The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

A MAN- PARTLY DEVOURED BY PIGS.

On Thursday an inquest was held at Upton St.
Leonards, a village near Gloucester, on the body
of an old man named John Brown, who was found
dead in an orchard at that village, ou Tuesday
afternoon, with his body mangled by some pigs,
which had gnawed away his arm and part of bis
nose. The following evidence was taken :

George Clapham stated—l am gardener and
bailiff to Charles Brooke Hunt, Esq., of Bowden-
hall. On Tuesday afternoon last, about half-past
two, in consequence of seeing the pigs collected in
an orchard adjoining the barn and sheds, and evi-
dently playing with something, I went to the spot,
and saw the body of the deceased. I drove the
pigs away, and afterwards examined the body.
Deceased was lying upon his back, and his right
arm was extended and had been gnawed by the
pigs, which had also gnawed his nose, the marks
on which were quite fresh. Deceased was dead
and quite cold. His hat, a bag, a hand-
kerchief, a table knife, and a raw onion were lying
near him. There is a footpath through the
orchard near where he was lying. 1 had known
deceased for several years, but had not seen him
before on that day—he was :n the habit of occa-
sionally begging in the parish, but I did not
know his name. Four pigs were standing near the
body. By dit-ection of Mr. Brooke Hunt, I and
Richard Jones, in the presence of Mr. Hunt, re-
moved the body to the place where it is now lying.
Wm. Avery, labourer, of Upton St. Leonards,
said—l saw deceased on Monday evening, about
five o'clock, near Mr. Archer's mill. He was walk-
ing, appeared very tottering from old age. I asked
him where he was going, and he replied," To my
old lodgings," by which I understood him to mean
some cattle stalls about two fields from where he
was standing, and in whigh he slept all last winter.
He supported himself chiefly by begging, but
worked a little in summer. I did not see him
again until he was found dead in the orchard. The
footpath through the orchard was in the direction
of the stalls. I did not know where be came from,
but I asked him if he had any food, and he replied
he had some.

Thomas Brown, labourer, of Columbia-street,
Gloucester, deposed—Deceased is my father, and
was 67 years of age. My mother lives at Bisley, but
is visiting me now. I saw my father about three
weeks ago. He left me between seven and eight
o'clock in the evening, and said he was going to-
wards Upton. He had a bag which I lent him. He
had his supper, and I gave him 3d. I begged and
prayed him to go into the union workhouse for the
winter, and he promised to do so. . .

The jury returned a verdict in accordance with
the evidence.

HONESTY SINGULARLY REWARDED.

Rumour has supplied us with the following rare
morsel of gossip for this season of jubilation :—Not
long since the visitors' book at a large hotel within
a hundred miles of the Admiralty Pier received the
name of" a fine old English gentleman," on whose
head the snow of 70 winters had left but little trace
of its pathway. Being an early riser, he the other
day left his couch shortly after dawn, to stir abroad
to sip the morning air, and unwittingly dropped
his purse while descending the staircase that led to
his chamber. Reaching but a short distance from
the hotel before he discovered his loss, he hastily
retraced bis steps, and, on entering the house,
inquired of the first person he encountered (a cham-
bermaid just emerging from her teens) relative to
the truant property. The inquiry elicited in reply
that the jenzzne de ehambre had herself just found
the purse, and was then on her way to deliver it to
the proprietor of the hotel, in accorc'ance with the
rules of the establishment. A transfer of the purse
to the hands of its owner followed ; and a cursory
glance satisfying him that the contents were intact,
he informed the finder that he would not forget her,
and then retired. Disappointed, and having but
little hope that the promise would be fulfilled, the
domestic soon communicated what had transpired
to sundry of her fellow-servants ; while the gen-
tleman in another direction was devising how the
most satisfactorily to all concerned he could reward
the (pretty, of course) chambermaid. A few minutes
sufficed for the deliberation ; and while the finder
of the purse was in the act of commenting ratherte
harshly on the absence of prompt generosity
In
to an
owner, the ringing of a bell summoned her
interview with the veritable gentleman hr mimsienlfd
Doubtless with the rapidity of thought he
scanned the composition of her wardrobe, and fancy
added some long coveted article of dress throagh
her astonishment,
bounty of the stranger ; but,
he offered her his hand antdofortun!, which she
accepted, and on Thursday last obtained, as the
reward of her honesty, a husband.—Dover Chro-
nicle.

DARING BURGLARY IN NORFOLK.-011 Saturday,
at the Shirehall, Norwich, two men, who gave their names
as Richards and Clark, one stating that he came from Liver-
pool, and the other from Stourbridge, but who are sup-
posed not to have revealed their real names, and to belong
to London, were charged with burglariously entering Lang-
ley-hall, the seat of Admiral Sir W. Beauchamp-Proctor,
on the eight of the 11th inst. It appears that the thieves
gained admission to the mansion by forcing the window of
a closet on the ground floor; they ransacked the lower
rooms, but being disturbed, some silver covers belonging to-
a dressing case, two coats, and a few other things of trifling
value were the only articles which they succeeded in carry-
ing off. Information of the occurrence was rapidly circulated
throughout the Eastern Counties, and the burgiao.:er:
traced to Colchester, where they offered one of the coats
sale. They then appear to have turned back
good'
for they were apprehended a day or two since
fats et
Scauffolk,
bridge with the silver articles still in ?dello'
of a local
rjossession.
The men, who were identified by the Iso
publichouse as having been seen by him
hick the robbery
the neighbour..
hood of Langley-hall on the night on Yr
took place, were remanded.