The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-24 00:00:00

INQUESTS

(Before P. F. CURRIE Esquire, Coroner.)
Yesterday, an inquest was held on view of the body of
Martin Tiderman. On Tuesday night last, about half-past
ten, some men in a flat wh.ch had grounded on the bank in
the river close to No. 1, Graving Dock, heard a cry of " Oh
Lord ! Oh Lord ! " and on going on deck, they in a few
moments saw a man in the water with his hands up. In less
than a minute he sunk. He was about forty yards from the
flat. One of the men went to the slip, and told the police-
man there was a man drowning : he got the drags and they
launched a boat and went to the spot where he sunk. In
about a quarter of an hour they saw him, and he was taken
out and carried to Mr. Casement's. A doctor was immedi-
ately sent for, but he was dead. The body was afterwards
identified as that of Martin Tiderman, a seaman, who had
lodged for the last twenty-three years in a house in Dwerry-
house-street. He had been paid-off from his ship on Tues-
day. He was seen at eight o'clock on the evening of that
day, and was not then intoxicated. Verdict—" Found
Drowned."

On the same day, an inquest was held on view of the body
of Ellen West. The deceased was in the habit of calling on
a Mrs. Williams, a friend of hers, who resides in a cellar in
Cumberland-street. She went there on Tuesday last, and
appeared in good health and spirits. After washing some
clothes, she began smoothing, when she suddenly laid down
the iron and began to throw up blood. She ran up the steps
of the cellar into the house above, with her hands to her
mouth, and cried out " I'm a gone woman !" She went into
the room, and walked round it, continuing to throw up
blood, until she fell on the floor. She was raised by a lodger,
who placed her head on his arm, and she died almost in a
minute. Mr. Cripps was called to the deceased and found
her dead. He afterwards examined the body arid gave it as
his opinion that the deceased died from loss of blood arising
from the rupture of a blood vessel in the lungs. The stomach
was quite distended by blood. He had no doubt but that
she died from natural causes. Verdict accordingly.
SURGICAL CASE.—On Monday last, an inquest was held
before H. Heathcote Statham, Esq., Deputy Coroner, on
view of the body of Dennis Alfred. The deceased, it ap-
peared, was a sawyer, living in Nelson-place, Collingwood-
street, and was 29 years of age. On Tuesday, the 14th in-
stant, he complained of being ill. He was taken with a cold
shake and a sickness, and vomited a great deal. His wife
gave him some nitre, to produce perspiration, but without
effect, and as he continued to be very ill she went to Doctor
O'Gorman, the doctor of the club to which he belonged,
who gave him some sweating powders and two pills, with
directions that only one of the latter was to be given, and if
it operated that the other should not be given. Dr. O'Gor-
man afterwards attended him, and finding him labouring
under a swelling of the scrotum, finally, on Saturday, called
in Mr. Eckerley, surgeon, to assist him. He found that the
patient had a stricture in the urethra, and endeavoured to
introduce the catheter to relieve him, but could not. It was
then thought necessary to resort to incision of the serotum
to save his life, and incisions were accordingly made,
and the patient was left with directions to apyly warm
cloths, no haemorrhage being apprehended from the pre-
vious nature of the discha.ge from the incisions. Ex-
cessive bleeding did however supervene, and the attend-
ants of the patient did not send for medical aid for some
hours after it had proceeded, and when it was too late to
save him. Dr. W. Crai gave it as his opinion that he died
from loss of blood [from the wound. He would himself, in
such a case, have warned the attendants to pay attention to
the loss of blood, and directed that the haemorrhage should
be stopped by cold and not warm cloths. It was not unsur-
gical to make incisions in such cases. Both venous and
arterial blood were effused. Mr. Eckerley described the
treatment pursued, and said he considered the hot cloths
and poultices proper, except bleeding ensued, which was not
expected, the previous discharge being water, only slightly
tinged with blood. Mr. Wainwright, surgeon, said he ap-
proved of the treatment resorted to. It was the same that
was pursued in similar cases in the Northern Hospital. The
bleeding which in this instance 'caused death, was not an in-
variable attendant upon such an operation ; but it, however,
frequently occurred, and ought to be kept in mind. It would
have been very satisfactory if this had been mentioned by
the medical attendants. At the same time (he added) it was
extraordinary that the bleeding was allowed to go on so long,
without medical assistance being called. He was of opinion
that the incisions were properly made.—The jury returned a
verdict to the effect that the deceased died from natural
causes, and accompanied their verdict by an expression of
their regret that the medical attendant of the patient had not
cautioned the parties around him to call assistance if exces-
sive bleeding took place, and take means to stop it.

ATTEMPTED COUNTING-HOUSE ROBBERY.—Jas. Dough-
erty, a youth who is pretty well known to the police-officers
of this town, was on Monday placed before Charles Birch
and J. C. Ewart, Esquires, charged with felony. It ap-
peared that some females who reside near Mr. Bullen's
brewery, saw, at an early hour on Monday morning, a light
moving about the premises. They watched it till it became
stationary in the counting-house, where, as it was not custo-
mary to see a light at such an hour, it excited their sus-
picions. They went out and gave the alarm to a man who
was staying watching the progress of the brewing, &c. He
called the officers of police, and a general survey of the pre-
mises took place. It was discovered that all the drawers in
the counting-house had been broken open, but nothing was
missed but a few pence. After much search the prisoner was
discovered concealed beneath some straw in the stable. An
iron bar was lying near him, with which it was evident he
had burst open the drawers. He told a long, strange, and
improbable story, that he had seen the gate of Mr. Bullen's
premises open, and being intoxicated and sleepy he went
into the stable to repose himself. He was committed to the
House of Correction for three months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WEDNESDAY.
AN EXPENSIVE LARK.

Two fashionably-attired young men, who had been ad-
mitted to bail, were placed before George Maxwell, Esq.,
the sitting magistrate, charged with having mischievously
broken down a railing on the grounds of Mrs. Earle, Smith-
down-lane. Another party was also engaged in the freak,
but was not in custody. It appeared that on the previous
night, on their return to town from the country, they had
pulled off one of the long palings from a fence, contiguous to
a footwalk in a field near the lane, and laid it across the path.
They were seen by the gardener, and assistance being pro-
cured, they were detained, and taken to the station-house.
The same railings, which skirt a plantation, have frequently
been subject to a similar destruction. The accused said that
they had been to Wavertree, and after supper were return-
ing with the other gentleman to the town, when the latter
broke off the rail without their aid or concurrence. The
evidence showed, however, that the three were together,
shouting and laughing. The magistrate said that persons in
their station in life ought to know better than to seek sport
in wanton destruction of property. The court required that
they should pay a fine of ss. ; also £1 Ils. for the damage,
and costs,—in all £6 165., or be committed for seven days.
The amount was paid.

- YESTERDAY.
STEALING FROM A SHIP.
Yesterday, at the Police-office, William Evans, George
Jackson, and Samuel Hayes, men belonging to a flat, were
charged with being found in the night on board of a ship, to
which they had brought some cargo, and with stealing a quan-
tity of beef and a swab. The beef, 24th weight, was taken
from a cask on deck, and placed ready for removal. The
swab was found concealed in the flat. 'They were committed
for three months to hard labour in the Borough House of
Correction.