Mr. Philip Blake, who resided in Stamford Street, Blackfriars, died
on Tuesday. in consequence of a wound in the thigh and stomach, received on Sunday night when riding in a phaeton belonging to a Mr. Daniel, who was driving it in Pall Mull when the accident occurred. The following account of the occurrence was given at an inquest on the body, by Mr. Daniel. He was driving a one-horse four-wheeled phaeton, in which were the deceased, witness's wife, and brother. He was in l'all Mall, near the Hay- market, on his right side, about six feet from the pavement, and going at the rate of about seven miles an hour. An omnibus had passed witness's phaeton ; when at that moment a cart with one horse, thriven by a man, and in which cart were four women, and going at about a similar speed, came in a contrary direction on its wrong side. Witness pulled up, and the deceased calleti ; but the progress of the cart was not checked until it came in contact with the phaeton; when the near shaft forced its way through the leathern apron of the phaeton and entered the under part of the deceased's thigh, making its way into the body. The shaft remained in this position about half a minute, when it was extracted by the cart drawing back. The driver of the cart was taken into custody ; and Mr. Blake was conveyed to Mr. White, surgeon, of Parliament Street, where his wound was dressed, after which he was taken home. He lived to Tuesday night.
The Jury found a verdict of Accidental Death, with a deodand of two shillings on the cart.
The daughter of an eating-house-keeper, in Bucklersbury, broke her thigh and several of her ribs, a few mornings ago, in jumping into the street from her bedroom window, to elope with a lover whom her father disapproved of.
A tall and powerful young man, about five-and-twenty, lost his life on Monday, by endeavouring to stop a horse that was running away in a cabriolet. On observing the furious rate at which the horse was proceeding along Oxford Street, he ran off the pavement, for the pur- pose of catching the reins ; his foot slipped at the moment he was about to seize the bridle ; and the shaft entered his right side, perforat- ing it to a considerable depth. He was taken to the Middlesex Hos- pital, and soon died.
Yesterday week, an inquest was held on the body of George Forsyth, an infant aged twelve months. It appeared that the child was taken ill a few days ago, and the mother therefore determined to bathe it. She, however, put it into such scalding hot water that the skin of one of the legs, from the ankle downwards rolled off, and floated on the surface of the water ; the other leg and foot were also dreadfully scalded. The child died, after a few days' suffering. The Jury re- turned a verdict of Manslaughter against the mother ; and she was taken on the .Coroner's warrant to Newgate, to await her trial.
Mr. Edward Bond, the well-known gunmaker, of Cornhill, shot himself on Wednesday afternoon, in a fit of temporary derangement at a bathing-house in St. Mary Axe.
Mr. Morgan Munden, brother of the late comedian, has been for many years past a pauper in the Workhouse of Saffron Hill ; and is now seventy-two, and somewhat deranged in mind. On Saturday last, as two boys were passing by the New River, near Islington, they saw Munden sitting on the bank, with his legs in the water, and cutting his throat with a penknife. They gave an alarm ; and a Policeman arrived and took him to the Stationhenre; whence he was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
As Mr. George Salter and his son were driving on Tuesday from Charing Cross towards Whitehall, in a phaeton, the carriage came in contact with a waggon ; the horse took fright, and furiously ran towards Parliament Street with only the shafts, which flew right and left, to the great terror of every one, knocking several down. Amongst the number, many had their skulls fractured, or their legs and ribs broken. Two ladies and a gentleman were carried to the house of a surgeon in Parliament Street, severely hurt.
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