The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-29 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Yesterday an inquest was held at the Sun and Sports-
man, High-street, Marylebone, on the body of Mr. Thomas
Passey, aged sixty, of No. 60, Beaumont-street, who for
many years had held the situation of cashier at the Bank of
England, and was found dead in his bed on Sunday morn-
ing last. The deceased was a man of regular habits, and
generally enjoyed good health, but on Saturday, on his
return home, he complained of pains in his head. He
went to bed at his usual hour, and not making his ap-
pearance in the morning, his servant became alarmed, and,
forcing his room-door open, found him in bed quite dead.
She sent for Mi. Lomas, surgeon, of Dorset-street, Port-
man-square,. who attended, and gave it as his opinion that
death had taken place some hours previously, the extremi-
ties being quite cold.
Verdict, " Died by the visitation of God."
Another inquest was afterwards held at the same
house on the body of Emma Cox, a fine young woman,
aged twenty-eight.
The deceased had recently lived in the service of a fa-
mily in Bond-street, and while there formed an intimacy,
with a young man, an engineer, who at the commence-
ment of this month proposed marriage, and put up the
banns in Marylebone Church. Business then obliging him
to go to Hamburgh, he left her, saying he should be back
in a fortnight. The deceased, on the following day, ap-
peared depressed in spirits, and went out, but in a short
time returned again to her lodging in Church-street, • Lis-
son-grove, and was taken very a She was then con-
veyed to the Marylebone Infirmary, where it was disco-
vered that, she had taken a quantity of sulphuric acid.
Proper remedies were resorted to, but she begged to be
allowed to end her miserable existence. She, however,
lingered up to Sunday last, when she died, 'and her
lover, on the same morning, returned to England.
The JUry, having viewed the body, returned a verdict,
" That the deceased's death was caused by her taking poi-
son while in a state of temporary mental derangement."

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On Tuesday night, about 12 o'clock, the dwelling-
house of Miss 'Bennett, near Gloucester, was entered by
two men, who proceeded directly to the bed-room of the
lady, and demanded her money. They took a lighted candle
with them, and told her that if she gave them what they
desired—her money—they would not hurt her. She told
them that her money was in her pocket, which she had
placed under ber pillow, upon which it was at once taken
by one of the thieves, who transferred its contents, consist-
ing of a 101. Chippenham bank-note, a sovereign, some sil-
ver, and a watch, to his own pocket. One of them was
about thirty years of age, five feet six or seven inches high,
had dark hair and whiskers, and a fresh complexion ; the
other was about five reet ten or eleven inches high, had
large features, and light complexion.
SUPPOSED MURDER.—The neighbourhood of
Abingdon has been for these two days in a state of great
excitement, in consequence of the disappearance of Mr.
Thomas Townsend, coal merchant, of that place, who on
Wednesday took a boat load of coals to Sutton, and, hav-
ing finished his business, left that place about half-past six
o'clock in the evening. He had, it appears, been to several
public houses, and at one of them, being rather fresh, as it
is termed, stated that he was fearful he should be murdered
before he got home ; he, however, proceeded, and met Mr.
Pullen, of. Sutton, on the bridge near to the paper mills.
He expressed the same apprehension to him, and begged of
him to return and accompany him as far as Culharn. Mr.
Pullen, however, said there was no danger as' it was so
early, and told him that Herring, the postman, was just
before him. Soon after this a woman and boy overtook
him and passed him, and almost immediately after this he
was met and passed by another person, leaving him on what
is called Sutton Moor. This is the last that is known of
him. In the morning his hat was found in a dry ditch on
the moor, and a pocket handkerchief with an eel in it in a
dry ditch on the other side of the canal, 'belonging to the
rickyard of Mr. John Mundy, of Culham: In the evening
about seven o'clock, or soon after, cries of murder were
distinctly heard, exactly from the place where the hand-
kerchief was found, and Mr. Mundy's shepherd having re-
tired to rest, beard these cries, and lookinn• out of window
saw a light exactly at that spot, and heard a subdued voice
exclaim " Damme Carter," with other words that he could
not distinguish. The facts that have already transpired
appear involved in great mystery, but these arc all we know
at present. The river and canal have both been dragged
with great assiduity, but the body has not yet been found.—
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