The Sun. — 1852-02-19 (London, England)

ENGINEER. ~.. "a Tuesday morning, Mr. \"eilliarn Carter held an ,;441uest at the Canal House, Old Kent-road, to inofestißate the circumstances connected with the death .11,1fred Jewell, aged twenty -three, an engineer, re. tslint'Y in the empley of Messrs Amos, of the Grove, 4%ltbwark, a workman who lb.ad withdrawn from the ciaal,.sigarhated Society, and signed the Masters' Deec-cVen• Deceased was most. respectably connected, botii.`l,4o greatest excitement p revailed in the neigh--"°04:1; and long before the. hour appointed fur the 111citiire 1., lari,„ - the inquest room was d eosely crowded, and a house. Concourse of persons had assembled outside the bod The jury having been sworn, and viewed the Y, the following evidence was adduced : IV . tl, libarn Pocock, waiter at the above house, deposed 0--oitt the hat of deceased was found in the Surrey canal of d'ridaY last, and on the folio wing evening the body Clldeeesed was drawn from be,rieath the bridge in the fetilt-road. There was no paper or anything . POI:1 bias to indicate his having committed &lucid,. vheo tak yv lute, John n-, . one of the detectives, was present found ''," body was found, iiirld searched it. He keys' u:k !ha Pocket six sixpence s, one halfpenny, two book' ilt clam knife, a silk handkerchief, a pocketit, i some slices of bread and butter, a book belong out to tome of his amides. Amalgamated Socie ry of 'Engineers, .and The cravat of deceased, and the strings /trout3:l44r, were drawn tigh fly round his neck Air the throat was a livid anark as from pressure. of 14„;,..1eh".,!es George Jewell, proprietor of the Ciry edoeCodeaSe-d°4 14allebeen-rooms, G•racechurch-street, said He possessed remarkably uc• • healwth4sahnida brother. thing to lead soli a In his opinion there was suicide to the belief that he had committed hec. tc:4o,' hens 11441, ostler at the Tark's Hesd, Old Kentzzill`4 stated that on Friday morning, about twenty 4ppetea,to. Aix o'clock, he saw the deceased, and he left bed In remarkably good health and spirits. He th,,,,il „haroper at the stable-yard, directed to his bro-I;:.lari W. A. Jewell. e.44r. Jenkins, a solicitor of the deceased's family, re (der, f apOied to the coroner for an adjournment, in i the e family a poste ortem examination to be made as wiafor the fullest investigation. kr. Hawkins, surgeon, upon being questioned by tile coroner, said that some violence might have been a%iratnitted, although marks were not seen on the surIt. eof the body He thought Under all the circumste4tes. a nog mortem examination was highly pa' ees,iri ..The Coroner here read the following letter found Feb, home ili ~t _ k 144, hamper : .0. 2, Taylor's cottages, Asylum-road, to ear you l3, 1852. : `'o. 2, Brother—l was gladdry the hamper ist, We have 10. thank you for the content f left tin the care of Mr. Nash. 1,3 o for a feji and I have . 1 ing On Monday I Engel the d -,- iv(irdt about engineer bay oecteration, and sent a letterk to Mr. Wane to erase The shops are filliug %At, abile from the society's boo d',epute will end, but I hope i. do not know how Ot tbi 4 111437 end in the employersthe' behalf. In cane any lic,,,are attacked, we are constantly guarded by the po°realties% dinner, and