The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-14 00:00:00

MANSLAUGHTER.

Thursday an inquest was held by adjournment, before
Mr. W. Baker, coroner, and a jury, at the Duke of Wel
lington, in John-street, Limehouse, on the body of Julia
Fitzgerald, aged 15 years, who died on Friday last, from
the effects of injuries she received on the Bth of Septem-
ber last, during a quarrel with a family named King.
It appeared in evidence that the deceased was a
waistcoat-maker, and formerly lived with her maternal
parent, at No. 8, Samuel. street, Limehouse °fields. The
family consisted of five individuals, the deceased, her
widowed mother, two sisters and a brother, and they
occupied one small room. They were all employed in
making up slop work, by which they obtained a very
miserable subsistence, their small earnings being
scarcely sufficient to procure the necessaries of life. On
Tuesday, the Bth of September, the goods of the mother
were distrained upon for 12s. 6d., arrears of rent due to
her landlord, a man named King, who lived in the same
house. A quarrel was the consequence of this proceed-
ing, and Mrs. King took away the slop work on which
Mrs. Fitzgerald and her family were engaged. Mrs.
King was assisted in this proceeding by her two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Green and Mrs. Sumner, and they professed
to claim the trousers, waistcoats, and other things, by
virtue of an order from a magistrate, which had never
been made. The three women followed Mrs. Fitzgerald,
and Mrs. King knocked her down and took the property
from her. The deceased came to the assistance of her
mother, and Mrs. Sumner struck the deceased a violent
'blow on the back with her fists. The girl attempted to
enter the house, and Mrs. Sumner again struck her a
violent blow on her right side. Green also struck the
girl on the right side, and she fell to the ground and
fetched her breath heavily, as if she was very seriously
hurt. Richard King, a youth, eighteen years of age,
the son of the landlord, joined in the outrage on the poor
girl, and struck her on the breast close to the coal-hole
door. The whole of the goods, which were of trifling
value, were taken away by King, and the family %ere
turned into the street. They subsequently obtained
another apartment at a small house iu George-street,
Limehouse-fields. The deceased complained of severe
pains in her right side the day she was beaten, and
sub-
sequently she repeatedly said that Richard King had
kicked her on the stomach, and that the wretches—
meaning King and his family—had murdered her. Her
body was severely bruised from the blows she received,
and she continued in great pain until Friday last, when
she expired.
, The CORONER summed up at great length ; and the
jury, after deliberating for nearly an hour, returned a
verdict of " Manslaughter against Richard King the
younger, and Sarah Green and Jane Sumner, his sisters,'
and Mr. Baker immodilvely issued !,;
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