The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

DESTITUTION AND DEATH

Last night an inquest was held by Mr. Bedford, at the
Two Chairmen, Dartmouth• street, Westminster, as to
the death of Elizabeth Doddemeade.

Mr. Lavies, of Great George-street, surgeon, who had
opened the body, said he found it very much attenuated,
but there were no external marks of violence. From the
state of the viscera, and also finding no organic disease,
he could come to no other opinion than that destitution
was the cause of death.

Mr. Barber, the landlord of the White Hart, Little
St. Andrew-street, Seven Dials, said he was the brother
of the deceased, who bad been well off when she married,
but her husband had been extravagant. He had himself
done what he could for them, and had made them an
allowance until lately. They had an allowance from
Marylebone, but in consequence of their state becoming
known, it was stopped at the beginning of the year,
and they were requested to go into the house, but she
said she would starve first. They had been in great
want for some time, and had not common necessaries.
She was subject to fits, and was very violent and
obstinate.''
James Doddemeade, the husband, said he was now a
jobbing carpenter. They had been in great distress for
seven years. When the allowance was stopped in Mary-
lebone, he never applied there or in Westminster, for he
world not let her go into the workhouse.
CORONER—Did you give her anything before she died?
Doddemeade—l gave her a little coffee I had, and a
piece of bread, but she could not swallow the bread ; she
soon after died in my arms.
' Mr. Thomas, the receiving officer of Westminster,
stated, that the last time he saw them was in February,
when he wished them to go into the house ; but they
would not, and no other application had been made
to him.

The jury returned a verdict, that " the death of the
deceased was caused by the want of the common neces-
saries of life."

. _
ENGLISH WILLS IN FRANCE.—By the will of Mr tress's house open, and, on his going in, discovered that
William Stacpoole, which has already given rise to she and the servant girl were lying in their beds bathed
much litigation, he left to each of two daughters a sum in blood, the skulls of both being fractured. The gen-
of 3,0001. sterling, but ordered that if either should darmerie being informed of what had taken place, a
marry without the consent of Mr. James Stacpoole, she minute examination of the premises ensued, and the
was not to receive her legacy, and it was to go to her prints of a shoe being plainly perceived on the floor, and
sister. Miss Eleanora Stacpoole, wishing to contract a something inLussac's manner being remarked as sus-
marriage with M. Caillet, an officer of infantry in garri- picious, his shoe was applied to the mark on the floor,
son at Strasbourg, applied frequently to Mr. James and found to fit exactly. Lussac was arrested, and as
Stacpoole for his consent in writing, but could receive Sudreau was known to be intimate with him, he was also
no answer. She therefor e resolved to summon him taken up. Being pressed hard with questions, he at last
before the Civil Tribunal, in order that he might be confessed his participation in the crime, declaring Lussao
compelled to give his consent, or that the court might to have been the principal. It was afterwards discovered
order the clause in the will to be set aside. M. Caillet that it was with the coulter of a plough that the two un-
also appeared as an intervening party. The cause fortunate women were struck. They still survived, and
was heard on Thursday, when, after hearing coun- the servant was expected to recover.—Paris paper.
self for the plaintiff and defendant, the court declared PEDESTRIANISM. SEWARD AND WEsTBALL S
itself incompetent to interfere, the parties being both RACE.—The race for 50 sovs. a side, between Charles
English. We extract the following from the decision of Westball (of London) and Georgee Shenwurardfi,xeendd
fdeeryteis-
the Tribunal, as pronounced by the President :—" It the terday in a disappointanit t.
enwhich time Westhall had not
French tribunals take cognizance, as between foreigners,
of certain urgent and provisional affairs, yet as this is shown
ka
start was twoh o'clock,
ad at the appointed spot (Frank Key's,
,
only a faculty which they are at liberty to use or not, Gannic -corener, near Barnet.) At a few minutes after,
onlyground without
Seward paced over the
and as in the present cause the plaintiff and the defend-
and claimed. The articles were scanned, but there was
ant are both English, and the question is, besides, the
no provision for a forfeit as to time, and they merely
appreciation of a will governed by the laws of England,
stated that the 1001. deposited was only to be given up
it is not a case in which the tribunal can enter upon the
affair. That as Caillet, who has come forward with the when fairly won or lost by a race. At half past two
plaintiff, without having any quality to authorise his Westhall arrived, pleading icy roads as his cause of de.
doing so, cannot plead in his favour article 14 of the civil tention. Seward had retired, and was, it was stated, in
bed. He also went over the 'ground withoutleaandinogsp-,
code, inasmuch as he is unable to show that any con- bed.
and eventually, after sundry special vention existed between him and the defendant, the P
the referee decided that the men should pl
eadings,
tribunal declares itself incompetent, and condemns the run for the
plaintiff and Caillet to pay the costs."—Galignani. stakes on Tuesday (this day) week, All bets are, con-
THE CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN.—IIiS Royal High- sequently, off, unless otherwise declared.
ness was occupied for the greater part of yesterday in DEATH OF THE ABBE MACPHERSON. This gen-
tleman died at Rome lately, aged eighty.eight. He was
receiving and returning visits. Amongst the nobility
and gentry who called upon his Royal Highness were for many years rector of the Scotch College on the
the Earl of Carnarvon, Mr. Sheriff Kennard, Mr. Under-
Quirinall-hill. The most remarkable passage in his
Sheriff Tilleard, Mr. Beresford, M.P., Mr. Sinclair the
varied career was when ho was selected by the British
younger, of Ulbster, Mr. Challis, Sir Augustus Foster, Government, in 1797, as their agent in one of the
&c. His Royal Highness paid visits to Lady Petrel boldest moves on the European chess-board ever
Captain Ryder Barton' R.N., M' Mackinnon, M.P. Mr. imagined, and yet scarcely known to the historian of the
Laurie, &c. His Royal Highness honoured Mr. Edwin.
D. Smith with a sitting for his portrait,in
and the even- suggestion as
period. In that year the British Cabinet received a
ing visited St. James's Theatre,
land the person of Pope Pius V
h.,et then a prisoner in the
ANDOVER UNION.—At the weekly meeting of the gripe of France and placing. under
I the
h protection of. Eng.
Guardians of this union, held in the board-room of the
workhouse on Saturday, there were more than fifty En lisp Abbe
r i gaast esewn
maritime town of Sarvdoenra,edonto teroiGse noofrtehecolaasntd.,
aAn
ast
fromo London with ample funds ntoct
fresh applicants for admittance into the house, or to have the
accomplish the object. It would have been soccessful in
out-door allowance granted them, being the greatest
number ever known to apply on one day since the for- l'eeeymarrangemenehad not a communication been made
matron of the union. In the union, this year, the every
yerparties in the pay of the Directory from the neigh..
annual Christmas dinner is to be discontinued ; there-
bourhood of Downing-street, disclosing the plan to our
fore, instead of the poor inmates having good roast beef friend in Paris. Macpherson was arrested and plundered
en the frontier, and Pius died in the interior of France,
and beer, as in former years, on that day, this ) car they
whither he was instanly removed. Up to his death the
will have a cheerless meal of bread and cheese. The Abbe had a liberal pension from the papal treasury...,
plea against it is, that the number being so great, a slit-
Edinburgh Express.
ficient sum for that purpose cannot be raised b) voluntary
CRACOW.—The Jews of Cracow, says a letter
contributions.
Mts. SIDDONS.—A statue of this eminent tragedian from that place, of the Ist instant, were not, before the
incorporation, burdened with taxes so heavily as the
is to be placed in Westminster Abbey. The execution
has been intrusted to Mr. Thomas Campbell, the Jews of Galicia, but now they have imposed upon them
a upon liht, for made
sculptor, who has just finished the model, which may be tax
duty upon every candthele y light are
ed on Frid to paayya s, ruse
lerable
ebra,-
seen in the studio of the artist. The original intention
was a half length figure, in bas relief, which may also lion of their Sabbath; they are also to pay three times
be seen in the artist's studio. The half.length bas relief, the amount of the tax upon meat paid by Christians.
The rabbi of Cracow has had an audience of the however, was abandoned for a full length figure, in ideal
Aus-
drapery, with a scroll in the right hand and nothing in trian Commissioner, and petitioned that the Israelites
might be released from these charges; but the Commis-
teiozn.c,epatsioCnrsaaenowd
pnroiwvil
efogrems se
apbanrett
boef
aeG
eaelircdiae,d.and
OMNIBUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday evening, between A few d
the left. The design was originally set on foot by Mr.
snorter replied, that it would be difficult to rant his
Macready, who placed his name at the head of the cata-
logue of persons who contributed to the expense of the
monument.—Musical World.
partialaPplica
days ago were discovered, at Audenge, in
four and five o'clock, as Mrs. Gardner, the wife of a the Gironde, several Roman cases, in a broken state, and the bust of a statue in white marble, of exquisite work-
wood cutter residing in Deptford, was mounting an 1
omnibus in Wellington-street, Strand, she slipped from manship, and some parts of which are in a good state of
the steps, which were slippery from the frost, and pitch-
preservation.—Rris paper.
ing on her head, she sustained a concussion of the brain. I
A BOUNCER:— A. writer at Carmago, Mexico,_ says
She was removed to the house of Mr. Williams, in , he saw a half an acre of corn at that place, the shortest
Exeter-street, where she lies without hope of recovery, stalk of which, with corn upon it, was not less thaw
eighteen feet high I