The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT
SLOUGH.

On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held before
Mr. John Charsley, one of the coroners for Bucks,
at the tap at the railway station, Slough, on the body
of Aliss Jane Buckstone, a young lady, twenty-nine
years of age, the niece of tne late Mr. John Travers,
who met with her death by falling from one of the
windows of the Royal Hotel, as detailed in the fol-
lowing evidence :
George Boulton, a waiter at the Royal Hotel, was
the first witness examined. He stated that, on that
morning, at a quarter past five o'clock, in conse-
quence of hearing a noise like some one breaking into
the house, he got up and went into the area, where
he heard groans. On opening the shutters of a room
on the ground floor, he saw a woman lying on the
ground, on her stomach, with her head completely
doubled up under her body, and bleeding from the
mouth and head. Her shoes were lying about a yard
distant from the body. Ile immediately called up
Mr. Dotesio, to whom he handed the body through
the window, who took it in his arms to the room
where it is now lying. The deceased arrived at the
hotel last evening, with two other ladies.
Mr. Charles Dotesio examined—l am the pro-
prietor and landlord of the Royal Hotel, at this
station. At a little after five o'clock this morning,
the last -witness knocked at my bed-room window,
and told me that some one had fallen out of the
window and was dying. I instantly got up and
went into the parlour, where the window was open,
and received the body from Boulton, and took it to
the apartment where it is now lying. The deceased
was in her night clothes. I placed her on a mattress
brought by Boulton, and fetched the bed-clothes from
off my own bed with the view of warming her, and
put my pillow under her head. Having just left my
bed, the bed-clothes were warm. 1 immediately
sent for Dr. Bryan, who arrived within twenty-five
minutes after the body was discovered. I then had
my housekeeper called up, and got her to call the
aunt and sister of the deceased. During that delay,
while I was alone in the room, I kept rubbing her
hands and feet. She got warm, and I thought began
to breathe. I asked her if she knew where she was,
and who I was ? She made an effort to speak, but
could not articulate. After the aunt and sister came
down, she moved her hands and arms two or three
times, and pulled a loose tooth out of her mouth.
About half-past six o'clock this morning, deceased's
sister gave me a, letter for her brother, which I
dispatched by the guard of the luggage train to town.
The brother has since arrived. The deceased, with
her aunt and sister, slept at my house some weeks
ago, on their way to Bath, and they were now on
their road front Bath to London.

Dr. J. B. Bryan stated that the deceased lived for
about an hour and a half after his arrival at the Royal
Hotel. She was not sensible, but retained, to a cer-
tain extent, the power of motion. The injuries she
had sustained, which would have been produced by
falling from a height, consisted of a very severe con-
cussion of the brain, and the lower part of the spine
was also severely injured.
George Powlesland, a waiter at thc Royal Hotel,
stated that the deceased and two other ladies upon
their arrival last night, took tea and retired to rest
about ten o'clock.
Ann Meades, housekeeper at the Royal Hotel,
stated that after she had called up the aunt and sister,
she went into deceased's bed-room, the window of
which she found wide open, and the blind drawn up.
The table had been removed from its usual position
under the window. The deceased's watch was lying
in the middle of the bed, which appeared to have been
lain in.