The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-28 00:00:00

lifour OF OPENING DEAD BODIES.
On Thursday night anThlargoisitiou was taken in the
eemmitfre room at St. Thomas's Hospital, before Mr.
Clarke, depety Coroner for the• City of London, to inquire
Into the cause of the death of Elisa Neale. a child 7 years
ald, who, it appeared in evidence. had been brought
fete Vie hospital on Tuesday week, in consequence of
being scalded in the absence of her mother, by overturning
an herself a tea kettle of boiling water.
• Mr. Thos. Thorne, one of the dressers at the Hospital,
attended the deceased. She was shockingly scalded on her
bask.and both arms and legs. Tbe usual applications is such
gams were made. The third day after she was brought in,
as eruption of the measles appeared or. the skin; but ot soon
afterwards disappeared. There were also symptoms of
inflammation on the lungs, till her death. which happened
onluesoday morning.
CORONER—Can you account which of those causes occa-
sioned death? No, Sir, I cannot.
Columns—Are you competent to know the cause ?—I am
not, unless I was permitted to examine the body. I applied
this morning to the steward, for permission to open it,
and he told me, Mr. Shelton gave orders it should not be
done.
CORONIR.-1 can venture to say, that Mr. Shelton only
meant in such cases where no doubt existed.
Mr. Thorne.—He has nothing to do with the Hospital
till he is sent for to hold an inquest, and he cannot know
our profession. There are many cases where there are no
external marks of violence visible, where internal appear-
ances can be most astonishingly discovered ; and 110 pupil
can give an opinion without he has anatomically examined
the body.
Coacosten.—No person has a right to open a dead body
unless he is authorised by the Coroner and Jury.
Mr. Thorne.—Then, qtr, WIIO are to be the judges ?
Cokowea.—The friends of the deceased person, to he
sure. I speak legally—bat for the good of the profession,
every person who dies should be opened.
The Jury coincided with the Coroner, and gave their
Verdict—Died by the TOPOaIPq.

QUERN SQUARF,—(ruis MORNING.)

A young man named Georg e Cole was brought before I
hlr. %Vulva, the Magistrate, charged by his master, Mr.
Phillips, a wholesale brush manufacturer, in Rochester
Row, Westminster, with robbing him to a very great
extent.
Mr. Phillips stated, that his stock had been of iate
extensively plundered, and although he had tried all
spanner of sehemes to detect the thief, he eeeee succeeded
till %Wednesday last. That afternoon, about 1 o'clock,
the prisoner went out, and was watched by witness. He
follo.red him into Russel Square, when he saw him sit
down oo the step of a door, and take out a parcel, the
contents of which he divided, and then proceeded to the
house of a wan named Bolton, in Glenville Street, Claren-
don Square, Somers Towo. Witness waited some time for
his sowing out, but finding he did not, he went away.—
la the evening he made inquiries of Dolton, who admitted
purchasing three groat and one dose n of tooth brushes of
the prisoner, at a fair price, and that he bad undertaken
to. supply biro with 12 groce more on Monday. On in-
hpeeting the trunk in which he had deposited 5 groce, under
lock and key, be found that 3 groce and a dozen were
sliming. The pr/ son• r mast have taken the key from the
cupboard, unloiked the box, aml after he bad stolen the
brushes, lecked it again, and replaced the key. He was
remanded for further examination.
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.

On Wednesday afternoon the body of a man was found
drowned by *nevi the Ltbooriog men in the Golden Lane
Bowery, in a large cooler. which stood in a dark corner
ef the brewbouse. The body appeared in such a putrid
ifs* that It was wome time before it could he identified,
partieniarly as it was ndt'known that any person about the
establishment was missing. At length it was recognised
te be the body of Mr.T.Yeates, a publican who had retired
from bovine's, and resided is private lodgings en Saffron
Hill, and who had 'been missing for nearly a fortnight,
about which time be called at the brewhonse on some
loftiness, abd asked one of-the men the wry to the privy;
is going to which fris supposed he stumbled and fell into
the cooler, as be bas not beets seen since thst day.
CORONER'S INQUEST ix TIM Alton CAS E.-(TH IS MORNING.)
An inquisition was taken before Mr. Unietiv, Coroner,
at the Cherry Tree, Whitecross Street, St. Luke's, on view
of the body.
The first witness examined was John Ballard, who,
blies sworn, deposed, be was an engineer in the Golden
Lase Brewery. The brewing was being commenced on
Tuesday morning .last, about three o'clock. and he went
Wes that there 11119 sofficieot water in the tank ; when he
dheevered the deceased standing in it, 'canine against
the pipe, which led tan the main; and with assistance he
took him out; but be was dead. He thinks the deceased
died from having fallen into the taok, which was seven feet
-deep, and the edge of it on a level with the door. He drew
the water from it on the morning of the preceding Wed.
sesday, and little,if any, remained at the bottom, and none,
Ishii knowledge, had bees admitted ioto it from that day
till the deceased was found ; the deceased was quite a
straager to witness.
Clarks Prince deposed, be worked in the same brewery,
with last uitness. He has seenthe deceased several times;
hued to come to the brewery to look for work ; but'
Myer got any. The last time he saw him, was on last
Wednesday week, about 20 minutes past five o'clock. The
diseased was then talking'to him in the store house, and
asked him the way to the privy, which witness pointed out
is him, sad be went lathe direction of it. In his way to
it, be bad to pass close to the tank, and it is witness's
'vision that lie missed his way, and slipped into it. IVit-
sess's acquaintance with the deceased was very slight ; bat
he believed be had no regular employment, and that he
lodged at some public house' in Bloomsbury. There is'
ever, reason to believe, that he had been in the tank from
die Wednesday until the Tuesday following, when he was
• foetid dead.
The Coroner and Jury expressed some doubt bow it was
risible that the deceased could be found standing on his
egs in the tank, if be had been killed by falling in ; bot
the general conclusion at length drawn was, that he bad
struggled to get out after be fell in, but was overpowered,
log suffocated by the nauseous vapour contained in the
tlik. Verdict—" Accidental Death."