terms they will dispose of the sane,
and report to a Committee, to be called when the answer
is received."—Mr. Falliott, in quitting the chair, exprmied
his regret that it was his lot to be born in Chester, instead of
Liverpool, where he might probably have had-to address jive
hundred Gentlemen instead of Aur ! !—( Chester Courant,
August 13. j .