The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-09-29 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken in the
Vestry-ball of St. John's, Horselydown, before Thomas
Shelton, Esq., Coroner for London and Southwark, on
the body of James Allingbam, a feeble old man. whose
death was noticed in our Town-hall Police Report of
yesterday.
Mr. Rees, of Tooley-street, surgeon, said he was
called on Wednesday night to examine the deceased,
whom he found lying on the kitchen floor at Mr. May's,
the sign of the Three Tuns; he was then quite dead.
On examining the head he found a slight wound at the
back of it, which had merely broken the skin, but had
sot bled much ; it could not, in his opinion, have pro-
daced death, as there was no fracture, nor any other
symptom that conk! warrant such a conclusion. He bad
yesterday opened the head, in company with Dr. Bald-
row; on the ventricles of the brain they found a con-
siderable quantity of extravasated blood, which would
produce apoplexy; this extravasation, he conceived was
caused by the fall.
Dr. Baidrew, of Bermondsey-street, confirmed the
evidence of Mr. Rees, in its most material parts, and
concurred in the professional opinion given by that
gentleman.
The Coroner summed up the evidence, making suita-
ble comments, and the Jury, after a short deliberation,
returned a verdict of Manslaughter against John Lam-
bert. Mr. Shelton immediately issued his warrant
for his detention. The wife of the prisoner is almost
distracted.
Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken at the
Queen's Head, Lower-street, Islington, before Thomas
Stirling, Esq., Coroner, on view of the body of John
Irwin, aged 2S, who destroyed himself by cutting his
throat with a razor.
Mr. William White, residing at No. 2, Lower Smith-
street, Northampton-square, deposed, that on Wednes-
day morning about 1 o'clock, he was passing along the
New River, near the Green-lanes, Newington, when he
was told by a young man whom lie met that there were
the clothes of a man lying on the grass i th.y looked
about, but saw no person, and after waiting a quarter
of an hour, took the clothes to the toll-house in the
road, and on searching the pockets found some baker's
bills, due to Mr. Guinan, a baker, of Barbican. Wit-
ness left the clothes at the gate, and proceeded to Bar-
bican. He returned to the river to procure the drags
to search for the body, when he was told by two persons
who were fishing, that the deceased had been found with
his throat cut in a ditch.
Mr. Robert Guillan, a baker, residing at 26, Barbican,
and with whom the deceased had been employed for t 4
years, attended, and gave him a most excellent charac-
ter for honesty, &c. He considered the cause of the
rash act to be owing to the inconstancy of a female
to whom the deceased was about to be united.—Verdict,
lasaaity.
UREA Dna. ACDIDENT.—An inquest Peas hell at the
sign of the Worcester Arms, George-street, Portman-
squire, before T. Stirling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of
Air. Win. Ridett, aged 66, a gentleman of property. It
appeared in evidence that the deceased, who had taken
a place in one of the-Paddington stage coaches, on Sa-
turday last, was sitting on the top of the coach, prior to
its driving off from Tottenham Court-road. While the
coach was standing_ at the side of the road, and the
coactimlin was assisting an elderly lady on the dickey,
one of the horses, a spirited animal, took fright at some-
thing or other, and it started off with great speed along
the road, till at length the wheel came in contact with a'
post at the corner of a street, and the force threw the
deceased from the roof of the coach, into the road, by
which be was dreadfully injured, and expired soon after.
The lady whom the coachman was assisting on the
coach, was also injured, but not dangerously. The Jury
retnrned a verdict of Accidental Death. No blame be-
ing attributed to any party, it was requested that the pro-
prietor would get rid of the horse.