The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-19 00:00:00

FALLING FROM THE RIGGING OF A VESSEL.
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On Friday an inquisition was held on view of Che body of
a youth named Job Deakin.
Joseph Moore, a custom-house officer, said that on Wed-
nesday morning last he was on board the barque Carena,
lying on the west side of the Queen's Dock. The deceased
went on board the brig Amicitia, lying astern of the Ca-
rena. Witness and others saw the deceased fall from the
rigging of the brig. He fell into the hold, apparently from
the maintop. A man who was in the hold, under the hatch-
way, heard a noise like a rope unreeving, and, thinking
something was falling, stepped aside. A crash followed be-
hind him, an], looking round, he saw the deceased lying on
his face on the kelson. He immediately picked up the de-
ceased, who was bleeding from his mouth, nostrils, and eye-
brows. He called for assistance, and the deceased was
hoisted on deck. He appeared to be nearly dead. Witness
left him in his father's arms.

Thomas Deakin said he was a custom-boase officer, and
the father of the deceased. Deceased was eleven years old.
Witness had been on duty on board a vessel near to the
Amicitia, and deceased had come down to him to bring his
(witness's) bed-clothes home, as the vessel was going to sea.
Witness told him to go on board, and he would follow. Im-
mediately afterwards he heard the noise of his son's fall.
He had the deceased carried to a neighbouring house, and
afterwards to the Infirmary. He was nearly dead, and never
spoke afterwards.

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Mr. Nottingham, surgeon of the Infirmary, said the de-
ceased had a compound fracture of the skull, and that it was
evident the injury was fatal. Every thing was done for him,
but he died on the same evening.
Verdict—" Accidental death."

INQUEST ON FRANCES suesLuv.
In the Standard of Friday we mentioned a rumour preva-
lent throughout the town, that a man, named George Buck-
ley, a plasterer, residing in Dansie-street, had killed his wife,
by brutally beating her with his fists. This report, which
rested on the suspicions of a few neighbours of the deceased, 1
turns out to be unfounded, it having been clearly proved, 1
that the unfortunate woman died of apoplexy. An inquest
was held, on Saturday, before P. F. Curry, Esq. Coroner,
for the purpose of investigating the circumstances. It ap-
pears, that the deceased and her hus:And resided in a cellar
in Dansie-street. She was in the habit of taking drink, and
was much intoxicated when Buckley went home on Wednes-
day evening. Eliza Leonard, who occupies the house above
Buckley's cellar, deposed that she heard him using some vio-
lent language that night, and heard also a rattling noise in
the cellar, which continued till about twelve o'clock. Ann
Lawrenson deposed, that she was in the cellar when the
prisoner (Buckley was in custody) arrived at home. Obser-
ving the state his wife was in, he went to her bedside and
said " You should not get tipsy." No reply was returned to
this, and the prisoner walked about for a considerable length
of time, after which he struck her, in a manner which the
witness described as " more like a slap than a blow, and not
one that would hurt her." The deceased raised herself up
and said, "Oh, my head ! " He was quite sober, but seemed
much troubled that his wife was in drink. This witness left
the cellar. Two other witnesses, Mrs. Grimes, and Mrs.
Porter, stated that they went to the prisoner's cellar about 9
o'clock, in consequence of his daughter informing them that
her father was cross. The deceased was sitting, very tipsy,
with her child on her knee. She get up and stumbled, and
he struck her and took from her the child, which was in
great danger of falling. He afterwards either pushed her
or struck her, and she fell, but the witnesses could not tell
whether it was from that push, or in consequence of the
drink she had taken. The next day she complained much of
her head, as she had done, on the preceding evening, before
she was struck. The prisoner spoke very kindly to her be-
fore he went out. Some of the neighbours who had heard
of her being ill went to see her. She was described as
having frothed at the mouth, and died in a sort of fit. Anne
Wilcock, sister of the deceased, deposed, to the very in-
temperate habits of the latter during the last four years.
Mr. Robert Hector and Mr. Nottingham, surgeons, who had
examined the body, stated, that externally there was a con-
tusion over the cheekbone, with a slight discolouration ex-
tending to the ear,—a contusion behind the ear, and a
protuberance of the temporal bone. There were no other
marks of violence. On further examination, the viscera of
the abdomen and chest were found perfectly healthy, except
the liver, which was very much enlarged. There was a
slight, but not important, effusion of blood in the. scalp,
under the contusion behind the ear. The skull was uninjured.
The vessels of the brain were turbid, and full of blood to a
great extent. The substance of the brain was healthy. A.
considerable quantity of coagulated blood was found at the
base of the cranium. The ventricles seemed distended with
blood and serum. The surgeons were decidedly of opinion,
that the deceased died of apoplexy, which might, they said,
be induced by excessive drinking from -natural causes, or
from a blow. If the appearances on the brain had been
produced; by violence, there was decidedly not sufficient
evidence externally of such violence having 'been used.
Taking the evidence which had been adduced into considera-
tion, they were of opinion that the apoplexy had been
occasioned by excessive drinking. The jury returned as their
verdict, that the deceased died of apoplexy, brought on by
excessive drinking.
The Coroner told the husband of the deceased that he had
come out of the investigation without the slightest blame ;
and his employer has subsequently called upon us, and assured
us that a more feeling and deserving man could not be. We
are glad to have this opportunity of placing Buckley's
character right, as we, inadvertently,brought it into question.