The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-06-23 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

APPLICATION FOR A FRESH INQUIRY. ..._ - • _  rove plod dome, mot an pc dtjaint Four 50r." '1 woe j To the queen's Bench Division, on Monday morning, served with • small piece of bread sod chute and half a before lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices Mellor bottle of rat el el, rt... for which I paid 600 „ :sod Field, the case of the late Mr Bravo, barristerat. or fid.; I have often paid Ito.. or 35d., for the ' law, wham sudden death from the effects of poison has same thing. Whilat I was eating my lonehun excited eo much speculation, wee brooebt before the the burgomaster (le Moire) made his appesr• court by the Atterney-General with whom was the &nu, and demanded to see my passport Being Bolicitort let:oral and Mr. C. Bowen: in the :ono of no an Englishman of mune I had no purport. All my application for • writ ad tatitue tagoaand, +a. The paper. and letters were deucanded, but I would not learned counsel, in addressing their lordsb,ei, arid part wit them, so I wee ot once detained, placed in the , he appured In the matter of Mr. Charter. "inner custody of about twenty men, and hemmed up in one Bravo, deceseed, and he had to move I the corner of the room as a caught Prussian ripy, the people urour's inquisition held upon the body of to. • seatrying to force me to spesk Germsn, boo! would not Homan on the 25th and the 28th of April lute. .old utter one word. After waiting between five and mix be removed into that court by writ of etraarar,. He hours, three mounted gene d'armes came ',dinning down had deo to move for a rule sis., calling upon the counor the rood- two dismounted and entered the house ud re- to show cense why the inquisition ehould not in brought !toyed guard, taking one to another room, where I hart to up to be quashed, or why a fresh inquiry ehould not be give up ell my papers and letters, and submit to being had either by the coroner or by • commission to be searched through all my pocket., even to my bode and ixeued by their lordship., which their lord.shipo were the lining of my hot. Everything I had, even my aware they had power to do under • writ ad nael-ne top-coot ud uu:brells, were taken puseseion of. avireireadont. He made this application upon the 00,1 I was msrched between two mounted and fully grounds—first, that the finding of the jury at the equipped gen. &armee to Liguy, a distance of about coroner's inquisition was uncertain and incomplete ; eight kilometres, being subject to the olecervatiods and and, secondly, that the inquisition was token in ouch. rr marks of the loiterers in the kneels se I passed perfunctory and mastisfutory way that it was really through the town. I woe then looked in a tell for two ; and truly a miscarriage of justice : and he should be day.; I wax kept fourteen hours without food or water. I elso obliged to oontend that there had been misconduct In forty-eight hour. Iw.. fed three times with brown lin the mode in which the coroner had conducted this bread ud a little weak potage. The next day I was inquiry. It appured that Mr. Bravo, as their lord. culled upon four o'clock in the morning, mode to cleu i ships were doubtlus aware, woo a barrister: he was out my cell and do chambermsidid work; at half.past about thirty years of age, and woe getting on well in five I woe brought out and marched between mounted I hie profession. At the eud of last year he married • gene &armee back to Bar le Due, a distance of twenty Mn.. Ricardo, a lardy pursuing a fottime of between kilometres. They attempted in the first induce to put . £3lOO turd £4OOO 0 year. After their marriage Mr. and my hands in iron, hut as I resisted no second attempt was Min Bravo resided at the Priory,. Bathetic. where Mrs. made. I was detained several hours at the Hotel de j Bravo had ruided before the marrow. As for.. could Ville at Bar le Duo, but was not takeu before uy tri- he ucertained, Mr. Bravo had lived happily in hi. marhunal or the Prefect. At last I was escorted by n ample , tied life, and wuof • cheer, ul disposition. and there woo one d'armes outside the city boundary and then net len reason why he should have taken poison. The cirfree • from here I was ooropelled to walk to honey, a . cumstances of Mr. Bravoa death, which have been fully dista:nce of ninety-right kilometre., or seventy-two . before the public, were urratel, and the turned counsel English miles I did cute twenty-three houm. Ido • went two -The coroner throughout appeared to have not know whether any of John litill's British lions had ' entertained the foregone conclusion that Mr. Bmvo begun to roar, or why I was ut free hut I had con- hod committed suicide, while he thought their lordships j trtved to write a few linee to the manager of a Paris • would hoof opinion that there were good grounds for ' benking firm making him to communicate with the doubting whether this was the cue, and would think British Coned at Paris. By the ed.'or of the American i that the coroner ought to have heard further evidence Coicsul here I have addressed • letter to the Britieh which would have probably thrown much additional Minister in Parisi on the subject, as another gentleman light on the cauee of death. The learned counsel then from Blackheath was stopped in Tout • few der. e slum pounded to read the depoeitions of the witneues as Ind no Amerioan gentleman oleo in the commune of token by the coroner and compared them with the eviMarne. deuce as taken by Mr. Reed,. barrister who took careful . I noteo during the inquiry, pointing out various impor, taut onlissions in the former and considereble THE DISTURBANCES AT BARBADOES mepancy between the two vereions. The learned counsel