The Sun. — 1846-11-14 (London, England)

MANSLAUGHTER.  Thursday an inquest was held by adjournment, before Mr. W. Baker, coroner, and a jury, at the Duke of Wel lington, in John-street, Limehouse, on the body of Julia Fitzgerald, aged 15 years, who died on Friday last, from the effects of injuries she received on the Bth of September last, during a quarrel with a family named King. It appeared in evidence that the deceased was a waistcoat-maker, and formerly lived with her maternal parent, at No. 8, Samuel. street, Limehouse °fields. The family consisted of five individuals, the deceased, her widowed mother, two sisters and a brother, and they occupied one small room. They were all employed in making up slop work, by which they obtained a very miserable subsistence, their small earnings being scarcely sufficient to procure the necessaries of life. On Tuesday, the Bth of September, the goods of the mother were distrained upon for 12s. 6d., arrears of rent due to her landlord, a man named King, who lived in the same house. A quarrel was the consequence of this proceeding, and Mrs. King took away the slop work on which Mrs. Fitzgerald and her family were engaged. Mrs. King was assisted in this proceeding by her two daughters, Mrs. Green and Mrs. Sumner, and they professed to claim the trousers, waistcoats, and other things, by virtue of an order from a magistrate, which had never been made. The three women followed Mrs. Fitzgerald, and Mrs. King knocked her down and took the property from her. The deceased came to the assistance of her mother, and Mrs. Sumner struck the deceased a violent 'blow on the back with her fists. The girl attempted to enter the house, and Mrs. Sumner again struck her a violent blow on her right side. Green also struck the girl on the right side, and she fell to the ground and fetched her breath heavily, as if she was very seriously hurt. Richard King, a youth, eighteen years of age, the son of the landlord, joined in the outrage on the poor girl, and struck her on the breast close to the coal-hole door. The whole of the goods, which were of trifling value, were taken away by King, and the family %ere turned into the street. They subsequently obtained another apartment at a small house iu George-street, Limehouse-fields. The deceased complained of severe pains in her right side the day she was beaten, and subsequently she repeatedly said that Richard King had kicked her on the stomach, and that the wretches— meaning King and his family—had murdered her. Her body was severely bruised from the blows she received, and she continued in great pain until Friday last, when she expired. , The CORONER summed up at great length ; and the jury, after deliberating for nearly an hour, returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Richard King the younger, and Sarah Green and Jane Sumner, his sisters,' and Mr. Baker immodilvely issued !,; a,:preheLsion zisal eornrol;tai to N  fiT t  Tau Low.—The arrivals continuing large of Russian eausel me,-chants to submit to reduced rates, makiug the tall front i p a!,,cl. ; .A;ig NAPOCE,v7,—A letter front Lonthe highest point of the market 2s to 2s 6d per cwt on Colo- Id on to the C'onstitutionnel states, as an auihentic piece of Dial and Foreign. For home made prices are going down, although the demand is good, and 49s 6d to 508 are the WO information, that Prince Louis Napoleon is about to lead accepted nett cash. Miss Burdett Coutts to the hymeneal altar.