The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-26 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

On Saturday afternoon a highly respectable Jury was
empanelled before Mr. Baker, Coroner for the Eastern
Division of the County, at the Crown Inn, High-street,
Kensington, to inquire into the circumstances attending
the death of Mr. William Cleke, formerly a builder in a
large way of business, but latterly, and prior to his death,
living upon his fortune, at 30, Robert-street, Hoxton.
Previous to the evidence being taken, the Coroner
stated the reasons for his holding the inquest in the
district apportioned to his colleague, Mr. Wakley. The
death having occurred in his own district, and the friends
of the deceased, through their solicitor, having informed
him that rumours were very rife in the district where he
lived that his death had been caused by foul means, con-
sequent upon the unhappy way in which the deceased
lived with his wife, he had determined, so as to quiet
those rumours, on having the body, which had been
buried in the Kensall-green Cemetery, exhumed ; and in
order to prove the exact cause of death, he had ordered
a post mortem examination to be made.
The first witness called was police-constable Thomas
Quinlan, 240 N, who deposed that on or about the 3d of
June last he was on duty at the Robert-street station-
house, Hoxton, when an alarm was given of a disturb-
ance in the street. On going out he saw a great crowd
round the residence of the deceased. The street door
being open he entered, and ott going into the back kit-
chen he saw the wife of the deceased, with her back to-
wards the fire, crying and greatly agitated. The de-
ceased soon after came into the room, and said that his
wife had threatened to stab him with a knife. She did
not deny it, but said that if he continued to aggravate
her in the manner he had done, she should do so some
day or another, at the same time taking a large knife
from the table. The deceased flew behind him for pro-
tection, and shortly after accompanied him into the front
parlour, where he said that he went in fear of her, and
was afraid to take any tea or coffee without she
drank out of the cup first, and he was certain
that some day or other she would de for
him. The deceased, at the time he made the statement,
appeared greatly agitated and terrified. The deceased
was sixty-five years of age, and his wife only thirty ;
and when he left the house the deceased was in the par-
lour, and his wife in the back kitchen. He had often
been called in before when they were quarrelling. When
he was called in the deceased appeared in very gooa
health.
Mr. Nicholls, solicitor, of Cook's-court, Lincoln's-inn,
who was present to watch the proceedings on behalf of
the deceased's daughter by a former marriage,
esatatoed
that on the 10th of July they received a communication
from the deceased which showed that he i
o apparent
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good health, and on the 13th they re
of his death. This, added to the rumoureied
to
neighbourhood, had induced the daughter
e that the above
present inquiry. It further Appeared currentcal li
for the
the
fracas alluded to by the polieeman took place on the 3d
inst. and not in June.
proved the exhumation ofT the Kanendsiitnghtoanvinhgabvienegn
Pummell, one of the
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geon,unable,- in ortin
withoutana examination
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stomach, to state the preciso cause of
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death. After some re
the Coroner adjournedmtahe inquiry till to-morrow.

Tilt' Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
have arrived at Cowes, Isle of Wight, trom Grosvenor-house.
We believe the rumour that the Queen and Prince Albert
would visit the noble Marquis and Marchioness at Moore-park
this week, was without foundation.
ARUNDEL CASTLE.—The Duke of Norfolk
is surrounded by a numerous circle at this princely scat. The
Earl and Countess of Suriey and Ladies Howard, Viscount
and Viscountess Fitzalan, Lady Lyons, Miss Lyons, and Lords
Edward and filernard Howard are ;toying there.