Star.
London, England, 1830-12-30 00:00:00

ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST.

MIRA/7UL OCCUR/MICE—A Max KILLED IT 01$ WIT/.
—Last night an Adjourned Inquest was bald at Guy's Hospital, before
Mr. PATNI, on view of the body of John Friend Azhad, aged 40,
who held a situation in the Excise.office, whose death MOB oat of the
following lamentable circumstances :
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Mr. *tn. Tifen surgeon of Church-row, Newington, de-
posed, that on the 27th of October last the deceased came to him and
complained that he had received an injury in the head, in conempsence
of having fallen against a brick-wall, when in a state of intoxication.
Witness on examination found a dreadful wound just above the left ear,
and several pieces of brick firmly embedded in the skull, which was
hectored. He extracted the pieces of brick, together with a portion of
the fractured bones, so that a considerable orifice remained in the head.
The deceased was then conveyed home to his residence in Ellis-square,
Walworth-road. Witness called so ess the deceased the following day,
when his wife confessed that she had given him the wound. She said
that be came home tipsey the preceding evening, and was very abusive,
when, in the beat of passion, she took up a plow of brick and threw it
at him, which stuck En his bead, and she expressed sorrow at the event.
Witness desired his removal to the Hospital, and he was accordingly
taken then.

Richard:Weir, a porter in the hospital, deposed that he went that
morning to the late residence of the deceased, and informed his wife of
the death of her husband, when she gave the same account of the occur-
rence u detailed by the preceding witness.

Mr. W. B. Andrew, a dresser in the hospital, stated that the
deceased was received into the Institution on the let instant. On
inspection he found a considerable orifice in the head on the left
side. He was put under proper treatment, and for some time did
well ; but subsequently lints attended with erysipelas of the in.
jured part came on—large abscesses were also forma near the wound—
he sunk gradually, and expired from exhausdon on Tuesday last. On
a post mortem examination, so abscess appeared In the brain, near the
seat of injury, and in the opinion of witness, the wound was the primary
canoe of the unfortunate man's dissolution.

The jury, $I II short consultation, returned a verdict of man.
slaughter spines Bridget Axford, the wife of the deceased, and she
was committed, under the coroner's warrant, to take her trial at the
Bunny &salons, which commence this day at Kingston.

DRRADTUL ACCIDENT AT HUTTON MOOR, NEAR
HlPOlL—Monday evening week, as Mr. Weatherhill, of
Catton, near Topeliffe, and his servant, were on their return
home from Boroughbridge, with a waggon and a cart, and
had got to Hutton Moor, the servant went up to the waggon,
which preceded him, and was driven by Mr. W. whom he
found suspended by the leg from one of the shafts, in which
be had got entangled. He immediately stopped the horses,
and when he got him released he presented a most appalling
spectacle : his leg was broken, and the bone obtruded. His
face was most horribly disfigured, as it had been grinding
against the wheel for some time. His nose, lips, and nearly
the whole of the flesh of his face, was entirely taken off, and
in this deplorable condition he survived about half an hour,
when death released him from his sufferings.—Hull Adver-
tiser.

Monday week an Inquest was held before J. Branson,
Esq. Coroner, at the Mansion house, Doncaster, to ascertain
the death of Mary Shackleton, wife of John Shackleton, of
that town, bricklayer. After a long and patient investiga-
tion, which lasted from ten o'clock in the morning until
six in the evening, during which it appeared that Mr. Rae-
burn attended and delivered her of a child on the preceding
day, but, having urgent business in another direction, left
the deceased under the care of an apprentice, who, it clearly
appeared, was incompetent to the performance of the duty
with which be was entrusted, hemorrhage, and afterwards
death, ensuing, the jury came to the following decision:.--
" That the deceased came to an unnatural death in conse-
quence of being left by Mr. Raeburn in unskilful hands after
childbirth, and that a verdict of Manslaughter is returned
a,Taih; t ac.:Jrdingly."—ffatifas Clirc vide.
INTILABSTING AND ACIHIIVTIC STOAT OF THE SHIP
RAVZNIWOILTH.—IU our paper of Nov. 18, we extracted
from The New Year Gift a rather romantic story respect-
ing the alste,* Rayanstiorth basking from her moorings and
going to sea with only a little boy on board, which roe-
gessetl a local booreat Craw the event motet; occurring
at Shields. We and tbet the circumstance excited a
sersat•en here, and is perfectly remembered by
some gentlemen older than ourselves. It may be inte-
resting, therefore, to record the facts which took place,
as they differ from the fictitious narrative in several
particulars. The Ravensworth, in the first place,
was not an old Greenland whaler, as she is represented, but
was a small ship of 13 or 14 keels, belonging to Messrs.
Mosley and Airey, coal-fitters, of Newcastle, Mr. Robert
Atkinson, commander, regularly employed in the coal trade
between Newcastle and London. She was light, not laden,
having just arrived from the metropolis. She was driven
from her moorings at North Shields, while there was a strong
fresh wind in the river. All the crew were at the time on
shore, except the cabin-boy, a lad 11 years of age. This oc-
currence which, as we have observed, excited great interest
in the neigliourhood, took place about 1792 or 1793. Soon
after it was known that the vessel had gone to sea with
the little boy only on board, the Unity, belonging to Mr. N.
Clark, went out with Capt. Atkinson, master of the Ravens-
worth, in search of her. They did not succeed, however, in
meeting with her, and returned. It is not true, as stated,
that the Ravensworth was three weeks tossing about in the
German ocean, and was then driven on the coast of Holland.
The little sailor, who constituted her sole pilot, had the pru-
dence, as mentioned in the tale, to lash the helm so as to
keep her from the shore, and he not onl7 hoisted the fore-
staysail, but hoisted what is called a " jack " on the fore-
topmast rigging. This attracted the notice of a Harwich
smack when she was near Flamborough Head, on which she
went to her assistance, and we are informed, took her safely
into the harbour of Harwich, after she had been buffetting
with the waves for five days. It is worthy of note that the
ballast port was open at the time. The little boy was busy
frying pancakes when the Harwich smack came to the
Raveneworth. It is perfectly recollected here that when the
young sailor returned to Newcastle he was taken to the
Exchange and shown as a little hero, and several of the mer-
chants gave him silver in token of their admiration. The
author of the story in the Annual represents hint as an old
potion:lap * his wig recounting his adventures. This is not
quite corrects if he is now olive, be can scarcely be mere
than 50 years of age.—Tyne Mercury.