The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-11 00:00:00

ROBBERY AND MURDER.

An Inquisition was held on Friday last, at Or!
house of Mr. Benjamin King, the White Iloilo
Tavern, Church-street, Chelsea, before Tnosisis
STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Mr.
Thomas Marks, a respectable Gentleman, wild
resided at Battersea. The body of the deceased,
was discovered, on last Thursday morning, bc
some watermen, floating on the water, going
through the bridge ; they took it out, and carried
it to the bone•house; near Chelsea Church, fit
the Coroner's Inquest. The deceased was about„
thirty-five years of age, and was not heard Or
since the, morning of the 21st of last month, unul,
found drowned. No evidence being before the
Jury how he came in the water, they returned
verdict—" Found drowned." On Saturd4
morning, when the undertaker's men came t 9
strip the body in order to put it into the coffin,
they discovered a fracture Oil the left side of the
bead, and a stab, as if from bayonet or ilia;
under the breast. The friends of the decease'
caused the Coroner to issue his warrant, and the
same Jury were summoned again, and met 44
seven o'clock on Saturday evening. It appeared*
on stripping the deceased, that his gold watch
was found next his skin, inside his drawers, node,
his knee : he bad only 'three pennyworth or
half pence about him, and his pocket-book wAg
found in the skirt pocket of his coat, with sauce
letters in it, which led to the discovery of the tie'
ceased.—Mr. Keele, of Cheyne-walk, Chelsea*
surgeon, examined the body : he probed • tilt
wound, which, in his opinion, was the cause os•
his death. It appeared that the deceased had rr
ceived 1001. in notes, two days before his leavieg
home, and whether he was robbed of them or no*
could not be ascertained. It was supposed, frogs
his watch being found concealed as it was, dog
the deceased, finding himself attacked by robbers*
put the watch in his drawers for safety, and that
after he bad been robbed and murdered, his bo(if
was thrown into the water, but in what pWi)
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could not be ascertained. Verdict—“
Murder against sonic person or persons unknown.

EXECUTlON.—Yesterclay the awful sentence Pi
the law was carried into effect, at the top of ale
Gaol in florsernonger-lane, on the following 00' t
fortunate men, convicted at the last Assizes filt
the County of -Surrey :—Jatues Cane, for-burl
glary ; William Payne, "for hottsentealting
sheep-stealing ; and James Worlidge, for a
offence. The conduct of the unhappy men vori
such as became their situation ; and at precisdi
R platter past nine the drop fell, and they were
launched into eternity.

BIRTH.
At St. Helena,on the 11th of February, the Lady of Vituti.
General Sir Hudson Lowe, K.C.B. of a son.

MARRIED.
Lately, at Nassau, New Providence, Lieut.-Colonel Fretle'
rick Toinkins, of the 58th, and Commandant of the Rabaul:o;
to Anne Susan, only rewaining daughter of Comtuissioslc
'WOodriff, of H.M. Naval Yat d at Port Royal.

DIED.
On the 18th ult of a rapid decline, Maria, eldest dattgbler
of Robert Hervey Gedge, Esq. of Sloane-street.
On Saturday last; at Raver, Sussex, aged 72, Will'4
Bridger, Esq.
Yesterday, Joseph Price, Esq. of Stratton-street, ags d 79.,1,
Yesterday, at his house, Richmond, green, Samuel War
Esq., in his 88th year.
j(jsel!fi
At Norwich, the 20th ult., itt his 80th year. Mr.
Legnatd Mousigny, by hit tit at Frenchman, and many year ti
the service of the unfortunate Louis XVI. holding the post
Private Secretary till the deal h. of that Monarch..

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