The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-18 00:00:00

DREADFUL OCCURREI)TCE.

In inquest was yesterday held at the Magpie and .5 tump,
Coldbath-square, before Mr. STIRLING, on the body of Mrs.
Eleanor Marchant, the wife of a respectable jeweller, its
Bath-street, whose death was occasioned by a wound in-
flicted by her own daughtfer, a girl of 18 years of age, Lind*
very melancholy and peculiar circumstances.
Mr. Henry Whitmore, surgeon, of Coldbath-square, de-
posed that between eleven and twelve o'clock on the night
of Sunday, the ;30th of August, he was called up by Emma
Marchant, the daughter of the deceased, who had received'
a severe cut on her right band, between the thumL and fore-
finger ; he (witness) dress.7d the wound, and whilst so Mg
gaged Mrs. Marcbant (the deceased) came to him for ad-
vice, at which time she was bleeding from a wound in the
right hand, precisely in the some situation as that of her
daughter, viz., between the thumb and forefinger of the right
hand, but of a'nature far more sorious. Witness dressed
the wound on the deceased's hand, and attended her daily
on the elewnth day after the unfortunate event, tetanus,
or " locke jaw," manifested. itself, of which she died on
Friday evening last, about eight o'clock.
By The Jury—The treatment of the bend was of the .`
most simple kind ; but I have no hesitation in saying that
great prejudice Wag occasioned to it in consequence of the
deceased applying a quantity of common salt to the wound,
which treatment I etli:eaveured to counteract by washing
the salt away, and applyiL:r
.proper liniment ; the death of
the deceased was unquesbrumbly produced by "locked
jaw," occasioned by the wound 211 the hand.
By the CORONER—The wou,:d on the hand of the
daughter Emma Marchant was neat ?r' as severe as that on
the hand of the deceased ; she (the danshtcr) is going on
well at, present ; I have attended the farrn:y professionally,
end I have noticeti that the best possible ati, fiction existed
between the deceased and her daughter Emma.
Charles Marchant, a youth of about eighteen years of
age, one of the deceased's sons, deposed that about twelve
o'clock on the night of the 30th of August last, his sate
Emma returned home Iron) the " Opera House," whtte
she, was engaged professionally as a performer ; the de-
ceased and the rest of: the farrn;ly were at supper a the
time in the back parlour ; a quarrel took place
between the deceased and his sister Emma drgtit
Clearing away the supper cloth ; the utter took a candle
from the supper table for the purpose ol" retiring to bed ;
the candle, however, fell on the floor, and his sister' took a
knife from the table and began to scrape op the grease ;
the deceased who was irritated against her daughter, struck
her on the back several times as she was stooptig to the
grou:vl; to guard off the blows, his sister stretched forth
her hand :Which held the knife; the thumb of deeeast, d was
severely wounded, as was that of his sister; they both
went immediately afterwards to Mr. Whitmore's to gbt
their wounds dresse.i.
The witness was severely cross-examined by the jury, as
to whether the daughter Etta v.& at her mother with the
knife, or merely raised her band in self-defence, but he po-
sitively stated that his sister Emma only rais..cl her hand,
and that his mother was wounded 17 striking at her in a
kneeling posture.
Some discussion took place amongst t.;:c jury, as to the
propriety of examining the daughter Emma, who wa4.the
cause of the death of her mother ; but it Tvaz ultirnat*
decided that her deposition was unnecessary.
Mr. Marchant, the husband of the deceased (who rail
deeply affected), stated that the greatest affection existed
between his lamented wife and the whole of his children ;
he was firmly of opinion that the unhappy catastrophe was
the result of accident, and that her daughter Emma had no
intention of injurtg her mother.
The Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned a
verdict of " Accidental Death."

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN Pairs.—lnformation
has been forwarded to the London police, that on the 16th
of July, the shop of M. Bolville, No. 26, St. Arion-street,
Paris, was plundered of upwards of nine hundred watches
of foreign manufacture, and a quantity of plate ; and that
a female, named Bloc, originally from Mentz, who left Paris
about fifteen days ago, is strongly suspected of having
brought the watches with her to London. She is described
as about thirty-six years of age, a large handsome-looking
woman, of blown complexion, and elegantly dressed. Her
husband is supposed to be at. Amsterdam.