On Saturday an inquest wa...
The Times, 1824-09-28T00:00:00

OCn Saturdlay an inquest was hield at the Noah's Ark, Deptford on the body of M1 rs. Lydia Hanson, wife of Hr. Hanlon, of No. 9, Bloomilelds, Depiford: Fanny Ilarrison, wife of Ricnard F7.arrison, dep3sed that on'Tucsday evening last the witnces ctlled to recelrc thc amount of a stmIall bill ; she told witness that she wished1 to die, and she thouglit she sho,ld di e; she talked and tcted like a woMan dleranged; the witness left her, and did not see lier alivce afterwards. WVhile the witness was that evening standing at her own loor, the deceased' (husband passed her to go home. A man named Brog(den stated, that early on Wednesday morning he heard that the body of a womian was supposed to hc in the water at the tail of the Tide-mill, Clhurcih-street, DeptFord ; he went there, and assistetl by others, found it on the floor of the wvater-course next the main mill ; he took it out, an,l conveyed it to a neighbouring public house; the deceasedt's bonnet, shawl, cloak, and clogs, together with1 a piec of plaper, had been previousty found on the land near the water. The paper above alluoted to wa.i the envelope ot a letter, hiving at the back her own address, " Mrs. Hanson, No. 9, Bluom- fields, Dleptford." It contained a great deal of deceased's writ. ing, but in sucd a style as evidently proved that she was labourirng under a perturbed state of nmind. It contained many broken sen- tences. suel as the fbllowing:-" The boily that belongs to this in the wvater through distress of m. hiLn, caused bv Alarv."-" Mly muind is hurt beyond what I can describc." " I cannot iivc." *' oh, mv nmintl ()Oh, my headt nmy heart is broke !"-I' DIust die-forgive all." The person named .Mary allnded to was a favotirite sister, whso diect some time aio, and whose death preyetl heavily ott the tie- ccasted's mind. Harriet White proved that shc laid the hotly out and examnine,i it, but toundn no miarks o1 violence on her person. In her pocket was found a silk pirse, containinir a sovereign, tlhrce shillings, anti a 5s. 3d. gold coin. Verdict-" That the deceased drowned hergelf while labouring ttn(ler tenipormry mn1ctal derangentent." (CoitosEats lsso .ti- An Inquest was held yesterday before M.1r. HImGGS, Coroner for Westminster, at the Red Lioti, Crowsi-court, Pall-mall, on the bhody of George Si:vester .Janses Dimioline, of 34. Villiers strect, Strand, daposed-Yesterdav alter- nolon, alo.out three o'clock, I was walking in the Mlall in Sr. Jamics's Park, and was inforited b)y seome boys thatt the decease(d was in the water. I undressedi, and divr(i hi. andi sicceede(l in getling hitil outt. Many people atsscmjblcd, a blanket was iprncuret. and the deccaseti was carrieti to tilC Suttliig.house. St. James's Palacec. t was churcl- tiUUie. and the house was closed. The landiort was toldi wh:t hald taltet place, ant, though animnation was suisplended, that if ttteens were used, tite riccelsed might be restore(l. TI'c landlord replie-l_ " that his was not a public-house, anti lie wouti(l not receive the body, anti we mniglht do our best and our wnrst." The crowd tola him the object we lhad in view was to save the life of thc deccased ; buL he lau1ghed at us. Titue waslosttrrtihug with him, autl we finally took the ileccascdtothishoutse. dMr..j. Marshall, 5' .lermin-stretsaisle was called to see the deccased,antl useti iseans Ior thrrec qclirters ofan htu r to recover him; and lie msiglht have cbees estoresi hadl tint so tuch tine becn previou%ly lost by his being carried from one public house to anotler. The bodly hail been out of the water half anli hour before witness was called in. The Jnrv, after some observations tIpOiI titC condutict of the keeper of tihe SUtttHi9-ltouse, returned a vcrdict_A.c identttall drttnedd, anti requestcs the (Coroner to write to the Boarsi of Green Cloth, by whotim the SUttlisg- OaHsC is liceisseti, to isforni the thc Board of thle conduct of tlie keeper of the house, ansi ol thicir reprobation of it. The Coroner saidl, that as every mi. nuite was of the greatest consertttciice a' such a time, hie thowght the ltnilord evas vety bluinable in refuising to tidmit tile boy itito ilis hiotise. andi promised to cotmlply with the wisheat ottlhe Jury. Pa ;i Ai.'E CoNVt-tc-s-Tlto Grenudit at(d tiZ?ro/ now lyihtlu off F Wonlsich, are expected to sail it the cotirse of this week for New Sothi WViales, witi female conicts, of witilt there arc 10 on board the two vessels. Tlie vessels adso take out some frec settlers, as passengers. Wille the convicts have bett itt 1iVoolwiich, they hiave hecei fruisutently visiteti by sonmc respectutble ittitlers of the Society of Frienila. Otr Sutlay, DI r. andi11 rs. Prvnr, of' Grace- eltsireh-strcect, a young lasly of the naner nf l3cinct, and Mr. Baker, well knotwn for Iiis alteotion to prisonets in Neivgate ut(lcr cotl- demnation, went on boaril the (Grewitdo. Their object was to clistri. huite lbies, svith bwhich they lIasl be-n stippled by the British atnd Foreign Bible Society, to tht conei cts. Wllqctn thcy wverc assettlmbcrl bc- low, each conlvict was presented with a Biblie, i which her tutmlle had beenpreviously written. lr. Pryoe tien brieflyatitiressl the conlicts on the inestitnable gift thev had just receivetl. lic ias tollowed by tMr. Baker, who spote to tctm at sonic lIngtli on the neccsily ot tiheir arleigirus rlu ties. lIe al so rcsd a Irtrer froimt on, of tiheit fellow pri. is)ners in NPewgate, of the nalise of Alargaret Sttiart in wvhich SiCe earnestly entreatedi them to read their Bibles, anti a-oid r ll quarrel. ing v.nd suite. Alrs. Pryor next atliltes:ied the convicts to enrms whiichi were calculated to aFtcct theii, anid several, indeed, wrre irn tears doising the time she svas speaking. iler. Cut1tuiftthta,t1, thte surg;olt, ol' wiiose kitdrics and attention the convicts secnued dttlv sensible, wtll, we wlldcistsald reccive copies of' iMargaret Stuart's lettcr anti an address read to titetim by M rs. Pryor, which will occa- sienally bc read to thc convicts sIturinig the votyage. The convicts, who are principally under :30 years of age, were all ciceently dresses, and the accommodationss on board are of tihe mos! liberal thiarnecter; the allowatce of wholesome tbod is uniple, and the convitos have mote soonm in their sleeping births than is slloue.i in ship3 rf war. NVe understandi the convicts hasi !cen stupplied sith presents of clothes, need]es, thresl, &c. bvy1r. and Mllrs. Pryor.-Evcuitzngp rper. It will be itl the recoilectiost of oukr rcafrhs, that in 31 av lat, a person calling hIimselt' .Joh,t f-r,ich F'oly was tietalitltid tit Exeter, oo Suspicion of hlving effetcd a fotgery, by which ;\lessre. Carme anid Co., bankers, at Fahioutih, woultd have bncn considcrable orcrs, bitt who was set at libertv on his leaving the iamout"i (3,7001.) in the liansisofa respectable soliritor in that city, to be retuttteti if the transactions should prove to be correct. The bi'lls viere ounti to be forged, bitt they wvere exceedingly well execute(L. It m-ay also he rccollected, titat in the latter part of *Jtly, a man calling himtelf Protuciss BRrke was detainesi at Dublin. and finallv committed to Newgate there, for having attempted t) tiegotiate foiged bills to a considerable atnount. fi'oley anti Burkc psove to be tile Sdale per. soti ; untler the latttr name the prisoner was arraignei itt tte la'te general gaol deiivery for Dablint. atn.. havingpleadedl " gutilty," sent. tenre ot' death was recorded agaihist him.- est Ii //ies. Several changes in the inames of pi-ices are conitctrtplated in the. virinity of Finsbury-square. OMl Bethlens is already trans. fornlGcd to Livcrpool-street, to the no snmall inconveilience of itany of' its inhabitants vwho have connexions at a distance not appriseti of' the change. Brokers'.tow, oni the east side ofwvhat was i norticlds, wthere the nuisance frotti ihat are temieri the " barkers" dragging passetigers into the firstiture sliops contiisttes unabattesi, is alte,ed to Rlooinfeld,street this change the latter gentry atre displeased j Wlt_t.heysieeittre the new title is itn no degree indica.tive of t'teir busIness, and very inappropriate, since ! oorlichli disaispeared. The nes square aintl buildi ngs surrosntling the London Institutlion will, it is rernoored, be n ansed after certain slistinguished person- ages: and I,ondon.wall and several adjacent anrcient strcets be newly cbrttiteoe4l wit'i coisttly appellstIotts.