New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-27
CORONERS INQUEST on Mr.. NEVILl
Before Coroner HASFoRD and Jury.


SECOND DAY.
The INQUEST TO inquire into the death of Mr.. Neville
was resumed yesterday forenoon at 10 o'clock at the
Henry Clay House, corner Of South Seventh street
and Durham place.
Rcrnard Lsuinston sworn-I reside a: the corner of
Nineteenth street and Third avenue, Brooklyn on
Satuldas morbiIg at u O'Clock, went do gn to the
shore of Gowanut Bay 10 look for freTood, aud saTa
dead body lying on The shore between Nineteenth and
Twentieth sreets went home and told my wife; went
ont Of the house and Officer Van Nostrand stand,
Jig near by, the Third avenuei told Van NosTsnc
that | bao fOurd dead body, and we boh went TO
the shore; he told me the body mus he lett there
without ouchBg; be then told me could make MY
cents hy going 10 Coroner Benefits; | went and told
Coroner BeLneu about the body; the coroner too me
to 90 home Gin and be where the body was when ne
came down on returning, the officer aske me wnen
the Coroner was coming and if he paid me the nifty
cents: said be had not paid me but would when he
came down 70 hold the Inquest then went hons 70
Get nv breakfast, and when had been there lev
mir uies Officer ' an Nosu and cane TO my house and
BANGED fifty cents To my wife; after breakfast wen!
down a. and found that the oy 50 been removed
about three yNds from where found 1t; toe Coroner
came from the City Hal and took possession OF the
body. the body was laying fsce downward IN me
water wheI first It, in sbouitso ioches of water
did not touch the body myself when returned from
notifying the Coroner the body was laying face up
raro; Oihctr Nan Nsrand was with the body alone
when went after Coroner Bennett; was aoseAi 'ef
him about tive hours.
Dr. Erntet kracko~iZer, sworn-l am Physician
s1d .Irseon, made post norton ex.minauon on
the booy Of Edward Neville at the dead,house on tae
sam inst; he body WAS in very good state OF pre-
,eIva,ion the limbs were phable, no dislo anon o.
An, part; utre no marx Of violence on the skin;
hs Ain OIL the chest and the upper part OF ne s.osch
wa, slightly discolored from decomposition; there
wss loss of subsarce on the cad aud back OF oo'n
banda The loss of substance on each hand was soout
eousI psrt of the sipews were wanting those parts OF
,bs sHews that were left looked as II torn the nrst
Joint Of the middle finger OF the night hsni iay
I r tha fnfpf "
edges Of the kin surrounding the loss OF substance
were sharp the cutice of the skin OF the lace was
mc.tly pealed of; the color OF he SKIN was o.
brownh red with different irregular bruises or lndents
tiops; there nothing lef. OF the nose beside me
cartilsges hanging loosely on the nasal bones zoe
| nasal boxes bare bu. intact the eyehds were IN
Great part preserved the eyeb Ais were parity DC
siroyed; the lower jaw moved in its joints, not broken;
the guns AID the cuticls OF the bones OF the upper
and lower jsvs were wanting the teeth were loose
,hers were two front teeth in the upper jaw wanting
The .d,es of the cells Of the teeth were intact the
csIn vas zone from the whole forehead and the front
Of tbe bone YVES bare the waist Of the scalp was hang