The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

IN QUESTS.

Held before P. F. CvauY, Esq.
DEATH THROUGH FALLING INTO A DOCK.—On
Wednes-
day an inquisition was held on view of the body oat the de-
f Thomas
Woods, a young man of eighteen. It appeared th
ceased, who was a sailor, was, on Sunday afternoon last, on
board the brig Enterprize, which had a quay berththe
Queen's Dock. He wanted to go on shore, and went to the
rigging for the purpose of doing so. After he had skipped off
he
the rigging and alighted on the quay, oft r slipped, and
came
fell between the vessel and the quay. Several persons
to his assistance directly and took him out. He was able to
speak, and was taken by two police-officers to his lodgings in
Norfolk-street. He had left the house quite sober a short
time before. A surgeon was sent for, who found him labour-
ing under congestion of the lungs, and leeches were conse-
quently applied. He was attended regularly, and several
remedies were resorted to ; but he continued to get worse,
and died on Monday afternoon. Mr. ISl`Lellan, surgeon,
. who attended him stated, that he had no doubt but that the
deceased died from inflammation of the chest, arising from
immersion in the water. There were no marks of injury ex-
ternally. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the
surgeon's opinion.
A NEW-BORN CHILD.—Same day, an inquest was held on
view of the body of a new-born male infant. Nicholas Tin-
ning, gardener at St. James's \Valk, stated, that on Tuesday
morning as he was going to the• gardens be saw a bun-
dle tied up in a piece of silk, lying close to the rails of the
cemetery. He took it up, and it was opened by another per-
son, and found to contain the body of a male child quite dead.
It was wrapped up in a petticoat, and a piece of silk outside,
and pinned. It was taken to the dead-house. Mr. Woods,
surgeon, made a post-mortem examination, and from the
tests lie applied, and the appearance of the umbilical cord
(which was not tied), he had no doubt it had breathed ; and
had died from the want of proper assistance after birth.—
Verdict accordingly.
BURNING.—Same day, on view of the body of Julia
Mooney-, a child four years old. Deceased lived with her
aunt in Crosshall-street, and was left by herself in a
room
in
which there was a fire.. Jo two or three minutes she was
found all in flames. These were extinguished as soon as pos-
sible, but she was so severely burnt that, though she was ta-
ken immediately to the Infirmary, where everything was done
for her, she died on the same afternoon.—Verdict--died by
• burning, but how occasioned there was no evidence.
On the same day—on view of the body of Jane Gawne, a
girl of nine years of a,le. The deceased lived with her aunt
in John's-place, Bolton-street. On Friday morning she got
up and went down stairs to make a tire. In a quarter of an
hour her aunt heard her screaming. ran down, and found her
all in flames in the parlour. She put the hearth
rug round
her and put out the flames, and called assistance. She was
badly burnt over her chest, back, and arms. Two surgeons
g ons
were called, and she was sent to the Infirmary. Everything
possible was done for her, but she died the following day, in
consequence of the injuries she had received.—Verdicta as
above.
DEATH FROM FALLING INTO THE PRINCE'S DOCK.
Same day, on view of the body of William Rowland, a sea-
man aged nineteen years. About one o'clock on Tuesday
morning, police-officer Manning, who was on. duty at the
south wc.st gate of the Prince's Dock, heard a splash like
something falling in the dock. He sprang his rattle, and
another officer came to him, and they got the grapnel irons,
and went to the corner ofothing but a the dock where
few bub he
bblesad heaon the
rd the
noise, but could perceive n
lace for about half an hour, and
water: They dragged the p
not finding anything, went on board the schooner Lady Er-
skine, which was lying at the corner. They roused the
mate and another man, and on searching, they found ajacket
and a pair of trowers, which satisfied them that there was
some one in the dock. They then grappled again, and in
about an hour the body of the deceased was brought to
was
the
surface, and by means of a rope, to the shore. He
quite dead. He had no jacket and trowsers on, and was re-
cognised as a seaman belonging to the schooner. The de-
ceased, it appeared, had gone on hoard soon after midnight,
with two other men, to sleep. They all went into the cbin.
The deceased was not sober. Shortly after, the othera two
melt went to bed, and left the deceased sitting up in the cabin.
In about an hour they were called np by the officers, and
missed the deceased, whose body was fsiund in about an
hour afterwards.—Verdict—found drowned ; but how he got
into the water, there was no evidence to show.

DEATH OF LADY SHELBURNE.—We have the painful
duty this day to announce the death of the Countess of Shel-
burne. Her ladyship expired last night, after a most dis-
tressing illness, at Wilton-house, near Salisbury. Lord Clan-
williatia, who married a sister of the late countess, arrived at
Lansdowne-house this morning, and was the bearer of the
melancholy, intelligence, which will throw several noble and
distinguishid families into mourning. The late countess was
in the 24th year of her age, and was married to the Earl of
Shelburne in August last, a period of little more than six
months.—Standard.