Yesterday afternoon as in...
The Times, 1824-07-27T00:00:00

Yesterday afternoonr azi inquest was held at the Queen's Armns, StfJames's-street, on the body of.MaryAnn Rogers, wizeofMASr Rogers, fishmonger, of No. 4, Little King-street, SL Jamzes's..- ArL John Piatt, et ,ittle King.-ureee, deposed, that he knew the deceased, who appezsred to be nerly fifty years of age. Yesterday morning, between eight and nine o'do^k, Mr. Rogers called on the witne,S, .saying, he was lees-t) sozething was the matter with his wife, for he had sent two or three times up to her room-door, and cotlId tiot obtain an answer. WVitness accordingly went with hint, and on going eP stairs with M r. Rogers, they found the bed-room door locked. 'WVitness broke it open, and discoveredthe deceased hangingelose to the door. iMe did not tut her down, but ran in- stantly for Afr. Roe, a surgeon. leaving Mtr. Rogers and another per- son tiere. Air. Robert Matthews, residing a Air. Rogers's house, stated that he was present when the last witness broke open the door, and saw the deceased hanging. She was suspended with a piece of cord fastenedl to a nail, at tached to the bzelU.wire. The bell reached into her room, and in order to prerent the bell from ringing, she had muzzled it with Iter garters, When witness found her, she was Rartly lying on the floor, her head being suspended to the rope, Sht was quite dead, biut aot cold, and appeared to have died frohn strangulation. WVitness cuit her down instantly. WiVmess saw the deceased on Sundlay evening, and she appeared in good health, and seemed on good terins with her husband and the other inmates in the house. All the windows in the house were tfstened, and wit- ness was of opinion she must have cominitted the act herself. lMr. Gsodfrey Tegetmeir, surgeon, of No. 6, Great Ryder-street, stated, that he had been in the habit of attending the deceased, whlo was labouring under a considerable depresmion of mind, but how caused he could not tell. The jury returned a verdict-" That the deceas- ed committed the act while labouring under temporary menta' de. rangemtent." Otir account of the fire in Chancery-lane was incorrect, in stating that Mr. Bailey was insured. Last Saturday night, a very daring robbery was com- mitted in the house of a respec1able trader of the namne of Gulston, who is the proprietOr of the Flower Pot nublic-heuse. Brick-Lne, Bethnal-green, betwreen the housrs of 9 aid 12 'clock, at the tin3e a society weze sitting in the front room. The robbers under pre- ttece of bedongiag to the society went up stairs, and in place of gting into the room where the society were sitting, had instruments about thens that forced their *dnission into hlr. Gulston's bed-room, fromn which they took 7S1. in sovereigns, 151. in silver, aud 7L in copper, betide a beeit society's dub-box, containing money, books, andotherarticlesofnroperty to a considerable amoann. Informa. ions have been lodg'ed with the officers of Worship-street palice office. Between II and 12 o'clock on Thursday night, Alr Wil- liant Berridge, of the firm of Hart and Berridge, millwri~hts, re- turning from Wrawby to his residensc at Brigg, Yorkshire, was found wibthn 200 yards Of the XVrawby toll-bar, on the road lead- ing front Barton, nearly lifdees, and instantly expired. He had re- ceivet a pist.ol shot through the head, and was rifled of his money and a silver watch, maker's name, Joseph Ball, and tnarked G. G., with a steel chain and key. The report of the pistol was hearn short- ly before the time when the body was found. He was & very re- spectable man, and bas left wife and six children. We are glad to find, by iuforadtion received this morning(Sqturday), that the per- petrator, or otie of the perpetra ors of this atrocious act, b. been ap. prehended. le Is a chimney-sweeper at Brigg, ef the name of V' e- therill, and a enan of very Indifferent character He had been ob- servedt by some boys cleaning a gun on the day previous to the mur- der, and on being taken into custody, confesstd thaLt he hud loaded the gun, but that another man fired {t. The gun has been found bid in a garden.- Hs"IlRocking7sans. StNGULAB ArTACHssEI!:.-A catt, belonging to. Mr. Al- lison, innkeeper, Bothel, having been a short time since deprved of her kittens, byway of consolation for theloss she had tbus staittd, formed an attachment of a veTy singlr kind In the same house is a hen and a young brood of chickens; and puss, envying the .n- terna happines, of chucky, took to fondling two uf the feathered youn sees; and now tends them with as much solicttde as if they were ber own siffispring. The bed of pusa is en a smalt shelf, a little fror the foor, and then the chickens go down to feed, she watcles till they are done, and then ooily takes them in her mouth, one after tle other, and returns them to her bed, again to lavish upeo them all the endearments of a mother.-Cartisk JourwaL In the beginning of the 17th century, 201. would pur- chase chambers in an Inn of Court: and 201. per aanuR4 were adec !quate to the yearly expense of a wober student.