Star.
London, England, 1815-08-23 00:00:00

DUBLIN, 4411,1thisT

CO RO ER'S INQUEST
an irk, of the body of the late David Hawthorn, *heft be-
fore Robert Barry Wita4eraltl and Jelin Paeley, Eire. Coroners
fur the County of Dublin, nn Ittoolay and Monday, at Portobello
Hotel. Ihe following most rcapecialala• Jury were sworn ; Rose
M'Cau, li.q. Foreman, Wilhato Studdart, James Rathrene,
Richard Wonted, Joseph Mathias, John (;ordna Dunn, Ber-
nard Camper', Thomas Robin-oil, John Cowan, They. N.
Itlcharilson, Kdwarda, anal Samuel Figgit.,Esquires.

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Ihe first • watiess examined was Richard Stan-Tey.lreliiiid, Esq.
a surgeon. Having examintd the body of the deceased, found
no marks of vilence, and to the best of his belief he came to
his deAt It by drowning.
%%rattan* ISt•Ga.it in first saw the dreemied nn Sunday morning,
the I:1 la instant, itiatitic in the Canal 'near l'ortnliebo, .in I hu-
m-that. ly called Henry Collis, and procured a grappling iron,
and dragged the hiely lie bank of tin? Canal; said that wit •
sa and Collis etainimil his puckers. and hound is thrni
tenpetaily bits and a p4F‘T, klitilOr;tlp. to be a memorandum or
aro:tint, and a key, which were proJuced; Vac clic:anvil lied no
hat or neckcloil. ; [lsere was sio pocket handkerchb I;
‘ollis examined his lob, three was no watch, but found the fob
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and packet %vas cot off; saith that the pact of Isis garment or
coat that was torn, was where the grappling iron caught ; s.vears
that it could tint.have interfered so at to take the watch, if any
deceased bad, from his fob; the neck of deceased's shirt was
closed iterk, but be had no cravat. _

filmy Collis Lees to the tkck-yartl at Portobello; wa. pre ell
between tl.e hours ..1 tic Jul seem o'clock ea the sawmill;
•nday tl e 1 aih :lay of August and .aw the body of the
decease., float ng iit the Canal; witae•e prucu:ed grat•plmg
awl lir.,uailtt the body with the assistance cf IVP(lattroi, to .lie
bat.lt u! th.• Canal; examined the pockets of the dt-cea,kA,
found in his waistcoat the key produced; examined al,o she fob
of his pantaloons; there was 110 watch, but the fob appearel turn
oil•; he had no hat, cravat or tteckcloth.

Thomas Figgie, of No. 4a, Charitisiont-street, is Usher to Mr.
,Fagatt's school; was walking on the Grand Canal, near Put w-
hen° Hotol on the morning of :,unday, the ilith of
him ant , hat vre. els the hours of Ai and seven o'clock, saw the body
of a man, wham witness is ittier.:ted to be Daniel Hawthorn,
Boatinj in the Canal; called to a m... 0 named M.C.laurits to take
out the body, anti with the asst,tance of Collis, who procured a
grappling.irun, brought it to the blnk ; witness was proem when
the pockets of deceased were searched, and nine tenpeutty.piece.
were got and a key; the fob of the deceased's pantaloons wOte
exam,ned, it appeared to have been turn off, but no watch; the
body was about six feet front the batik; witness could not reach
the body without a rope ur grapple.—Adjourned.
Monday the Coroner't Jury ,at at eight o'clock in the morning,
wheu a grewer number of ;wahine(' attended than the preceding
day._

Ac on Gibbons, a dealer. in Exchange, knew the de-
ceaied David ilaW:horn tur several yi ars ; saw hula la•t alive on
Vire,hteaday, between the liettra of three and four o'clock m the
afternoon, at the Royal Exchange; he took from witness .C 450
in Bank of England Post-hills, ar the pa eol 9.l.per cent. two tor
.6100 each, thaw., in favoor of Win. Morris, and accepted same
Jay as JIAWtI, (as as Witilvis recollects, not having his lx.e.L.
with him), anti heariog thite uii or about the 10'1 or tits% days of
Jaly last ; wittu.s, reren•c.l them liimiilt on the I.:th day of July
train Mr Morris; the thin' bid, tor the suns of 1.'70, drawn a.,
favt.ur of Lover and Co. bear. at •witness is interim it by
Mr, Lover, the Ist day of Auzust instant; witness did nut gc:
value for the same, as di proiniacil to call next day atilgiay
Witness; on Saturday inortitng•KillicS wen to the house ut
Messrs. Cattail and Hawih..n,, hi Pi Mane, and tiNn, itld EOl
be fore, did he bear of Mr. Hawthorn being missing, when he
applied hi: the vatie; the deceai,..l had often purchased English
paper truin it aisi, and iteae:-..11y drought him the value, not to
41:r wittiels the troirne ui ealimg for ; the deceased required
no more than the, etacc sari ut J.:a.".0 from witness.

A gent:eman of the house of the deceased deposed, that he
knew Mr. ilf4:AA•ed the last dine he SAW him alive was on Wed-
eveihog, between the hour ut eight and nine o'clock; saw
the !wily of Mr. Hawthorn lyifig dead on the kinks 9f tin : Gaud
Canal, at Pur.obt 110, on :.oinlay watt niug, the I:,th lusts r, and
winch said body had been viewed by the Jury hi lure whom he
i, now giving evidence; Mr. Hawthorn returned home to the
in l'tli-late, in or About the hour ut lour o'clock on Wednesday
last. at which period wifitess was 11l the back part of 1112 CUIICC/11,
1111Slod in storine, the coti.ealts of a cos:: ut goods, which occup.ed
him about twenty whines; shortly 31tei ward. Witness went into
the shop, hi which place the taco i. Sept, and the deceased cane
iu alter him; witness saw the nrci.ased look at his watch, in ostler
to see whether Mr. Murphy, who WAS to dine with the dsceasyd
that day, would have note to go to some place prevsous to dims
tor ; witness saw decea.c.: put up his watch in its lob, and :old
Mr. Murphy he would have time to go—deceased was dittili
occupied in going to the cellar and preparing for dinner, as tome
ttiends were to stifle with him--deceased sat down to ditiosr
shortly ;after Ilse o'clock—witness dined at the table; during the
toile ut dinner the deceased did nut leave toe room, nor o lulst
wit tieiJ remained, o Lich was ',mei after six u'dock—witne had
occaston to pan the window, and saw Mr. Hawthorn and
his friends; witness r:turned in the panic room to tea about
eight o'cloCk, at which time deer:heti appeared a good tee at.-
1. Lied with what lie had drank: wiutrs,.tiaving taken tea refuel.','
and saw the deceased in about half an hour re.ire two the yard,
which was the lactime he taw knit alive; in consequence of the
absence of Mr. Hawthorn the sext day, winless was present I
when the desk belonging to Alessrs. Car.uti and 1-la.ctliton
welled by Mrs. Carton (Mr. Caron bcing in Etiglai.d) for the
purpose of lookhig for the English notes winch Mr. &lei p!ay had
informed wittersa had been bruu;iitt by deceased ou et.ai.ge the
day before, which ititormation Mr. Murphy said he received
front Mr. Hawthorn at dinner the day before and to leave out thu
bills which taught have fallen 'due us' that day; witness says the I
most diligent search has been made for said taigifsb Bank 13111 s,
and that uu trace whatever of diem could be had.

James Murphy of Pi:Haste, one of the firm of Dudgeon, Mur-
phy and Co. knew she deceased upwards of lounge,' years, and
was its habits of the greatest autimacy with hitu; baby the de-
ceased a quarter betute five o'clock un Wednesday lest, at bit
house in Pill-lute; witnesses objected for going in was to *hew
that be was ready tor chimer; deceased pulled out his watch,
which was a silver one, and having looked at it, told w:turss he
might go fur a abort time; witness went out bat,* bc*invis to
du at the Linen Hall, and returned shinny afterwards; witness
and others dined with the deceased Aliout half-past five, and
routi-
nurddrinking together until tea time, which was about 8 o'eltiek,
durtug which dine deceased never left the raisin : desivasel drank
freely of wine, and at least 3 tutithkrs of punch after i: ; alter lea
deceased wen: into the yard, acid bin witness's return he was v-
im away by the hall duor, which is a side door, when the de-
' ev0..e.1, who had in the meantime gone into the shop, cancel out
to witness " don't go yet," wheieuinsu witness rent:lintel, it be-
ing ciicumary for witness and the deceased ets Ipohl then even-
ings together; witness and the deceased then agreed to go to
I.adley's avetn, the Struggler, in Couusetnet, to hear the piper;
witness and dices e,I paid fur WI tnittbiers of punch whim t/..:y
drank between theist, alter that the deceased ..nd he contiinad
thinking in said liou,e until one ; but cantoit say v, ha•
quantity they drank; it w.,s previous to Cutlet u'elhck tentnsic
tumblers were paid fur; weness says he has no reColLeCtiott of
the mode ur ntanner of leaems the tallerbi, but conceives it was
in the usual way : witness and deceased, as he ben reecelects, went
to the quay at the end of litielge.,tteet, where they disputed w.. 0
PhOUld lee the other hum, as seances resided Queen-greet,
(but the t uncei its of the Firm was in Pill Wit), deceased said ht:
would see witness as tar as the Queen's•btidge ha, nut
thy most distant recollectsun ut any thing that passed after that
between deceased and him, nor where they parted; when he,
witness, first celle to kis ircollection, be found himself on the
rtent near a huge house, which lie has since found to be air Wil-
liam M'Alahuit's, the Master of the !tolls, having gone there the
next day to ascertain the tact. When at dinner mi *Wednesday,
the deceased nieutitmed to witness that he purchased on that day
at 'Change, two hundred and fifty pound., Bank col Logland Pa-
per, at nine and a ((lurch, from hie. Mit/abbots the following
wornies, on going to the House of the deceased, wimots him.;
sent fur uy the lamily, he, the witness, lutist kneel Airs. Can ton or
the purchase of the saki Batik hill* by deceased; she a:mush:icily
went up stain tot a bunch of keys, which witness tenitlidett lier
Mr. Caren bad as duplicate keys far the desk, &c —the desk
we. actually opened in the w melees's presesice,and cat-welly search-
rJ, cud also the top of sallie, where money was likewise usually
kept, but no trace whatever of said bill, could be tomtit ; witness
is ln the habit of putting his watch into the breast pucket of his
Aunt, when out late At night; and to the best us Isis belief it was
'there be got It la the morning; witness is curtain deceased had 1
his watch hi his rob; wituese lust his cravat, but coma account
bow it happereM.
Joseph a.nttb, a waiter in the &niggler, in Cohk-otrert, saw
Mr. kiewtbara and Mr. Murphy, ter Wednesday itif,ht tot, at

like wren *hese be ittrivas ; ha,* beati*that the efereated we- ID
Hat habit of frrilUrtullig Witste^ii receivetl as. tr.nai
Mr. Ilawilioro, it 4 wit mulbiris {A hunch, WILC he 414
Murphy drank ,it wa: Owes Minot eleven clock ; Mr. ;Amp. 7
Oil for two tnore tumblers; and there were three tnore
biers, one of which lira, tor the piper; liana half past coo• tech:th
the deceased and Mr. Murphy ieft tote house • Mr,
walked down etaes :;rut he tl44i t tht. room), atad went riorouit
the hall; Mr. Murphy mint the gecelitd by the arais an: wit-
ness saw toolhivg tar her.
hhere !veiny, no further witness to be minims!, the Coran",
recapitulated olte avideiter, when the Jury, af,er sortie dtrier.o.
, xenon-ped the billowing verdict :—" roans! drownt 1.1
Canal w,thmaL any ma ks of violence. but they NA uo C V ~.,;
by which thty con!ti Corot an opinion how tit Its orbs: nix:.l.3
Oar deeta...d rot into the canal."