The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-22 00:00:00

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MRS. BELANEY.-

[From the Tyne Mercury of Tuesday last].—DEATH FROM
Pt-tussle ACID.—A great sensation has been produced in the
quiet village of North Sunderland during the past week, by
the sudden death of Mrs. Belaney, and the extraordinary
circumstances attending it.—[Then follows an abridgement
by the Tyne Mercury of the facts of the case as they appeared
in The Sun.] Two letters have been received in North Sun-
derland, one stating that Mrs. Belaney was very ill, and that
two physicians were attending her, and the other announcing
her death ; both, however, had been written after her decease.
It is said that the body of Mrs. Skelly, the mother of the
deceased, will be disinterred, as there are suspicions afloat as
to the cause of death ; more especially from the strange
manner in which the funeral was conducted. Mrs. Belauey,
whose death has cast a gloom over the village, was 22 years
of age, and beloved by a large number of devoted friends ;
she was daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Skelly, of North
Sunderland, and has therefore no brother in Essex, as stated
by the daily papers, nor has the prisoner possessions in West-
moreland.

FATAL CHAISE ACCIDENT.—Yesterday Mr. Higgs
held in inquest at the Prince's Head, Prince's-street, West
minster, on the body of William Beck, aged 72, formerly a
job-master. It appeared from the evidence of the waterman
attached to the hackney-coach stand, Palace-yard, that he
was standing near the Mitre and Dove, at the corner of
King-street and Bridge-street, on Thursday afternoon, and
saw a pony and chaise, in which deceased was, coming up
King-street, from Downing-street, towards the Abbey, at a
rate that convinced him the pony had run away. Several
persons, as
.well as witness, tried unsuccessfully to atop the
animal, which, meeting with a cart as it came out from
King-street,. it turned sharp round into George-street, in the
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Westminster Hospital, close by. Mr. R. B. Bowman, said
the deceased was admitted with slight .inkry to the left
side of the head, but with fracture of several ribs on the
same side. The fractured parts were driven into the lung,
which caused deceased's death yesterday morning. Mr.
Kennett, of Queen-square, to whom the pony belonged, said
it was so docile that his wife chiefly drove it. Verdict—
" Accidental death."
SAUSAGES FOR THE MILLION.—Thomas Rose, a
salesman, in Smithfield Market, was brought before Alder-
man Gibbs, at Guildhall, charged by Sergeant Lambert, with
having exposed two cows for sale in Smithfield Market
which were unfit to be killed for human food. Mr. Charles
Clarke, a veterinary surgeon; stated he was called upon to
examine the cows, and found them in such a diseased state
that they were totally unfit to be slaughtered for butcher's
meat. The prisoner stated that the cows were not intended
to be sold for slaughter, but for fattening ! Lambert assured
the Alderman that there was a class of butchers who bought
UP this description of animals in the market, for the purpose
of converting them into cheap sausages " for the million 1"
Frederick Willis, the owner of one of the cows, said, that
he had no idea of its being sold for slaughter, for it would
not have been worth 40s. for butcher's meat, whereas it
might have fetched 5/. as a speculation for grazing.
I The Alderman said he should not only order the cows to
be destroyed, but hold the salesman to bail, himself in 501.
and two sureties of 25/. each, to appear at the next session
to answer an indictment for exposing them to sale ; and
moreover he should order the City Solicitor to prosecute.