The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS AFiAIR

Yesterday forenoon, at half-past eleven o'clock, an in-
fl in tile board-room of sl(iillry
in-
quest was taken. before Mr. Wakley. ALp
a and a hi hl -
respectable Jury, • . arylebo
workhouse, on view of the body of Mr.
aged G 5, a mealnian, in an extensive way
Uxbridge, who was round lying dead, with his Pockets
rifled, in North-bank, Regent's-park.
Thomas Day, painter, of No. 30, North•street, Port-
man-market, stated that on Monday evening last, about
passing along North.
half-paet seven o'clock, he was business Geargy‘i
bank, \v hen he saw a baker in a cart suddenly stop op-
posite an avenue which led out of the main road, and
who presently, after calling to witness, said " Come
here, here's a man either dead or drunk." Witness ac
eordingly proceeded to the spot, and going a few steps
down the turning alluded to, he SW deceased lying
in the road ; he was quite dead, but his body was
a little warm. Immediately afterwards some police-
men arrived, and deceased was conveyed by them to the
station-house, where a surgeon was sent for, who pro-
nounced life to be extinct. The pockets of deceased
were then searched, and all the property therein having
been taken charge of by the Inspector, he was brought
to
_
that institution. 'Witness (lid not observe any marks
of violence on deceased. The place where deceased was
found had no regular path, was about one hundred yards
In length, and had no carriage-way. The back doors of
some houses in Lodge-road opened into it.
In answer to the question of a gentleman, who stated
himself to be the eldest son of 'the deceased, the wit
that ness said
, the baker, when he called to him, was not
by tne side of deceased, but was standing on the path in
North-bank
Collo .
NEB, to the son—l guess the reason of your ask-
ing that • :
yes,
~_ question is, that you miss some, property? Son—
°,l' ; a watch and a quantity of gold.
Gay 0
. -.tome 1 •
his parents in larrison, an intelligent lad, residing with
aPrinecs-street, Portman-market, deposed
that Oil
be, with another youth, was
proceeding alongY "ing
the place above referred North
bank'
when, on looking down
referred to, they
ground near the saw something on the
covered to be tiw, wall,b which, on approaching, they dis-
tionlevs. Wine,, • body of a man, ly.ingon; his side mu-
alarmed, and V4I6 'l'Y come
were dreadfully
eAlied to him seeingc. filter eome along in his cart, wit-
nessto deceased, he got StUp, when, directing his attention
There was a great outilealand undid deceased's neckerchief.
'Witness then hurried of froth round deceased's mouth.
made known the circumstance the station-house, and having
p4ioidi4lccpati
to
4he nee several policemen accom-
was taken aVitt,t4l spot with a stretcher, and de-
ceasedl)4Zenik" I , per, •
carrying rese(httiAlea-,t,tijoln22hS; said he assisted in
search-
ing
Th.
.2
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breast - ouse, where, on
oar...A ; , . ".u1:-'111
.!9 coat-pocket a pocket-
Art
, "ir--441‘. Bank of England
-sCdlito- i-faleitr %v., notes, three
several blank cheques, and
iodirfece r arY, with some -
1ii.,11 T. S : foirnd 2s. 6d.
-.. memorandums.
in silver a pair of
JfirgePec es, 6:,p nknife, and a poe k 'et-comb,
, but no
otlidn)rop • °h 'y description.
The son of deceased here said, that his
father left

home on Monday morning in the full enjoyment of
health, for the purpose of coming to London to re-
ceive some bills. He had since ascertained that de-
ceased, as he always (lid on his visiting town, had
dined at the King's Arms Inn, Oxford-street,
which house he left near upon five o'clock with the
intention of proceeding to the Great Western Railway
(which was quite in a contrary direction to where he
was found), and at that time he had his watch in his fob,
add between 40 and 50 sovereigns in a canvas bag in his
breeches pocket. Deceased was a remarkably sober man,
and had never been attacked with a fit.
CORONER—From the evidence which has been ad-
duced, I do not feel at all justified in closing this inquiry
without having a post mortem examination of the body
made, to discover whether death was the result of natu-
ral causes or otherwise, as well as to give time for every
person to come forward who can at all state anything
which will tend to elucidate the mystery in which the
death of the deceased is at present involved.
The inquest was then adjourned till two o'clock this
day.