The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-24 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday a Coroner's inquest was taken before
Mr. T. Stirling, at the Nag's Head, Hammersmith,
on view of the body of Elizabeth Hillier, aged 19,
who terminated her existence by taking oxalic acid.
Mr. John Whitehouse, licensed victualler and
landlord of the Nagg's Head, deposed, that about
10 o'clock on Monday night the deceased came in
and asked if she might go into the parlour, as she
had made an appointment to meet some one there.
Having permission, she went in, and had a pint of
ale and some biscui:s. She appeared cheerful.
She ate four biscuits, and had two more ; when,
within half an hour after she entered, witness heard a
noise as if some one falling in the parlour. On going
in she was lying on all fours, but immediately lay
prostrate and gasped her last breath. Witness,
with the assistance of his wife, placed her on
a chair, and sent for Mr. Bowling, who came in a
very short time. About 5 in the morning of Tues-
day a paper was found in her bosom, on which was
written " Pois oxal," the rest was torn. (The
paper was shown to the jury.)
By the Jury—No one came with the deceased.
She had a green purse in her pocket, in which were
twopence. Witness understood that about eleven
o'clock a young man of the name of Charles Day,
a bucket-maker, and who was a sweetheart of the
deceased's, was in the tap. Day has since ab-
sconded.

Several of the Jury observed that they were of
opinion the deceased took some of the acid before
she came into the public-house. It was extraordi-
nary that her death should have been so sudden.
Mrs. Wood, wife of the landlord of the Chaise
and Horses, next door to the Nag's Head, said, that
about a quarter before eleven on Monday night Day
came in and had half a pint of beer, 'Witness said
to him, " How is it that you have come down to
half a pint of beer ?" He made no reply. Wit-
ness then told him of the circumstance which had
taken place at the Nag's Head; but he made no
reply, nor did his manner betray any symptoms of
uneasiness. Witness had seen them together.
Mr. Reeves, a juror, stated that Day lodged with
him. He was aware of his acquaintance with some
young woman. On Sunday he left his lodging,
about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and returned
home at past eleven o'clock on Monday night, when
he was crying, and appeared in a dreadful state of
agitation. The next morning Day was seen by a
policeman, about six o'clock, near Theresa-terrace,
having a bundle under his arm, and appearing as if
lie was going into the country. He understood
from Day that he had been in company with the
deceased that day.

Anne Crook; 17, New North-row, Earl's-court,
a married woman, had known the deceased from the
age of five weeks. She was the natural child of an
opulent tradesman of the name of William Moore,
in Red Lion-street, Holborn, who kept a linen-
draper's shop. Her mother died about three years
ago. On Monday afternoon she left No. 3, Aifred-
place, Vauxhall-road, where she was in temporary
service, for the purpose, as she said, of meeting a
person at Kensington. Witness did not believe she
was in the family way.

Verdict—" That the deceased died from taking
oxalic acid, being at the time in a state of temporary
derangement."

At a coursing meeting in Livesey, on Thurs-
day, in one of the runs, a hare was very closely cursued
by four dogs, and on the point of being nabbed, when she
approached a hedge dividing two fields. She dashed into
the hedge, and the dogs jumped over, expecting puss had
gone through. She, however, doubled and ran beneath
the thorns some distance, until she found opportunity to
escape into a neighbouring plantation, where all trace of
her was lost. In a subsequent run, another bare was si-
milarly pressed, and had recourse to the same manoeuvre
to elude her pursuers. But the dogs had learned wisdom
by experience, and, instead of all jumping over the hedge,
one of them followed puss into it, and caught her just as
she was turning off to run beneath the thorns as the other
had done.—B/ackburn Alfred.