Star.
London, England, 1829-01-07 00:00:00

SO M N A iI.BULiSM.

Ye,terday evening an Inquisition was taken at 'hie
Three Tuns, Coleman- crest, before T SHELTON, E q
Coroner, on view of the body of Louisa Elva., a fine
girl, aged 17.
Mrs. Ann Flory, housekeeper to J Lugon,
met chact, ot No. 17, Finsbury-circus, deposed, that the
deceased was her niece. About a fortnight back she
bit her situ .tion as curses), maid at Kensington,
owing to inchspesition, and came to teide with
witness in the house of Mr. Lugon. Within the last
week her health had greatly improved ; and on Fri-
' day she went on a visit to some friends in Ilunter.stteet,
Biunswick•square. On her return, about sevtn o'clock
in the netting, she appeared in good 'pities; about ten
o'clock she went to her bed, which was situated on
the child floor back. On the following morning, a'sou:
half-past seven o'clock, witness went into the deco ised's
room tot the purpose of calling her, when she found her
absent. The bed had been lain in during the night,
and the sash of the window was wide open. Witness
was much alarmed at the circumstance; she went down
stairs. in the back kitchen, and soon after seat ds having
occasion to go out in the back area, she discovered her
u.,fortunaie rung relative stretched along the stunts,
b ceding ps ol theiy from the head, and apparently quite
dead. Wuness immediately went to the bed-room of
Mr. Lugon, whom she into, abed of the shocking di:-
covet y. She subsequently went for the ward beadle lot
the purpose of knowing how to acts and he came to
the house in about an hour. lam not aware that the
deceased's mind was affected, or that she was in the
habit of walking in her sleep.
Juror—Can you at all account for her being in the
situation in which yeu found be: ?
Witness-1 cannot, Sir.
By the Coroner—She did not appear low-spirited on
the Friday evening.
By a Juror—When I discovered the decea ed in the
area, she bad on her chemise, under pettico,t, gown,
and stockings.
In answer to numerous other questions put to the
witness, she said that the persons who slept in the house
besides herself, daughter, and the deceased, were Mr.
Lugon, his clerk, and a little boy about eight years old;
that she did not hear any noise on the F. Islay night, and
that no kind of it.timacy subsisted berwe,t the deceased
and Mr. Lugou's del k.
John Ledwidge, the ward beadle, deposed that he
was !etched by Mrs. Flory, and ep arriving at the house
of Mr. Lugon, he found the deceased in the back area ;
.be was quite dead and cold. She was dread uliy • in-
patticularty on thg head, which was biee.ring
piolusely ; he did not go for a surgeon, thinking it pet.
Italy u!.etess.

Jane Flory, daughter to the fi: st witness, deposed that
she had been a great deal in the company of ; er iintor-
tunate cut in los the ft), might Leiore her death, and
had not lima. ked that she wa► dejected, but on the
cinitrary cheerful and lively. Witness is not A% ale th.t
she had been disappointed in any attachmen., or th.st
any thing preyed on her mind.
Hannah Elvis, sister to the deceased, del osed that she
(deceased) called i n her on Thursday last. whets she
appeared much better in health, and in good spirits.
The Jury, after consulting about half an hour. re-
, turned a verdict--'• That the deceit/M.4 111 'titbit asleep,
got ont of the window, and falling into the area oas
killed."

Seven men were last week committeJ to Warwick
gaol, charged with being engaged in the late affray with
the gamekeepers on Earl Danbigh's estate. One of
them, Thomas Enrol., is•supposed to be the man who
shot at the principal keeper, John Slinn. The latter is
said to be in a lair way of recovery. Seven other men
have also been committed to the same piiscn, charged
with feloniously shooting at Thomas Smith. and other!,
at Marciale. on the night r f the 19th of December.
Monday James Butler was killed in a pitched battle
with a man of the name of Ostler. at Tipton. He died
in less than three friars, after fighting SO sounds. Tire
fatal termination of this contest will bring the parties
before a Court of Justice, which, we trust, will award
such a degree of punishment to the survivor and abet-
stors as may tend to repress the illegal and disgraceful
practice. 'According to Judge Butt-Roue led decision,
every man present bas involved himself in the most
serious and awful responsibility.--Ifirniinghaw Gazette.


POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ANSIONaIIOUSIL
Aldred, the Beadle of Dowgate Ward, brought op Mn'. Fogerty,
a native of Ireland, and charged her hewer the Loan Maros wish
having broken windows in the Waal. to tb: amount of 255.
From the Beadle's statement it appeared that he bad been called
upon by some of the inhabitants to take the defendant into custody.
She had gone into a pu'llicoloause in the neighbout hood, and called
for some gin, but the laudlady did not think proper to serve her
without first receiving piyrstang, as she was rather a questionable
character as to fonds. Upon being refused, she swore that she
would make the landlady pay for her want of an accommodating
feeling, at d immediately dashed her hands through the glass of the
windows. Upon being apprehended, she struggled deeperat- ly.
and endeavoured to treat' every thing in her way. She had pre
viously done other mischief in the neighbourhood, and was recur
nised as an old off. older in this was.
The Loan Nlaeola, who observed that the defendant was rather
sparingly clad, asked her whether she batldrank all the clothes off
her hack ?
Aldred said that her miserable plight was to be accounted for in
rather a singular tis diner. When she was taken to the watt:Mostar,
there lay a watchful on's coat. lantern, and rattle, at a chair, sod.
when melody was A:tarrying her, she tore every stitch of her own
clothes from her hack, put on the watchman's coat, and seizing
his rattle and lantern. swine that she would go out and act as a
watchman herself better than any of the accredited guardians of the
night. Upon being opposed in this wish, she began to blow up the
constable. and at last she sprung the rattle, to the alarm of the neigh-
bourhood. It was with much difficulty she was steipmd cf some
of the watchman's paraphernalia. Finding, however, that, in losing
the rattle she lost one of the essential' ut the profession, she flung
the coat, the only covering she had upon her body, down upon the
ground ; and, to the astonishment of the inmates, stood in the midst
of them without a rag in the world upon her.
The Loan MATO% a-ked the defendant whether she had any
thing to say about such disgraceful conduct?
The defendant replied, that she had been very badly treated by
the watchmen, because she could do their business better than
themselves. As for the broke n windows, it was the landlady
who broke them herself, for the purpose of laying the damage at
her door.
Aldred said that the defendant was the terror of the Ward. In-
stead of being bumbled in the morning after all Bib violence, she
swore lake a trooper—that if she must pay a visit to the Lotto
Matron she would too go except in a coach, or at least a cab.
The Lotto Maros said, that as she was so well able to fill the
place of a watchman, she could have no objection to a little work
in liridewell.
" Ilrielewen " exclaimed the defendant. • Arrab, then, you're
net going to) send me there? What the U—l will Ido there?"
The Lail) Maros told bet that he would be prevented from
annoying decent people.
Defendant—" Wiaba, then, the 1)—I thank your, if that's all the
good you'll do for me. But when I come out, if I &We-give it to
the thieving watchmen the D—l's luck to me."
Aldred told her to walk out, as she was committed for a month.
She turned towards the beadle, and clenching her fist, was
about to give hint what she called a " clinker," when she was
seized by an ollicer.—She was then committed.