The Sun. — 1844-11-29 (London, England)

THAMES POLICE. the landing of the staircase at the time of the eel: Captain Hew Burn, the master of the ship Himalaya, rence. There was a great rush of persons into the ball' in the South West India Dock, was brought before Mr. room, but the only one admitted was a tall man in Is Ballantine, charged under the 3d and 6th William IV., masquerade costume, and the man in custody was pus h• c. 19, sec. 45, commonly called Sir James Graham's Act, ing the people down stairs. When the man in costurote with having " wilfully and wrongfully abandoned" a sea- went in, the man in custody went in also. In a minute man named George Robert Rowe, one of his crew, at after some man put his hand through the door, whit." Port Nelson, New Zealand. was half open, and shoved the people back. The landing Mr. Bisgood, solicitor, of Carey-street, stated the case was full when this took place, and the pressure of t_ll on the part of the father and friends of the seaman, who, people caused the railing to give way, and then dear; he said, were highly respectable, and sought redress for and another gentleman fell to the ground. She after' one of the most grievous injuries that could be inflicted. wards saw the man in custody on the ground, and be!,, The seaman, Rowe, contrary to the' advice of his father, a man charge him with being the cause of the nen, who was in a situation to maintain him in comfort. joined ranee, to which he made no answer. She did not think the ship in August, 1843, and she sailed on the 25th of the deceased was sober at the time. In her opinion sle that month on a voyage to New Zealand and other places, bannister was broken by the pressure of the P&P and was to reoive 2/. 10s. per month, his name being against it, when the man from the door pushed them ,e entered on the articles. The ship had recently re- Mr. William Mundy, of No. 53, Bow-lane, Cheapsl; turned without the young man, and on application to printer, deposed that he acted as check-taker et .ti, the captain respecting him, he gave no satisfactory tea- Montpelier Tavern on Monday night last. At the til, sons for his abandonment, and was unable to produce of the occurrence there were about eight persons on l', any eertilicate of the functionaries at Nelson that the landing struggling to get in. That was as many as Phi seaman had disappeared or deserted, and could not be landing would hold. The door was pushed °pea ts brought back, which he was bound to obtain by the those outside, and then violently closed. The bannito 42d section of the Act. The 42d section declared that, as well as the rails were gone about ten minutes belies with the exception of entering into his Majesty's naval the occurrence. There were several persons inside w,. serviee, "no person of the crew shall be discharged, the door was forced back, and the pressure caused 7;11 either with or without his consent, at any place deceased,' and the other gentleman, Mr. King, W abroad, unless with the sanction of a public tune. over. tionary, where such functionary can be found," If it The ConorrEn, at considerable length, summed was proposed to discharge any of the crew at any of her and, after some deliberation, the jury returned a yer7o,l Majesty's c,oloniva or plantations, the master was bound , f Accidental Death, expressing regret that there beL.2. to obtain " the previous sanction in writing of the go- nothing moving to the cause of death, they could :ill vernor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, or other officer, return a deodand. appointed by the Government there." There were other The incle'ry lasted upwards of three hours. gr. clauses in the Act for the proteotien of seamen, and to SUICIDE FROM Polsox.—Yesterday afternoon, guurci against their being abandoned during a voyage at Baker, the Coroner, held a most lengthened inquiry of the caprice of the commander, while the clause inspos- the Green Gate, Hackney-road, touching the deati!ks ing a punishment of fine and imprisonment, the 45th, Mrs. Louisa Winterborn, aged 40, the wife of Mr. Jobs recited that " great mischiefs have arisen from masters Winterborn, surgeon in the above road, who died it-, of merchant ship leeving seamen in foreign parts, who the effect of poison, under the following circumstaneo:to Mary Ann Irons stated that she had been servetj hove been thus reduced to distress, and thereby tempted to become pirates, and otherwise misconduct themselves." the deceased for the last year and a half, who aepefii. The youth wrongfully left behind at Nelson might, at to live very happily with her husband. Her mind os this time, be suffering all the horrors of starvation, or, the last six months had been rather desponding. es so thought, through losing her mother. On M0n,."10 perhaps, he was no more, and he called upon the Magistrate to put the law in force and send the case tO the morning the deceased got up about half-past sevse.,„k sessions, and on witness coming down stairs she found her ,!': Mr, lieeeeNTSNit said the defendant ought to have in the yard. Deceased kept retching very much no sent a boat for the youth, and that he had violated the ing the morning, refused to have any dinner, esti, Act of Parliament. He ordered him to ,find bail, him- the course of the afternoon laid down on two IN-"',e,. self in 801, and two sureties in 40/. each, to answer the in the sitting-room. Deceased still continued ye. charge at the sessions. and about eight o'clock in the evening fres