Star.
London, England, 1825-08-13 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, an Inquest was
held b“ fore THOMAS STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, and a
highly respectable Jury, at the Delawarr Arms, Os-
ford-street, upon the body of Samuel Whitehead, who
a as suffocated in a cess-pool.
It aril eared, that within a few days past the Delaw.ur
Arn;s public-house has been undergoing a repair, and
the'house sewer or cess-pool was opened, but the open-
ing was covered over with boards. On Thursday fore-
noon, between eleven and twelve o'cloc's, the deceased,
who was the waterman at the coach stand, and much
respected for his demeanour, went down into ti:e cellar,
and bad sorre jestiog and play with a dustnnin named
Deno ; he was standing upon some boards which shook
violently. Dean called nut to the deceased to tick.e care,
and bad sc turd the words 'of eatition, before
the slint a iltried out and titefiteare-cr. An"
g[1:4011,
alarjn 'join% y given, and several persons assem-
bleoliNr the cellar with lights, and an aperture (before
undiscoveteJ) appeared, through which the deceased
had kink into the cess-pool. His groans and cries for
assismnce were distinctly heard. A blanket was pro-
cured and lowered down, but it could not be reached
by hikn. _Several persons said nothing could save him,
unless a person would descend through the aperture,
but <if those persons, none were found hardy enough to
ventafre down ; until at length, Robert Sharpness, a
soldier of the 2d Battalion of the 3d Regiment of Foot
Guards, attracted by the confusion, went into the
cellar, and in a manly manner, rebuking those who
stcod looking on while the man was dying, caused a
ladder to be lowered into the cellar, and having a rope
tied round his body, descended into the cess-pool, and
found the unfortunate man standing upright, but
covered with the soil ;he was moaning. The soldier
endealoored to remove him, bat could not; and at
length fastened a rope-around him, and had him pulled
up, but quite insensible. The soldier himself nearly
lost his life by this humane and gallant act, as on being
drawn up he could not speak, and sustained a tempo-
rary loss of sight,from the sulphureous and fatid elluvia
arising from confined air ; but by the care and attention
of Mr. Roche, the landlord of the Delawarr Arms, he
was soon restored : not so with the deceased, although
promptly attended by Dr. Mulligan, of Portman-street;
nothing could save him, the deleterious air, or gas, he
had inhaled, could not be expelled, although every
effect was made to iodate the lungs.
The Jury observed it was a most distressing ease, and a verdict
of * Auirleotel Um*" was remised.
The .fury expressed an unanimous hope that the Co-
roner would make an application to the Humane Society
in bthalf of Sharpness,' the soldier, who had upon this
-rateusion., 'by the act cf daring and distinguished hu-
manity which he had accomplished, entitled himself
to a reward.

The Coroner said, be believed the rewards of that Society only
extendedee rescuing parsons from drowning; but ncverthekss, be
would certainly do all in his power to assist the soldier's applicatie&
INQUEST ON DAWKINS.
Yesterday evening anlnquest was held at the Triump-
hant Chariot, Pembroke-mews, Grosvenor-place, before
T. Huns, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Nicholas Daw-
kins, a Marlborough-street Police officer, who was run
over on the 24th of May last, while attending a party
at Lord George Henry Cavendish's, Burlington house,
Piccadilly. Several witnesses were examined, from
_ whom evidence it appeared, that while two Noblemen's
carriages were driving through the ledge gate,
they were jammed in together; the deceased was
endeavouring to get them released, the coachmen were
whipping the horses, and at length one of them drove
in with stem 44, carrying the deceased several yards,
when he fell, aid the wheels passed over his leg and
broke it. He was carried to the Hospital, where he died
of the injury. It was stated that Lord Westmorland,
and Pima, the Police Officer, of Marlborough-street,
witnessed the accident, and knew more than any one
ebe.on the subject, and it was likely could identify the
coachman.—Mr. J. Price, a solicitor attended, and
questioned the witnesses, especially Mr. Pitman, the'
house-surgenn, as to the deceased's treatment while in
the Hospital, where it appeared that everything was
• clone for the deceased. At a late hour the Inquest was
adi :-,Lirued until seven o'clock on Monday evening next.