The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-19 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Yesterday an inquest was held at the Royal Charlotte,'
Mill Pond-bridge, Bermondsey, on the body of Elizabeth
Morton, who died in consequence of taking arsenic. It
appeared that the deceased went to the shop of Mr. Tilley,
an apothecary, and asked for something to kill rats. He
recommended arsenic, and he gave her, at her request, half
an ounce. Shortly afterwards, a policeman called to ap-
prise him that a woman had poisoned herself on Bermond-
sey-level, and on going there he discovered that it was the
same woman he had served with arsenic, and also ascer-
tained that she had taken the whole of it. He adminis-
tered the usual remedies in such cases, but she died.
The deceased was observed to enter a beer-shop called
the " Green Man," after the purchase of the poi-
son, call for half a pint of beer, into which she
threw the arsenic, and then drank off the contents. A
witness named Elizabeth Farrell stated that she lived next
door to the deceased, and that on the day mentioned, pre-
viously to her taking the poison, she saw her, and
she then complained of distress owing to her husband's
drunken habits. She said that she was a broken-hearted
woman, and, taking out a pawnbroker's duplicate of her
wedding ring, gave it to her. The witness added, that
the deceased's husband was in the habit of beating her when
.he came home drunk. Two policemen of the R division
were examined, and they stated that the deceased was a
hardworking woman, but the husband was a drunkard.
The Jury returned a verdict " that the deceased died from
taking a quantity of arsenic,.being of unsound mind at the
time. They at the same time requested Inspector Ste-
phens to express to .the deceased's husband their indigna-
tion at his conduct towards her, besides the disrespect he
had shown in not being present himself at the inquiry.

Yesterday afternoon au inquest was held at the Peniten-
tiary, Millbank, Westminster, before Mr. Higgs and a re-
spectable -jury, to inquire touching the death of Samuel
Maund, aged 33, a convict in the above institution.
The jury not assembling at the hour specified in their
summons, it was intimated that such was occasioned from a
dread of infection, the deceased having died of cholera.
Captain Chapman, the governor, observed that from ex-
perience he was convinced of the absurdity of such a dread.
He had repeatedly attended upon cholera patients in the
establishment, and that at a time when 15 or 20 were dying
weekly of that disease.
Mr. Wade, the surgeon f the ption, coincided in the

opinion of the Governor, alleging that it was not infections,
but that it emanated from the atmosphere.
The CORONER observed, that from his situation he was
exposed to infection, but that he should never feel any alarm
upon the subject.
Twelve gentlemen having been sworn on the Jury, the
evidence was taken.
Captain Chapman, the Governor, deposed that the de—
ceased was admitted into the prison the 25th of November,
1833, from the Justitia hulk, lying at Woolwich, having
been tried at the Worcester Assizes, convicted of being the
receiver of stolen property, and sentenced to 14 years'
transportation, which, under the Act of Parliament, was
commuted to seven years' imprisonment in this institution.
He was in good health when received.
Mr. James Wade, surgeon of .the prison, deposed that
the deceased was admitted into the infirmary on the 16th
instant ; he was troubled very much with vomiting and
purging. Witness administered proper medicines, and he
rallied a little. On the following day he was seized with
violent symptoms, and died about three o'clock in the after-
noon. His easy was one of decided malignant spasmodic
cholera.

The Jury viewed the body, which was enveloped in a
sheet steeped in chloride of lime.
Verdict—" That the deceased died a natural death from
malignant spasmodic cholera."

Yesterday evening, at eight o'clock, an inquest was held
by Mr. William Payne, the Coroner for London, at St.
George's Workhouse, . Mint-street, Southwark, to inquire
into the circumstances attending the death of a fine female
child named Jane Ann Daley, between seven and eight
years old, whose body had been disinterred in consequence
of a report having gained circulation that her death was
occasioned by the brutal and inhuman treatment she had
received from her own father. The inquiry excited unusual
interest, and the jury-room, as also its avenues, was groatly
crowded.

Ellen Quin, a married woman, residing at No. 6, Fox's-
buildings, Kent-street, Borough, stated that she lived next
door to the deceased, who lived with a Mrs. Clarke. Mrs.
Clarke bad the care of four other children. The deceased
had no mother, and her father was lodging at Mrs. Clarke's.
There is but a small brick wall to part the two houses, and
when witness is in her kitchen she can plainly hear what is
said in Mrs. Clarke's house. On Saturday three weeks,
between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, she heard Mrs.
Clarke and Mr. Daley, the father of the deceased child,
quarrelling. Mrs. Clarke requested him to go out of her
room, and Mr. Daley, in reply, said that he was in his own
room. Mrs. Clarke then struck at him with her fists, and

in about five minutes after witness's daughter heard Mrs.
Clarke's daughter say to Daley, " You have fallen upon
Jane (the deceased), and killed her, for now she's dead."
The child was, in about a quarter of an hour after that time
laid out.

By the Jury—The child never cried. Mr. Maze, a
surgeon, was sent for by Mrs. Clarke, and he attended.
Witness saw the child looking out of the window between
three and four o'clock in the afternoon. The children were
all in bed, and witness has heard that the deceased had been
ailing some time.
Sarah Williams, a married female, living at No. 14 in the
same buildings, opposite to Mrs. Clarke's deposed, that she
was at her own door about twelve o'clock on the night
stated by the last witness, when she heard Mrs. Clarke and
Mr. Daley quarrelling. One was up stairs, and the other
was down stairs. Mrs. Clarke was down stairs, and witness
heard her go up stairs. Witness here hesitated, but she
afterwards said that she heard Daley say, " Oh, my child
oh, my child !" Mrs. Clarke then exclaimed, " You have
killed your child." They then both went down stairs, and
Mrs. Clarke's eldest daughter said, " Oh, Mr. Daley, you
fell on her yourself." Mrs. Clarke then asked her daughter
for some vinegar, when Daley said, "Is it vinegar you
want ? You shall suffer for this tomorrow."

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By the Jury—They are frequently in the habit of quar-
reling with each other.
Elizabeth Etty, living at 13, Fox's-buildings, heard the
father of the deceased say, " You shall suffer for this, for
you have killed my child." By what witness heard of the
quarrel it was about some money. Witness heard Mrs.
Clark ask for vinegar, and Daley said, " Oh, you want vine-
gar, do you ?"
Police constable John Woodhouse, 13, division M, in
consequence of hearing of the circumstance went on the
subsequent 'Monday to Mrs. Clarke, whom he saw, and
she said that the child was in bed and taken with a cough.
Mr. Maze was sent for, but before he arrived the child died.
After several other witnesses had been examined in cor-
roboration of the foregoing evidence,
Mr. Maze, the surgeon, gave it as his opinion that the
deceased died from ulceration of the lungs.
The coroner here informed the jury that the inquiry had
been instituted in consequence of an anonymous letter that
had been addressed to him, and on inquiry in the neigh-
bourhood it had been ascertained that a rumour was afloat
that the :child died from violence, and by his direction the
body was yesterday (Monday) morning disinterred, but it
did not appear to him that there was any foundation for
such a report.
The Jury, who coincided with the coroner, after a short
consultation returned a verdict " that the deceased died a
natural death."

An inquest was last week held at the Vernon's Head,
North Audley-strect, on the body of Mis 3 Ann Taylor, a
young woman of respectable connexions.
Mr. Foreham, surgeon, of North Audley-street, deposed
to finding the deceased in the agonies of death at Mrs.
Greenwood's, No. 38, North Audrey-street, where she was
an occasional lodger. He discovered, on a post niortem
examination, that she had died from the effects of laudanum.
She was not enceinte.

Miss Keeling, a cousin of the deceased, stated that her
cousin had been in the service of Mrs. Grover, the wife
of Captain Grover, who lived at Mrs. Wood's, a respect-
able grocer, at No. 36, Berners-street. On Thursday the
deceased called to see Mr. Wood, with whom, it appeared,
she was on familiar terms. On her return home she became
ill, and next morning died.
Mr. Wood, who did not deny the intimacy, said that I e
had had no quarrel with the deceased ; on the contrary,
they were the very best friends, and he kissed her at part-
ing. He could not say whether she procured the laudanum
at his house, but she could have got it there, as she had
access to every place.
The Jury returned a verdict, " That tl.e deceased died
from taking laudanum when she was in a stet:: of ten' perary
derangement."