The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-06 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Last evening Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, held an
inquest at Guy's Hospital on the body of Richard
Crossley, aged 49, a policeman on the Croydon Rail-
way, who was killed on the above line last Monday;
evening. It appeared from the evidence that de-
ceased, about six o'clock on Monday evening, was
walking on the up-line, near the New-cross station,
at the moment the Croydon train was going down
from London. The Brighton up-train was corning
up at the same moment, when deceased was noticed to
walk in the space between the two lines, at which
place he was perfectly safe, but on the train arriving
within 1.50 yards of him he suddenly walked into the
down-line, and continued so to do. The engine-
driver used every exertionin alarming the deceased
of the danger he was in, by blowing the whistle, but
of no avail, as the engine came upon him, and he was
killed on the spot. The Jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental death."

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday evening an inquest
was held at the London Hospital, on the body of a
man, named Jacob Williams, who came by his death
under the following circumstances :—On Monday last
the deceased, who was a carter in the employment of
a farmer and market-gardener, named Wilson, was
driving a team of two horses to Covent-garden, and
having got upon the shafts of the cart, it was supposed
he fell asleep, for, upon reaching nearly opposite to
Whitechapel Church, be fell suddenly to the ground,
and, before the horses could be stopped, the two side
wheels passed across his loins. Several persons
having run to his assistance, he was placed upon a
stretcher and removed to the London Hospital, where
he expired in about three hours after his admission.
Evidence having been adduced to show that to the
deceased alone was culpability to be attached, a
verdict of Accidental Death was recorded. _ _ _

Tuesday morning an inquest was held before. Mr.
Baker, at the Green Man, High-street, Poplar, on
view of the body of a lad named William Shelton, 14
years of age. Edward Gree❑ stated that he was a
seaman on board the Olive Branch, now lying in the
West India Export Dock. On Sunday afternoon the
deceased came alongside the ship in a boat, and whilst
standing on the thwarts his foot suddenly slipped and
he fell overboard. Witness, with the officer onboard,
immediately jumped into the boat and endeavoured to
rescue him, and at one time, as he rose to the surface
of the water, got a pice of timber under his arms,
but he was unable to hold on, and he sank. The
drags were immediately put in requisition, but up-
wards of three hours elapsed before the body was
found.—Verdict, " Accidental death."
Mr. Higgs held an inquest on Tuesday in the General
Penitentiary, Milbank, on the body of John Walker,
aged 28, a prisoner. It appeared in evidence that
the deceased was admitted to the gaol on the 17th of
March, 1840, having been convicted on the Ist of
June in the same year, at the Knutsford Sessions,
of larceny, and sentenced to seven years' transporta-
tion. That sentence was subsequently commuted to
imprisonment in the Penitentiary, which would expire
on the 31st of December, 1842. On the 27th of June
last the deceased was admitted into the infirmary,
suffering from dysentery and general debility. He
was supplied with the most nourishing food, but he
never rallied, and died on September 30. A post
mortem examination proved the cause of death to be
ulceration and scrofulous disease of the lungs, to-
gather with his former disorders. Verdict, "Natura
death."

On Tuesday Mr. Payne held an inquest at the
Bridge-honse, Borough-road, on the body of Mr.
Henry Jackson, aged .52, the landlord of the Friar,
Friar-street, Blackfriars-road. It appeared in evi-
dence that the deceased retired to rest at nine o'clock
on Sunday night last. At five o'clock the next
morning his wife awoke, and found him lying on his
face by her side, quite cold and dead. The deceased
had lately drank to such excess, that for three weeks
prior to his death, except Sunday, the day before it,
he had not been sober. Mr. George Luke, surgeon,
of Great Suffolk-street, was called in to the deceased.
He said he endeavoured to bleed him, but failed, for
deceased had apparently been dead for upwards of two
hours. Death was caused by suffocation, owing to
his having lain on his face in bed; and, from the fact
that he had been drinking. constantly for the last
three weeks, the surgeon thought that he had not
strength to alter his position. Verdict, " Accidentally
suffocated."