Star.
London, England, 1828-10-07 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Aber-
cromby tavern, Woolwiei,, to inquire into the death of
Ell 2 abed) Henderson.

William MiUer, a lad about 15 years of age, deposed
that on Sartrday Ifteracion he was playing with several
other boys in a field called Rosh Grove; they were
amusing themselves by letting off gunpowder ; he did
not know that any cf them had fire-artns until a boy
named Juries Kirkwood produced a pistol, and going
to the watch box adjoining Mr. Cohen's house, be fired
it off ell her st the boa or at Mr. Cook's wall on the op-
posite side of the road. At the gnomes tof his firing
the deceased appeared in the lone; she tell down, as if
she was shot, and the boy Kirkwood, and all the others,
immediately ran away. ,Kirkwood c.irsied the pistol
away with him ; did not believe he intended to do any
one an injury. He (witness) was the nearest person to
him when he levelled the pistol ; he did not then see the
woman, but he was not sure that Kirkwood could not;
she was bidden by Cohen's hour. .
Mr. William Billings, assist ai surgeon at the Marine
Batracks, saw the deceased alter the accident. She was
quite insensible, but alive. He examined her head. He
found a pistol-shot wound that bad fractured the skull
on the righrside. He at once pronaunced the wound
*mita]. She expired in about an hour afterwards.
Thomas Cohen knew the boy Kirkwood; he bears a
good character ; witness's house was a c' rner one, and
the' boys were playing at the gable end of it all day with
gunpowder ; it was a common thing for them to do so.
VerdietAccidental Death. I .
The husband of the deceased, who is a soldier, stated
at he was satisfied it was purely an accident, but he
thought boys ought to be prevented from playing with
gunpowder in such a public place.
Last night an Inquest was held at the Gun public-
house, Gun Dock, Wapping. on .the body of Charles
Gray. The deceased had fallen overboard from the
Sovereign smack, lying off Aldeman's Tier, and, before
assistance could be procured, was drowned. Verdict—
Found Drowned.

An Inquest was held at Guy's Hospital on the body
of Mr, W. Wright. of Joncs'crents, Lambeth, aged 44,
who some days since was passing down a passage lead-
ing to the Thames, belonging t., Mr. Farey, a lime-
burner, when about sixty yards of .wall, sisith had se-
veral tons of chalk lying against it, fell and buried him
in the ruins. Several of Mr. Farey's labourers exerted
themelves in the most laudable manner to erctricate
him, and he was conveyed to the above hospital, where
be lingered till Friday last, when he expired, haying re
crived a compound fracture of his rrgbt leg, se.ers,
severe body bruises, and hi, ribs having penetrated his
lungs. Verdict—Accidental Death. Deodand 101.
Au Inquest was held at th• .sign of the. Duke of
York, in the Vauxhall Road, nit thetody of Zti,. f.
bests, a rtti4d victualler, who, on Sunday aftettmon,
was walking with his daughter sear the aborespot, in
apparent health, when he soddenly fell. and though sur-
gical aid was instantly procured,Xelad irrecovetably
fled. Verdict—Died by the Vi,itation of Gud.

Saturday evening, as Mizi,lizabeth Mears. of West-
minster, an elderly lady, was crossing the ihnougb, she
was knocked down by a horse pad gig. and /celled ;,her
head having been literally broken to piccoaky the horse
as he passed over, placing 0110.4 hiciion•shod hoofs
on it. The deceased, it wprirrars, was deaf. She was
bOrne to the dead•house of St:Thomas's Hospital, where
hEr son. on her not returning at the appointed boar,
after wandering from friend to friend throughout the
night. inquii ins at the several ho►pitals, discovered his
aged parent's mutilated corpse. .
A robbery was committed on Sunday evening, be-1
tween the hours of six and eight o'clock, at the house
of Mr. Pearce, of Hanway-street. Oxford-street, during
the absence of the family. The house was entered by
means of picklock keys, and all the drawers and other
places of security Were completely ransacked, The.
property stolen consists of two dozen silver spoons, gold
rings, pieces Of cloth, and miscellaneous articles.
LivearooL, Ocr. 4.—On the night of Monday, the
15th of September, Mr. John Wilkinson, a tiJewaiter
f the Customs, aged 71. was knocked down near his
own house, in Highfield-street, by a nian,who gave him
a violent blow on the body. He was carried home,
and it was found that the neck of his thigh bone was
broken. He died on Monday last Irons inflammation
cat sedbi the blow ; and the Coroner's inquest has re-
tained a verdict of a Wilful Murder," by some person
or 'poisons unknown.