The Sun. — 1825-06-09 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.  Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held before Mr. CALL, the 'Coronet, at the Coach-and-Horses, in Dean's-yard, Westminster, on the body of Mary Hargrove, the keeper of a house of accommodation in the Almonry, Westminster. whose death was currently reported to have been caused by the gross ill-treatment of her husband, in conse. quence of which the neighbourhood was in a state of agitation during the investigation before the Coroner anti Jury. Mary Ann Turner, residing at No. 7, in the Almonry, Westminster, of which house the deceased was landlady, stated that on Tuesday evening she took tea at a neighbour's house, with her husband and a seafaring man, a friend, who had recently returned from sea, and came home about half-past seven o'clock in the evening, in a state of inebriation. It was proposed by the husband and the other man to take a walk to some place, and the deceased expressed a wish to accompany them, but •the husband • told her she had better go to bed, and they would go by themselves. This seemed to grieve her, and she cried very much. She, after the two men had lea the room, seated herself on the bed-side, and instantly fell backwards, and struck her head against the bedstead foot. Witness ran to ber and lifted her up, but she seemed to he dead ; she then called another young woman to take care of her whilst she went after her husband, whom she overtook before he got a dozen yards from the door. Witness told hint-what had happened, and.he returned to the house directly, and she was then quite dead. A doom was instantly sent for, but it was not till an hour had elapsed that a medical man came, who declared that had he been in the room at the time she fell he could not have prolonged tier life. Coroner.—Are yoa-sure that no one pushed her down, or that no blow was given her by any person ?—I saw no blow given her at all.  Juror.—l have heard there had been a very serious quarrel between the parties; was that the case ?—1 heard of none.• Coroner.-4 also understood that the woman had been murdered. Did the deceased and her husband live happily together ?—I never knew to the contrary ; she was a very sober woman, and I can only attribute her being in such a state of drunkenness at the time of her death, to the meeting of the sea-taring man who had been away for a length of time. Juror.—Do you recollect the deceased asking Mrs. Mitcham, a neighbour; to treat her with a glass of gin do, Sir. The Juror who.asked the question said, that the motive he had for asking, arose from his having heard that the deceased, on being refused the gin, exclaimed, that " she hoped God might strike her dead the next time she entered Mrs. Mitcham's shop." (Mrs. Mitcham keeps a shop in the chanillery line.) Another witness, named Mary Boyne, gave a similar account of the circumstance as stated by the last witness ; adding, that • the medical gentleman attributed her death to excessive drinking. she never knew them to have a quarrel. The beadle said, that after the report which had gained such credit in the neighbourhood, of the deceased having been tututiered, came to his knowledge, he had taken a deal of trouble j in making inquiries respecting the busineSs; the result of which was a total negative to the account so generally propagated. The Coroner said, that from the evidence that had been brought forward, he was of opinion that the deceased died from suffocation produced by the potations of liquor she had taken. The medical gentleman who was called in stated, that, fnan what he had seen of the deceased, he thought she had died a natural death, but could not tell the cause that produced it. Witness was of opinion, that had he been there at the moment, he could not have saved her. The Jury, after some consultation, found a verdict, " That the deceased died by the visitation of God."  Ifay-ma king commenced yesterday in the neighbouthood of the metropolis, where the crops promise great luxuriancy and abundance. Last week. 50 convicts were conveyed from the gaol of Newgate to the Hulks. A ship is tilting out for the female convicts, anti the prison will very soon be rid of a great number of some of its worst tenants. There are now not more. than 250 persons confined in Nervgate, • •