The Sun. — 1825-07-29 (London, England)

LOAD. • flay Straw £1 16s to X 2 ss. '  Beasts.. Calves  --' . t  n Inquest was 'held, yesterday afternoon, at the Freemasoes' Arms, Hampsteatlfebefbro Mr. STIRLING, the Coroner, on the body of a-evoman whose tame was unknown. A young gentleman named Johnson said nn Monday he was going out for the purpose or fishing, and he saw the woman sitting by the side of one of the popfle with her head almost bent between her knees. She appeared to he in 'a very desponding condition. On returning. home hd saW the* womiii in the water calling for assistance; he endeavoured to save her, hut she sunk and was rot ti.ken out.until She -Wa•i" quiti V&A:2. After this evidence had been laid before the Jury, aletter was read by the Foreman which the Coronar had received froth !Ur Bodkin, of the Illendieity Society. It stated that abo'4t two ' months since he was fortunate enough tb 'save a. woman from drowning, in the New River, near Islington, between 11;and 12 o'clock at night. She was taken care of for the ;night, and the following morning brought before the Magiatratesat ton-garden, and she proved to be the wife of a man who lived in Leather-lane. She had several -children, particularly twin infants whom she was then suckling, and ,it appeared site attempted to commit suicide under the.mflUence 'or lienat; she left home. Having occasion to beat Ilampeteadiearly op Wed.. nesday morning, Al r. Bodkin. heard that a womanbal been found drowned in one of the ponds on the Heath, and, by a remark. able coincidence, the gentleman at whose house Mr. Bodkin was, assisted in dragging the pond. By his description; 'NT. Bodkin was at once satisfied she was the same pcison whose lifs he had before preserved, and upon examining the 'body' he found it to be so. He then went on to state, thatthe sent to London and informed her husband and friends of the circumstance, when the husband expressed himself to be very sorry that the gentleman had taken his wife out of the river. B. apologised for not attending the inquest, ashe yvasvompelled to attend on business in Bedfordshire :—The Beadleinformed the Jury, that as Mr. Bodkin undertook to apPriZe' the woman's friends of her death, and which he felt convinced he had done, he expected the husband•would have claimed the body. lie was, however, mistaken, for up to that time he had seen none of her friends, and he was afraid he should he obliged to bury the body the following. day; in consequenee of the intolerable heat of the weather. The Jury observed, that ft would be advisable to adjourn the Inquest, and summon the husband before them, when he might explain his singular and unfeeling conduct.—The Conowxie said, that the twsband, if hewer: calltd, would be only able to speak to the woman's insanity, and he thought that no person who was in her senses Would ever make such repeated attempts to deprive herself of exietenee, certainly considered the husband had acted in a very unfeeling manlier, but he could not see the utility of having Min summoned before the Jury—The Jury, after having taken view of the body, returned the follewing verdict;__" That the deceased drowned herself, and was, at the time, supposed to he in a state of Temporary Derangement."  So great is the drought, and the consegneot deficiency of water, that even the Life Goardc, at Hyde Park Barracks, were yesterday 'morning obliged to fetch their water from the Serpens 'tine Rivcr. •  111 K