The Sun. — 1825-09-08 (London, England)

MURDER. Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition was taken before RicnAnn CARTER, Esq. the Surrey Coroner, at the Carlisle Arms, Carlisle-lane, Lambeth, on the body of John Furlonger, aged 27, late in the employ of Mr. Jackson, the landlord of the Shades Tavern, Charing-cross, who was found drowned in the ' River near Westminster Bridge. William Carey, a Waterman, sworn ; he resides on board the Floating Bath, stationed on the river at Westminster Bridge. On Monday evening last, between 6 and 7 o'clock ; he saw something under water foul of the mooring chains, he took his hitcher to clear it away, when he discovered it was the body of a man. Witness procured assistance, and conveyed him on shore. In clearing the body from the chains, he struck him several times with the hitcher, but whether on the body or head he could not say, as he renitned under water; part of the hand from the wrist, which was clenched to the tiooring chain, came away, in .consequence of the putrid state of the deceased; it presented a most horrid spectacle. John Berry, a waterman to the hackney-coach-stand, at Spratt's Bottom, otherwise Charing-cross, said, that the deceased was an assistant to the same rank : he attended his duty on the evening of Friday the 19th August last, and left the stand between 10 and 11 o'clock at night, and went towards his master's house, the Shades, at Charing-cross, and from that time he saw no more of him until yesterday, when he waslying dead in the bone-house at Lambeth.  ConoNEn—if the deceased had been found without his clothes, should you have known him ? Witness—No, Sir ; I merely go by the clothes he wore, and those I can swear to.  Mr. Jackson, the landlord of the Shades Tavern at Charingcross, begged also to say that he accompanied the last witness to view the body, and knew it was the deceased in consequence of his clothes.  CORONER to the witness Berry.—Do you know, of your own knowledge, of any person ever having threatened his life ? Witness—No; I only know at the time he parted from me that he wns perfectly sober and in good health. The deceased did tell him, on the evening preceding his being missed, that he had taken up two men before the Magistrates at Queen-square' Office for an assault upon him, and they were committed toprison and that part of the same gang had threatened life. The deceased resided in Duck-lane, Westminster. Diana King sworn—ls not married, hut lived at No. 9', Duck-lane, with the deceased, on the day that the two men were taken before the Magistrates and committed for assaulting. John Furlonger. On their return home, a young man named Spratt, standing opposite the house, said to her (witness), don't be surprised if your husband is brought home on a shutter; for he would make one to do it. A young woman named Bowen was present • she had given evidence against Hinton and Chester for the assault, and said to the man there, if any thing happens to Furlonger we shall know who has done it. Catharine Bowen also resides at No. 9, Duck-lane ; she de.. posed to seeing the assault committed, and gave evidence against the two men at Queen-square ; the man Spratt was in the prisoner's company wheh the assault took place. She fully corroborated the testimony_ of the last witness as to the expres. sions being made by Spratt, but thought at first he alluded to her husband, upon which she asked for what cause f he replied, for Bob Hinton's sake; afterwards it was understood it meant , Furlonger, now deceased.