The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

TNQUESTS BEFORE THE COUNTY.CORONER

On Tuesday'
.escot

st, an inquest was held at Whiston, near
John Heyes, Esq., coroner, on the body'of

aged about `5 year

.ears, went out of her husband's house on Monday evening,
bout half-past six o'clock,. leaving him etting his supper ;
.nd in a few minutes he was alarmed by a person calling out

in the lane that some one was lying on the causeway. as he
supposed, intoxicated; but, on proceeding thither, the hus-
band found it to be the deceased, his wife. They irnmedi-

ately removed her, but life was quite extinct.
some clotted blood on her mouth, which was ins
away, and a surgeon sent for. She had
the habit of vomitting blood, but bef

re going ont
Lial. Verdict•

peered rather more cheerful than
by the bursting of a blood-vessel.'

On Thursday last, at the Owl's Ne
)dy of_George Sirnm, a man about

k, on th

1 vas met on the banks of

canal in the afternoon

uesday previo

I.)y a In,

vas clriving the_hors
lowly alon

_ Ind appeared pale and dejected ; and nothing
more was heard of him until about a quarter before three
the same afternoon, when his body was found floating on
the surface of the water, a short distance from where he was
met, and close to a narrow bridge which he'would have had
to cross ; his hat was also floating on the water. Fis body
was immediately taken out, and every means used to restore
animation, but without effect. In the absence of any posi-
tive evidence as to how the deceased got into the water, the

jury returned it verdict of "
On Saturday last, at the
body of Peter Thomas, whos

Found diOwned.".
Bull Inn, West -Derby, on th
;e death was caused by his beini

run over by a cart
and was walking in the middl
shaft pushed him down, and the wheels pas
The driver was walking about lone yards i

dvance of his

talking to a neighb
He turned his head to his

n the accident occurred

saw the deceased in t

act of falling, but he could not stop the hbrse in time to
prevent the cart from going over him. Mr. Hall, surgeon,
attended him, but he died in about an hour and a half after
the occurrence. Verdict—" Accidental death."

Same day, at Warrington, on the body of a poor old man.
who came to his death in a manner which exhibits a striking
exemplification of the fragile nature of the human frame.
The circumstances are these :—The deceased was going to
his work on the morning of Thursday last, about six o'clock ;

and, while walking along Irlam-street, he was met by a young
man who was running fast for fear of being too late at his
work. The latter had just turned the corner of a street,
and it being very dark, the deceased and he did not see each
other until they came in contact, and the old man was
knocked down. He got up and walked home; his wife gave
him some coffee, but it would not stay on his stomach; and
after he had sat down, it was only by het-assistance that he
was prevented from falling off his chair. Medical assistance
was immediately procured, but the shock received by the
nervous system, in consequence of the sudden concussion
and fall, caused his death in three hours after. No blame is
attributable to the young man who was the innocent cause
of this sudden death; and the jury accordingly returned a
verdict of "Accidental death."—lt is desirable that, in a
thickly-populated town like Warrington, the gas should be
allowed to remain lighted on such dark mornings as that on
which this old man met his death

Ilad this been the case

it is not improbable that the fatal accident we now record
would have been prevented.