The Sun. — 1842-01-29 (London, England)

DANIEL O'CONNELL."  CORONERS' INQUESTS. The inquiry adjourned from Monday last, into the circumstances attending the sudden death of Elizabeth Linsey, aged 38 years, and also of her child, only one month old, was resumed before Mr. Payne on Thursday afternoon at the Commercial Tavern, Sherborne-lane. Mr. Hugh Fuller, surgeon, of King William-street. said that he had made the necessary examination. He. found the organs of the body of the child perfect and healthy. The stomach was nearly empty. It was his opinion that it died from exposure to the cold. With respect to the mother, he found that the heart had very much wasted, so much so that it would be difficult for reaction to take place after fainting. There was no doubt on his mind that fainting was the cause of death. A. wasting of the heart was often the result of mental anxiety. The deceased was a remarkably robust woman, and had died in a full habit of body.  The jury returned tt verdict in both cases of " Died from natural causes." . Thursday an inquisition was taken by Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a respectable Jury, at St. Pancras workhouse, on the body of Thomas Davis, aged 55, formerly a cornchandler and coal-merchant in an extensive way of-business, but late an inmate of the above workhouse. Alexander Peckham, also a pauper, said he knew deceased, who was in the convalescent ward, No. 3, with him. They generally sat next to each other at meals. The deceased was so voracious in his appetite that it was the custom of the nurse of the ward to cut his meat up in small pieces, fur fear of his choking himself. On Sunday last, whilst at dinner, the nurse had left the table for a minute or two without having cut up the meat in deceased's plate. She had no sooner turned her back than the deceased took up a large piece and crammed it into his mouth. He immediately made a. noise in his throat, as if he was choking, but, notwithstanding this was the case, when witness made an attempt to pull the meat out of his mouth the deceased prevented him by closing his teeth. The throttling noise in his throat increased, and the deceased became black in the face, and struggled violently. Mr. Eastcott, the surgeon, was sent for, and arrived in about ten minutes, but before he could do so deceased had expired. Mary Brown, the nurse, gave similar evidence, and stated that the deceased had been nearly choked three or four times from like conduct. The meat supplied to the poor was very hard and tough. The sister-in-law of the deceased thought that proper attention had not been paid to deceased. Knowing P. propensity, the nurse ought not to have left the meat beCore him without cutting it up in small pieces. The CORONER considered there was no af t tt. ih ebutable to any one. With regard to the har d blame diet authorities. meat, representations ought to be made of the fact to the " s diet of " Death from apoplexy oduced by choking. After some further discussion the Jury returned a ver The person who murdered the'cattlep-rdealer initi the Toulon diligence, as we related. a short time back, has ever since been confined in the prison of the at Marseilles. Jiro has fallen into such a state of 15 abandonment, the has resolved to die b se fy starvation, day, according to the last accounts, had • six' days Without talung a, morsel ‘)f fwd, remained  ,71>P7