The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-15 00:00:00

INQUESTS.

DEATH BY DROWNING.—On Friday last the body of a young
man named Adam M'Connell, late an officer in his Majesty's
Customs at this port,
.was found by one of the police floating in
the basin of the Queen's Dock. It appears the deceased was
last seen on duty on the 2.3 d of last December. The evening
being very foggy, it is supposed the unfortunate man bad acci-
dentally missed his way on going into some of the vessels in the
Queen's Dock, and had fallen into the water. Au inquest was
held ou the body yesterday. Verdict, found drowned.

'An inquest was held yesterday, before John Heyes, Esq.,
county coroner, on view of the body of Grace Brenan, an aged
Irishwoman who lived in Lace-street, who had come by her
death from excessive drinking. It appeared from the evidence
that on Wednesday last the dee,.ased had been attending a
funeral, and had returned house about eight o'clock in the even-
ing, a little the worse for liquor; she afterwards went out and
partook of more, and upon arriving at home went to bed.
Early on• Thursday morning deceased awoke her litisi,and, to
whom.she eemplained of being ill, and desired him to seed fora
doctor. He did so. Mr. Mitchell, one of the surgeons at the
Northern Hospital, stated that he attended the deceased at the
time mentioned, and found her in a state of insensibility and
great exhaustion; he applied the stomach. pump, but without
effect, and she expired a few hours afterwards. Verdict—Died
by the visitation of God.

On the same day, an inquest was held to inquire into the cir-
cumstances attending the death of John Docker, an engineer,
latetv in the employ of Mr. Berry, ironfottuder. On Tuesday
last deceased had been to the Clarence Dock Basin to see some
friends off by one of the Dublin steamers, with whom he had
taken too much liquor, and when in the act of shaking hands
with one of them, his right foot slipped and he fell into the
water. His body was not found till Friday. Verdict—Acci-
dental death.

SUICIDE.—On Yesterday week a young man named triony-
sins • Hindle, a licensed hawker, and who al.() kept .a tap in
Hood-street, was brought up to the police-office, before Mr.
Hall, charged with having stolen a qnantitv of knives, the pro-
perty of Mr. Cheshire,.of Rose-hill. Notice of the robbery was
sent round to all the pawnbrokers, and about a moot h afterwards
the knives were sent to Mr. Doyle, pawnbroker, to pledge, by
Mr. Ainsworth, of the White Bear Inn, in Dale-street, who had
purchased them of the prisoner, and the prisoner seas by that
meanstraced and the robbery brought fully home to him, and he
was committed to take his trial for t he offence, and sent till the
sessions to K.irkdale. On taking hint to Kirkdale the turnkey,
on searching him, discovered a knife concealed in the waistband
of his trowsers, which was taken from. him. One of the pri-
soners in Kirkdale, named Howarth, deposed to the prisoner.
going up to him in the prison yard and asking him where the
barber was. and afterwards where his razors were, as he wanted
shaving. The then got supper together, and afterwards were
walking arm in arm.together, when I-lindle took up a knife front
the stone tables and laid it down again once or twice; at length
he retained it in his left hand, and, walking before him about
ten yards, he saw him cutting his throat. Ile rushed to him
and attempted to stop the bleeding, but fell sick, and Hindle
then wheeled round and fell. He gave an alarm, and two of
the turnkeys immediately came and carried the prisoner into
the lodge. The unfortunate man, it appears, had told this wit-
ness that if he had had knife on Sunday he would have cut his
throat in l3ridewell. The priSoner had expressed to others of
the prisoners his intention to cut his throat. The knife in the
yard belonged to the yardsmau, and had been lent one of the
prisoners to cut his corns. An inquest was h. id on the body on
Thursday last, and the above facts deposed to. Mi. Chalmers,
surgeon, deposed to examining the body, and finding a cut
across the throat, extending about four inches, and an inch
deep, which had completely divided the larynx. The july re-
turned a verdict of J'elo de se, '

THE DEICE OF LANCASTER'S BovroN IrEomArif7.7--The
Bolton Troop of this regiment arse►nbled in Bradford-square,
'on.Tuesday morning, in drill order, for eight. day's'.
and officers and men looked extremely well, wearing new
clothing, copied from the uniform of the th►rd Dragoon Guards,
which has a pleasing and sheOry appearance.