The Sun. — 1845-02-27 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.—(TIIIS DAY.) object." I Mr. Wakley, Coroner for Middlesex, Mr. G. J. Mills, Deputy Mr. HAWES was understood to say, that though he did not approve of the amendment, Coroner, and the jut y empanelled to inquire into the circumstances entirely Lord G. SOM he should not oppose it. ERSET thought it would be more prudent connected with the late murder near Primrose-hill, re.assembled this morning at the Yorkshire-Grey Tavern, Hampstead. The to reserve the consideration of the words until the third reading. crowd assembled was unusually large, but, owing to the admirable arrangements of the landlord, Mr. Neal, all confusion The amendment was then withdrawn. was avoided. The remains of the murdered gentleman still re. On the reading of clause 142, which gives the power of main in an outhouse attached to the premises, and we understand distraint upon the treasurer, that Sunday is the day appointed for the funeral. Mr. SPOONER said it would be a great hardship to give At ten o'clock Mr. Wakley entered the room, and the Court was the creditor of the railway the power of distraining the goods opened in the usual form. of the treasurer for the debt of the company. He would have The first witness examined was Mr. Perry, the surgeon, and his no objection that there should be a power to distrain for the evidence having been read over, he added the results of the post amount of the balance in the hands of the treasurer belonging mortem examination. He found various bruises of the scalp and to the company. other smaller injuries. On examining the under surface of the Lord G. SOMERSET admitted that there was a seeming scalp, he found it much bruised and blackened from repeated hardship to allow distraint upon the treasurer of an insolvent blows. The left temporal muscle was much softened and or bankrupt company. But the treasurer could at any time exceedingly black, and on removing the skull-cap the relieve himself by resigning his office, when the creditors brain was found to be quite healthy, and no effusion would know what balance really existed. At present the of any kind upon it, and there was no fracture of the skull. There creditors were frequently evaded by the treasurer's denying was no extravasation of blocd, in fact, as he had already said, the the possession of a balance. brain was quite healthy, He ascribed the death to concussion of Mr. AGLIONBY said that the clause would go in the brain, from repeated blows. The other parts of the body were direct opposition to the policy of all the Acts which not opened. They were not such injuries as could have been inhad been passed of late years, which policy was to flicted by a fall. give creditors a full remedy against the company; and, .at Mr. Perry requested that he might be allowed to correct a mitthe same time, to protect the officers. The Act, the 7th Victoria, was passed to enable companies to wind up their affairs, take lie had fallen into in the course of the last examination. He had stated then that the injuries were inflicted by a blunt cutting or to enable the creditors to compel them to wind up, so that instrument ; he was now of opinion, from closer examination, that there was no reason for the introduction of so stringent a they were inflicted by a heavy weapon, as a stick or crowbar. . clause as the present. He approved, therefore, of the amend- By the