The Sun.
London, England, 1816-09-28 00:00:00

tpitpNEll.s.! INQUESTS 4

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VeSterday evening an inquisition-iffl, held at
the sign of t he` lialf-way.house, at Knightsbridge
before Mr.,l'sll., acting Coroner for IVesittrinster,
On vireo of. the body of William Bridges, hostler
at the • a
bove house, who was found in a dying!
State in the stable 0n AVadnesday evening last.
John riwly, a man in the eittploy of Joseph Barnard, the.
Ikentford carrier, stated, that ahoutjight o'clock on Wed-
desday e'vening he stopped, with his cant, at the lialf•way•
on his way to London : he called the deceased to give
his horse suns hay and water; but not finding him in the
sinhiri, he went to his tcsidence, the adjoining house, where
he wail iniorhied be had not hien there; he then teturnei to
the stable, and rental him lying on.bis back near and of the
staUK thinking he was only asleep be shook him.- but finding
j:e (lid not itihre' he Maimed Stratford, the of the
hou,:e, who ea4tti thrdreeaseil to be 'removed to his owit
botm, whqrsiner4cAl„assistauce was obtained, but without.
effect be,efittired•• stain arterWards,
Mr. Glen, Surf/edit; liroraptini-row, was colleni to the de•
'ceased, whom he found in a senseless state : he immediately
cot A vein, and the deceased blest freely: he ran:an:ell with
hint iit:out a quarter of an hour, end did every thing he thought,
proper, but wit huttt 04:4 ; and it was his opinion ho met his
&Mt: by apoplexy,
VerdictLited by the Miitation of God. The
deceased was ifl an excellent state of health the ,
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whole of the preceding clay, and was scarcely
known to have a day's illness.
Au Inquisition was taken last last night at the
bionic of Mr. Hart, the White Swani Strand, be-
fore Mr. STIRLING, Coroner, upon the body of
Thomas Bridge, a child only eighteen months old,
who fell from nut of a window upon the thitil
floor, and was killed...

The mother of the deemed (who was so 11l that she was
scarcely able to give her eridence of the fatal accident) be;og.
sworn, said that she, lived at No. 'NO, in the Strand; that *lto
left the deceased, about three o'clock on WeduesdaY after.
noon, upon a chair which was near the window neat, and
which is nuarly noon a level with the window, while shas
Went into the yard for some water, When she wentnut ofthe
door, the deceased hit (ruin the window upon the pavement,
close to her feet. Ile was imintoliattly taken to Mr. Radnor,
surgeon, in Surrey-street, Strand, who could not render any
service to her child. He said the head was fractured in six
'or seven. places. The deceased died in a few minutes after.—
One of the Jury asked theswitness if any one else was left by
her In the count, except the decea,ed ? She replied that there
was another of her children, nearly four years of age, who
was incapable of lifting the deceased upon Ike seat. She
thinks that the deceased ctiust have el ept from the chair tu the
window seat, and in the act of looking through to see her felt
out. Vend t—drcidentot Deoth.

Yesterday an Inquest was held at the flack Horse.
Blackwell, on the body at Saunders, The de-
ceased was about 14 veers of age, and I►ad joined
a ship in tl►e West India Dock ; on Thursday
morning, as he was standing on the deck he fell,
overboard, and notwithstanding every exertion
wasmade to rescue hin►, he was dead before he
was rr►ken ul►. He had been trying to pull dowit
a rope, tvl►ich not being fastened at the top, it let