The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-24 00:00:00

LANCASTER.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
William llartley, a freeman of Lancaster, proved that
he was present at the festivities referred to by the
Learned Counsel. He was brought into Lancaster on
the night before the poll with a number of other
freemen, who, like himself, were rather fresh, and
that on the following day he received 355. from Wyse,
upon the understanding that he should vote for Mr.
Gregson. He voted for Mr. Gregson and Mr. Greene.
John Wasey, a freeman of Lancaster, deposed that he
had charge of the voters at the Victoria Hotel, and on
the day of the election he remembered hearing Hartley
say to another voter, " See, I am going to vote fur Greg-
son, and I have got this," exhibiting some gold and
silver.

John Capon, another freeman, proved that before
and during the election, ho was sumptuously entertained
at Dobson's and the Victoria Hotels free of expense. Ile
received a sovereign from some person whom he did not
know before going to the poll. He voted for Mr. Greg-
son, and after he had polled he received 50s. from
the same party who gave him the sovereign. He also
got a ticket for 55., which he afterwards exchanged for a
bottle of rum.

Some other evidence of a similar nature was put in,
and the Committee then adjourned till to-morrow.

VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER
AGAINST A MEDICAL OFFICER.
On Tuesday an inquiry, adjourned from Saturday week
last, was resumed at the Millbank Prison before Mr.
Bedford, the coroner, concerning the death of Patrick
M'Ginty, aged 26, a convict.
A short time ago the attention of the Home Secre-
tary, while on a visit of inspection to the prison, was
directed to the state of the deceased, then a patient in
the infirmary, where he had been taken immediately on
his reception from the Glasgow gaol. The deceased
was then in such a dreadful emaciated state that Sir
G. Grey gave ()filers for the fullest inquiry to be made
into the circumstances of his removal to Glasgow.
Captain Williams, one of the inspectors of prisons,
with a shorthand writer, appointed by the) Home-office,
and Mr. Miller, the governor of Glasgow gaol, were pre-
sent at 3, esterday's proceedings.
The following was the substance of the evidence given
at the first meeting of the jury on Saturday week :
Captaie John Richard Groves, governor of Millbank
prison, said the deceased was received on the 21st of
January last from Glasgow gaol, having been convicted
at Glasgow on the 28th of the previous September, of
assault and robbery, and sentenced to seven years' trans-
portation. The medical certificate, which accompanied
the deceased and the prisoners who came with him,
stated that they were free from mental and bodily
disease, and that their healths would not be endangered
by removal. Two hours after admission, Dr. Bailey, the
physician, gave a certificate that he was in the last de-
gree of debility, suffering from internal scrofulous
disease, and the deceased was immediately taken to the
infirmary. The deceased complained to him (the gover-
nor) of the treatment he had received in Glasgow gaol,
regarding diet and medical treatment.
Anthony 11I‘Ginty, a prisoner, but no relative of the
deceased, said, that they were chained together all the
way from Glasgow gaol. When leaving, the deceased
seemed very ill and weak, and said he thought he should
die. They travelled by steam-boat and railway. In
the boat the deceased was so ill that he was obliged to
keep his bed the whole way, witness being chained
to him.
At this stage of the inquiry the proceedings were ad-
journed in order to obtai❑ evidence from Glasgow.
On the re-assembling of the jury,
Malcolm Clark, warder i❑ the Glasgow prison, was
examir.ed. He said that he had charge of the deceased
until the day he left for London. There was no regular
infirmary iu the prison, but only a ward in which the
sick prisoners were put. The deceased was not in that
ward. He was under the treatment of Mr. David
Gibson, the surgeon, and was taking medicine
up to the time of leaving. He told witness he
thought he should be better when he got away from
Glasgow. Witness saw him the day before his removal,
and thought him in a fit state to undergo the
journey. The surgeon examined him the day before he
left. The morning he left ho came down stairs assisted
by a prisoner or a warder, who held him by the hand
because lie was so weak, and was chained by the ancle
to another prisoner. No direction was given by the
surgeon as to the manner in which he should be re-
moved. No medicine was given him for the journey.
The Cortoxxx produced the certificate signed by Mr.
Gibson, the surgeon, and asked the witness whether that
was the document sent with the deceased and the other
prisoners?—The witness replied that it was.
The following is a copy of the certificate:—
" I hereby certify that the prisoners are free from
contagious disease, acute inflammatory attacks, fever,
insanity, or idiotcy, and that their healths will not bo
endangered by removal.
(Signed) "DAVID GIBSON."
Mr. Edward Hall, resident surgeon of the Milbank
prison, said he saw the deceased on his reception on the
21st of January, and found him pale, thin, and extremely
emaciated. It was soon ascertained that there was
scrofulous disease of a very decided character in the
bowels, and in a less marked degree in the lungs. Dr.
Bailey, the physician, immediately pronounced him unfit
to be removed to the prison, and he was at once taken to
the infirmary. He gradually grew worse, and died on
the 10th of the present month. A post mortem examina-
tion was made, and the cause of death found to be
scrofulous disease of the lungs and bowels.
The CORONER then summed up the evidence, and the
jury, after a short deliberation, returned the following
verdict:—" That the deceased died from natural causes,
and the jury are of opinion that he should not have been
removed from Glasgow, that the surgeon should not
have permitted him to take the journey, that death was
accelerated by the journey, e.nd the jury find David
Gibson, the surgeon, guilty of manslaughter."
The CORONER said he wou:id acquaint the Lord-Advo-
cate of Scotland with the verdict the jury had returned.

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