The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-02 00:00:00

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LATE FIRE AT THE CHOWN AND • RE. 71TCR.
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Thursday an Inquisition was taken at the Bolfafo. Head,
New-road. Mary-le-b one, ON view of the body of Wu'. lieak a
who perished in the fire at the Crowe -mid Seeptre,'l'itellfiele
street, collier of Foley street. .. .
James Mom sworn, said he lodged at the Crown Indlesiare
for a few nighti previous to the inelaucholycalastrophe ;le
raise home about twelve o'clock on Monday night. Mrs. Cart•
weight, the landlady, came down st.tirs with a lighted coadieil
her hood. and let him in; she appeared so have been is hedsMa
lighted him sip the first flight of stairs so the door of her eau
bed.rooss, which wits situated over the tap-room. and Nitta
light of her candle he proceeded to his (Mit bed-room on Om
second floor; the deceased and three others Istlied there, NW
there was no fire or candle in the room. Witness fell weep.
and was awoke by one of the lodgers, known by the Base Nr
Harry Devil, and then he perceived the romp full of steilies he!
wa. so alarmed, that he did not recollect how he escaped. bus
he remembers the landladreuming in.o iWe room asitatteuipt.
ing to fling the child out at the window; be, however, prerest..
ed her. and she returned doirn the stairs again, but km so •
recollection bow she made her escape. He saw fledges's!,
going out at the roam door, and bad not seen him after seta
dead. The house had been n watering-house, bet the Untie*
was stopped last iscensing day till the adjourned day., maths
house in consequenee bad beets shah sip at eleven o'clock evety
night since. The Lady 'wets a wide,: The body of sheds*
ceased oil; NON( is the parlour amongst the ruins. The 11104tif
aas all dr-troyed, and no par of the properly raved.
William Hinton, tin-plateworker, said Ine was alarmed by
the watchman, who was cry ing out " Fire !"-shout half•past
four o'clock on Tuesday morning. On going to the .Crovet arid
Sceptre, he observed flames issue from the bar window : be,
with others. endeavoured to alarm the inmates, in which Orr
succeedt‘d with peat dial:laity ; he procured a ladder, %slid!
was placed to the u Widow in she rear, and succeeded in taring
boor in this way.' Mrs. Cartwright and her child came ores
she roof, but he could not tell bow she got out of the house.."l
Another man war seen at the bar.wind:iw, which he broke in
attempting to escape. hat the Muses increasing, he was cum- '
pelted to run sup stairs again. All those who escaped gat away
at the top of the house ; and it is suppe.ed that the deceased
missed the stairs, nod got into the parlour, where be perished.
—[This witness rendered very es.entral service in the laudable
attempt of onving.ilw lives of the Inmates, and the Coroner :01
Jury cashed a memorial to be dean a op to he delivered to she
-Gentlemen of she Vestry. his order that they would at least
tom; enwite him for his loss of time.]
Wm. Perry, fireman, belonging so the Hope.offire, attended
with y‘ergine. and was playing on the parlour ti I the fireside-
sidorl; he then searched the place, having beet) told a persoa
was missing. and he found she hotly of the deceased so dread-
folly,4,erned, that it was with difficulty he could he put in o the
shelT„., [W noes, here observed, that he sent Air a shell, hot the
work host se people had moment one, nod he was emit pelted to fetch
one himself.)—He hotted a pair of overalls near the body,whielt
emnalord in the pockets IBd. a key, and a comb.
Cottorrea.—" l/otstany person know who the deceased was 1"
Beadle.—"-'so, Sir, but that be lodged at the above house.—
He was a watering-noni.”
The Jury then look a view of the body, and after mature de; v
Invelration they returned their verdict—Accidentally burned to .• I
death. , . I
The deceased wasahont 40 years of age, and a single aria,—
He was well knows in the ueighbourbood by the appettatimier
Coburg, and got his livelihood by -attending hackney-roaches.
An Inquest was held tin Tbatsday, at the Queen's Head:
Lower Islington, me the body of angler. who was found burst
so death on a IsrlckJtiiii. in Islington. The deceased had hens
s•en lying about the brick-kilns for some time, having no lodg-
ings. Ott Saturday night Mr. Ethode;s foreman saw the &le
teased and another man lying near the kiln, and told them their ..
danger; vs hen they mid they had no place to go so. lie them
gave them into the custody of a constable, hut after be, at lose
fury returned. Ott the following morning the ateMfsi was
fins. d dead, %sigh his body much scorched. There wimiledlimi
fund in the pocks-sof the deceased, but in his hat was fri
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enire, passeetv, which he had prepared for elstieg Ve . .
I The dere:wed died from suffocation and horning, iu coosequeotel .
Ise sleeping en a brick-kiln.
' 'Ehtirsday, on - limitest woe hold at Clerkenwelf Workbentbi •
on the body of Win. Wellebough. a peeper, who was habil', •
falling from the first door window on Wednesday mornings—.
It appeared from the evidence of another pauper in she house.
that the deceust.d. who oas about 70 yean orage, was ordered
to clean the *skidoos, because he had been a insister, and was
at-co-turned to the draping of windows. The window sill is
abbot six inches hi gherthanthe leadeltail iiltik in the act of lifting
op the sash, he loss hi. hold, Had fell knekward; be tumbled off
the lead, in.() she street, ;sad was killed upon the spot. Verdict
—Agebtlental Death.
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Wednesday night. the Moiler of Mr. Mods
Fog ill • Lanthetli.road, was broke open, and
rabbit' of a' oarietrof drawing utensils. and oboist
in sifrer; which wstrkltitntSitseirin a' writing-dealt.
The Barite oigitt tttw boast arlift: Pottinzer, of Lim-
beth4o-td: eis.liti.k* opts', add plandeiitt of 671. 111
MIK of FAVAlitni Notes. •

• 11141),,
Early on the 14 iesti,ot his hoyiat,in Lower Grorreaonstreett
Ante. the tvito cif-C. Bantliedtl, Eq. 14. D.
&fall* "Mt Sept'. With, lieneakeurireateerbuiltlings, Lettdow
wall, qtr. Tomikltm, 1#06.5.
On the 21th Mri.t, at Tunbridge-wells, Elisabeth, the wife d
J. Bator., I.sci. of Lyme.

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