The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-10 00:00:00

INQUEST ON THE BODIES.

Saturday afternoon inquests were held on the bo-
dies, before Mr. NEWMAN, Coroner, pro tem., for
the city, at the Bull inn.
Elizabeth Silk was a widow, and servant to the
deceased. About six o'clock on Saturday morning
deceased came into her room, and brought with her
the children's clothes; two of the children of the
deceased, a little boy and girl, slept in the same
room with the witness; her mistress said, " I have
brought you the children's clothes." She replied
". Very well, ma'am; what o'clock is it ?" to which
her mistress replied " Between six and seien." Her
mistress then returned to her bed-room, and locked
the door after her, and witness went down stairs to
her work. Some time after Mr. Bradley wished to
have his breakfast, and desired her to go and call
her mistress. She went up to the • door, and
knocked several times without getting any answer;
concluding that she was asleep, she returned down
stairs.

The witness then proceeded to state that her
master rung the breakfast bell, and she (witness)
went up stairs again to call her mistress. She
knocked again at the door, without receiving any
answer, and then went down stairs to mention the
circumstance to her master. He became much
alarmed, and asked her to go up stairs with him. On
arriving at the door, he burst it open, and then wit-
ness saw a most frightful spectacle. [Here her
emotion became so great that she nearly fainted, and
if a Juror had not caught her in his arms she would
have fallen on the floor.] As soon as she had re-
covered,

The CORONER inquired of her what was the state
of her mistress's health before this circumstance oc-
curred ? Witness replied that she seemed absent
sometimes. There was a strange inconsistency
about her conduct. She seemed at times very
melancholy, and frequently exclaimed, " I don't
know what we shall do I"

Ann Carrotte was the wife of a gentleman's
coachman, and had been acquainted with the de-
ceased and her child. She was with the deceased
and her husband when they entered on possession
of the tap of the Bull Inn, on the Ist of July last,
and remained with them till last Tuesday. She
described the conduct of Mrs. Bradley as amount-
ing to insanity. Witness gave it as her opinion
that the deceased's anxiety about the business, and
her having to suckle the child, drove her out of her
mind. She was between forty and fifty years of
age, and had been married between five and six
years, during which time she had had three children,
two of which are living.
The CORONER asked her if the deceased and her
husband had lived on good terms ?—Witness re-
plied that they had. She had known them since
they were married, and a better wife and neighbour
did not exist.

The CORONER asked her if she was affectionate
towards her children ?—The witness replied that a
more affectionate mother could not exist, or one
fonder of her children.

The CORONER asked her if she had ever seen the
deceased write ?—Witness said she had, and gave
it as her belief that the writing on the piece of paper
produced was the deceased's hand-writing.
Mr. Thomas Emmett, one of the Jurymen, said
that he found the note in question on a table in a
room where the bodies lay. Beside it were a spoon
containing some ink, with a pen and a case-knife.
The CORONER then read the paper, which was as
follows :

" May the Lord bless my dear husband and chil-
dren. It is no fault of theirs. God bless my dear
husband, and keep him from harm for my doing
this. The Lord prosper his: undertakings and my
two little children."

The Jury, after the evidence had been summed
up by the Coroner, gave as their verdict, " That the
deceased, Fanny Bradley, had destroyed her child
under the excitement of insanity ; and the fit conti-
nuing, had also subsequently destroyed herself."

On Thursday the remains of Baron Hui,-
LOCK passed through Oxford, for interment in the family
vault near Barnard Castle, in the county of Durham.—
The hearse was accompanied by a mourning coach and four
through the town, which returned as soon as it had passed
St. Giles's church.— Berkshire Chronicle.

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STATE OF TRADE.—DUSHICSS, bad as it is,
has been somewhat brisker this week than during the two
preceding. For fustians there has been a moderate market,
while the country trade in general, owing to a better at-
tendance of buyers, has, in a trifling degree, looked up._
For the lower numbers of twist there has been an in-
creased demand for foreign trade. In some instances we
know the coarser spinners have engagements which will
take at least six months far their completion.—Manchester
Advertiser.

MATRIMONIAL INFIDELITY.---A most dis-
tressing case of matrimonial infidelity has just occurred in
the western suburbs of this town. A married man, the
father of five children, one of them born the previous
Sunday, has eloped with a married woman, the mother of
seven. Before her departure, the female abstracted from
a chest deposited in her husband's house, the property of
his sister, a Bank acknowledgment for 301., the hard-
earned savings of many years, from a very moderate rate
of wages received for service in a family in the neighbour-
hood. The deserted wife is in a state of distraction.—
Perth Courier.