The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

placing his knee against the deceased's back, took hold of
his shoulders, and compelled him to sit upright. The
deceased did not cry out at the time, or evince an! etha'
symptom that he was hurt. The ma2tai was in the habit
of doing the same to the other boys, when he found them
in a similar position. He had done it to the witness,
who had never felt any hurt from it. The deceased had
left off coming to the school soon after this occurrence.
George Yates. grandfather of the deceased, said the
boy waseight years old on the 27th December last. He had
lived with deceased, and had been in the habit of seeing
him every day. About eleven weeks before last Christ-
mas but one, the boy left off going to school, on .account
of illness. He complained of a pain in his back,
which he said was caused by the master's ill-treatment.
The deceased had been very healthy before that. The
boy had left school before November, 1850. He was not
able to walk for the last five months, during the last two
of which he could not stand upright.
The COR.ONER considered this evidence completely set
the matter at rest. The deceased was stated to have left
Mr. Day mood's charge nearly eighteen months agisi and,
by a well-known rule of legal practice, no one charged
with having caused the death of another could be consi-
dered implicated if more than a year and a day had elapsed
between the person's death and the time the parties had
been in contact. He had considered it his duty to hold
au inquiry, in consequence of the painful rumours which
were afloat respecting the cause of the boy's death, but he
considered that Mr. Daymond was completely exonerated
from any blame which might have been attempted to be
attached to him. In order, however, to satisfy their
minds still further, he would hear any additional evidence
which might be offered.

Edward Swift, the deceased's father, was then called by
desire of several of the jury, but his evidence elicited no-
thing further, except his having gone to Mr. Daymond
after the child's death, to ask him to subscribe some
towards the funeral expenses. Mr. Stoner had co
his house on the Sunday following the boy's death, ac-
companied by a policeman ; but, on being questioned as
to what took place on that occasion, the witness affected
a convenient loss of memory, and stoutly denied all recol-
lection of what then passed between them.
It appeared from the evidence of IVI.- -
to the Ormskirk

,argeon
, ony one aon had
been made for medicine for thethat child, l
(in Decepmplicatiber, 1850,)
but he had no recollection of ever having seen the child
at the Dispensary, a fact which showed the utter negli.
gence-of the parents, yen if the child had bee.
they alleged. lie fully agreed with Mr. Symo
scrofulous disposition of deceased, but consid
immediate cause of death was inflamma
He felt convinced that in the diseased
if such violence as was alleged had
must have ensut‘tUn a few weeks ; the:
act of the schoolmaster could-have not

Ashton,

with the boy's decea

After hearing th'

jury to return a v
which they at once

of " hear: hear,"
from those preset

njured as
as to the
1 that the
he lungs.

rected the

vidence, the Cc
ict of death frorA, Lusuunu 11.1/5C3,
I. The result was received by cries

ad other manifestations Oi

ppiEuse,

At the request of the jury, Mr. Fannin, the superin-
tendent of police, gave an account of the cireiimstances
under which he forwarded the usual information to the
Coroner, from which it turned out that Mr. Stone
Called on him, and wished an inquest to be held, bu.
quested that his name might not he allowed to transpire
as the promoter of it, he being desirous of serving as one
of the jury on the case. Mr. Fannin, however, very
properly did not summon him as a juror.
The Vicar of. Ormskirk stated, that if any one present
wished to call Mr. Daymond's character as a schoolmaster
—.stion, he should be very happy to step into the

The CORONER wad
'al to Mr. Daymot. worth from the reve.,—
_ , and complimented Mr. Daymond (who was pre-
sent) on the rc•ault of the inauirv.

to his excellen
lad to hear suc

gratifying testi..
Tett-

Homan

terminated, and the verdict ;

children of-the schools, wl
house, cheered lustily for

Gard v

publicly annou

adjoining the Court-

Daym- ond,- anc

paid to him in the town

the affair causedqui
quiet little town of 01

Indeed,

emonstratio

mskirk

On the 15th inst

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