The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-13 00:00:00

MURDER AT CHELSEA.

CORONER'S INQUEST.--An Inquisition was taken
at lota o'clock yesterday afternoon, before HUGH
LEwis, Esq, Coroner for Westminster, at the
Triumphant Chariot, Pembroke-mews, Grosve-
nor-place, upon the body of Mary Ann Losch, aged
27 years, the wife of Francis Losch, a pensioner
of Chelsea College, late a private in the 3d batta-
lion of the 60th regiment of foot, who resided at
No. 7, Jew's-row, Sloane-street, Chelsea.—The
Jury, which consisted of 16 respectable house-
keepers, being sworn, adjourned to St. George's
Hospital, and there, with the Cot( :ter, took a view
of the body of the unfortunate deceased.
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Mrs. Ana Daynan, of Lawrence-court, Jews'-row, Chelsea'
stated, that on Friday night, while she was conversing with
the deceased, the husband of the latter, who was standing
near them, came forward, and said to her, " Come home,
you are drunk." She replied, " If lam drunk, it is by pros-
tituting myself to support an idle fellow like you." She had
no sooner uttered these words than he struck her with some-
thing. . She staggered and fell on her back, exclaiming, " I
ant murdered ; pull the knife out of me." The husband ap-
peared sober.
it.t.inrsra Clark, in ,n-1,14.70n tr, what Ile stated at Queen-
square Police-Office, said, that he had a distinct view of the
husband by the light of a candle in a hairdresser's shop ; he
did not observe hint have any knife, hut saw him fumbling in
his pockets before he struck the deceased; after he struck
her, and before she fell to the ground, she exclaimed, " 0
my God, I am murdered ; will any one take the knife out of
me?" Witness stept forward to keep her up, but she fell be-
fore
he reached her, and then uttered the same exclamation ;
don't know who pulled the knife out ; conceives that neither
she nor the husband were intoxicated.
Mr. *William Treadaway, 2, George-street, Sloane-sqnare,
coal-merchant, was present at the horrid transaction ; just
as the deceased fell, he heard a scream of murder ; he stepped
towards her, and saw part of her bowels; she said, " take
the knife out of rue." Elizabeth Harrison cried out to the
he :•band, " You have murdered your wife ;" sow no knife
but the husband was standing by her ; he said, " I am the
murderer, tape me." The husband had kicked her before,
during the evening•, very violently.
The evidence of Elizabeth Harrison and the watch-house-
keeper corroborated the above, and the facts stand as in our
Paper of yesterday.
Mr. John Kitchen, house surgeon at St. George's Hospital.
The deceased was brought to the hospital on Friday evening
a little past eight o'clock; she was in excreciating pain. She
had a wound on the right side of the abdomen about six
inches in length, apparently inflicted with a sharp instrument.
The greizter part of the bowels and pact of the stomach pro-
truded• The trowels were cut through. She lingered until
five o'clock the following morming. The, bowels had been
wounded iii four different places.

The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Wilful
and Deliberate Murder against Francis Losch, the
deceased's husband.
The Coroner having bound over the witnesses
to give evidence against the prisoner, issued his
warrant to Tothill-fields, for his committal to
Newgate.

MURDER IN THE FLEET PnisoN.—Saturday af-
ternoon, at five o'clock, this prison was the scene
of a most atrocious and.deliberate act of murder.
James Leerwood, a tailor, imprisoned for debt,
'had found in the skittle-ground a letter, which
had been dropped by another prisoner, of the
mime of James Daly, an Irishman, which con-
tained some very unpleasant disclosures respecting
that person ; he handed the letter to Lewis, the
keeper of the chandler's shop, in order to be given
to the owner. Daly, feeling incensed at Leer-
wood for not delivering the letter into his own
hands, went to the shop-board where he was
working, seized a sleeve-board, and struck Leer-
wood a blow on the temple, which felled him to
the ground, and continued beating him in the
most furious manner till interrupted by the other
prisoners. The unfortunate victim of his rage
was taken up in a most pitiable condition, and im-
mediately carried to the hospital, where, notwith-
standing every surgical aid, he expired yesterday
morning at eight o'clock. Daly is in close con-
finement in the strong-room, and an inquest will
be held on the body this day. Leerwood has left
seven children ; he only three weeks ago buried
his wife, Ile bore the character of a very honest,
quiet, and industrious man.

Yesterday two persons were committed to pri-
son by the Surrey Magistrates, es disorderly, for
creating an alarm in the Borough on Sunday
night, by crying " fire," and knocking in a vio-
lent manner at the doors of the inhabitants.—
They were required to find sureties to keep the
peace, which failing to do, the Magistrates sign-
ed their commitment.