The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-10 00:00:00

REMARKABLE DETECTION.

Two girls, Mary Jackson and Christina Terrington, were
placed at the bar, charged with stealing a silver watch from
the person of an elderly man, who had been so foolish as to
commit himself to their loving salutations and kindness in
the streets, while he was in a state of inebriety. As, how-
ever, the complainant could not swear that he saw either of
them take the watch, although he felt them fumbling about
his person, and as nothing was found upon them when ap-
prehended soon after, they were necessarily discharged, and,
making their courtesy at the bar, with all apparent guiltless-
ness and decorum, left the court. In a very few minutes
afterwards, one of the police-officers went to a pawnbroker's
with a bill describing the watch, so that it might be stopped
if offered in pledge, and had no sooner entered than he found
one of the prisoners (Jackson) in the very act of pledging
the watch, which she had handed over the counter, and for
which she wanted £3. The prisoner was immediately
brought back to the Police-court, where the watch (worth
about .£6) was produced and identified. She was committed
for trial at the assizes.—Mr. Hall remarked to the prosecu-
tor, that though the ends of justice would be sati,fie,l, he
was more lucky than deserving in recovering his watch.

INQUESTS.

Taken before PHILIP FINCH CURRY, Esq., Coroner.

DEATH FROM DRlNKlNG.—Yesterday an inquest was held
on view of the body of Robert Gittens. The deceased, it
appeared from the evidence, was 44 years of age. He was
a whitesmith, and worked at Mr. Munroe's foundry. On
Tuesday afternoon the deceased came to his work, and worked
up to five o'clock, when he went to his tea. He had com-
plained of being ill the day before, and was not at work.
When he came back from his tea he sat down close to a fel-
low-workman, (John Melling,) and soon after got up and
said he was fainting. Some water was brought, but he was
unable to drink. He was carried into the yard, and assist-
ance was sent for, but before a doctor arrived he was dead.
Mr. George Clarke, surgeon, said that on his arrival at the
works he found the deceased had ceased to breathe, bat .his
heart was still beating. He made a post mortem examination
of the body, and found an accumulation of about two quarts
of fluid on the right side of the chest, which was the cause of
death. This, he added, was probably caused by excessive
drinking. His liver was nearly double the size of that of a
healthy subject. The widow of the deceased said that Ee was
in the habit of drinking very hard, and that he afterwards
used to complain of a pain in his right side. The verdict
of the jury was to the effect, " that the deceased died from
the effects of excessive drinking."
DEATH BY ACCIDENTAL DROWNlNG.—Yesterday, an in-
quisition was held on view of the body of Thomas Ryan, late
a labourer for Mr. Holmes, in Sparling-street. The body of
the deceased (who was 36 years old,) was found yesterday
morning (by John Finley and other boatmen) floating in the
river opposite Brunswick Dock, and, being in a state of de-
composition, was drawn gently along the wall to the Seacombe
Slip, whence it was conveyed to the dead-house. The body
of the deceased was recognized by his brother, who had heard
that he was drowned on the 17th of last month at the Pot-
teries. A fellow-workman of the deceased stated, that they
were employed on that day in breaking up an old ship at the
Harrington Docks; that he and deceased and another man
got into a small boat to make fast a hawser to a buoy in the
river. The boat was drifted down with the tide towards the
buoy, and witness called out to the deceased to take hold of
the buoy with the boat-hook : he did so, and made the
hawser fast to the buoy. The deceased was standing in the
middle of the coil of rope, which wound round his legs. He
called out to witness to save him, and he laid hold of the
hawser to pull ahead, and, in doing so, the tide was so strong,
the boat was filled with water immediately, and was carried
away by the tide, and they were all three left in the water.
The deceased was drowned, and witness and the other man
were, with difficulty, saved. Witness had often had the
management of a boat. Verdict--" Accidentally drowned."