The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-03-31 00:00:00

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went on undermining, The nail to get it down a% ,„, •
possible. Every passible effort was made, the laoLuttl
all killed in an inseam, anti were not got nut till rler(n
o'clock. Witness haying eseapeti from the danger, ~,
so affected that he %l as unable to know any tinny far,
thee of what passed. At the time of the accident h„
saw the walls falling, anti called to ?Ir. Windenutile to
come awaY; hitt he turned round to save his horse ar.d.
cart, and if he had not done so, he would have had t,,e
to
get away, a, wituess, silo) was close lb him, urea
his life by running away. lie had seen Thomas st,•
phew,. undermining the wall, and nitness cant:oned him
against doing so.
(Inc of the Jurymen now expressed his hope that this
'Tooling affair would in future el crate as
against the practice of suffering men to rill down oy
bniklings in the way of job-work, by which their In,.
were continually iti'danger of being sacritired. ET,„%.
temptation in (lie way of profit, which was likely to ,s.
danger human life, ought to he carefully avoided.
li r. Mann, iti the most feeling manner, and with t,,,,,
in his eves, declared that no one could be more sorry;,,.
what happened than he was ; and that he had gi‘,E
every caution in his power to warn the unfortunate ten
of tie clanger to which they had exposed theln.e!lt,
He said the wall was very thick, anti that the tali;!:
down from the top would have been a tedious pr.. ~
A glisriva,,jon now took place as to the nett...,
hoaring farther evidence respecting the cane o. !I,
death of the deceased. tine of the Jurymen spulo tol $
i hating seen the 'bodies taken out of the ruins. 'Net,.
botrevrotbought it might be as well to have tom
further evidence.

Alieharl Geraghty was therefore called. He said ht
had been a workman at the building, was one of t!.
party who had the job. and knew the three men Ow
were killed; he escaped with some others. The ts mit
they underntined the wall was, that they could not,
down until they had taken some bricks from the l;tton
of it. Mr. 3lann cautioned them against undertuiainc
the wall, but Tom Stephens would persist in tally;
away the foundation ; and just as the stall was
Mr..llann cried out —" ion are all dead men," and 17. e
ran away. %%Ito, ss hail a narrow escarp of his life, and
to show the danger he hail been in, he exhibited a se-
vere %rusted which lie received in his belly. When tEr
unfortunate turn o cre c out of the ruins, they were ai,
broiutil to pieces, their heads and limbs were bro;,er.;
and the entrails of ICindeumde were torn out. Witch,
saw thew all taken out of the ruins quite dead. He was
sure the death nas accidental. On qnestioas bein: fur-
ther put to witness, lie declared that Slr. Han %rent
and took a pickaxe it out one of the men who wererLder-
asinine, the wall. i order to prevent him from tie az-
erous work he was g.)i ag on with.
This wit 1ie.... altlisittch he could neither read or write,
gave his evidence it id' so snitch clearness and eadoi-.7,
that all the lienticinen of the Jury, considering tt
wound he hail receives!, and his decent. bsbaviocr, pat
down a shilling a piece for his relief.
The Jury briulr now atisfietl with the statement of
the facts given in evidence, found a verdict of "Acciden-
tal Death," with a deutlaud of one ;billing against the
owner of the wall.

APPIREUCISStON OP A DARING OANS or ROAIIIII.
The neighbourhood of Iladleigh, in Suffolk, her*
been for sows. time hack infested with unknown depre-
dators, who were in the practice of committing nightie
robberies, a communication to that effect sees received
by Mr. Birnie from the inhabitants of tlo
despatched Salmon the °thereto the spot, iw
whose active exertions and ingenuity a pax of far
villains was discovered and apprehended, one of nisi
has turned king's evidence. They have been contudvel
to Bury gaol, and the neighbourhood has been oaths-
turbed since their apprehension. Their names an
rely*, Mean, Simpson, and liaskit.