Star.
London, England, 1821-06-26 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESD.

SATAL RIOT IN WESTMINSTER BY THE SOLDIERY.
Yesterday an Inquisition was held at the Hat and
Grapes Tavern, Queen-square, Westminster, before
J. H. CELL, Esq. Coroner, on View of the body of
William Cogle, who.died of the wounds he received
during the riot on Monday, the 18th inst.
Mary Cogle, wife of the deceased, was the first witness called.
She stated that her residence was at No. 65, Orebani-street.—
Her husband was a paper-banger. On Monday evening, the
18th inst. between the hours of seven and eight, she and her
husband were sitting at the front parlour window. He was
reading the " Death of Abel" The little boy came up and
said there was a riot, and that the mob was coming up the
New-way ; and asked if he should shut the street door, which
he did. After this some of the lodgers opened the door, and
stood on the steps. By this time the mob arrived at the house,
and witness put down the window and looked through the glass,
and saw one of her lodgers, named Wallace, lying on the ground,
and the people beating him with some weapons. In about two
or three minutes he came into the house, the mob followed, and
witness went to the parlour door, but was knocked down, stun-
ned, and saw nothing more of the affray till she recovered,
when she found her husband on the floor, in the adjoining room.
covered with blood. The mob by this time had quitted the
premises. The doctor and surgeon were sent for, and, by their
advice, be was taken to the hospital The mob could have bad
no malicious intent against wituess's husband, but committed
the act through sheer wickedness.—ln answer to questions from
the Jury, witness said the aggressors were all soldiers. She saw
no other description of persons with them. Witness had spoken
to her husband since he was in the hospital, but he was unable
to speak. On her attempting to raise him in the parlour, after
he had been attacked, her hads were covered with blood; he
was removed to a chair, when, placing his hand on his head, he

said " I am a dead man."
Mr. Anthony White stated, he was surgeon to WCstmincter
Hospital, and resided in Parliament-street. The deceased was
brought in on Monday night, between nine and ten, but witness
did not see him till next morning, when he examined him, and
found he had received a wound about two inches and a half in
length, over the right eyebrow, which had driven in the bone
upon the brain. Ile was sensible, but could not articulate. Wit-
ness was -sure he gave no account of the transaction during the
time he was in the hospital. The house-surgeon, Mr. Steven-
son, had removed two pieces •of fractured bone. Witness at-
tended him daily till his death, which took place last Friday afs
ternoon. From an examination of the head, on Saturday, wit-
ness had no hesitation in saying that the wound on it, as_ above
described, was the cause of his death.
In answer to questions from Jurors, the witness said he was
of opinion the wound was a severe one from a sharp-edged in-
strument ; in his opinion, a sabre. The cut had injured the
outer membrane of the brain, which caused inflammation and
suppuration. .
Some of the Jury here expressed a desire that Mr. &evasion,
the house.surgeon, should attend ; but, on the last witness assu-
ring them he knew nothing snore, they were satisfied.
Mary Ashton stated she was a lodger of Mrs. Cogle, and, on
the Bth inst. was sitting in the back parlour, when she heard an
uproar in the street, and a number of persons came round the
house, among whom were several soldiers, some of whom rushed
in, and came into the room where she was ; the deceased asked
what was the cause of the uproar, when she was pushed down
by a drummer ; while on the floor she saw the drummer make
a cut at the deceased with his sabre. The deceased fell; there
was a cry of murder in the street. She believes the riot and
subsequent melancholy occurrences originated with the soldiers,
who appeared in a state of intoxication. All of them did not
have arms, but had pieces of paling, sticks, &c. Witness could
not swear to any of the rioters. The drummer pushed her down
with his left hand, and cut down the deceased with his right.
Elizabeth Irving described the appearance of the soldiers and
mob, and their outrageous conduct at the house of the deceased.
she saw a drummer enter the house with a sabre; believes him
to be James M'Carthy. Witness has known him.many years,
and heard the persons in the street exclaim, " It's M'Carthy."
lle WAS brought up in the neighbdurhood, and belonged to the
First Regiment of Foot Guards.
Mary Timberell lives at No. 69, Orchard-street; four doors
from the deceased. On Monday the 18th inst. she was standing
at her door, and saw a great mob of soldiers in the New-way,
ruuning into Orchard-street ; they went into Mr. Cogle's house.
A soldier named Roebottom, with a white jacket, and a black
eye with a piece of paling in his hand, went into the house first,
and was followed by eight others. The drummer stood upon the
steps brandishing his sabre; his name is James hlsCarthy ; he ap-
peared sober. Witness did not see him go into the house, as she
went away a short time. On her return she observed Roebottom
come out of the kouse with the paling in his hand, and run after
a poor man, whom he knocked down. His head was much cut.
Witness then expostulated with Itoebottom on his cruelty, but
he abused her in dreadful language, and attempted to strike her,
but failed. A dog then barked, and he struck it so violently
that it was afterwards obliged to be drowned. Several other
soldiers stood round with sticks, but being so much terrified, she
fainted, and saw nothing more.
Ann Hinton. of No. 60, Orchard-street, stated, she observed
a snob assembled in the Ahuonry, and a number of soldiers fight-
ing with sticks. The people, who seemed frightened, and did
not resist the mob, soon after flocked up to the house of Me.'
Cogle, in Orchard-street, into whose house they went, and drove
out a poor man, who was a gardener, but witness did not know
his name, bleeding profusely, followed by soldiers, who continued
beating him most unmercifully for some distance. Witness ob-
served in the mob the drumthcr, named \ l'Carthy, who said—
" Cleave the -- now, he will never get up again ; but come
on, my lads, I'll protect you : this is the way we served them
at Waterloo." Ile was at the time brandishing his sword.—
Witness, and another woman, rhom she did not know, begged
for mercy for the man, when a soldier, in a red jacket, with a
black eye and a crooked nose, made use of the most violent lan-
guage, and kicked her. Witness and the other woman then as-
sisted to convey the gardener to the Hospital, whose name she
now recollected was Patterson, where he now remains.
George Wells, a private in the 18th Hussars, deposed, on the
lEth of June he was coming along Dean-street, and yaw a mob
of people near the Almunry, and when he came up they had
proceeded towards the watch-house; he followed all the way,
and when they arrived at the watch-house they halted; a number
of peoph were collected St the top of the New-way, whom the
soldiers ran after to disperse; one had a broomstick, another a
staff; he observed the drummer with, them, hut the sword was
in the scabbard. The mob then went down Orchard-street into
St. Ann's .street, when a man came out of St. Ann's-street into
Orchard-street, followed by a man with a white jacket, who
knocked him down, and repeated the blows several times.
Richard Welsh described the attack upon Mr. Cogle, and
upon the unfortunate man Patterson, nearly in the same terms
as the foregoing witnesses. He knew the persons of several of
the soldiers concerned in the outrage, but could not swear to
their names.
James Jenkinson corroborated the testimony of last witness.
Henbury, the officer, mentioned the names of the
persons in custody, and suggested that if the wit-
nesses went with him to the prison, they might see
the prisoners.
The Foreman of the Jury addressed the Coroner,
and said that, as there was evidence of the most con-
clusive nature that a man had been murdered and a
riot had taken place, he thought, to further the ends
of justice, an adjournment of the Inquest should take
place : and during that adjournment the Coroner
might issue his order for the production of the pri-1
soners before the Inquisition, on its sitting being re-
sumed, that all the witnesses may have an opportu-
nity of identifying them.
The CORONER expressed his readiness to comply
with the request of the Jury, and the Inquisition was
accordingly adjourned till to-morrow (this) evening,
the witnesses being hound over to attend.

Mocklow, the prisoner who broke out of the jail at
Tewkesbury, on the 4th instant, has been apprehended
and committed to the County Jail, as a place of
greater security than that where he was before confined.