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that the deceased had permitted familiarity with the
other sex some time before.
The Jurors put several questions to Mr. Fuller as
to whether he could judge of the state of the mind of
the deceased from the appearance of her countenance
after death ; to which he professed himself unable to
give satisfactory answers.
• Juror—Do you think it possible for a person whose
countenance is so placid as that of the deceased, to have
been deranged in her mind when she threw herself off
the Monument ? Witness—lt is quite impossible for
me to say. I can only say that I have seen persons
whose features were much distorted with pain and ill-
ness just before death, and in a very short time after-
Wards they were as placid as could be.
Juror—Yes, but that was in a case of natural
death. Do you know any' similar instance in a case
of violent death ? Witness—No, Ido not.
The next witness called was Caroline Bottrell, an
interesting-looking young woman, dressed in deep
mourning, who, on being sworn, stated that she was
step-sister to the deceased, and that she had seen but
very little of her for the last four years. The de-
ceased, she understood, was in her 17th year, having
been born on the 23d of September, 1825, and she
(witness) was not aware of any circumstances which
could have led to her committing such an act.
Mrs. Louisa Edwards, another sister of the de-
ceased, and who is a widow, deposed that she had not
seen the deceased for twelve months, and that this was
•owing to her not knowing where she ,dived. This .
-witness here said there were some circumstances in
ale case which she feared were withheld from the
Comner and Jury, and which she wished should be
strlctiv inquired into. The circumstances she alluded
to, and which had been withheld were, that there were
two o'g'entlemen lodgers in the house of Mrs. Rowbo-
them, with whom her unfortunate sister might have
ferreed an intimacy, and she (witness) should be glad
if the Coroner and Jury would inquire whether
either of those gentlemen were from home on the
Thursday night.
The CORONER, upon this suggestion, had Mrs.
RO'ivbotharn re-called, and in reply to the questions of
the Coroner and Jury, she said, that two gentlemen
hal lodged at her house, but one of them left last
month, and the other, she swore, had not been absent
from home on the Thursday night. This witness de-
nied in the most indignant manner the imputation of
Airs. Edwards, the last witness, and complained of
having been grossly insulted by her while waiting to
be examined. The witness, in conclusion, said it was
her firm conviction; from a close observance of her
conduct and manner, that so far from the deceased
forming any improper intimacy with the gentlemen
in her house, that she was perfectly spotless, chaste,
and pure.
The CORONER—The surgeon who has given his
evidence has declared' her to be otherwise, and that,
too, for some time.
Mrs. Rowbotham (evidently much surprised and
affected)—l could hardly believe it possible, and I
can only say, the opinion I have expressed of her was
the one I have always entertained.
In reply to the question of a Juror, Mrs. Row-
botham said, that Mrs. Edwards, and, she believed,.
the other members of the deceased's family, were per-
fectly well aware of where she lived ; yet for the 12
months she had been in: her service neither of them
came to see her.
Mrs. Edwards was again called, and it appeared from
her own admission that she had not the slightest
round for making the imputation against Mrs. Row-
hotham, or the inmates of her house, and the Coroner
and Jury expressed it to be their unanimous opinion
that there was not the slightestlmputation against the
character of Mrs. Rowbothatit,'-, -
Sarah Timmins was here 'recalled by order of the
Coroner. She said she became acquainted with the
deceased by her living as servant to a tenant of her fa-
the:, and that she corresponded with her occasionally,
but she was not aware of her having an acquaintance
With-any young man, nor any improper intimacy with
any one. The deceased left her house on Thursday
evening after ten, and after being there about an hour
and a half, left for the purpose, as she (witness) believ-
ed, of going home to her master. She did not hear any
about Camberwell Fair, nor did she observe any
peculiarity in manner on that occasion, and she had
no idea where she had been that (Thursday) night,
nor any cause which led to the rash act. The witness
was here questioned about some expressions in a note
which she had sent to the deceased in April last, but
the answers led to nothing particular.
The beadle here remarked that he had made in-
quiries, and found that the deceased bore a very ex
cellent character in the situation which she had been
in previous to going into that of Mrs. Rowbotham,
and her mistress spoke very highly of her. He (the
beadle) had used every exertion to ascertain where
the deceased had been from six o'clock on Thursday
evening until half-past ten, when she presented her-
self at the Monument, but could not get any informa-
tion on the subject.
Mr. Deputy Pewtress said that, upon hearing of
the unfortunate accident, he went to Guildhall to ex-
amine the minutes of the Committee who had been
appointed on the occasion of the former fatal accident
at the Monument, with the view of preventing a re-
currence of such offences. By those minutes he
found that the Committee had left the matter in the
Int,ds of the Clerk of the Works to report oa, which
he did. The report recommended two things for the
prevention of smcides,—the first was the appointment
of a person to accompany those persons who wished to
view the monument; and the next, that the iron
railing at the top, which was then four feet high,
should be raised four feet more, but as the latter
would somewhat diminish the architectural beauty of
the pillar, the former recommendation was adopted,
and the man Fletcher was appointed to the situation.
He (Mr. Pewtress) had been to the top of the
Monument since the melancholy affair, and it was to
him a matter of considerable surprise that a person so
short in stature as the deceased could have got over
e iron railings, such as they were. On making a
rainute inspection, however, he saw that it was easily
accomplished, for he found that the flag-staff had been
made fast at two places with bindings which formed
a resting place for the feet, and by their means a per-
son of almost any stature could have surmounted the
railing. Had this shelf not been in its present situ-
ation he (Mr. Pewtress) was of opinion the deceased
could not have accomplished her object. •
Mr. Hall, Chairman of the City Lands Committee,
slid a Committee were summoned to meet on Mon-

day next, to take the present unfortunate occurrence
into consideration, and he (Mr. Hall) might with
confidence assure the Coroner and the Jury that such
means would be adopted as would effectually prevent
the recurrence of such tragic scenes.
The CORONER, in summing up the evidence, ob-
served there could ba no doubt the deceased came by
he- (Intl' by an act of her own, as it was impossible
to suppose that she could have fallen off by accident,
and the only question the Jury had to consider was the
state of mind in which she was at the time. With
respect to the Monument itself, he (the Coroner) was
glad to find that two gentlemen who stood high in
the Corporation was in attendance, and the jury had
heard what those gentlemen had said on the subject.
For his own (the Coroner's) part, he felt satisfied,
frem the assurance given by those gentlemen, that
something would be at once done to effectually prevent
further deaths of this description. It was impossible to
prevent suicides, there were so many means of accom•
plishing self-destruction, but something should he
done to prevent .the outrage done to the public and
public feeling by acts like the present. It was stated
that, on the present occasion, a man who was acci-
dentally passing had narrowly escaped, for had the
deceased fallen upon, instead of close by him, his life
must have been sacrificed. By the evidence, it did not
appear where the deceased had spent her time from six
o'clock oa the Thursday evening until near half-pastten
on the following morning; but if the Jury should be of
opinion that an adjournment of the case would bring
forth this fact, he (the Coroner) was willing to ad-
journ the case to a future day. If, however, they
were satisfied with the evidence before them, the only
question for their consideration (as there could be no
doubt of her having committed the act herself) was
as to the state of mind in which she was when she
committed it.

The Jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, re-
turned a verdict—" That the deceased came by her
death by injuries, by throwing herself off the Monu-
ment ; and that she had committed the act while la-
bouring under temporary derangement, occasioned
by indiscretion and stopping out all night."

A Juror, after the verdict was returned, said he
considered the Jurors would not be doing their duty
if they did not add to their verdict their disapproba-
tion of the City authorities in appointing to the situa-
tion such a person as Fletcher, a man who was so
worn out and decrepit as to be incapable of preventing
persons from throwing themselves from the top of the
building, if they even attempted to do ao in his
presence, and who was a perfect specimen of the old
watchman.

The CORONER remarked he had no doubt the evil
-would be immediately remedied.

At Calverton, on Tuesday last, a meeting of frame-
wolk.knitters was convened, to take into consideration
the best means to be adopted, to put a stop to an in-
ifring,ement, which several of the hosiers are practising
upon them, by shifting four stitches instead of three, in
the narrowings of the heels and toe-ends, without any
remuneration, when a resolution was proposed, and car-
) ied unanimously, that sooner than suffer themselves to
—,l vnaz, tr be, imposed upon any longer by their masters, they
' 74' ''''`-'4VOnld strike, and never return to work again until the
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