The Sun.
London, England, 1820-07-27 00:00:00

THE LATE AFFRAY AT CHATHAM.

CORONER'SINQUEST.-A few evenings back
an Inquisition was taken at the Royal Artillery
Barracks, Chatham, before R. HINDE, Esq: Co-
roner for the district, on the body of 'high
Adams, late a private in the Royal Artillery
Corps, who was killed in the affray between the
Military and Turks, as briefly noticed in a for-
mer paper.
J. Souther, a private of the Royal Sappers and
Miners, stated, 'that on the night. of Saturday,
the 15th instant,' he
.was sitting in the taproom
of the Fountain 'public-house, near - the market-
place ; there were three or four other men in the.
room and one woman. A Turli,-who had been
drinking with one of his own countrymen in the
parlour, came into the room with a large heavy
tobacco pipe in his hand such,as is mostly used
by foreigners': he began to pull the woman
about, and wanted her to go with him into the
parlour to drink; but slie 'wished to be excused
on the score of illness. Finding her averse to_
his proposition, the Turk began to get passionate',
and struck her a blow Rah his pipe across the
shoulder, which lacerated the flesh, and a second
over. the hand, by which one of the fingers was
nearly dislocated, and the hand pinch swelled. \YU-
ness seeing thewornan.so shamefully used, gigot up,
and a scuffle ensued between hiin and•theTurk ;
he could not say whether he drew hiS stiletto
first, or whether he (witness) struck him with
his fist, but rather thinks the latter. However,
seeing the man armed with such a -formidable
weapon, and apparently intent-, on mischief, he.
drew his sword, and at the first thrUst which he.
made' at his opponent, the blade. bent against a
part of his equipments, in consequenceorthe bad-
ness of the steel. The- clashing of swords
brought the other Turk (whose, name :he had
since learned 'to be Hassan Huissein) into the
tap-room, and by .his assistance, witness' was
overpowered and his sword taken from hirif; but
Huissein did not offer him. any violence: lie
Made his escape from' them into the street, and
borrowed a stick from one of the neighbours, with
which he-was returning to renew the combat,
when he met the deceased and another Artillery-
man, to whom he represented the usage.he had
received, and begged they would 'assist him to
recover his sword ; at first they declined, but
witness pressed them, and .said. 'he feared the
Turks might be then murdering the people, on
which the deceased drew, and rushed with Wit-
ness, into the houSe. They met Hussein in the
passage-coming out of the tap,room, and witness
struck him a blow ,with the sack [this he : con-
fessed after sortie equivocation], which brought
him on his knee; the
.Turk immediately drew
his stiletto from beneath his garment, and the,de-
ceased made a, blow at the weapon,- with a view
(as he supposed) of striking it out of his hand ;
but the former -by a dexterous movement evaded
'the plow, and stabbed the
.deceased in the left
sid; his sword immediately fell from his grasp,
arid'clapping both his hands to the wound, he
'slaggeied into the street. 'The third soldier had
been during-this time employed in persnading
the, Turk who had been the fomenter of, the
.quarref to leave the house, in sticceeded
after much entreaty.
multiplicity of other evidence was adduced,
from which it appeared, that the. Turk, after
fighting his way oat: of the public,liouse, refused
to surrender, in , consequence of which, the as-
sembled multitude* attaCked him, and in, the
course' of the struggle, no less than, five or six
persons were wounded dreadfully. One young
man, in endeavouring to disarm him, was stabbed
throng-1i the hand and-in various parts of the arra;
others were wounded in the-head and face, ,and
one man- was stabbed in the thigh. At length
.Some one 'tripped up the fellow's heels, • and .he
:was
not allowed to rise afterwards .till his` arms
were taken from ; then he . was taken to. the

cages
Mr. Tl'll)C,,a.surgeon,:rtated that the deceased
13'1'644 t 6" his .shcp in a very lweal; state,
and bleealiik pmfusely.- there was' a woUndion
the left side, just under the false ribs, apparently

inflicted -WA 'a sward'- or some such deasitY itt"
strument, the point of which had forced its
Lwai
ottt on the other, side; 'between the tenth and
-
s
eleVenth ribs, thereby resembling two wougu,t;
He staunched the blood and then caused' hini
be carried to the. Military Hospital. Witnesss
also dressed the wounds of the other person
that had been stabbed, btit none of them were
dangerous. -
The deceased was carefully attended by -Prci
Dobsoni but such was the nature of . his wan
that he could not possibly recover; and on ac
count his fast approaching dissolution, was sent
to the Magistrates ; in consequence of which, the
Rev. Mr. Brown,. who is Chaplain to the garlla'
son, as well as a Justice of the Peace, attenciej
and took his deposition, which was put in at,
read, the deceased having been sworn to it bef°'`
his death. -It, in substance, premised, that as. It
was going down the town on. Saturday night, 11
was met by Souther, a bugleman in the ArtillerYl
at whose request he consented to -go into the
Fountain public-house, .where there was a riot'
and (he undersitood) some Turks who were stab:
Ling some persbni; that in the Passage Souther
knocked one of them (the Turks) clown witil'a
•stick, on which the latter drew 'a dagger to de''#
fend himself, and he (the deceased), whilst eii
deavouring .to strike. it out of his hand, Was stab:
'bed by him -itt the -side. This' deposition -01
taken by Mr. Brown in the presence Of s,evers
persons, and at 12 o'clock on- Sunday the unf(T,
tunate man expired. 'He was a harridess, in°
fensive fellow, and much respected by his bretlac''
in arms. • . .
Thequry, acting on the dying declarationi
the deceased, as well as other.circumstanees
vourable to the prisoner,- returned a-verdict t
JusVable-Romicide, and• expressed their regrf
at the hasty. and -, precipitate conduct of 41e
bugleman.
Hassan Huissein was in con Sequence set
berty, and conveyed -on board 'the Alexanc'e'„:
in which veisel. he. came to this country frc',,
Barbary. lie is a subject of the lley of
Sir. A. Christie, the Commander of the garrisq:
has issued an order, that all Turks .coming l
shore for the. future, shall be searched by a nil;
litary guard, and deprived of arms of whatore
description.