17 OCTOBER 1891, Page 16

ACCIDENTAL CONVERSATION.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The case of execution of the men for rick-burning referred to by your correspondent, occurred about 1832 in North Somerset (I think at Brockley). The foreman of the jury who adjudicated on the case gave me the particulars of the case. I think it was his suggestion that the men should be hung in front of their own cottages. I met him at an inquest on a suicide in 1855, at which he was also foreman.— I am, Sir, &c., 34 Kitto Road, Peckham, S.E. THOMAS Rica.