Star.
London, England, 1820-03-31 00:00:00

ACCIDEAT IN THE SAVOY.

Yesterday evening an Inquisition was taken at. the
IBlue Anchor, foot of Waterloo-bridge, on the bodies
of Frederick Windermude, Thomas Stephens, and
.I,lin Smith, who were killed by the falliag of the.old
wall of the Savoy Pri.on, on ‘Vedne day morniog
last.. The Jury, after being sworn, went to view the
bodies,' which were laid in- the bone-housetof St.
John's Church. They exhibited a most dreadful
sight, being so much cut and bruised.
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Mr. Andrew Mann, victualler and builder, in the Horseferry.
road, Westminster, deposed, that he was welfacquainted with the
dereased persons. Windermude was a cew-kerrer and carter,
at the Horseferry-road ; Stephenson had been finmerly a soldier%
but latterly a labourer; Smith was a carpenter, and they were
all in his employ. Between nine and ten o'clock on Wed-
nesday morninz, Smith was engaged in taking account of the
bricks the men were carting, at the rains in the Savoy; Ste..
phenson was working under the wall which they hrd been
pulling down; and Witidermilde was standing close to witness,
when he was surprised by a woman'screaming out that the wall
was falling. Witness sprung out of the way, but the dectastd
persons were caught. Windermude might have esca?ed, had
he not attempted to get out hid horse and cart. Witness.cau-
tioued them in the morning of the danger to which they ex-
posed themselves, and actually made them desist, and sere
them to load the carts. He gave an order fer pulling down th
wall: but it was let to gangs, who were paid seven shillings
ami Eve shillings, for the thousand of bricks they pulled dem.
William Garraway, a labourer, said he belonged to the same
gang with the deceased persons. Stephenson was th•Ar Fore-
max, and continued at the pick-axe after he was ordered away
by 3lr. Mann. It was his own desire to undermine the v•%ii,
in order to get it down sooner, and witness was nearly kill. d;
he was severely bruised.
the Jury collected a shilling apiece for his bene-
fit, and unanimously returned a verdict Accide;:tcl
Desch.—Deodand, One Shilling on the wall.
An instance of juvenile depravity, almost unparal-
leled, occurred on the spot :
Shortly after Mrs. Windermude had put some money taken
from her husband into her po.:het, a boy succeeded in getting it
from her, bt:: veas pursued, had it taken from hitn, ard, after re-
ceiving a slight punishment from the crowd, was Et co. Poor
Windermude was among the first who saw the wall crack : he
warned off several boys who were playing on the spot, and then,'
in ac: endeavour to save his lorse and cart, lost his own life!

Tits SAvoT PALACE.—The last vestiges of that
once magnificent and extensive pile of buildings, the
joyous abode and the prison of Royalty, and the
scene where many transactions connected with the
history. of England had their rise, progress, and con-
summation, are now fast approaLhing that awful ter-
isination, so beautifully described by our immortal
Bard. The demolition new going forward, and
which produced the melancholy catastrophe related
above, by the falling of the wall of ode of its towers,
that had been too carelessly undermined, has laid
open ruins that may be observed with great interest
by the antiquarian as well as the curious observer,
before closing the view for ever, by consigning to
cbliv'w, in a very short period, every retnnant of
this- truly venerable edifice. The Church, with its
beautiful ceiling and remarkable monuments, is at
present exempted fr..ln the general destruction of the
Palace, thcugh how long the unsparing band of im-
provement willipermit itssacre:i and mouldering vvall
to retain their antique appearance, is hard to say..

SMITIITItII3 MARXII,2, MARCH :.%1.--This 113110Ining there was
a very greet chew of (pule, and those of a god Fetched
a high price. The gur.n tity of sheep was also very great, and
sipported :.londay's mrket prices. This being the first day of
gr,iss-Lintb, a great umber were produced at toarket; but those
of good qa3lity ..vere very dear; the best £6. 4.!. per Ewag,
sicking thy offal.—ll ty and straw,. no alterativn.
• t.oa), Exet..anter ((tete Friday) shit.

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LENT ASSIZES.

YORK.

Mr. William Radclee, Rouge Croix Pursuivant
of Arms, was tried at York Assizes, upon an indict-
ment charging him with having, in the year 1801,
forged, in the Parish register ofßavenfield, in that
county, an entry, purporting to be of the marriage
of Ed kvard liadclyffe and Rosamunde Swyfte, 21-th
February, 16.10; and with having set forth such false
entry in a pedigree presented by him to the Herald's
College, whereby he had pretended to sliAr his own
descent from the ancient family of Radclyfre, for-
merly Earl, of Der, wentwater, with a view to impose
upon the College, as well as upon the Governors of
Greenwich Hospital, in whom the forfeited estates of
that Noble Family are veiled. The register was
woduced, and it appeared that the Rev. Thomas
Radfoid. the Curate of the Parish at the time of the
interplatiop., a:id since de eased, had, in February,
1302, atteste,i the entry to be a forgery. The persons
who had had the custody of the register proved the
time and place of the forgery ; and Norroy, King of
Arms and Register .of the Herald's College, and
York. Richmond, Somerset, and Windsor Heralds,
and Portcullis Pursuivant were examined, and proved
the hand-writing tc be that of the defendant, and the
circumstances attending the discovery. Mr. Locker,
Secretary to Greenwich Hospital, produced two me-
morials, addressed by the defendant, in 1810 and
1816, to the Governors, for a beneficial lease of a
considerable estate, anciently belonging to the Noble
Family in question. There were also produced from
Christ's Hospital, a memorial and pedigree, presented
by the- defendant in 1809, wheieby he had suc-
ceeded in obtaining admission for his younger brother
upon 4kfoundation of that-Charity, as being of kin
to the foTtader, King Edward VI. and in which pe-.
digtee the said marriage. so forged, was asserted, and
the descent of the defendant drawn from it. • •

SCARLETT opened the case in a luminous.
speech, in which he pointed out the enormity of the
offence, and a variety of other fabrications in the de-
fendant's pedigree, which, he stated, he was prepared
to prove by several witnesses then in Court. The
Learned Counsel farther observed upon the import-
ance of the case. not only as it affected the character
of the members of the Herald's College, but the ge-
neral interests of the Public ; that it had not been
brought forward to answer any vindictive purpose,
but to protect an honourable body from the stigma
which n:ight attach to it from the improper conduct
of one ct its members, ar,d to slim that the valuable
records entrusted to their care would not be neglect.
ed by thwie appointed to preserve them.
Mr. tierjeant Iluccecn made an able speech for
the defendant-, but called no evidence fcr the defence.
Mr..l.taiLe Panic summzd up in a comprehensive
Charge to the Jury, in which he stated the law as
applicable to the case, and that if the forgery had
been committed in a Parish register of a date
sequent to the Marriage Act in 1753, it would have
constituted a capital offence; but .that, in the case
befere the Court, it was only a m-iidemetu.our at
common law.

The Jury retired for al out a quarter of an hour,
and returned %.ith a verdict of—Guilty.
Mr. Justice PARE then sentenced the prisoner to
pay a fine vf LIU, and to be imprisoned iu York
Castle for the term of three months. •

DEVONSIIMIL-EXP.TER.
FARTHING v. SONE.

This was a case in which 64 doctors'cliffered" in
opinion, to the eight weeks excruciating agony of
their patient, the plaintiff. It was an action brought
by Mr.- Farthing, a working, and in part .a master
carpenter, living at Plymouth-Dock, to recover a
compensation in damages from the defendant, a sur-
geon in considerable practice in .that place, for his
mismanagement of a dislocation of the hip-bone, and
a dislocation of the aucle-bone, in • consequence of,
which the pl :intiff had suffered the greatest bodily
anguish, and had been rendered a cripple for lire.—
It appeared that the plaintiff was on the scaffold of
a house which was building, and for want of the
proper tics, the front wall suddenly fell outwards,
and buried the uafortunate man in the ruins. He
was taken up in a most dreadful state, and carried
horrie scarcely alive. The defendant, who had Leen
in the habit of attending the family, was sent for, an:
he, finding that it was a case of a very complicated
nature, called in Mr. Penkevil, a brother surgeon.
'they both examined the patient ; using, as Mr. Pen-
heril stated, the various tests to discover whether
any dislocation had taken place; and, being. satisfied
that there was not, treated the swellings in the first
instance as a common contusion, and not finding the
application successful, they treated them as arising
f:orri scrofula. The patient lingered on in this way
for about eight weeks ; at the expiration of which
reriod the attending surgeons at last discovered that
ei,rocation had actually taken place, but they attri-
buted it to scrofula, and therefore held it to be in-
curable. In this hopeless state, the wife having from
the first been convinced that there had been disloca-
tion (she having been a sufferer in the same way, as
well as her father), sent for Mr. Tripe, also a sur-
-ott at Plimouth-Dock. • Mr. Tripe, with the usual
feeling of_ professional delicacy, declined to interfere
without first consulting thv defendant : he therefore
called upon him, and was told that there had never
been any original dislocation,. and that the disloca-
tion which had bcen so lately discovered, was the
effect of scrofula. Mr. Tripe then pioposed to exa-
m ine the patient with a certain number of profes-
sional friends on each side. This offer was declined,
tir.. Bone declaring that he was so satisfied with the
correctness of his opinion, that nothing was likely to
change it. Mr. Tripe then, accompanied by Dr.
Magrath and Mr. Isbell, examined the patient, and
feeling satisfied that there Rad been an original disloca-
detet mined to attempt the reduction, being first
convinced that the patient had not the least symptom
orsciofula. Previously, however, to the operation,
Mr. Tripe thought proper to communicate his inten-
tions to Mr. Bone, who still persisted in his notions
of scrofula, adding, that be should feel it his duty
to warn, the family of the extreme danger. to be ap.
pretended from the operation. He did so, but was
cot successful in shaking the faith of the plaintiff,
and theoperation was performed, the plaintiff hay-
ing betn kept in a state of continued extension (lite-
rally the torture of the rack) for about twenty minutes,
when die bone slipped into the socket, the plaintiff ,

!exclaiming that he was now relieved from the dread.l
ful anguish that he had suffered so long. The hip,
in the usual course of time, recovered; but the ancle-
bone had assumed such a state of rigidity, that it was
imposiible for anything to be done; the loss of that •
limb was therefore decided. .
On the part of the plaintiff, witnesses were called
to spew, that, previous to the accident, the plaintiff
was a perfect formed man, but that now his foot was
completely deformed, and he was not likely to do
any work again. The nurse who attended him
swore, that the leg had every appearance of disloca-
tion, and said that the plaintiff's right leg had so
turned round, that she was obliged to put a pad
upon the foot, to prevent the toe-nail from cutting
the other leg, and that this was under the constant
view of the defendant, who expressed his wonder at
the reason why one leg was shorter than the other.
Mr. Tripe, Dr. Magrath, and Mr. Isbell,. were also
called ; and they all concurred in opinion, that the,
dislocations were the result of violence, and must, •
therefore, have existed at the time the plaintiff was
first placed under the care of the defendant.
On the part of the defendant, Mr. Penkevil was
called, who deposed to his making use of all the
usual tests, and expressed his conviction that there
'had been no original dislocation, and that the course
of treatment adopted by the defendant was perfectly
proper. He, however, could not account for the
subseqUent dislocation ; it was certainly one of those
phenomena in nature for which no cause could be
assigned. It was certainly not the result of scrofula,
because, if it had, the reduction never could have
taken place. This account was confirmed by the
apprentice of the defendant, who was also his nephew,
a very young man, with a very great knowledge of
sarrical terms.
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About a dozen of the most respectable medical
Gentlemen were then examined, 'who all stated, that,
supposing the tests mentioned by Mr. Penkevil had
been resorted to, there could not have been an ori-
ginal dislocation, although they admitted that the
cure turned that it was not the result of scrofula.
Mr. A. Moenr., in his reply, cornraented in rather
severe terms upon the evidence of Mr. Penkevil,
whose professional character was as much at stake
as that of the defendant ; and as to the nephew, in-
dependent of relationship, his knowledge was too
much beyond his years to have any weight. Indeed,
two more interested witnesses. could not have been
brought forward to support a case.- The plaintiff
ha4l sustained the most serious injury through the
gross mismanagement of the defendants, and was
therefore entitled to have an adequate compensation,
as well for the consequences as for the torture he had
unnecessarily endured.
Mr. Baron WOOD, in summing up, declared that
every man who engaged in a profession was bound
to possess a competent skill, and.was answerable for
any ill consequences arising from want of skill ; but
that nb man-was to be called upon to answer for an
error is judgment, for, were that the case, no man
would be found to engage in a profession so useful,
anclindeed so essential to society.
The Jttry, after a short consultation, returned a
verdict fur the defendant.

The trial lasted zinc hours, and it will have been
fortunate for the towns of Plymouth and Plymouth-
Pock if no accidenfor illness took place, since hardly
noctlical man was left in ei.her place.