The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-09 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.

Tin,: NEW BUILDING ACT.—Thomas- Scott, the owner of
some low lodging-houses in the neighbourhood of Somers•
town, was charged with having violently assaulted Thomas
O'Connell, and he was tined 50s.
In the course of the investigation, it appeared that the
plaintiff occupied a kitchen in the house of the prisoner,
where he slept with his family, whilst the upper part of the
house was crammed by numerous distressed persons. The
prisoner, it was stated, formerly kept houses of a similar de-
scription in St. Giles's.

Mr. GREENwoon, addressing the prisoner, said it was im•
portant that he (the prisoner) should know that the recent
Act of Parliament, passed for the immediate protection of
the poor. and to prevent disease and fever in the town, came
into operation on and after the Ist day of July, 1846, and
forbad the letting of kitchens, &c., unless built peculiarly
and constructed pursuant to the directions laid down in
the statute. The parties letting out such places to the
poor were liable to a penalty of 20s. for every day it was
used.

Scott said his kitchens were formed according to the Act of
Parliament.

Mr. GREENWOOD—If so, all the better. He directed the
police to look after the place; and Mr. Wilkes, the overseet,
being also present, was desired to attend to the case.

THE ALLEGED MURDER NEAR

NO ['TING HAM.

NOTTINGHAM, TUESDAY.—TIN prosecution of the inquiry
into the mysterious circumstances connected with the death
of William Robinson, whose body was found in a mangled
state on Popplewick Forest, took place to-day, before Mr.
C. Swann, coroner, and a respectable jury. The facts deve-
loped, though leading the jury to return a verdict different
to what was anticipated, are not so satisfactory as could be
wished, as the principal witness on the occasion, Henry
Shepherd, who accompanied Robinson from Nottingham,
has evidently been telling untruths, owing to some cause
not easily to be defined. Perhaps he was too mnch in
liquor to recollect what occurred, supposing he was entirely
free from causing, by any means, the death of Robinson ;
and if not, his dissimulation renders the case still more
mysterious.
After giving the history of his proceedings on Saturday,
prior to meeting Robinson in Nottingham, and setting out
with him for Mansfield, he related several particulars dif-
ferent to what he had stated on the previous day, and denied
that. any quarrel had taken place between himself and

Jane Widnall, wife of Robert Widnall, said, that about
half-past nine o'clock on Saturday ❑ight last, she saw a
waggon drawn by three horses going along on the Mansfield-
road, and heard a man say, " What are you reproaching me
fltr?" ami another man replied, "I am not reproaching you ;"
and then the first man said, "If you aggravate me any more.
I will get off the waggon and walk," and the man then got
off the waggon and unfastened his dog, after which he got
upon the waggon again, anti they drove on. It was about
half a mile before they got to Sherwood-lodge-farm.
The principal witness affecting the verdict was Dr.
Thomas Lig' tfoot, of Not inghan•, who said—l have this
day examine•: the body with Mr. Frost, and externally we
found the back part of the right ear considerably lacerated;
there was al-o a brui-e above and below the ear about the
size of half-a-croan. On the left side of the face we ob•
served three bruises, varyiog from two to three inches in
length; slight ecchymosis on the under surface of the left
eye; there was a number of scratches nn the forepart of the
right shoulder, as likewise one or two bruises. The second
and third fingers of the left hand were broken at their first
joints; the hands were clenched. On the right and
left side of the abdomen I observed considerable ecchy-
mosis extending down each side of the fore and inner
surface of the thighs to the peritoneum. There was a con-
tused grazed wound, three or four inches in length, on
the forepart of the right thigh, running in an oblique
direction, and commencing from about three or four inches
from the bend of the body. He then described the internal
injuries. The second, third, fourth, fixth, sixth, and seventh
ribs, on the right side, were broken, and other parts affected.
He thought the fracture of the ribs might be caused by some
great force, produced either from before or behind the body;
a severe crush would produce such, a carriage-wheel would
have the same effect; but there was no external mark on
the surface of the body; they might be produced by being
jammed between two bodies, such as being squeezed between
the wheels and body of a waggon. There was a mark of a
wheel on the right thigh and the right side of the belly. I
ant of opinion that some great pressure upon the abdominal
viscera has caused death, and that the deceased has been run
over. I do not think it possible the deceased could have
walked from the spot where his jacket and whip were found
to the spot where his body was afterwards found—a distance
of upwards of half a mile. I should think the deceased
would faint away immediately after receiving the injury, and
that he could not have moved many yards.
No other evidence could be brought directly to bear upon
the case to show how the deceased received the injury on the
face and the marks on his shoulders; and, although the evi-
dence was not conclusive, the jury, after a long consultation,
returned as their verdict, "That the deceased has been acci-
dentally run over and killed by some carriage or carriages
unknown passing along the highway."

Au accident of a remarkable nature occurred at Daw-
lish a few days since. A man in the Preventive Service,
while looking from the cliffs overhanging the cutting of a
railway, his foot. slipped, and he fell a depth of thirty feet.
and in his descent a pistol which he had in his pocket by
some means exploded, but, wonderful to relate, he escaped
this double accident with only a slight scratch.— Denonport
1 ekgraph.
THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT THE DROITWICH SALT -
WOR.KS.—DROITWICIL TUESDAY.—The shocking affair which
happened here on F. Way last, turns out to be at a much more
extraordinary character than even appears d at the time of
its occurrence. Yest,rdsy afternoon, the_ coroner for the city
of Worcester (where one of the unfortunate sufferers died at
the hospitsl), cninmenced an inquiry at that institution,
before a respi.ctcble jury, touching the origin of the
accident, but in the absence of necessary witnesses
the praceedings were adjourned until Thursday next.
Since Friday. the pr.,prietors of the works where the acci-
,l,•tit happetnA hare surveyed the ruins of the premises; and
ti: id that at the Inwest computation it would take a thousand
pound.. to put them in sufficient repair for use. The origin of
the thsas,n.us airtir cannot ascertained with Any degree
of. nev,r havinz been a similar at cid,nt at
these or ,my oti,e;• s4lt .verks a!, Droitwich within recollec-
tion. The 101'e' the exi.b.,sim, may be j,,(;ged from the
tact, that two carts, with the horses attached to them, were
actually blown into the river Satwarpe, and the scalding
brine, escaping from the tanks, rushed into the stream, and
rende:ed it too hot to bear the hand in, besides destroying
the fish.
DOMESTIC SEA GULL.—A respectable correspondent
tran.,n,t, to us the troll,,,vi!:_t scrap a,f natural history
" There is the posessiou of a geialeni:lq re,tdiog in Garnet
hill, a s'a gill!, of ffe large species, from AliA3 Craig,
, !:,.. • 1 from the nest. and which has proved
se•vic•.able 1., it.,stroyieg the snails and slugs in his
r-r I,n : h.,t .11 addition to th;s description feeding, he has
acq.nrot ta..te tor sparrows, :sod scarcely a day passes on
which he noes INA regale himself with tour or five ut them.
His ,vst :In carchi-g th..m is this:—He is upon the best
terms number ut pigeons whielt this gentleman has;
and, as the sparrows fed al ng with them, he mixes in the
assumes as much as possible their
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app,,,nance, and ;hen 'sets at the sparrow as a pointer dog
would do his game; the next instant he has his prey by the .
back, and w.,llows it witheut giving it time to shut its
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