Star.
London, England, 1821-12-18 00:00:00

ADJOURNED IN ON MR. SLADE.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, the Jury met, pursuant
to adjournment, at the Marquis of Granby, in Percy-
street, Rathbone-place, to resume their inquiry into
the circumstances which led to the melancholy death

of the abo;re Gentleman.
The first witness examined was a Gentleman named I'. 11.
Este, residing in Portman-place, who stated, that about nine
o'clock on the 29th of November, as be was paesing through
the Edgeware-mad, he saw two females, apparently women of
the town, looking at some jewellery in a shop window'; he had
scarcely passed by when he again saw them runeing towards a
stage-coach, the driv'er of which was on his box, and invited
deem to get up and take a ride, which they did. The man then
drove away rapidly till he passed through the toll-,;:rte, and then
he drove still more furiously. In a tew minutes he (witness)
heard shrieks and screaming. and conceiving that an accident
tuff happened be ran back, and the first person he met told him
the stage had overturned. Some little distance on he saw a crowd
of 20 or 30 persons; amongst them he noticed nate of the prosti-
tutes that rode with the driver ; she was covered with mud and
appeared to be fainting; he should conceive site must have been
seriously injured. Another woman came up, who was much
disfigured, she seemed also to be labouring considerable
agitation. A few yards en, lay the Chi:C.sll4 foyer-re. with dirt
and bleeding. Witness-asked hint if he was much hurt? and he
complained that his heal end body were severely hurt. Witness
and some other petusus lifted him up, and dirtied him to a Gentle-
man's hause edit: Lang,. A sorgeou oat immediately s.:nt for,'
and a Gentleman of the neighlreurhood very soon arrived, and
dressed deceased's wetted,. Witness, as seen as he could, pro-1
seeded to the stage-zoach, and saw " Notting hill" on it, but be.
fore he could take the name the coachmsr mounted the box and
drove off. He Could rut see the exact colour of the coach-body.
There were lamps along one side of the road, ant! witness was
perfectly sure that if he was driving the coach he could have seen
the deceased's chaise. The coachman's language was very of-
fensive, anti he certainly considered his manner at driving to be
very reprehensible; but it was nothing mote, speakis% generally,
than all the coachmen on that road were daily in the habh of,
A Juryman here suggested that Thomas Stratford, theperoan
supposed to have driven the coach on the night of the accident,
was in attendance to give evidence; but
The e4/aWika declined calling hint, kat he might be crind-
sated, and he could Hot legally be examined.
Richard Saunders, of the Edgeware.roatl. wheelwright, was
alarmed by a noise in the street, and on going out saw a horse
rush by, dragging the fragments of a chaise at its heels. The
deceased was then lying against the railings, awl, in answer to
witness's inquiries, he said be was very muck Burt, and that he
feared his leg was broken. Ile said be was buckling the belly-
band of his horse at the time, and that he called out to the
(*adman to take care, but he paid no attention to it, and.r:ut
him down. The stage was one of those to Bayswater, and the
Man who drove it was not‘ the regular driver ; the women called
him of Tom," and witness is sure be should know him again.
Thee was light enough for him to see, and room to pass Mr.
without touching either him or his gig.
Dir. Appleton (a Juror)--The road is l 4 yards wide, and six
airtime' could easily pass abreast ; nn this occasion Mr. Slade's
chain sod the stage were the only vehicles on the road.
Charles Street, a watchman, saw two women on the boa ;
their names are Sarah Dixon and Carty. Ile had no doubt
but be could find them immediately.
Cneoxsa—Well, then, my chaise is 'below, take that, and
bring the Ladies here at once.
A summons was granted for them, and the watchman deputed
to serve it.
The witness Saunders re-examined—Had been down stairs to
see the persons in waiting, and the man pointed out to him by
the name of Thome* Stratford, was the same whom be saw
with the coach on the night of the accident.
There being no more witnesses at this period of the Inquiry,
the Jury and Mr. Davis, one of the assignees under Khmer's
bankruptcy, held a long consultation respecting the owners of
the coach.
At the request of the Joey, Thomas Stratford was called, and
being iuformed by the Coroner of the situation in which he
stood, was asked if he hal any objection to be sworn? He re-
plied in the negative. He then stated that he sometimes drove
the coach from Notting-hill; he did not know-who the owner
of that coach was; but the name upon it was "Samuel Kinner,
of Kensington."
Coaoxua—l am rather shy of asking you any further quiet-
dons, nor need you say auything more unless you like.
Stratford—l have nothing more to say, Sir, only I was not
the cause of the accident.
Comma—Who was then ?
Stratford—Why, I don't know; it was miserably dark and
foggy.—lie then proceeded to state that he gave the two women
a ride, hut the men who were with him were passengers. How-
ever, be subsequently admitted that these persons also rode for
nothing, he having given them " a lift." from the Bank, and he
afterwards declared that the women were passengers too, and
very frequently rode with him, although in the first instance he
was understood to say the contrary. Ile was afterwards asked
who employed and paid him ? To the former he answered Mr.
Khmer, and with regard to the Latter, he declared that he never
received any wages at all.
Mr. Jonathan Wood, landlord of the Star and Garter, in the
Edgeware-road, stated, that on the ivening in question, Thomas
Stratford, and another coachman, whose name he believed to
be Calvert, called at his house and had something to drink; they
were then sober.
Mr. Rovenelli, who keeps the Yorkshire Santo, proved, that
on the night of the accident, Stratford called at his house. He
then drove Kinner's Netting-hill coach, and he appeared sober.
It was now announced that the officers who had been sent
fee the women bad arrived with one of them. She was accord-
ingly introduced and sworn:
Iler name, she said, was Caroline Johnson ; her residence was
In Limon-green ; on the evening when Mr. Slade was killed she
was walking along the Edgeware-road, and at the Star and Gar-
ter public-house saw dm, Bayswater coach, which Thomas Strat-
ford drove; she got up without being asked by the driver—in
fact, because she wanted to go to Bayswater as a passenger ; on
going through the toll-gate, Stratford got down to do something
to the coach, giving her the reins, and on his getting up again,
witness accidentally dropped the reins, the horses plunged for-
ward, and before the driver could get bold of tht in again, the
chaise was upset, and he was thrown off his box. There was
chaise, but the witness did not see it until she was thrown off
the coach.

went home afterwards; her only object
in going to Bayswater was to see the place, loving never seen it
before! she was to pay a shilling for her ride, and was satisfied
to see the place by dark ! I was quite sober, but heard no one
cry " stop, nor did I see any chaise or gig ; never rode with
that coachman before, and had not seen him since ; if he had said
I was a regular passenger, and bad often rode on his coach, it
winuld not be true; has known the man two months; a female,
named Sarah Dixon, rode with her.

Mr. R. C. Griffith, of Tottenham-court-road, surgeon, stated,
that the deceased received very serious injury on the knee-joint,
and also in other parts; he died from the elects of his wounds,
on Wednesday last.
Verdict—" That Thomas Stratford la guilty of Mandam;hter ;
that the coach and two horses arc the property of Samuel Kin-
ner, and are of the value of £4O, are deodand, and are now in
the possession of Charles Corder, linen-drdper,of Charlotte-street,
Portland-place, St. Mary-la-bonne."

Nead, who died from having a stone thrown at him
by :- Mahoney, now in custody, was buried at
Vllitechapel Church, on Sunday, and was fofow•cd
to the grave by all the lamplighters in the neigh-
bourhood, in nankeen uniforms, and carrying bunches
of flowers, instead of torches..
Daniel Archer and Philip Nichols are committed to '
the county jail in Ipswich, charged on suspicion of
•wilfully driving a waggon over the body of James
Bugg, jun. of Offton, and thereby eatiing his death.