Star.
London, England, 1828-09-27 00:00:00

THE ACCIDEN C IN EXETER-STREET.
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Yesterday the Adjnnrned Nue t was held upon VT
bodies of the persons killed by the faliing.osf the houses
in Exeter-street.
Mr.. Roche complained of a statement made by Mr.
Corder, which produced some observations in reply. •
GeOrge Heath re•ides in Exeter-street; has been a
fireman in the Phoenix Company 26 years; understands
the natute of buildings. In July last saw a hoard upon
the hawse, Int merly the Blackainoor's Head. to let the
premise,; went and looked at them; Stokes was the,'
living on the premises; they were in a most dilapidated
state, and witness told Stokes they were not safe. There
was a reference on the board to Mr. Bell, of Orford
street. who war agent for Meux and Co. Mr. Bell
said the firm wished to let the two houses together, fr
the unexpired term of their lease, five years and a half.
at 601. a year. Witness offered 801. and to layout 1001.
in repairs.
CORONER—Do you swear that the premises were at
that time unsafe?—Witness. I do; but if I bad taken
them, I would have made them secure; I told Mr. Bell
at the time I thought them unsafe.
Abraham Attiwell went after the premises six weeks
ago; applied at Mr. Bell's office; was informed by a
clerk that Messrs. Meux and Co. expected 8001. for the
lease; witness afterwards law. Mr. Hands and. Mr. La-
tham at the brewhouse; they asked him what he would
give for the lease; he said a or 101. at most; witness
added, the premises would tumble down shortly unless
they were taken down; if the houses had been properly
attended to, they a ould not have fallen ; witness told
Mr. Roche what state the houses were in; by the advice
of Mr. Roche, witness went to Mr. Head, the agent rf
the Marquis of Exetet, and he told witness that the
houses were so old th.t the Marquis wonkhoot grant
any fresh lease,.
Mr. Walford, Solicitor to the Marquis, begged the
attention of the Jury to this fact, as tending to exonerate
,his noble employer from
,blame.
Mr. Stunt, clerk to Messrs. Langford and Walford,
solicitors to the Exeter estate, deposed, that from Lady-
day, 1821, until Lady-day, 1828. he received tent for
the houses 4, and 5, Exeter street, from the Messrs.
'Mein. He never saw the. interior of the premises; but
from what he saw of the eit"eiior, he deemed it prudent
to let Mr.. land'and Latham know that the houses
were in a very Lad state.
' Mr. Latham deposed, that about the year 1820, the
foremast of Meux and Co. lent to Chamberlain 7501. to
go into the house No. 5, Exeter-street. It was then a
respectable public-house, in good business. As a security
for the suns, the firm took the deeds, lease, assignments,
fee. under a warrant of attorney. About a year and a
half ago the license was taken away. They had endear
'vowed up to that time, but in vain. to get a renewal of
the license, that we might dispose of it. The firm had
also lent Chamberlain's predecessor, a person named
In'hittington, some money on account of his interest.
In reply to a Jutor, Mr. L. observed, that he never
was personally informed of the premises being in a,di-
lapidated condition, except by Mr. Attiwell, who being.
in treaty for the premises, was rather a .questionable
authority.
John Shaw, Esq. Surveyor—l surveyed the premises
:fifteen years ago: I pointed out certain repairs. that I
`considered necessary to be done at the time) and they
were all, perfected previous to my certifying for the
granting of the lease. I was then of opinion that the
premises were caledlated to stand 21 years wilbihe usual
eepairs in the teem timed
Elizabeth. Stokes, the daughter of Jaretes•Stokes, de.
posed, that she, her father, mother, and two bre.thers,
were living in the-house No. 5. She remembered the
house falling, but recollected nothing afterwards until
she was taken from the ruins.
Mr. Wrench, the comedian, 'deposed, that he was
passing just at the time the houses fell. He.was much
agitated at the time; he however recollected seeing two
figures, one of whom he supposed to be the unfortunate
eatter..who was crushed beneath the ruins. His escape
ivas most roiraculoi s.
. Mr. Bell, of Oxford-street, was not sworn. but denied
the facts relative to the premises. The swords on the
board were, n These premises to be disposed of," nut to
"lei on a building lease," as had been stated.
James Stokes was sworn; but them was nothing new
in hieevidence from that already given.
After some bickering between Mr. Corder and Mr.
Roche, the Coroner summed up the evidence.
Some further 'conversation then took place of trifling.
import, and the Jury consulted for about half an hour,
and returned the following verdict—" That the deceased
Elizabeth Stokes and Francis Stokes died from the two
bosses, Nos. 4 and 5,- Exeter-street, having fallen, occa-
sioned by the want of repairs. and that the materials of,
thechouses so fallen were movies' to the respective deaths
of the said Elizabeth and Francis Stokes; and that the
laid .materials are in the possession of Messrs. Maui.
sad Co. aforesaid, and'of their Assigns."
- The adjourned Inquest on the body of Neaves, the
carman, was held at the White Hart, and the following
verdict Rini by the St. Martio's Jury, viz.—" Acci-
dental Death, caned by the falling of the two houses ;
and further, that culpable neglect is attached to the
Parish Officers belonging to St. Paul, Covent Garden, in
not surveying and enforcing the thorough repair of the
said premises, which have been in a very dilapidated
state. for many years past, and held by Messrs. Meux
and Co. and that the materials of the said houses fallen
were moving to tbe,death of the said Names, and that
the same are of the value of 501. and in the possession
af Henry Meux and Co. or their assigns. 'his verdict,
in law. makes the whole of the materialsi forfeit to the
Crown, in the nature of a deodand.

t Yesterday morning, James Christie, a waterman,
perceived something floating on the water, pear the New
Custom Howe Stmts. He, wish assistance, biought it
cm shore, and it proved to be :the body of on eider?,
man, which was carried. to the WO, These was,
an extensive wound on the top of the *head ri the des.,
ceased, and a task as it he had received a blow on the
nose. There was nnthing foUnd on his person to lead
to a discovery of who or what be was.
Wye:Jar an accident of a wimp description oc-
cursed to a young man. servant to Mr. Berke, horse.
stealer, •in !Mary-lacbgnne-stieet. It appears .he was
riding in a chaise with hisfrlster, ,but unfortunately
fcir him his master alighted, to Caarler:tett, Ltii.ester/
square, and the young man isrittted 4he horse, which
itfsta4ly took light, :end came in contact withn post
at thriCoinc, of Bear-street; he WAS thrown out of the
chaise pi), the pa.ement. and his skull fractured in a
dreadful manner. He was conveyed to the Middlesex
Hospital,, where he died pon after his arrival.
tatiday evening, whilst Mr, Thomas Horner, of Mop.
*too, neat Keighley, Yokshire, was attending the service,
-at the Pr unitive Methodist Chapel at that place,: some
perkop forced an entrance into his dwelbophoose,
-tiroegh one of the windows, and passed through the
lower' rooms up stairs into his lodging roosts, broke
-open a drawer, and stole theme' 4001. in, promissory
notes, and 1021. in 51. notes and sovereigns.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. •

• GUILDILALL.
. Orange Rickey. an Irish woman, with three little ragged shil.
dren, was put to the bar at stagnate. The constable had taken
charge of them from humanity, on hearing her story, that she bad
come.over to England in search of her husband, who.bad in the
interim returned home, and she wished ta.be passed to follow him.
.4 I wish a lush wall could be built to keep all the people in'
their own country (said the Alderman earnestly); I will not pas,
her There will be no end to the expense of passing. The rates
will be twenty shillings in the pound on that account. The greatest•,
puni.hment I can ititita upon her is tadismise her, and let bk, find
her way hack as she came.' —She was accordingly discharged. '
George Hall was brought before Sir Pieran Lament, charged
with stealing a brass candlestick and a iliss trout a public-house,
in little Fri Jay-street.

The landlord said, the prisoner, upon taking his seat. called for
a glass of porter, and was served with it. .The landlady said she
did not like the appearance of the prisoner, and complainant took
peg at the door, to see which way he went when be quitted the
house. At length he came out, and the servant girl surveying the
room he had left, missed a candlestick. Complaloaut pursued
him, and upon bring overtaken, he threw away the candlestick,
and subsequently the glass. He was quite sober, and be bad hat
three halfpence in his pocket.
The prisoner said be was a merchant's clerk, and had been out
of employ for eighteen months • it was his ant offence, which be
had committed from distress, Ad he hoped au Alderman would
not subject him to further exposure.
Sir P. Lauuie warned him to be careful what he was stating.
The publican said, another glass bid been stolen from him the,
same day.—The prisoner was remanded.