The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-27 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

DREAM' VI. DEATII...-Saturday forenoon, an Inquest was
held at the Welch Harp, in Essex-street, Whitefriars, before
Tito sr As Sur r.ToN, Esq. the Coroner- for London and South-
wark, on the hotly of Airs. Sarah ‘Volko4 a resident in that
neighbourhood, who came by her death ,in the followtng shock.
ing manner s---
Elisabeth Wood, of No. II; Lonibard-street, Whitefriars,
stated, that on Wednesday night, about eight o'clock, her
daughter-in.-law came to her in great alarm, and said, there was
something lying at the foot of the cellar stairs. ‘Vitness went
down with a candle; and found the deceased Sarah Walker. a
lodger in the house, lying huddled together, with her head bent
to her chest. She raised her up, and, with assistance, carried.
her up stairs, and -obtained the attendance of Ale. Husking, of
Fleet-street,-the surgeon ;• she was totally Insenaible, and she'
had not the least doubt but she was dead when she was first
found. The deceased was between 50 'end 60 years of age, and
much addicted to drinking. •
.11Iary Ward, the daughter.in-law of the last witness, stated
that just before six on Wednesday evening, she-beard sonic-
thing fall down the cellar stairs. She ran down from her room,
and found that the sand-box that usually stood in the landing
place had been upset, and the box had rolled down into the
cellar. Witness took no notice then, but about eight o'clock
She went down to' pick up the box, anti then discovered the
deceased lying its 'described by her mother, the last witness.
The deceased was nemtently in liquor, but witness did not see
her that day, therefore could not say Whether she was drunk
or sober when the accident happened.
another witness said the deceased bad fallen. down the same
stairs twice before, when hi a state of drunkenness.
111 r. Peter flosklng, a surgeon residing in Fleet-itreet, stated
that when he saw the deceased she was guile dead. There
was sto external violence visible, and he considered she died
from a concussion of the brain, which, acting with intoxica-
tion, would-cause instant death.

The Jury returned a verdict, that the deceased accidentally
fell down stairs, which caused her death, and they accompanied
their :verdict with a recommendation to the landlord of the
house to place a gate at the stairhead, which in all probability
would prevent future similar accidents.

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—On Saturday evening an Inquisi.
tion was takett at the Duke of Wellington public house. Gorn,
wall...treet, Commercial-road, on view of the body of Captain
flax.' ~ late of Upper John-street, in that neighbourhood. Mr.
U. Chapman, stitieon, resides in Aide End, Old Town. I know
the deceased, andhad been in the habit of attending him or 6or
years past ; his health during that time had been indifferent,
and he was occasionally subject tohypoehondriaeaffectien.' lie
had no doubt but he was the author of his own death. Coroner
...Did you see the instrument with which ho perpetrated the
fatal deed ? I did not. On Sunday I was called to sec the de-
ceased ; he was then very melancholy, and labouring under by-
pothondriasis. On Monday I saw him, when he appeared some-
what-better, but his spirits were had I saw him for the last time
on Thursday, when his general health was much improved, but
his spirits bad an increased dejection. I ant decidedly of opinion
that when the deceasgd committed the rash act he was not of sound
mind, memory, or understanding. Mr. Bell examined—l live
opposite the deemed ; in consequence of his not getting tip at
his usual hOur on Friday morning, I was cage I on to ascertain
the cause; .1 went to. his house, and finding hirkehamber door
locked, I forced it open, ands discovered the deceased with his
throat severed from ear to ear. Ile was weltering in blood, and
a razor was lying near his head. T certainly think he was de-
, isuaged when he committed the fatal deed. The evidence dosed
here, and the Jury, returned a verdict of " Suicide," com-
mitted while in a :state of insanity,

Sittings appointed tc► be held in Middlesex and
London, before the Right lion. Sir Charles Abbott, iinight,
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, in and after
Easter Term, 11128

IN TERM.

Thursday - -
Thursday -
Friday

London.

April
27

Friday
Saturday -
Saturday
Wednesday - May 17
In the 20th, 227th,
Ist, and 29th
o'clock on the other days.

April: 21
----- 29
May 6

11ay 5

AV r
Tito& - May f
Sit tit half past twelve o'clock o
of April, and at half past nine',

NEW INVENTED WRITING MAcnts-E.---At the
Nottingham ASAZPS, the other day, John Booth,
'ft schoolmaster, deposed, that hp wrote part of
Thomas Staniland's will with ft eundle.