The inquest on the body of Wood, the waterman, was
resumed on Monday. The principal witness was Douglas, the Policeman, of the K division, who turned Wood out of the White Hart public-house, in Shadwell. He distinctly denied having used any violence towards him, and the Jury said, that they did not wish to have it understood that he was especially implicated in the death of the deceased. Some more altercation took place between the Coroner and Jury respecting the • mode in which the former had taken down part of the evidence, and. other matters. At length the Coroner recapitulated the evidence andi charged the Jury. He read that given by the Police with great energy,. beating the table with his fist. He declared that the Police had com- pletely exonerated themselves, and that such excellent evidence as they gave he had never heard in his life. The Foreman complained of" these partial observations, and retired with the Jury about nine o'clock- They returned about twelve, and the Foreman delivered the following verdict.
"Mr. Coroner, it becomes my painful duty, after investigating the whole facts of the case which bear upon the evidence—and many of those facts are so familiar to our minds that we can repeat them by rote—to come to a conclusion,
with deep regret, that the deceased was murdered by a Policeman unknown to tie ; and therefore we feel bound to find a verdict of Wilful Murder against a Policeman of the K division of the Metropolitan Police unknown; and we strongly recommend the Government to use some means, whether by reward or otherwise, to elucidate this very mysterious case."
The Coroner said—" Very well, gentlemen, it is your verdict, not Mine. I shall, therefore, take it of course." He afterwards said that With regard to the offer of a reward, be should wait upon the Secretary of State upon the subject the following morning. The Court then broke up.
On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, at the Crown Tavern, Highgate, on the body of James Roles, aged fifty, a florist in Upper Islington. On Sunday morning last, the deceased and his son
walked to London, and having returned home, they had some gin and water, which excited the deceased. A member of the 'Wesleyan Mis- sionary Society called upon him, and reasoned with him on the sin of drunkenness. The deceased became very melancholy, and lie retired to his bedroom, as it was supposed, to reflect on what he had heard ; but shortly after, to the surprise of his family, he was found suspended by a cord from the bedpost. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity."
An inquest was held on Saturday last, at Battersea, on the body of George Wooddeson, a youth between sixteen and seventeen years of age, who was found drowned at Chelsea. It appeared the deceased
was in the employ of Mr. Gill, of Foley Place, and that he left home about four o'clock on Sunday, July 14, and called at his father's in Nassau Street, and said he was going for a walk. Nothing further was heard of him until he was picked up by a waterman. Verdict—" Found Drowned."
Dr. Henry Percy, a physician, and son of the Reverend Dr. Percy, of Percy Street Chapel, was found dead in his lodgings in St. John s Street Road, on Wednesday last. The deceased had once been in good practice as a physician in Durham, but had lately removed to London, where his habits became very dissipated. His death was sup- posed to have been caused by excessive inebriety.
Mr. James Hayman late landlord of the White Hart, in Catherine Street, Strand, drowned himself in the Regent's Canal, in a fit of tem- porary inianity, on Saturday last. .
On Sunday night, a cab stopped opposite the Albion Tavern, in Maiden Lane, Battle Bridge, and a well-dressed man stepped out with a bulky parcel under his arm. He desired the driver to get some re- freshment during his absence, and he then set off at full speed towards the Regent's Canal, and threw the parcel over the bridge. In his haste he struck the parcel against th,e arm of 'oman, who, from the force
of the blow, thought the bundle contained a hard substance. The- young man ran back to theltab; -Which then drove off at a rapid rate. Information was given to the ..Police, and on Monday afternoon the canal was dragged, when a canvass bag, marked 258, containing a child's heart and intestines, together with a large piece of iron, no doubt for the purpose of sinking the sack, was fished up. The sack was a twos bushel sack, and the greater part of its contents had been washed out. A boy, about ten years of age, was missed from St. Pancras on Sunday morning, and much excitement in consequence prevails- in the neigh- linurhood where the above circumstance took place.
It was discovered on Monday morning, that the Subscription-room at Lloyd's had been robbed. Various drawers bad been broken open. The amount of the robbery is not yet known.
On Saturday a dreadful accident befel James Stowe, the second -.engineer of his Majesty's steam-packet Lightning, lying in the New Basin, Woolwich. It appears that two new boilers were required for the vessel, one of which was safely fixed, but while in the act of lower- ing the other, the deceased, who, unknown to those on deck, remained below, was crushed in a dreadful manner between the two. On being 'removed with much difficulty, it was found that life was completely 'extinct, nearly every bone in his body having been broken.
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