The Statesman. — 1823-09-22 (London, England)

JEWIETT. E.q. Coroner at the Albtny Arms Tavern, Camberwell_, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Hopgood, a yeueir and intr. • e.ting female, the wife of Mr. H., a resident at Camberw•ll. Mr. John Cochrane, of Camberwell, fturge.,e, stated, that on Thursday be was sent fur to Wend immediately 4 g,. J. Ilopgoo I's. On his arrival he found the tic...eased. vomiting. he was informed that she bed taken p:dsou ; he interrocated her upon tie subject, and ltek:ffed of lu'r to , inform him what she hail taken. She said, " I have taken nothing whatever." After a mo+t carnese.,olicitatiou, she wassi aniddoietedw atos cr oonuf es se s attltleaust site gh at d, setvsloe ivi!iLrd ai, poison,ant da;l, she e for she would not take it ; he, notwithetAnding, procured an emetic, and by the entreaties of her friends she consented to take it ; Bowed it sod some warm water ; it °pee sc4•ll.and shed 'till 11 the same night, when the fed. A Faux was a servant.to the deceased.— .On Thursday warning her mistress sent her to Mr. Woodley'ss hop, who is a chemist and druggist. at Camberwell. to purchase two-penny-worth of arsenic : having bought it she took it to the deceased, who *nixed it iu a cup with some water, and then sent her (witness) out of the apart- . men% The word " Poison" was written in legible characters on the paper that enveloped the arsenic.—Mr. John Hopgood, the husband of the deceased, stated that she had been in a low desponding state for sometime previous to her death. Verdict—Died from taking arsenic, being affected at the time is ith temporary delirium. On Saturday evening a Coroner's inquest was held at Sun, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, on the body of ao M. sun of Aaron Knowles, a watchman residing in Iton's-buildings, near Ebury-square, Pimlico, in the pad St. George. Hanover Square, whose death was °cooed by a fall from the window of his father's losiging room, at eleven o'clock on Friday morning. The head of the poor little sufferer was fractnred in a most shocking manner, and he survived bat till twelve u'elock on the sans' night. The Jury found a verdict of accidental death; and strongly recommended to the parents, and all those who have the care of children, the easy anal necessary precaution of placing, bars (though only of wood) at all chamber windows acessible to them, is order to prevent as mach 'as Possible the recurrence of such calamities. SUICIDE AT WATERLOO BRlDGE.—Saturday afternoon an Inquest was taken at the Savoy Palace, before THo3l.ts HIGGS, Esq., on the body of Charlotte Stevens, who was found drowned on the evening of Friday, near Debris's wharf, Savoy, having precipitated herself from Waterloo Bridge, about one o'clock 90 the morning previous. Mr. J. M. Wolletall, stated that he was passing the Strand at the time in question. and heard a scream, whirls appeared to proceed from the Bridge. Ile ran down and fonmi a boy bewailing bitterly. He saw the deceased rig t on the surface of the water near Mr. Dehrn's barges, and immediately after sink. The boy told witness that hu ha t gone down to wash his hands; when be saw the woman sit. ting at the bottom of the steps, she turned rotund and ha' mediately fell backwards. Assistance was immediately procured, but the body could not be found. The boy was about 15 years of age. This boy, however, was nut caw present. Several of the Jurymen expressed their surprise at this circumstance. The boy not being present, the Coroner, at the r2quest of the Jury, adjourned the further inquiry until Monday afternoon, to have him produced.  Two men, a bricklayer sud his tabourer. named John Taoly and George Grey, were employed in the erec►ion of souse small houses in Clerkenwelklose, when the watt/fling gave way, aud the two unfortunate men fell on tit. area spikes of an adjoining honse. The right thick of both was penetrated, and they were impended drippint• with blond, with their heads downward. The shrieks of the wife of one of them who had just come to tho *po...we ; heartiending. . The meat p pt assistance was rendere4 to ext►icate them fro their horrible situation, and the • .vol Bartholor  }  11:40?F","6. WANNIFiIt*