The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-18 00:00:00

ADJOURNED INQURST ON JIR. SLADE.


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limllesiat, at two o'clock, the hey *et aecordiog
to aliansagest, at the house of Mr. Fountain, the
fdarqueenel Granby, in Percy-street, Rathbone-place,
to resume their inquiry into the circumstances which
led to the melancholy death of the above gentleman.
The first witness examined was a gentleman named
T. R. Este. residing in Portman-place, who stated.
that shoot nine o'clock on the 29th of No'rember, as
he was passing through the Edgeware-road, he saw
two females, apparently women of the tows, looking
at some jewellery in a shop windoeLL be bad scarcely
passed by when. he again saw 'them roaming towards
a stage coach, the driver, of which wag gin his box,
and invited them to get tantalum a ride which they
they did. The man the y rapidly till be
passed through the tollindiklmiihea he drove still
more furiously. In a few ihttintiro he (witness) heard
shrieks and screaming, and, conceiving that as accident
hed.happosed he run back, nod the first person be met
told bint•tite Sego had overtnensal. Some little dis-
tance on he saw enraird of twenty or thirty persons;
amongst them be noticed one of the prostitutes that
rode with the driver; she was covered with mud and
appeared to be fainting, he should conceive she must
have been -seriously injured. `Another woman came
up, and was much disfigured, she seemed also to be
labouring under considerable agitation. A few yards
on laid the deceased, coffered with dirt and bleeding.
Witness asked him if he was much hurt. and be com-
plained that lii. bead and body bad been much hurt.
Witness and some other persons lifted him ap, and
carried him to a gentleman's house adjoining. A
surgeon was sent for, and a gentleman, au assistant to
Mr. lityan, soon af.erwards attired, and dressed the
deceased's moulds. Witness, its soon as he could,
proceeded to the stage-coach, and saw " Notting-hill"
on it, bat before he could take the name, the coach-
man mounted the box and drove off. He could not
,iee the exact colour of the coach body. There were
lamps along one side of the road, and witness' was
perfectly sure that if be was driving the coach lie
could have seen the deceased's chaise. The coach-
man's language was very offensive, and he certainly
considered his manner of driving to be very reprehen-
sible; but it was nothing noire, speaking generally,
than all the coachmen on that road were in the daily
habit of doing.
A Juryman here suggested that Thomas Stratford,
the person who was supposed to have driven the coach,
on the night of the accident, was in attendance to give
evident*: but
The Coroner declined calling him, lest he might
be criininated, and he could not legally be examined.
Richard Saunders, of the Edgware-road, wheel-
wright, was alarmed by a noise in the street, and on
going out saw a horse rush by, dragging the frag-
ments of a chaise at his heels. The deceased was
then lying against the railings, and, in answer to wit-
ness's enquiries. he said he was very much hurt, and
that he feared hit leg was broken. He said be was
buckling the belly-band of his horse at the time, and
that he called out to the coachman to take care, but
be paid no heed to the caution, and ran him down.
The stage was one of the Bayswater coaches, and the
tnah whi drove it was not the regular driver; the wo-
men call him by the name Of " Tom," and witness is
sure he should know him again. There was light
enough for him to see, and room to pass Mr. Slade
without touching either him or his gig.
Mr; Appleton (a Juror)—The road is 14 yards wide,
and six carriages could easily pass abreast; on this
occasion Mr. Slade's chaise and the stage were the
only vehicles on the road.
- Charles Reeves, a watchman, saw two women on the
box ; their names are Sarah Dixon, and Carty.—
He had no doubt but he could find them immediately.
Coroner—Well, then, my chaise is down below,
take that, and bring the ladies here at once.
A summons was granted for them, and the watchman
deputed to serve it.
The witness Saunders re-examined:—He had been
down stairs to see the persons in waiting, and the man
pointed out to him by the name of Thomas Stratford,
was the same whom i.e saw with the coach ou the
night of the accident.
There being no more witnesses at this period of the
inquiry, the Jury and Mr. Davis, one of the assignees.
under Kinner's bankruptcy, held a long consultation
respecting the owners of the coach.
At the request of the Jury, Thomas Stratford was
called, and being informed by the Coroner of the situa-
tion in which lie stood, was asked if lie bad any objec-
tion to be sworn? He replied in the negative. lie
then stated that he sometin;es drove the coach from
Nutting ; lie did not know who the owner of the
coach was; but the name upon it was " Samuel Kin-
ner, of Kensington."
CORON ER.—l am rather shy of asking you any fur-
ther questions, nor need you say any thing more sin-
less you like.
Stretford-1 have nothing more to say, Sisi. only .I
was not the cause of the accident.
Conoteea.—Who was then?
Ansteee.—Why, I don't know; it was miserably
dark and foggy.
Ile then proceeded to state that lie gave the two
women a ride, but the men who were with him were
passengers. However, he subsequently admitted that
these persons also rode for nothing, he having given
them "a lift," from the Bank, and he afterwards de-
clared that the women were passengers too, and very
fiequcntiy rode with him, although in the first in-
stance he was understood to say the contrary. He was
afterwards asked who employed ind paid him? To
the former he answered Mr. Kinners, and with regard
to the latter, be declared that he never received any
wages at all.
Mr. Jonathan Wood, landlord of the Star and
ter, in the Edgware-road, stated, that on the evening
,pn question, Thome Stratford, and another coachman
whose name be believed to be Calvert, called at his
house and had something to drink ; they were then
suite i.
Mr. Rovenell, who keeps the Yorkshire Stingo,
proved that on the night of the accidents Stratford
called at his house; he then drove Kinner's Notting
Hill coach. and he appeared sober.
It was now announced that the officers who had
,been sent for the women had arrived with one of
them. She was accordingly iotroduced and sworn.
tier name she said was Caroline Johnson ; her resi-
dence-was in Lissou-green till' eveiiing whet' 'lr.
!BA& was killed she was waling along the Elsware-

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road, and at the Stu aUd.Ba darter pablie-hat"
Bayswater roach, * whieli Thomas Suit • she got up without bei•ig. asked by the 411 feet, Ifeeanse she wanted to go to Rayittlin
pfteenter. On going through the toll-gitt ,
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got down to do something to the cots
the reins,and on his getting ap again,
dentally dropped the reins, the horses phbigel
ward, ind itefiire the driver could get hog 4
again the chaise was upset, and he was oireiti
box. nifty. was a chaise, bat witness dfijiii
until site was thrown off' the coach. •
Crospexamined—She went home atereui;;
only objict in going to Bayswater
ins kt,..l
place, baring never seen it before i she. woo ;1
shilling for ter ride, and was satis6wil resat
by dark; 1
.was quite sober, but laird semi
..stop," for did I see any chaise or
gig ; lewt:
with that coachman before, and ham e
sat leti since; if Ihe had said I was a regular , I
often rode on his coach, it would set he kw,
known the man two mouths ; a female imam's,
Dixon rode with her.
Mr. R. C. Griffith, of Totted...cow/lad
geon, stated that the deceased recahq ,
jury on the knee joint, and also

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died from the sleets sof his.womeds
Verdict—" That Thomas Stretford is
nal
Manslaughter--that.the coach and two horspeog
property of Samuel 114iiiaer, sod are of the tkie-
-40/. are deoeland, and are now in they •
Charles Corder, lioertArsper, of Charlotte-Imm,
land-place, Saint 31ary4e•bone."
ACCIDENTS Dv FIRE.--Two children of tip
of Booth and Leigh, were accidentally belled
from the raiment of each taking fire, in the'
of their respective parents at Lanewad mid '
Trent.
During the dinner hour on Ftiday last, same
dren brine at play in a school-room is the Tiger
try, Pilgrtm-street, Newcastle-upon-I'm she
of a little girl about seven years of age, the dangil
of J. Jackson, of the Quay, Masos, ly use se;
were set on fire. She was immediately ems*
dames, and burnt so dreadfully, that she expired •
the night in the infirmary.
On Wednestky, two Coroner's Inquisitim
held at Birmingham by Mr. J. W. Whacky—a
the body of a young girl, between 13 and 14 yen
age, who was dreadfully burnt a fortnight age 4
clothes taking fire whilst leaning over the
she was taken to the General Hospital, elm
tied on Tuesday :—the other was on a gill d
years old, whose death was also oecasiosed 4
clothes taking fire; this poor child had ism Id
its mother with another child, three years old, h
house by themselves, on Sunday last, fur three
and during her absence the neighbours were
by their screams, and the deceased war heed
dames, which were speedily extinguished; tie
lingered in the Hospital in great aguny till T
last, when it died. Verdict—Accidental Death
Sunday afternoon a distressing circarestanee
at the house of Mr. James Ray, liege:geared,
Mrs. Ray, accompanied by her taro children, ru '
in the kitchen, when it appears, teed theta went
perceived by her to a jar of gupowder stasalsgd
by, and by some means which eanothe secosstall
caused it to explode: The shock was so grate
shatter all the doors and windows of the hete
some of the neighbours going into the bonse,Mrs. A
and her two children ware found on the floor speckle

insensible, and dreadfully injured ' • they wen at
in a coach to the London Hospital, where little
are entertained of their recovery.

On Thursday the sth inst. an inquest was WI
Mavis Enderby, before Mr. Mastin, Coroner, o'
of the body of !Joey Day, aged about six yew
was so dreadfully burnt by her clothes talc* k
the absence of her mother, that she lingeliti
about nine hours and then died. The mother
occasion to go to an adjoining parish (Hs
ham) for some tnarketiogs, left the deceased viti
younger children in a room adjoining the est
tire in it, having first taken the precaution Ls*
in, by fastening the door with a string to it
one, which she locked. The little nofottusio
trived to break their prison hare, and Moil
was enveloped in dames, she rift back vigil*.
other room, and partly pat nut the fire by
herself against the bed, which fortunately es
len, or in all probability the bed, together id
house and inmates, would have all beet
she then slipped the bolt of the lock
door, and running across two large closes, a
of a quarter of a mile on the foot road, to ote
mother, and seating herself on a stile in a state d
kedness, waited her approach. The mother, al
sight of her, became alarnted and drew back; kel
gaining courage, advanced to the stile, sod asked
whose child she was, when she replied,
mammy; you must not heat me ; Billy has set of
fire." The feelings of the mother at this moment'
be better conceived than described; is a state bor
ing on distraction, she IA back the little snfferer,
patiently languished during. the abore-mestiosedl
clod, when death closed her sufferings. Veries '
cidentally burnt.

The advantages of a visit to CARROLL'S 00,1
19, Cornhill, and 2G, Oxford•sireet, 6
were Wield
exemplified in the pre,ent (eatery, on file
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8.„.
Day of Drawing, when No. 11.486, a Blaney
of £30.000 Sterling, was soh' by bite in Slot*
is to be hoped that thi4 great success will bell&
up be
willyranotli fierntly close.t3ol,elfon the 30th 00
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MARRIED.
John Nichol!. to Jane Harriot. te.aud 1111
Oa Friday last, at Penriee, 6 Ismorganshire..lol.'
Esq., of Merthyrntawr. only son of the Right 110;
Thontas Mansell Talbot. F...q . of Margant tad I/4
Castle, in the same Conntt . z M
On 'ruesday last, at Ountorton, near Derby..--,
Rristowe, )'sq., of Reesthorp • 1101, twat' Newark,:
and of Twy font, near Derht • 10 N.,,r‘ tone, Melt"
ter of Samuel Fos, Esq., of Oso..stou Ils:I.
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daut:hter alit'

DIED.
At Stapenbill. Derby,Aire. in the 57th .ar i
Joseph Peel. Esq.. late of Bowes Form, Mittel/eat

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