The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-15 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

An inquest was held on Tuesday evening at the
Monster Tavern, Willow Walk, Chelsea, on the bete
of James Mathews aged ten years, the son of Mr.
thews, of St. George's•row.
The deceased went to echo:4 at en academy is St.
Gawp's, Hanover•square, and was tiarre frequently is
the habit of amnsing his school-fellows, by swalloving
a small piece of slate pencil tied to a string, and after-
wards drawing it op again, is imitatiou,a • he said, at
what he bad seen performed by the ladles Jugglers,
in swallowing a sword. Oa the last aeration he evil.
lowed the pencil, and his master happening to approach
him, he was so terrified, that drawing it op them].
low in great haste, and with considertlAe flee', the
pencil crossed' in his throat, and a serious injury was
occasioned. •

Dr. Pisiterton James, physician lo St. Geor;;ets
firmary, was sworn. and stated that t!s • deceased was
brought under his care ec the Gth instant; be had
swallowed a piece of slate peccil near a week preview.
His throat was swelled externally, and he experienced
great difficulty in breathing, Leeches and a blisterwere
applied. On the following ilsy he diel Mr. Heir-
ship a surgeon opened the throat in his presence, ani
au abscess was found to have been form. .1 behind the
swallow, which, by pressing against the wind. pipe lad
produced suffocation, and caused death.-•-!Wilictr
fvonksateciio • pee i#ol44As
.t.ocaasiaod portly •yalle •

swallowing a slate
pencil.
Last night an ;wiriest which bad been twice ad) r'l7•
ed, touching the death of James Blurty, who dirdoa
Friday last in St. Bartholomew's ilastdtal, in tome.
quence of wonnds he received in an affray with a um
aimed Gently, last Saturday sight three week., at tbi
Cooper's Arms, West Smithfield, was resumed before
T. Shelton, Esq. and a most respectable Jury, in tls
Committee-room, at the Hospital.
About thirty witnesses were ecarnined, the :n3:c-
tky of whom stated that some animosity existed be.
tweed the deceased and Gantley : that they had fortg:4
before the night of the fatal affray at the Cooper's
Arms alone, and havingmet there on that nigh?,
oboe Healey, who was in co.r.pany with the dereasa,
advised him to go away, which he was proceedi4 t
do, but that '.iantly intercepted him in the palliate and
struck him, and that wean named Cline.hell
his hand whilst Gamily kept hewing him about AA
bead, and another -man named Thomas Coyne kept the
people away, and prevented them giving any asei.:-
ance to the deceased, till he was covered all over ri re
blood from numerous wounds on his head, and erh a
they let go their hold he fell, and whilst down was
kicked by Clines.' Some of the witnesses swore that
Gently had some instrument with which he woulda
the deceased. Others swore they bad not seen aPy
such instrument; that it was a fair battle, and
Clines and Coyne only kep. an open space for tl.eus
sight, but never touched the decease 1.
,lr. Wheeler, the horse sur4eor, sai I e e de-rased
had ten wounds upon the heal; .any," n'. re a:: inek
long and three quarters of an inch deep, but the chief
wound, which was on the left side of the forehead, 10-
netrated to the scull. Ile could not discover any fete-
tore ; he thought inch wounds nnizlit be produced by
a man's fist, and had no doubt bat the internal ir.':nry
was the cause of his death.

The Jury found • verdict oLlitilfal Murder agei".t
Gently, and a Verdict, of Manslaughter against Ciitss
and Coyne.
Au inquest was Leld yesterday, at tits Louse of .Ir.
Mason (the Crown, is [deb-street, Red Lion-squat)
on view of lierh:•rt Brace, Esq., an eldetly enamor,
wbo put a period to Lis existence by banging hints/ i
in the house of Mr. Birch. coal mere%ant, No. 7, is
that street. It appeared that the deceased, who bad a
house io Brighton, came to town, a few days a‘ps, a
visit to Lis brother, who lod:es in the house a Mr.
Birch, auti, since his arrival in town, he ext.ibiA
signs of mental derangement. Ou Nionday mornicg, not
eoming doyen stairs to brsakfast, his brother ar.d thu ser-
vant mail rep sired t t his town, to know if 1;e te.ts
well, And there found Lim, suspended by a Is:narr•
chief and shawl from the bed tester, quite dead a:.l
cold, having apparently hung for several Lours. T;,e
Jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict
that he came to Lis death by hanging himself: being
at the time in a state of temporary mental derani:t•
meat.

DIED.
On the 13th instant, at Emanate, Amelia, eldest da.),;Wer
of Charles biliadbolt, Esq. of Wa!worth.
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