The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-16 00:00:00

tortomuus INQqtsTs.

Yesterday an Inquisition was taken RI the BON
Near), Aylesbury-street, Cie' kenwelkgreen, upon
the b,nli of Janes Met tam, No. 9, Bishop's-court,
in tfie same stret:t, betore Tnoicks STIRLING) Esq.
tor66l:r. • . ..-
LsOer liayes, wife of Peter Hayes, of No. 9,
Bishop's-cow c, said, 'that the decc4csed lived in
her house r on Sunday night, about half•past eight
o'clock, she went up stairs to inquire if he *anted
any porter ; she knocked at the door several times,
but receiving no answer, she opened the door and
went into the room, and saw the deceased bang-
ing in the corner of it to a brass hook, with a
very thin rope tied round his neck; said the de.
ceased had lodged in her house about a montb,
and had only been acquainted with him from that
time ; he had been in a low desponding state of
Hmind ever since he hod taken the lodgings, and
frequently behaved in such a manner that she has
.been terrified at going into the room; the deceased
hatl been in a very respectable Way,•• but lately his
circumstances were very much reduced. Verdict—
" Hung himself, not being contpos mentis at the
time."

Monday afternoon nn 'mitten *hi lied ea the
Cranes Inn,' Edgeware, bctore the Coroner for
Middlesex, on the body of illr.-John Kitby, an
eminent timber-ineichant, of Caidieott-hill, in
the parish of 'Aldeithani, Fierts, who' ciiine by his
eleiitit on the eveming of Saturday.

It appeared that the deceased was in London on
the morning of that day, %vhett tie hehaved in such
a manner in the Haymarket as to attract the at-
tention of every onv, by riding over a truss of
bay, though he had Ole singular good fortune not
to injure a child who was passing at the time,--
Upon his return from (own, he took some liquor
at the White Lion, entering Edie*are, and was
refuted more at the Masons' ArMs.

William Read, horse-keeper, at the Cranes,
1511t11 Mr. Kilby for the last time shout 8 o'clock
on Saturday evening, when the deceased was go-
ing down_a
,back lane, leading from Ole Cranes
to Stamitore. fle;imagines the deceased must un-
'fortunately have missed Isis way, and that the
h9rse, in consequence -fell iuto the moat near the
back of the
(Craues.
Isaac Wray, another horse-keeper, discovered
the decCased on tire morning of Sunday last, abinst
seven o'clock, •near,ly in an upright positims, in
the afiqesaid moat, stuck last in the mud, t hence
Ire was pulled out with some difficulty. This dis-
cowry was in etmsequenee of the:deceased's horse
being seen ; gra4ng in a meadow near the fatal
spot, and to which the animal had climbed up a
hank. The girths "of, the saddle were brokenin
the fall, hut the saddle was floating in the meat,
Only the back part-of the deceased's head could
be seen in the writer. • m

Mr. Kilby was in his 57th year. lie has left
two suns and two daughters. Ten pounds in
small ornes, tut hey with tine shilling in silver,
were found upon his person, anti delivered' by the
Incpest to his -eldest son. Verdict...-" Found
Torm‘ riftt" •

An Inquisition WAS taken yesterday evening at
,the Middlesex Hospital, before THOS.. STMUKO,
'gsq. upon the body of Jobti Gowan, aged 30,
who M. 15 in the sterriee of Messrs. Combe, Dela-
field, and Co., brewers, And died, in consequence
of falling trom a 'wider.
chaqes Alexander Parsons, !louse Snrgeoa of
the Middlesex
,Hp3pital, Said the deceased was
brought to 0)e:116SO:11 in a state of
with his lett arm dreatifiilly fractured,', and his leg
16cern ied. From
,the state of bo'ity Of the de-
eeaSed, he remained, through extreme pain, tic.
liriouS till he tiled, Which wits on 4Stlktutav; And it
was 'evident he died in consequence of the injury
he had received.
Lappetint servant to Messrs. CoOe and
Co. SAW he saw the deCeased f fi ; tie WAS clean
in,4 a lamp as he stood upon a ladder : the bottom
of the tadthr -having no spikes in it, slipped, and
the deceased and ladder felt ; the deeeasedfellabont
ten feet upon Isis
,Wt arni : he (,vitricss)lleared
hitn till, and oe'only-ivbrds.lie used were,
.that he
had fallen in the saine place where:Wilkie tell and
hurt himself (the per Non wlto was formerly in his
situation).. lit was taken to Middlesex
Verdict-.—" Died in consequence of a tall trout tt
ladder."