The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-23 00:00:00

CORONER'S JNQUES rs.

's Hospital, upon the body of
gafternoon,
Coroners at
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11, three,est
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held
andYlNesltrr. Yesterday
an inquest-at St. George
Sarah Williamson, wife of Robert Williamson an in-
door Chelsea pensioner, 70 years of age. It appeared
from the evidence of Mrs. Doolan that the husband
and deceased had been out drinking on the evening of
the 26th October, and they had returned home to
No. 2, Royal Hospital. row, Chelsea (where the wit-
ness also lived), about a quarter past four o'clock.
Shortly after she heard a noise of quarrelling in their
room, but as this was no unusual circumstance, she
!e(n
paid no attention to it ; in a feW minutes the deceased
scanned " Murder" repeatedly, and called witness by:
name. She ran out and
found he r leaning
ha head.
azrgse
theba
nn
from a istersuponthe stair-landing, the ''blitood
streaming wound
in her
said'
Augustus d that deceased Davies, house-surgeon, . .
was admitted to the hospital suffering from a lacerated
wound upon the scalp, and contusions over the body.
Various sloughs formed, and oti the 14th inst. she
was seized with: sickness and
shivering. She
gradually sank and died upon the 19th. He had no
' hesitation in saying that the wound in the head was
the primary cause of her death. The Jury, after
consulting for i some time, returned a verdict of
' Manslaughter."
Yesterday afternoon an inquiry, which was ad-
journed from Saturday, was resumed before Mr.
Baker, at the Black Horse, Kingsland-road, on the
body of Robert Burch Butchell, 21 years of age. It
appeared from the evidence that the deceased was the
son of a gentleman formerly connected with the Coal
Exchange. On Friday
night the deceased had been
passing the. evening at the Eagle Tavern, and about
three O'clock in the morning he was found lying on
the pavement in Bath-street, Citv-road. On being
conveyed to the •station-house. and a surgeon sent
for, it was found he was dead. Mr. Coward, sur-
geon to the police, said the deceased died from the
rupture of a blood-vessel on the brain. Verdict—
Natural death." On the twelvemonths
same' da
Mr. Butcher lost another son who was accidentally
drowned on his passage home from Quebec.
SUDDEN DEATII IN TIIE STREET
_Yesterday Mr.
y
Baker held an inquest at the Red Lion, High-street,
Poplar, on the body of. a man, whose name is . un-
known, who died suddenly on Saturday last in the
street, near the East India Dock-house, Poplar. A
witness deposed that immediately before the deceased
expired, he said he was the chief mate of the`Are-
thusa. Verdict—" Natural death."

Mr. H. Ager, the captain of the transport ship
Waterloo, Was providentially on shore at the time of
her loss.

----MEMOIRS OF THE LITERARY LADIES OF ENGLAND.
—A new work under this title is announced as imme-
diately forthcoming from the pen of Mrs. Elwood.
A. more attractive production in the eyes of the fair
sex could hardly be imagined ; and indeed it must
possess great interest for all classes of readers. Among
the numerous distinguished females who have adorned
'the past century, we may
Talbot, Mrs.. Catherine Montagu, Mrs.
nouurmlbiteerraLtaudrye,
mevaein.y(Wluroirntgley
r.osf. CS oh
ampeorns ee : 1 I ra . '
Montagu, Lady Murray,
, Mrs. Delany, Mrs. Elizabeth
Inchbold, Mrs. Piozzi, l‘adameD'Arblay,
Mrs. Hannah
Vlore,me r,
AlVllrrss..larba Charlotteul d,
Laggan,
tcsslihrnaereiDtrteihcrui:acAnhA;eri:srsi
Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton,
Mrs. Mary Wollstonetraft Godwin, Mrs. Radcliffe,
Miss Jane Austen, .MiS,
Mrs.A 1 i Miss Seward,
Grant,
of
Elizabeth Smith, Mrs.
Brunton, Mrs. Hemans, Miss Jane Taylor, Mrs.
Maclean, Miss A. M. Porter, &c. It is scarcely
necessary to observe that the varied lives of these
ladies afford materials fora succession of biographies
as interesting in a social as a national point of view.
CUTTING A WOMAN'S THROAT IN A PUBLIC MAR-
KET-PLACE.----At the Tovim-hhll7 Cambridge, yester-
day, Charles Triplow, a greenkroeer, living in that
borough, was charged with having attempted to mur-
der his wife by cutting her throat in the market-
place, on Saturday. Charles Wilderspen deposed that
on Saturday, between six andrSeVen .in the evening,
he was in the market, when he saw the prisoner and
his wife standing against their stall. The prisoner
went up to his wife and pushed at her two or three
times, as if angry, and they appeared to have been
quarreling. A woman called out to witness, " He's
cut her throat." He hastened to the prisoner's wife,
and saw her bleeding from the neck. The prisoner
turned off, as if to run away, when witness collared
him. Some one then said to the prisoner, " You
have been cutting your wife's throat ;" and he 'replied,
" Yes, I'll cut- her --'--- heart out before I've done
with her." The prisOner was not ' drunk. Charles
Gunn deposed to having seen the prisoner and hia
wife wrangling. She struck him on the side of the
head, to make him get away from the stall, when he
went up to her and jobbed something into her neck.
Witness saw a great gash in her throat. 'Another
witness deposed that the prisoner caught hold of his
wife's throat " as if he was going to choke her, and
held'her a short time, and then cut her throat." The
woman was conveyed to the hospital: One of the sur-
geons to the hospital deposed that the wound was
three inches in length, and one in depth ; the external
jugular vein had been cut through. On his way to
the station-house, the prisoner said he meant to kill
his wife, and if she was dead he should be happy ;
he intended, after killing her, to- kill himself. The
knife was pr&duced with which the wound had been
inflicited.; it was ,a very large clasp knife, with a sharp
point. As the woman was dangerously ill, and not
able to give any evidence against her husband, he was
remanded for 'a few days.
We are'requested to state that " The Jack o'Lan-
tern (Le Fen-Follet); or, the Privateer," a story of
the Sea, by J. Fenimore Cooper, Esq., author of
" The Pilot," &c., in 3 vols. post Bvo., is this•day pub-
lished by Mr. Bentley, and can now be had at all the
Libraries.—On Friday next, the 25th inst., Mr.
Bentley will publish 4 The History of the Manners,
Customs, Arts, &c., of Ancient Greece," by J. A. St.
'John, Esq., 3 vols. Bvo.-8, New Burlington-street,
November 23, 1842,