The Sun.
London, England, 1805-09-26 00:00:00

CORONER'S

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A Coroners's, Jury of the most respe6table cha--
raiSters in the neighbourhood of Peptford, Brc. was.
yesterday morning swern in before Mr. JENNINGS,
at the Acorn Inn, near. Greenland Dock; after view-
ing the body of the deceased, they proCeeded to exa-
mine Witnesses; the first called was,''
Hester Kitchener--,-she stated, that on the 427th
of July last: she went to 'live with the deceased,
and that on Thursday
.morning last he left home fo
go to his frailly, :Who were at Margate,, and that
on Monday'inorning.at seven o'elecit he returned ;
that he etriphiyed himself. dUring% the Monday aa.be
usually did : he rodeiiut----and that a Mr.,Prahain
dined with him ; that Mr, Grah:tin Veit Mill about
three o'clock ; and that her Master spent the re-
nialuder of the day as usual: came in to his
tea ; it was then dark--Mr. SPatch took tea, with
him, and they were together all theeyetiirig alone.
[Mr. S,pritch was formerly foreman to the deceased;
but, on the 16ili day of Jtily,laSt he purchased,
riceording to his statement, the whole of Mr.
Blight's stock, yard, leases of buildings, dwelling-
)louse, and furniture, but en condition that .Mr.
Blight was to keep possession a the house for a
certain time, was to be an iri-
41.bout t*Tr'Oiiock on • Monday night
, • •
Mr. Spatch came .t,,e.)p ft
.r in the kitchen,
,asLed
for the key of the '4ohting-house and a candle,
and that he 7:::11 to the privy ; she krey be went
there, she heard the ceunthighouse door, thrOugh
Which be had to pass, shut; she also heard him
shut the privy door after him, and, at the same time
she heard a pistol go err in the passage of the house.
(Here the Witness was reminded that she was on
lei oath, and to be cereful what she said.) She
said., she screamed out when she heard the pistol.
Her Mater icarne into the kitchen, leaned on the
dresser, and said, "I am a dead man." She ran
and shut the street door ; she had just done so when
Spatch knocked ; she let bun in ; he ran iturnedi-.
,ately to the deceased, and said, ," 0 my, dear
Blight !" That they led him into the parlour.
Spatch ilien.desired her to go for assistance., which
she refused, piing that she was, afraid; Spatch turd
her to take hold of her Master's hand, and that he
would go.
,She Would not let him, but ran herself
into the kitchen, andumped out of a window, eight
feet from the ground,' and then ran .and "told Mr.
Frost, the !Valle-an, What had Nippened, who, with:
Some other people that were in hit'hotise,
ately ran to the deceased's , honk, and she. With
them she never went to bed as long as the-deceased
ed, but 5 almOst constantly itz ;.tlie room
'Where he ; never heard hirri say lie inspeeted any
one. . , .

QueStion froM a Juryrnan.7----How long was M.
Spatch gone from the house until he returned ?!-7-
A. Two tnitiutes, not. more, if so much, I am sure,
I will take my oath of it.
How long after you heard the privy door shat
did, you hear the.pistol go off 1 S3W the fliOt
betbre,l heard the report ; the pri\ y-door shut, imd
the rei,ort immOiately followed, at alMost one and
tile's:tine tithe.
The Witness' said, sale never -.knew' of
arms being in - the house ; that' she never
SpatCh aklii Mr. Blight to have any \Voids ; and that
When the murder was committed she knew no per-
Son to bv in' the house but. heNelf, Spatch being in
the priv.y.
\‘'itllCSS WaS now called on to state what
the k;le‘A' ofs, li .Spatch fired at. on the Thurs-
day preceding the murder, when she stated as
fa Si;atch and I were alone in the house,
Spltc;t complained of being 111, and said he
would g) st)on to b.,,d; he sat in the front parlour,
With to head on his hand ; he desired me to shut
tha whitloy.,-sliuttcrs, he never did so before.; I shut
the window-shutters in the room where he sat ; he
then desired me to go and 1:7•"g Itiro six-penny-
worth of oysters ; on illy return found
Spateh at the yard gate, talking to a
man and a woman ; he told me he bad been iihot
at.; we went into the parlour together; 'I amid,
after some search, a bail lying on the floor, nearly
aho,it tl',,- place *here my Master usually sat, the
blinds of the WindoW were scattered aboUt the room,
and Mr. Spateh told me a piece: bad hit one side of
his head: The examination of this Witness closed
here; it lasted two bouts.
A “entleman next came forward, and said, there
was a witness below whd could relate something
that had taken place between Mrs:Blight and Mr.
Spatch about tve or si:‘ weeks ago; bUt the Co!
Toner said, he could riot hear it unless it related to
the cause of the death of the deceased; nor could
'we learn what wad alluded to.

Richard Frost sworn, He stated that he kept a
pubic-house very near to the house of the deceased;
that on the night before stated the servant-,maid of
Mr. Blight came to his house, and'said, they have
done for • him at lastH-ther vilhtins have shot My
Master ! sill you go ?" He went imme-
di;ttely, and found the deceased sitting Oil a chair,
supported by Spatch. Spatch asked. him. to go for
Mr. Jotles, the Surgeon, Which he did. On his re.
turn he was often in the room where. the deceased
lay : he never heard him say
,he stispeaed :any one ;
the deceased was in Ina perfea senses. Being asked
as to*the Thursday's business, he related the story
he heard. it from Spateh and the maitketvant,
with this addition—that Spatch and the maid.7scrwutt
c;iine toliis house after it had happened; and told
the story. • r.l.'he'.xlepottent asked Spatch what he
meant to do ? Spatch said:he:meant to go to bed:
he asked bun if lie had any fre-arms to protege}
himself ? Sp itch said he had, but no ammunition ;
he, the deponent', offered to lend blin powder atria
which Spatch refused, saying, they wOuld come
no more that night, as it appeared they did nOtwant
to break into the house.

Mr. Wm. Jone,i, Surgeon, sworn.—He stated
that he lived at Deptiotd ; that he was sent for on
this melancholy occasion , that he found the de
ceased lyitv; on a bed oil the floor in his parlour:
lic tool tile deceased b.; the hand, who said it Doc-
tor, it i i no tilt, I am duno for." Mr. Jonf...;
t scq..s. the wound ; the deceasel/4.1. r.-_ivo,:-.-sted Inn- to
tle;p,t, and (as Mr. JblleS 'ttit'}ii, to use the deceased'
own words) to let liini (.I.;g in peace.". Mr. Jones,

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bowever;examined the wound, and forind a bra
entered the belly and passed through /iim, abd i;;gel
colle ode four iijches from his bas 4-i)cne: he
thought the w=ound' tb be tiaortal. Mr. Yo .t
another. Surgeon, mon came; they bad a consu,„ ;..
tion, after which it was agreed to send for Mr. A t-
Icy Cooper from 'ljendon : Mr. Jones went for him,
On Mr. Cooper's, arrival the deceas'ed was removed
up stairs, and his wound examined. It was found to
bein.siacka state
,as to render. any surgical
ance unnecessary. It was simply covered ;kith a
piece of linen. Mr. Jones never left' the • deceased
until he died, which was about five minutes before
three &clock on the Tuesday. Mr. Blight was per.:
sensible : two hours before bis death.
Witness several times asked him if be suspetied any
person, and *as always 'answered in the negative.
This witness was present 'when Mr. Cocper opened
the body, and.was sure his death was caused by
something being tbreed through his body, which he
had no doubt was a leader! ball.

Richard March sworn.---This Witness deposed
that he had been employed to search the privy of
the deceased's 'honse. That in it he found the
ramrod of an ordinary sized pistol, which was pro.
duced. :That lie found the ramrod standing up.
right, that it could not have been in the privy
for in the situation it was placed hi when he found
,it; it must have been hi a different state had it bt:en
long there. He could find no pistol, but said the
privy was many yards deep, and thought if a pistol
had_ been thrown in with force it would have sun::
too far for him to tind it, unless the privy wos
cleaned out ; but that the ramrod 'being light, could
not be forced Out of sight.
A conversation here took place as to the pro-
priety pc examining Mr. Spatch, when the Jury-
room was cleared. Oh its being re-opened, Mr.
Spatch was called in and sworn. He was tirt
asked as to the pistol being fired at him on the
Thursday, to which he answered, as well as to all
that had' been said of the murder, exa6tly in the
same words as has been stated. Nothing new
whatever came out on his examination, c%cvpt
that he became sole proprietor of all Mr. Blight's
stock, &c.

The examination occupied six 'hours,' after which
the Jury were locked up tbr about a quarter of au
„hour, >c hen they returned a verdi6t of filityrd
der against some person or persons unknown.—A
• farther investigation, N‘;e hear, is to take plain befoie
the police Magistrates.

Ttignets. were taken yesterday an the body of the
driv,:r of the Brentford Stage, who wai killed by
:the hreaking down of the coach in Piceadhly,, and
on the Lazier, ,Alio fell from the second floor of .a
Collee-how, in gt. liMes'i-street in both eases
Verditis were given of Accidental Death.

• Yesterday selnnight an Inquisition was taken at
Lavendon, in ,the 'County of 'locks, before one of
the Coroners for that County,. on view of the body
of Mary Sitneoe, Who was found dead in a .fieltt
adjoinins.the town. It appeared that the deceasd,
:wai subpa to fits; and happening to ho ,c wtth
.one while alone, she was strangled by a black ribbon
which she Wore about- her neck. VerdiCt.-----Died
the Visitation' (if God.
Yesterday.morang, at eleven cielock, as a Geri-
tlematt Was driving-his curricle in • Hyde
disco.rereti a trOn attemptingto hang 11it:14011c uaLkr
tht Park 'WAII, 'near the Cavalry BarraLk.i. l'lte at-
tempt proved fruitkss, for Want of a prop:T fa teeing
to theyope. He afterwards plunged A lihifo two or
three times into his throat. The unhappy roan sr=
conveyed to St. George's Hospital, wire: his w otlnd
were diesed, and soine, faint hopes are e:it
'of 14 recovery,

On Monday se'nuight a fine young man, ap-
prentice to Mr. Jos. BUL.MER, a Buildcr of "New-
c;,stle, met with a serious accident at a house in
Percy-street. Being- placed in the highest (the add
witidow in order to , ass st a i&1oW-4pprentice to
raise a ladder so as to catch the roof of an opposite
house, a holdiast whidi he grasped unfortunately
gave way, by which he was precipitated' to the
ground. He lay some time totdoule..;i, but at knob
showed signs of life. The b\..z.rgeon who was called
on expri.ssed his aitonishinent at finding neither a
bone broke nor a joint dislocated:, although the l?ody
was severely bruised. He is now in a fair way of
recovery,

Oh l'ac'sday Mr, F. a very. respeetab,e West In-
dia merchant, residing at Islington, threW himself'
out of a: two-pair of stairs. window by the fall he
is so much bruised, as to leave very little hope of
Lis life. •

On the cith Inst. at midnight, Mr. RITC3II4, of
Airly-Wight, Scotland, waiting to he ferrie 1 over
at the east boat of Dunkeld, became nip 41.11 at the
delay.of the boat tiLin,.and spurred his horse into the
river, with the intentiuwof swimin 'lig across. The
Current, at all tint I.)OWerfbl at this was
Unusually imp,:tuous. All the ellOrts of the animal
could not stcm the irresistible torrent, and he w:.:s
borne or rather rolled down. the river wi,h his rider.
The inhabitants of the terrp7house, tillable to render
any assistance, immediately flew to give the alarm
in the town. A number of people assembled, and,
with lighted flambeaux, examined the rner, After
a:search of more than an hour and a half, the bodies
were found nearly a mile belnw, utterly lifeless.
the
In, the evening of 7th inst. a shra,.-;,,r
fell at Yecla, in Murcia. It I:isted !‘) tea
minutes, and many id the stones , the
crown of a hat. The tiles cu sevc4.,l a. were
broke by them, and much damage v, to the
olives, vines, and corn. .

The heat of the atmosphere during-the Ipst week
was greater than at any period in the Lourse of the
present summer. Th6'ingliest deg Top of the ther-
eury was ;)a Wednesday the I Stll instant, when tii
Thernumlctor on F.du-enhoit's exposed to the
north in tho. optn air, stood at 7i4.---,43 &gri!es lower
than in the coiresponkting week of the lii t year,
when on Sept. II) in the saint, sit natio:l, it stood
is Singttiar that the hotte4 days of the last
and present suunners should so ne:trly approach to
each other.

A very liberal subscription has been entered into
at Sundori.utd, Monkwearrnonth, and 13ishcp
mouth, to relieve the wants of the Prisoners belen-
Litr to the Port of Sunderland now in couf.nern.
sit
at )Valeacientls, Ve'rdun, Sanlivre, Vtliteh, trtn it,
anti Claarlemont, tii. Franco, ana,otinti., 21,04:
111*(4.

°THEE pLA6B4, WITH. pIttsi.ERAL INFM<NATIO:s3.
I:Passan6; destroyed, and Nc,,aS the rentte Of the.
earthquake, which extended in a' circuit of t
So tt)ilea.
The follor,ving places •were also ,destrovcd:,.--110,.,,a
Mandolfi, Macchia Godena, MirabAo;Vingiliaturit,
and otlwrrvillages round. The following-place part.ly destroyed :--Carripobns:io, Saverna, Supin
eameno, Santo-buono, Colle Danchtte,
trope, Civic! Nm-va,BOlino, and other villa.zcs round.
N. B. Of the cliff-clew places in Abruzzo, and the
Contado.di Molise, that have suffered, no particulars
Are as yet given, no certain account having as yet
been received of the number of families or persons
dead or missing; but as Lamy are- supposed dead
that aro missing, the number i likely to be less, at
114,:gt vr,t. 14)pe,so.

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