The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-29 00:00:00

COS UNERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at"
the hose and Crown public-house, in tiunhill-row, before T.
W. UNwiN, ECq. over the body of Martha Singlttos, the on-
forturtase paramour of Charles Taylor, who was shot in
Rhodes's-fields, near Hoxton. The Jury took a view of the
body. In the neck were three stabs, apparently made by
some sharronstrument, as a pair of scissors ; on the left arm
was another wound of the same nature. On the right
arm were sera-Al large cuts, apparently from a knife.
The deceased wus about 25 years of age, and was a flue yoll4

woman.
The first withessealled was a young man, named William
Walpole, who state, that he lodged at the Rose and Crown.
On Monday'morning, at about twenty minutes after tea
o'clock, he was called upon by the landlord to assist him in
getting into the room occepied by the deceased, as the door
was fastened inside. The warless forced hirriself intolhe town
through a wainscot partition. When be got in be saw some
blood at the bottom of the ha, _ He let in the landloal tont
some other persons. The deceased was in bed and spoke
to the witness, to whom she said she was dying. He saw a
wound iii her neck. She survived about 40 minutes after be
first saw her. Mr. Pearcy immediately ran for a doctor. The
witness did not stay in the room the whole time that the de-
ceased survived.
J. Pearcy, the landlord of the house, 'deposed, that the de
ceased had lodged in his house about twetse weeks, and had
been introduced as a married woman. lie saw the body of
the deceased Charles Taylor at Shoreditch Church, and im-
mediately recognised him. The last time he saw Taylor wee
on -11qtrsday, hut he understood that he left the house for
the last time on' Friday morning. The witness told the de-
ceased on Sunday night that he thought the man who had.
been killed at Buxton was her husband. She had appeared
extremely uneasy from the time of his absence, but on bear-
ing the intelligence she looked distracted. She expressed a
wish to go and see the that night ; but he told her that
it was too late, and appointed to go with her the next morn-
ing. The next morning, at about twenty minutes after tes
o'clock, he went up to her room to ask her if she was ready
to go ; he knocked at the door but received no answer, and
found that the door was fast. He then went into his own room
and knocked at the partition, which divided the two rooms,
just over the head of the bed. Receiving no answer, the par-
tition was forced aside, and be got into the room, when Ire saw'
her in bed covered up with the clothes in the ordinary suan-
ner ; he at first perceived nothing particular, and requested
her to get up, when she made no answer. The first whores.
Walpole, told him that the deceased had bled herself, whine
the witness immediately ran to Mr. Smith, the parish dectora
who did sot come. He then sent for a coach to take the de-
ceased to the Hospital, but before the coach arrived, the de-
ceased was dead. The witness then spoke as to the state of
mind which the deceased had been in previous to the catas-
trophe. She had been very uneasy during tire whole of Fri-
day, and at times talked incoherently. Upon the whole, Ire
thought that she was not in a sound state of wind.
John Hall, One of the beadles of the ',lrish, stated, that
he called at the Rose and tCrown on Christmas Day, a little
after one o'clock. The deceased was lying in bed, hot.
life was quite "extinct.. He saw some blood upon the floor, and
near to it a knife, with marks of blood, which was produced-
It was a common table knife; a pair of scissors, walked with
blood, were also found amongst the bed clothes. In loekinie
round the room, he perceived a letter on the table sealed.
up with black wax. He also found in her pockets a seal,
which corresponded with the impression on the letter.
The letter was stated to be in the hand-writing of Taylor,
and appeared to have been intended to be sent to the bro-
ther of the deceased, as the letter of both. It was directed
to Robert Singleton, at. Mr. Charles Campbell's, Benniugton
Park, near Stevenage, Herts. The following is a copy
De AR RICHAKIJ—I have taken this opportunity to infer=
you, that your sister Martha is very well, and she 'hopes that
her father and mother, and all of you will make yourselves as
comfortable as the case will admit, and nut to thick that .she
will be left without a friend in the world, as that will never
be the case while I have the use of my limbs to work for her
and what we have done,'we beg will in time he overlooked.--.
Please to give my love to them all, which I hope they 'will ac-
cept and you the same. Ask Charles if he will come and live
with use in the Spring if I stud for him op; and phase .to
send me an answer back as soon as you can, as I don't knew
that I shall be in that putt of London, where I ant now very
little while ; so I shall expect an answer back by the latter
end of the Christmas week.
" Front your loving sister, &c..
" MARTHA SINGLETON:7

(Signed in the same hand-writing.)
L. Crochwell,one of the'beadles of Shoreditch parish,stated
that lit consequence of Mr. Nate), having been to the Church,
and recognised the body of Charles 'l' aylor, the witnessThoughz
be bad got a due to the case of that unfortunate individual;
he came to the Rose and Crown on Suaday, and was intro-
duced to the deceased, when he queitiened her as to tbo
time when she last saw Taylor ? She stated that he Led left
her on Friday morning, and that she had net seen bins
since. She stated, that be was-by trade a bricklayer,
and had left her on the morning of Friday, saying, that he
should go to a Gentleman in Bishopsgate-street, and try
to get seven pounds, which was due to him for wriett
done in lepairing a house at Norwood. She said it was sr- •
ven or eight weeks since TaylOr had had any work,and that
in the meantime they existed upon her own property. :Sim
begged earnestly for permission to we the body. 'the witness
said she should, and appointed the following day, at alma=
.eleven, for her to come in company with Mr. Pearey.to view
the body. The witness asked the deceased whether !she Lad
been married to Taylor, how long, and at what church She •
said she had been marries! to him about seven years, astd was
married at the nextchurch to Whitechapel choral. -She:Aar,
in thee-gteatest agitation throughout the whole of this con-
rsu-sation. On being further questioned, she, replied, that
her Maiden name was Wright. LThe witness here remarked,
that Wright" was the name written on the inside of Tay-
lor's coml. On being asked whether site bad arty fattier? she
replied in the negative. She appeared to be in the meat -
pitiable anguish.
The father and sister of the 'unfortunate were both in at-
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tendance, and appeared to be very decent people. The Jurye
from a delicacy towards their feelings, abstained from tines
Coning them further; than _asking the father whether The
letter found upon the table was in the han&writing of
daughter. Fle replied i4l the negative, and said that sties
could not write. Her name was Singleton, which was alsa.
his name. _

Mr. Smith, jun., the son of the parish-doctor, stated, iri
explanation, that when Mr. Pearcy called upon his father.
he merely stated that a female had bled herself, but by vw
means represented the case in so serious a light as it wasp
or there would not have been the slightest hesitation in.
attending.
The Coroner then addressed the Jury, who rent-nerd a Ter-.
dict—" That the deceased had come to her death by her owl.
act, she not being at the time in a sound state of mind."
An Inquest was also held 'on the body of a new-born infant,'
found floating in the baton of the City Canal by a waggimer
no marks of violence appeared to he on the body.-7 Verdic—
t" Found drowned." •
DREADFUL SUlClDE.—Yesterday, an Inquest was held at
the sign of the Gower Arias, Gower-street, Bedford-square,
before T. STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on the body of John Grj-•
firlis, aged 33, late its the service of Sit Warren, where
he was frequently attacked by serious indisposition. The de-
ceased resided in Gower Mew:, and being left by himself au
his apartment, he. contrived to procure a ease knife, .vista
which he inflicted a most dreadful wound on his thruett.
About eight o'clock yesterday,morning, he was found welter-
ing in his blood, and the deadly instrument lying by his ski,
The Jury returned a verdict—" That the deeta'Sed couimitted
the act, being at the time in a state of insanity."