The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-02 00:00:00

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On Tuesday; an inquest. was held to inquire touching the
death of Samuel Parkinson, a butcher, !rile resident iirTharlow.
street, in this town.- CathertnerJones stated • that.she •was the-
wife of Stephen Jones, tiook.kedper, Thiirlote-Street, • .'1•11.y
kept a- public-house there. She knew the deceased, Samuel
Parkinson. He was in the habitatF going to their:house. On
Saturday mornmg last a .halt-past eight J'elock, he went into
-their house and'entered the-,front parlitur, and asked for three-
penny worth of ruin with which' she served him. She did not
observe anything peculiar in his manner at that tune. In about
half or three-quarters-a an hour afterwards he called for fl pen
and ink, which witness carried to him. Soon afterwards he
had istiother three-pennyworth of ruin, with which witness also
served him. Afterwards she -served him with a glass of ale.
Some time. afterwards she (witness) was in the kitchen, from
whence she heard him talking aloud to himself. She knew that
he was alone, and therefore she went in. He asked her whet e
.the then were that had been in the parlour. He appeared to
be very wild, and she thought it must be from the effects of the
liquor which -he had taken. She told him that no one had been
in but hitriself. He 'said there had been men in, and he was
afraid they had meddled with papers belonging, tit him. She
endeaVotired to convince him that no one had been with hint,
and at length left him. In the course of a quarter of an hour
she heard a noise in the parlour,'which she thought was the de-
ceased falling. 'She went in and found that it leas his arm
which had slipped on the table where he had been leaning it
which had caused the noise ' She then saw' a small bottle on
the door, empty, acid the pieces of another which had been bro-
ken. The bottle produced was that which she saw on the tigior.
It was labelled •' Laudanum, 'poison." She (witness) felt
very much alarmed, and' went to fetch the person he (deceased)
haoi los,ty.'ed with ih the same street. That persons returned
with tier, andiney,went into the pot dour to the deceased. He
was still in the sanse posture. - Witness asked hint to sea home
to Beta Sleep.- He raiseddliniself up and began to talk very
wildly. He talked of knocking witness down, and arose from
his seat, speaking very incoherently. At length he laid his
head upon the table and never spoke more. The other female
went away witk.the,bottle, and-the deceased began to groan
timidly. The female above mentioned, at length arrived with a
person from-the druggist's. After this, a surgeon from the
Dispensary (Mr. Gouty) arrived with a stomach-pump which
•he applied. -He was then carried from the house of witness.
Witness believed him to be insane. Edward..lardin, an as-
sistant with Mr. Withers, druggist, Byrom street, stated, that
on Thursday last, the. deceased, who appeared to be perfectly
composed and sensible; called at the shop and purchased an
ounce of laudanum. He asked for, and received every neces-
sary information as to the quantity which it-would be safe to
take. Benjamin Rowland; an appren:ice with Mr. Neale,
druggist,•Scolland-place, stated, that on Saturday morning last
the deceased called at the shop, and asked for six-pennyworth
of laudanum, saying, that it was for a person in the country.
Witness, at first, demurred to selling this quantity, but the de-
ceased explained that it was for a pers'Wl 0 was in the habit
• •
of taking it, and who 'vas obliged to parchase in large quan-
tities from being in town only on market days. Witness sold
him an ounce of laudanum. Win. Gouty, House Surgeon at
the North Dispensaryotated, that. on Saturday last, in conse-
quence of a message, he went to Mr. Jones', in Thurlow-street,
and took with bun a stomach-pump. He found the deceased
in a state of .stupor, l) log on the floor. He had hint raised up,
and the stomach-pump was applied. A
quantity of reddish
coloured fluid was brought up, part of which was put into the
bottle produced. - Witness had him taken home, and gave di-
rections to the people of the house to keep_ hint in constant mo-
tion. Witness called agaib about two o'clock, and found him
still in a state of stupor. He used a cold effusion by pouring
could water from a height upon his head. It produced no effect.
He (witness) Caen gave directions that he should be kept mo-
ving, and called-again about five o'clock, and found hint still in
the same state. Witness used flagellation with a birch rod and
with a cane, which Seemed to restore hint slightly to sensibility.
Witness had biro removed to bed, and applied mustard plaster
over his chest and to one leg. Witness called again at half-
past eight, and found him, to all appearance, dying. Some •
medicine was ordered, Gut before it could be procured he died.
Witness had analyied thiliquid that came from the stomach,
but found very little trace of laudanum in it. It .was chiefly
spirits, probably runt. Witness haul .examined the body, and
found the vessels of the brain very much distended with black,
fluid blood, and some serum in the ventricles more than usual.
The lungs were very much congested, and the blood in the heart
anti large vessels very dark and fluid. The stomach was per-
fectly empty- in consequence of the pump having been applied.
Witness was of opinion that the deceaosed died from taking lau-
danum-in' too large a quantity., it must have been taken so long
before the stomach-pump was applied as to have been absorbed
into the system, and that circumstance would account for the
liquid emitted from the stomach nut being tainted with it. Ann
Erdly stated'that the -deceased had lodged with her about five
years. •He was a buicher,',and about 30 years of age. Since
thecotnnteucernent,nithis year witness had 'observed hinado be
very different in:his manner from what he had ever been before.
During the-preceding week he had been dreadfully violent in
his temper.. - Witness thought that something was the matter
with him, and-lhat he was not quite right in his head. The
Jury foutidAist the deceased had destroyed himself during-at
.13:i4rpordp. iit, oL insanity '

LOLVDaili GAZETE.—TUiSDAY, JAN. 33.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

W. Nrattin and T. Blythe, Liverpool. wine,lealers-.44. Broadbent
and S. DearnAly, Hyde, Cheshire, joiners—W. Crew, W. Holborn,
uncle. Rowley, Macclesfield, silk-dressers—.l P. Kelley. It. W. Kel-
ley, G. Elliot,and J. Wet stet; Glasgow, Manchester, and Constanti-
noph.4.4, Worthington and W. Worthington, Manehester,commission
rigeniJ. Potter, .1. Ackers, J. Ban, s, and J. Ashton, Hindley, Lair-
J. Potter and J. Ackers,
cashire, miners; as far as regards

- INSOLVENTS.
Jan. 47—John Henry Russell. Bruton-street, London. tailor.
Jan. 2,1-11enry Sealy, City-road, London, upholsterer,
Samuel Elphick Rocemarv-lane. London, victualler.
Robert Davis, Isle of Wight, merchant.
BANKIUTPTk,

ChrktOpher Hayes. jun., Liverpool. shipbuilder, to surrender Feh.
9. March i 3. at one, at the Clareblon Rooms, Liverpool, - Solicitors.
Messrs. Norris and :k lien, Bartlett's-bildings, Holborn, London; and
Al,. Touhnin. Liverpool.
R 4 d Curtis,
owhearrtAr N
el'(r.Me nuun'ra.d'it'-r
-isstrPoew, i Arundel-street.
81t.rannc(oli Lonrlon. wine-merchant.
Eln's Inn-fields, London,tailor.
Samuel Skiinier, Greeuliam, Berkshire, brewer.
(;eorge [hint's. b,jlsil;y, Northamptonshire. ifrocer.
Elizabeth Clegg. IX:IWO:end. Lancashire, cotton-spinner. •
.Ceeil Evans, Spout-lane. Shropshire. corn-factor.
William Fowler, Aston, Warwickshire, brickinaker.
DIVIDENDS.

Feb. 2fi. D. Barrett, Dean-street, Fetter•lane, London, grocer—Feb
23, N. Teruel' and S. 'Fifiniell. Nork-street, Nll,l4llesex ll,„%pitai Lon_
don, tallow-chandlers—Feb. 2".1.W Cliringbold, St, Alban's, innkeeper
—Feb, 20 E. Burt,. len'a-plate, London, merchant—Fel...4l, I. St. Ile
Sheptiard, Lower Grosvenor-street. Grosvenor-square. Unidon,wine.
merebant—Feb. 21, P. 11 en dersnn, 'Fottenhain- court-road, London,
hosier—Feb. 20, IL Andrew and A. Andrew. Ashton-under-Lvri,..
eotton-spinners- Feb. 21, .1. Banks. Preston, boolcsaller—Feh. 12', m.
Fowler, Lyinington. liampshire, wine-merebarit—Feb. 21, E. K„.
worthy, S eldlew.ortk. cotton-ninufaemrers—Feb. 17, J. ILme;hton,
librekliurn. cotton-spinner—Feh. , .1. T. Coney, Sculthorpe, Norfolk,
Miller—Feb. -43, R. Jones. .111.• Newtown. Montgomeryshire, drap,r
_Feb. 2'2, Cl.mt
.t.rroml:inson, (Minim, tim4er-merehants. Armitage
—Feb. 28, W. E. Freeman, Al anchester, draper.