The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-02 00:00:00

HE TRAGEDY at CAMBERWELL.

(Tili3 DAV.)
An inquest on the Ladies of Anthony Faweej. and
his tv:.o caildren, Frcelerich, aged 19 mouths, and Emily
aged the and a half :ro- ars, was held to•day befare
Carter, tho coroner for 1.:a;;; Suiley, wt toe
Tavern, Wyndhatn.ronal, Camberwell.
On iaTairy a•t ;J.: the dreadful eccurronca it
was stsetataned that, tha surviving child, Mary Ann
Fawcett, was improving, ,hono not yet entir ly out of
danger. Mre. FavveAt sears I,:ss from excitement and
is more compusA in her mind.
The excitement in the neighbourhood had not abated
this morning, and the outside of the tavern was thronged
with persons.
After the jury had hetn sworn,
The CORONER said he Inld been informed by Dr.
king, that though the widow and child were not in a fit
state to b present at the inquiry to-day, they were both
much b,:tter. He therefore proposed to take tho iden-
tity of the bodies, in order that they mif;,ht be buried
according to law; next the evidence of the parties who
were first called in, and then the evidence of Dr. King,
who would show the cause of death in each case.
The jury then proceed, d to view the bodies, which
present, d a frightful spectacle.
Sophia Fawcett, single woman, aged 19, examined—
She said I heard first of this affair on last Tuesday
morning. I was living at 4, Queen-street, Oxford-
street. I am a dressmaker, and have been living there
two years and a half. On the morning in quesaion I re-
ceived some information of the death of my father, and
I came hero. I knew my parents were living here. I
was at home on Saturday evening and came away on
Monday morning. They came here on Saturday. The
house is No. 1, Queen's-place, Wyneiham-roal I have
not seen my father sinen his death.
The CORONER—Is there any party present who has
seen the bodies, and can identity them ?
A person in the room here intimated that he thought
he could identify the deceased persons.
The CoaeNEr. (to witness)—Do you think you could
bear up and go and see the body of your father, and
brother, and sister?
Witness (crying)—l may, Sir.
She was then conveyed out of the room by the Leadle
to the house over the way, and came back greatly de-
pressed.

Witness's examination continual—l have just seen
my father, and sister, and brother. His lau,iness or
occupation was that of a porter to Mr. Bridgeman,
confectioner. He was forty-two last January. My
sister's Christian name is Etily. She is five years
old. The youngest child's Christian names are tide-
rick Anthony; ha was twelve months old last January.
Sarah Sadler was next examined; she said—l am a
widow, and live a', 7, lielstead-place, Camberwell. I
was coming out of my own door on Tuesday morning,
at eight o'clock, when I saw a female knocking at the
door of No. 1, Qtn!en's-place. No one answered, and
she knocked a second time, and then looked through
the key-hole and said, "My dear, open the door." I
did not see any one inside at that time, nor did I hear
any noise. I supposed she was addressing her child.
In about four minutes the door was opened from thein-
side, and then the woman screamed out. I went close
up to her, and saw a little girl covered with
blood standing close to her. The first word it
said was "Oh, mother, go up-stairs." I left the
mother and went up-stairs to the hack bed-room
on the first•flaor, and there I saw a child lying on the
bed covered with blood. It appeared to have a bit of
bread and butter in its baud—it was a female child.
Two men loilovircd me directly, and they went close up
to it. The child was dead. The blood was gushing
from the throat. I lett the room instantly and came
down to the back parlour; there I saw a child lying on
the ground. I went up, touched it, nod found it was
dead. It had some sugared bread and butter in its hand.
It was dressed in night clothes. and had shoes and
stockings on. There was blood on the flour and on its
dress. Toe blood appeared to come from its throat. I
next went into the washhouse, sad saw a police-
man and another person dragging a body of
a man from under the sink into the yard. He
was alive at the time, and gasping for breath.
He had a carving knife in his hand. He had on dark
trowsers, slippy rs, a shirt, but neither coot nor waistcoat.
There was a great deal of blood upon the ground, and
his hands were both covered with blood. I never saw
any of the persons before the occurrence. The woman
went to the side or private door. I found the shop door
was fastened when I went inside. The back door, which
leads to a small garden, was partly closed, the body of
the man preventing its being entirely opened. There
was nothing to indicate that any person bad escaped
from the house after having inflicted these injuries on
the bodies.

(The inquest was proceeding when our report left.)

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather,
the receipts at the doors yesterday amounted to
2,8301. 1 ls., the number of visitors being 59,050. It
rained fast and furiously as the hour approached for
the building to close, and great was the dismay and
confusion, the demand for cabs, and the cramming of
omnibuses, in consequence. The south entrance of
the transept was completely blocked up with impatient
arid distressed waiters upon the skyey influences. The
distress manifested by the female portion of the as-
semblage for the prospective destruction of their
finery was particularly affecting, nor in the wildest
flights of Bloomerism could anything be found more
grotesque than the arrangements of dress which were
made to neutralise as far as possible the effects of the
weather. Gowns were inverted, and petticoats tucked
up with the most unhesitating energy, while, by one
of those extraordinary examples of the law of supply
and demand, umbrellas of every siz3 and quality
sprang up in forest-like abundance. Of cabs and
omnibuses there was, as there always is on such oc-
casions, a dreadful deficiency, so that a large propor-
tion of the people had to trudge, under the pelting
rain, and ankle-deep in mud, on their way homewards