The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-08 00:00:00

DISGRACEFUL TRA NSACTION.

An Inquest was on Tuesday evening held at
the Blue Lion, gray's Inn-lane, before 11. STIRLING, Esq.,
the Coroner for that district, on the bodies of four influtts
(names unknown), who were found in a dreadfully mutilated
state on Sunday last in the field leading from Gray's Inn-lane
towards Bagnigge Wells. From the subjoined evidence it will
appear that the probability was, that the bodies had been em-
ployed either by some private student of anatomy, or at one or
other of the anatomical schools, and afterwards deposited in the
waste land where they were found. After the Jury had been
sworn in, the following evidence was tendered.
John Robinson, a lad, living in Britannia-row, Bagnigge-
wells, deposed, that on Saturday night last, in crossing the fields
towards his own home, he observed two women with a light
looking down on something. Attracted by curiosity he advanced
towards the spot, and inquired of them whether they had lost
any thing, when he was told they had discovered the body of
an infant, which they pointed out to witness, who immediately
called the watchman, and the body was placed for the night
in the cellar of a newly built house in the immediate neighbour-
hood. It was that of a male infant apparently two years old;
the head was missing, and the bowels had been taken out, the
flesh had been removed from the greater part of the body, so as
to lay the arteries and veins bare, some of which were stopped
with sealing-wax.
John Smith, a bricklayer, deposed, that on Sunday morning,
having heard of the body being found, and of its being headless,
he was induced to visit the spot in the expectation of finding the
head. In the course of his search he found in a hollow nearly
behind the Welsh School the mutilated remains of three other
bodies. They were carelessly covered over with straw, and
were all of them headless. Their ages appeared to be from one
to three years. One of them was the body of a female child,
another that of a male, and the other was so mutilated, and et,
little of it remaining, that it was impossible to determine its sex:
--The arm of one was missing, and the bowels were removed
from all, and the flesh of different parts of each of them re.,
moved, as if for anatomical purposes, the arteries of many parts
being thereby exposed. Information was immediately sent 50
the workhouse of St. Pancras, whence a shell was dispatched,
and the body removed to the workhouse.
One of the Jurors inquired whether the two females who
pointed out the body first found were in attendance. He was
informed that they had not come forward, and that it was im-
possible to summon them, as their names and address were both
unknown.
The CORONER observed that it did not appear that their
evidence was needed.
M WoNNzLL, a surgeon residing in Gray's Inn-lane,
stated, that he had examined the bodies since their removal W
the workhouse. They had evidently been employed for purposes
of an anatomical-kind, and he should suppose that they had been
stolen in their half-anatomised state from some surgeon's, or
from some public lecture-room, by a fellow, who, having severed
the head from each of the bodies, had thrown the trunks into
the field where they were found. The head was the most va-
luable part and would fetch a good price. No Surgeon, in the
opinion of witness, would have thrown the bodies away in that
state, as they might have been rendered still further serviceable
for dissection. They were in a rather putrescent state, but were
not so far gone as to be wholly useless.
The CORONER summed up the evidence to the Jury. The
bodies had no doubt been operated upon ; and whether they
had been stolen from the operator and cast where found, or
whether they had been there thrown by the operator himself,
did not appear. The conduct of the person who had thus, in
violation of every feeling, exposed them, could not be too
strongly condemned.

The Jury returned a verdict as follows:—" That the bodies
had been employed for anatomical purposes, and had after-
wards been thrown into the field where found."
The affair has produced great sensation in the neighbourhood
of Gray's Inn-lane. Several persons who have recently buried.
children have been to the work-house to look at the bodies
none of tiieni, however, have been owned.

BOXING.

BARNEY AARON AND PETER WARREN.

An inviting morning and anticipated good sport
drew together a quality muster of the fanciers of every sort on
Tuesday, in a gravel-pit, half a mile to the westward of Coln-
brook (eighteen miles). The men, although of light weights,
had proved themselves first-rate artists ; Barney never having
been beat since overtaken by manhood, and IVarren gained
faMe by defeat in three battles with that admired Pet of the
Fancy, Dick Curtis. The men arrived at the scratch in time,
on excellent terms with themselves, with their seconds, Belasca
and Nathan for Barney, and Jew Ward and Maurice Delay
for 'Warren. Betting 7t04 on the lindwn good little Israelite,
and laid on thick by the best judges of his fraternity. The
match was for a stake of 101) sovereigns.
After shaking hands both turned to work, and were too eager
for spoiling mugs to do much execution. Much caution was'
used, and in doing so it was rather hinting than hitting. In a
else both went down.

2. A continuation of cautious fighting, and both difficult to
be got at. Some slight exchanges of hits, and both down
again. _ _

-3. Barney made a feint, his adversary ran in upon and
tapped first claret by lacerating the temple. Warren was
thrown, and betting was 3 to 1 against him.
4. Barney began to find out that Warren could not make his
counter hits upon him, and he began to play a gay bull-dog
game. Ile unmuzzled, broke through his adversary's guard,
and ran him down.
In the sth, oth, ith, and Bth rounds. Barney led most gal-
lantly, and proved himself any thing but a cur-bred one.--
Warren behaved with equal manliness, but his adversary was
too fast upon him, and would not take denial. Warren was
undermost in these rounds.

9. Barney was a little open-mouthed to rid himself of the
piper. Warren for the first time had the best of a gay round.
He parried and broke ground from his adversary, and returned
upon him with much skill, and he placed a severe right-
bander upon Barney's eye, which nearly blinkered him. He
had also the best of the fall.
10. This was also a manly fought round, but Warren found
his counter bits avoided, or parried, and he seemed to drop
down upon his luck. Barney never left him until he got hint
down.

11, 12, and 13. It was 4 and 6 to 1 on Barney; and Virarrez`
was down in every round, and the claret flew copiously. IT!,
fact, his chance was like a 36 gun ship of an enemy to one
our British wooden walls well mounted of 44.
To describe the rounds until the 18th would be so much of
sameness in favour of Barney, that the repetition would be
tiresome. In this round Warren made a manly istruggle—wen
courageously up to his adversary's head, and fought himself
out and in his adversary too.

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In the 20th round t was .uombard-street to a rotten orange;
and although Warren stood cutting up until the 29th round, he
had no chance, and. Barney was declared the victor, and proved
himself a very rare man.
At the close of the battle Barney was landed in a harouche
and four, bearing the emblems of victory, and was seated by
the side of Jimmy Soars, President of the Daffy Club; and
after regaling themselves with potions of the Seagar DaffY,
they reached Duke's-place, at the hospital mansion of the
Benjamins, the swellish part of Petticoat-lane and St. Cathe-
rine's having there assembled to congratulate their little Shinee
on his luck.

In the evening stakes were made good for Cooper and Bkd•
and Curtis and .dyres, at harry Hull's; and for Turner and
Inglis at Jack Randall's, and thus a busy day closed.

COAL-MARKET, APRIL 7.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
20k Newcastle - - lit
Vi Sunderland - - Si

- 328 641 ri m.to 44, 61'
- 323 Od to 443 Ca

BIRTH.
On the 6th inst., at Mornington-crescent, Camden-town, the
lady of T. Abbott, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED.

On Saturday last, April 3, at Chelmsford, Mr. Marshall, of
Perceval-street, to Eliza Maria, daughter of the late Mr. Thos-
Martin Hawkes, of Sowerby Brewery, Halifax, county of York.
On the 6th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, rector of HadleY',
Middlesex, Francis Take, Esq., of Crutchedfriars, to EmilY,
eldcit daughter of William Marshall, Esq., of Norwood-lodge,
Surrey..

On the fith inst., at St. Mary's, Newington, Surrey, John
Studhohne, Esq., of Kingmoor-hoase, Cumberland, to Eliza-
beth,' fourth daughter of Mr. Paul Nilson, of Carlisle.

DIED.

On the sth instant, aged 26, Jane, wife of Mr. William
Debonaire Haggard, of Union-place, Blackheath-road.
On the 6th instant, aged seven years, Josephine Harriet,
the daughter of J. Woodhead, Navy Agent.
On Tuesday, the 6th instant, in Tavistock-p/aoe, Aan,
daughter of the late William Complin, Esq., of Spital-square.
On the-6th instant, Jane, the wife of Mr. James Hurst, sol.,
citor, Milk-street, and youngest daughter of , the late Mr. John
'Dalmer, of Corsham, Wilts. .

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