The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-05 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

A Coroner's inquest was held on Saturday at the
sign of the Red Cow, Long-lane, Barbican, on the
body of Richard Tyson, aged 45, a pauper belonging
to Cripplegate parish, who was found between six and
seven o'clock on Friday morning last lying on the flag
stones of Middlesex-passage, Bartholomew-close, with
his throat cut in a dreadful manner, and quite dead.
Elizabeth Tyson, a poor half-starved looking wo-
man, stated that the deceased was her husband. They
resided in Maidenhead-court, Moor-lane. The de-
ceased had for some time past been afflicted with an
asthma, and was unable to get work. He had, until
the last fortnight, received an allowance of 2s. a week
from the parish, but the committee then reduced it to
Is. On Thursday evening last, after applying to the
committee to afford him further relief, but without
success, he returned home in a state of madness. A
little after five o'clock the following morning he
jumped suddenly out of bed, dressed himself and went
out, banging the street door with great violence.
Witness asked him, previously to his leaving the room,
where he was going ; but he made her no reply.
By the Jury—The deceased was suffering from
starvation. He had nothing whatever to eat during
the whole of Thursday.
Drake, the assistant overseer of Cripplegate, said
he was at the committee on Thursday last, when the
deceased applied for further relief, but was refused on
the ground that he was able to work.
The Jury returned the following verdict:—" That
the deceased came by his death by his own hand, while
in a state of temporary insanity, and that he was in a
state of extreme distress, and his mind was considera-
bly excited, in consequence of his having been refused
relief by the parish officers of St. Giles's, Cripple-
gate, without inquiry being made into his case."
Mr. Denny, the chairman of the committee, said
this occurrence would be a warning to him, and, he
trusted, to parish officers generally, not to refuse re-
lief without due investigation.

An inquest was held on Saturday, beforeW. BAKER,
Esq., Coroner, at the Town of Ramsgate public-
house, Wapping Old Stairs, on the body of John
Qollett, an old fisherman, who had lived with his two
daughters for the last twelve years in a small hatch-
boat on the Thames and Medway.
Thomas Briton Creed, a boy, the son of a lighter-
man, had known the deceased for the last nine months,
who had been in the habit of fishing about Yantlet.
He always lived on board the hatchboat with his two
daughters, and never went ashore. His boat had been
lying in the mud near the London Dock entrance for
the last six months, and he lived a half-starved and
miserable life. I have often heard him complain of
starvation, and he said if he got well he would go to
Yantlet and get a living. I found him lying dead on
the cabin floor, with nothing on his person but an old
waistcoat. His daughter was with him.
Sarah and Mary Collett, the daughters of the old
man, who appeared in a state of utter destitution, be-

lieved their father died for want of proper food and
nourishment. They applied to the parish for relief
about three weeks ago, and the overseers of Wapping
gave them, on two separate occasions, a bag of oat-
meal and two quartern loaves. On the last occasion,
the committee told them not to come any more, unless
they could produce some books and papers to show
that they had some claim on the parish ; therefore,
not being able to do so, they did not apply again.
The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death ;
and that it was accelerated for want of food and
clothing."