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In the above catastrophe we have an awful instance f the dire effects of intemperate drinking. The Coroner expressed himself satisfied that the deceased had had proper care and attention. It appears that although often cautioned to the contrary, a number of men employed in the Breakwater work at Oreston, are in the constant habit of proceeding across Catwater in small boats so deeply laden as to place their lives in imminent danger. His assistant saw him, and reported to him that he was better; about half-past eight witness again saw him and thought him much better. For some years, they have been the lessees of the Canteen; and some circumstances connected with the contemplated removal from which is supposed to have preyed on her mind, and led, on the day already named, to self destruction, by cutting her throat with a dessert knife. The deceased was an old man, and on the day in question, according to his usual custom after dinner, he went out into his garden, at the back of which the Gut is situate, and staying away for upwards of two hours, much longer than was usual, some fears crossed his wife's mind respecting him, which she communicated to an acquaintance, Mr Hodge, of this town, watchmaker, who went up by the side of the Gut, and when he came opposite deceased's garden, found him lying on the Barnstaple side of the Gut quite dead. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. The Jury thought CUDMORE had been instigated by Dunn to the commission of the crime, and returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against both. Verdict - Died by the Visitation of God.A Coroner's Inquest was held on Friday last, at the Dolphin Inn, Exmouth, by I. Cox, Esq. Deceased was no doubt far advanced in pregnancy. This girl was the daughter of a respectable couple residing at Lambhay-hill, and was but sixteen years of age. Coroner, on the body of FRANCES MARSH, a fine girl, five years of age, living with Mr Edwards, mason, St. Sidwells. Coroner. "Thursday 29 October 1829 On Monday last, an Inquest was held by T. Copner, Esq. "PLYMOUTH - Inquest. Coroner, at Mrs Harding's Anchor Inn, Castle-street, on the body of ROBERT REYNOLDS, a young man about 18 years of age, a native of Truro, who had, for some time previously, been employed as assistant and traveller, to Mr Abraham, optician, High-street, and who died suddenly at his master's house, on the morning of the same day. There was little doubt of the unhappy man having laboured under Temporary Insanity at the time.Thursday 10 February 1831 Appalling Accident and Miraculous Preservation of Life. Verdict - Died by the Visitation of God.Coroner's Inquest - Guildhall, TIVERTON - After a laborious and most patient examination of witnesses, about fifty in number, continued by repeated adjournments, the Coroner, James Partridge, Esq. SYDENHAM, aged 9 years, daughter of ELIZ SYDENHAM, of Clifton, widow. - On Monday last, an Inquest was held at Kingsnympton, by T. Copner, Esq., on the body of GEORGE SKINNER, servant to Mr Tanner, of New Place, in that parish, who whilst mowing grass with several other persons, suddenly fell down and immediately expired. He was conveyed to a house near, & a vein opened, the fumes of the lime and culm having caused suffocation. On Saturday morning MR and MRS FOWELL called at her shop. CHAPMAN, bargeman, in the employ of Mr Davy: this unfortunate man was in the act of unloading a stone boat lying at Topsham, when a Dutch galliott, laden with bark, coming up the river with a strong leading wind, run foul the stone boat with such violence, as to carry away the boom and do other damage, and by which CHAPMAN was struck and killed on the spot. After some time spent in deliberation, 15 of the Jury returned a verdict of Justifiable Homicide: at the same time stating that 6 of their brother Jurors were of opinion the verdict should be Manslaughter. The continued irritation raised the anger of Phelps, and he told him if he did not quite the grounds he would compel him to do so. if he would go to Exeter with the deceased. The body was not discovered until the next morning, when a Coroner's Inquest was held before Francis Kingdon, Esq. Sarah Dunn made the following confession: that CUDMORE had had the poison in the house for several weeks, and had intended to have administered it a month previously; he had put some poison in his wife's tea, which caused her sickness; for which the Doctor sent her some powders to take: when CUDMORE asked his wife if she did not think she could take them better if they were made up into pills; she replied she thought she could; when he made some pills of the arsenic, and gave her one which caused her death. On the examination of the contents of the chest, they were found in a perfectly healthy state. on the body of ELIZABETH VEALES, wife of WM. WILLIAM CRISPIN, a servant of Mr George Snell, of Zeal Monachorum, on Friday last returning from Exeter, with his master's cart and two horses, and three people whom he had bargained to carry from Exeter to Bow, stopt about an hour at the Oat Sheaf Inn in Crediton; and about 6 o'clock in the evening proceeded on their journey; at the end of the town, with his company and CRISPIN himself riding in the cart without reins, the horses went off at full speed. Joseph Hodge and William Collis detailed the particulars of having gone, about three weeks ago, (but neither of them could speak to the day) with the prisoner Quaintance, to the shop of Mr Salter, druggist, where he purchased three ounces of arsenic, which he said was to destroy rats; he had remarked when he requested them to go with him, that he had applied for it before himself, but could not obtain it without witnesses. The Inquest was continued on Saturday night, when a verdict of Accidental Death was returned.Sudden Deaths. They were usually held in a local public-house, ale house, municipal building, or parish workhouse, but sometimes in the building where the death Coroner, at Braunton, on the body of ELIZABETH INCLEDON, aged 72, who went to bed in perfect health and was found dead in her bed the following morning. - Verdict, "That his Death was occasioned by his having taken laudanum to ease him of his pains. Verdict Accidental.Thursday 27 February 1834 An Inquest was held this day by T. Copner, Esq. Coroner, on the body of JOSEPH HAYNE, whose death was occasioned by a violent fall on some stones, in a field in St. Sidwell's, when a verdict of Accidental Death was returned.An Inquest was held on Saturday, at Thorverton, on the body of MR HOSEGOOD, quarryman and stone-cutter, whose death was occasioned by his falling from a height of 20 feet, and breaking his back. The water was running very full over the weir, and in his opinion, the face could not have received scratches in passing over it. Coroner. On Sunday morning last, about half-past Ten o'clock, she went to his room, which she found covered with blood, and heard the deceased groan; she instantly ran and informed her master; had never discovered any irrationality in him until Thursday last, when he told her that he was dying; and the conduct he then manifested, of which she gave an explanation, betrayed great aberration of mind, particularly his suspicion that she had mixed poison with his food; that on her reporting this circumstance to her master he sent for Mr Patch, a medical practitioner who attended the deceased, who gave her orders to remove his razors, which she did. At 2 o'clock this morning, (Saturday) the Coroner committed KESIA WESTCOMBE, the wife, for further examination, and Richard Quaintance for want of sureties and adjourned the Inquest to Wednesday next.EXETER - On Tuesday, an Inquest was held at the Black Horse, public house, Longbrooke-street, in this city, before S. Walkey, Esq. - On Wednesday last, a labourer in husbandry, of the name of JENKINS, of the Parish of Marwood, in the employ of Mr John Corney, of Lee House, in that parish, when threshing in the barn, hung himself by the rope with which he had been making up his reed; he had previously had a quarrel with a neighbouring farmer, in whose service his son was employed; whether this might have had any effect in producing the fatal catastrophe, cannot be determined, but no other cause appears to which it is imputable. the instrument which caused the death of MISS WESTACOTT had not been taken down for several months, and no idea was entertained that it was loaded. Is climate change killing Australian wine? - On Friday last, on the body of JOHN BOYLES, of Ilfracombe, a child three years old, whose death was occasioned by the accidental falling of a basin of boiling water on his chest the previous day. Dr Newbold was then sworn - I was present at the post mortem examination of MARY ANN MILDRUM; found many livid marks, as well as bruises, which appeared to have been inflicted some time previous to her death; remarked to Mr Flexman that it was not all fair play. Deceased said he would go across the fields, and wanted witness to go with him, but witness would not. "Thursday 14 February 1828 An Inquest was held by Isaac Cox, Esq. His wife asked him where he was going, he replied - "It is no odds to you, mind your own business, and I'll mind mine;" Witness remarked, it would be better if he would mind his business more than he had done; WATTS supposing it to have been his wife who spoke to him, ran back and seized her by the arm; Catherine Norwill, in endeavouring to rescue his wife from his grasp, took up a piece of iron used as a poker, and followed him out into the court, when witness hard the sound of a blow; on going to the door, she perceived a wound over the left eye of the deceased, and saw him run after Catherine Norwill and pin her against the wall, and heard him say he would murder her; does not know when the deceased went into the Infirmary, or when he was discharged from it; heard it said that he went there on account of the blow he had received; never heard him complain of pains in the head, except after he had been drinking; has been informed that he was wounded in the head and leg in a naval action. During the investigation no clue could be obtained as to how or by whom the deleterious substance was obtained. Unfortunately for him he did not return home, but remained in the city during the night, and got intoxicated. The edge of the precipice is removed a few yards from the path, and is guarded by rails, over which the deceased must have climbed with a desperate resolution, the height is full 56 feet perpendicular, and nothing projected to break the force of the fall. on each of the two wheels; at the same time they very strongly recommended that proper application be made to the Commissioners of Improvement, that more lamps should be immediately placed in those dark parts of Paris-street, which can be very easily pointed out. In this town, Sunday morning last, Anne, wife of Mr. William Thorne, late manager of the Barnstaple Branch of the West of England and South Wales District Bank, aged 36. MRS S. immediately prepared to leap out, notwithstanding the expostulations of her son to the contrary; but whilst so doing her right leg became entangled in the step of the gig - she was dragged some distance, and then fell in the road lifeless. A Coroner's Inquest was held on Friday, when a verdict of "Found Drowned" was returned.Friday 19 November 1824 Exeter - A man, named BRAILEY, in the employ of Mr Durant, of Northtawton, fell from a waggon, on returning from Exeter last Friday se'nnight, by which he broke both his legs; he was conveyed to the Devon and Exeter Hospital, where he has since died. He accordingly took out one of the pistols and when in the act of cocking it, when the cock, which (being a detonating one), had a remarkably strong spring, slipped from his hold back upon the cap, and produced instantaneous explosion, and MR CARLIN, who stood close by him, received the charge in the left side of his abdomen. Here the examination of witnesses closed; the Coroner then summed up, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder against MARY FOWELL." Verdict - Accidental Death. On examination it was found that the deceased was 8 months gone with a male child. Verdict - Found Drowned.It seems almost incredible, that the frequency of accidents arising from the incautious handing of fire-arms, and the many warnings given in the public prints, are insufficient to put a stop to the foolish and dangerous (we had almost said guilty) practice of triffling with these agents of destruction. One of the young men said "he would double it, and fight him for ten." She called for assistance, and the fire was soon put out. GREEN and a child near the spot where they were lost, at low water. Two surgeons attended the investigation: they stated that they had examined the body, and were of opinion, from the contents of the stomach, that the death of the deceased had been caused by drinking ardent spirits: and the Jury returned their verdict accordingly.At Ottery East Hill, on the 21st inst. The Jury, after consulting a short time, returned their verdict - Died by the Visitation of God.Thursday 28 August 1828 On Friday last an Inquest was held on view of the body of JOHN WALTERS, of Thornbury, before F. Kingdon, Esq. It was instantly burst open, and the victim was found lying in the passage quite dead, and weltering in her blood, and the monstrous murderer was found in the act of throwing from his hand a phial, which was proved to have contained poison, by which he intended to have destroyed his own existence. It was a good thing for poor people when their children died; her husband was very foolish to cry about it, he should have been very glad; besides, he allowed her very little for their support. A young woman named CHARLOTTE HOWARD, put a period to her existence, it is supposed on Wednesday night, by throwing herself into the river. Great apprehensions were entertained by the bystanders for the safety of the whole range of houses from Mr Gilbert's to the Church walk, as the wind was very high and blowing in that direction. While in this position with the gun perpendicular before him, it would seem that some part of the cock caught in his clothing, and caused an immediate explosion, as the charge entered about the mouth and came out at the back part of the head, and his death must have been instantaneous. It was founded in 1824. This proved to be the gig itself, which was approached by a boat with two men, belonging to the Breakwater light vessel; they found a man in her, with his feet and knees in the hollow of the boat, and his head hanging over the middle into the water. That the witness had known the deceased many years, and thought he possessed a sound mind, but believed deceased laboured under a low melancholy, for having, about six months ago, complained and wept on several occasions; but he had been opposed, and put upon by some legal determination at the Castle, about the amount of passage money he had received. It appeared, by the evidence of a Medical Gentleman, that she had burst a blood vessel internally, which had occasioned immediate suffocation and death. one of the Coroners for the County of Devon, upon the body of THOMAS CRAPP, deceased, which was found floating in the river Exe, on the morning of Tuesday. Witness had never seen the deceased depressed in spirits until Thursday. On Tuesday last, after being engaged during the earlier part of that day in the delivery of sheets to the troops in garrison, he proceeded to the apartment he occupied in the Citadel, and was shortly after found dead with his throat dreadfully lacerated from a wound inflicted by a razor. Dr Collins next proved the detection of arsenic by seven different chemical tests, of which he gave a very elaborate and scientific description. On Sunday, in conjunction with several medical gentlemen and a chemist, he re-examined the contents of the stomach very attentively, and used the usual tests to try if acid had been taken, such as vitriol, because in that case the throat and gullet would have been scorched. The rest have recovered. Deaths. Coroner, on the body of MARGARET DUNN, who, while milking a cow, received a blow from the bullock which occasioned immediate death. There was no appearance of any bed, except an old mattress, and no kind of bedding save the rags, already spoken of. The prisoner, who is by trade a sawyer, having quarrelled with his wife about money mattes, and being rather in liquor, he struck her a violent blow, of which she fell to the ground senseless, and expired twelve hours after. Coroner, and from the evidence that was then adduced, it appeared that GEORGE CUDMORE was a labouring man, with whom Grace Dunn resided as a lodger, between whom and the said GEORGE CUDMORE, an improper intimacy subsisted. As he lay Elliott repeatedly called on him by the most opprobrious names to rise; the unfortunate man was, however, insensible to these and all other earthly calls, and in this state the bystanders removed him to his own house. The screams of the deceased were heard by several persons, at a distance, who were unable to reach him in time to render any assistance. - An instance of self destruction, as distressing in its effects as unaccountable in its cause, occurred in this town on the evening of Friday last. who answered, about four o'clock; soon after she heard a noise proceeding from his throat, and on endeavouring to awake him, she found he was a corpse. "PLYMOUTH - Caution to Those who have the Care of Children. He also declared that from having known the deceased thirty years, he could speak as to the state of his mind, which, for three years past, had been particularly clear; that he had of late drank freely; and that on Friday morning as early as eight o'clock, he went to the Mermaid public-house, and drank half-a-pint of cider, which he was observed by the landlord to do in great agitation of mind; and from whence, it is conjectured, he immediately went to the place where he was found a corpse. It appeared in evidence that ANN SMITH had received great kindness and attention as well from Lord and Lady Rolle, as from her fellow servants. The wife exclaimed, "then I have lost the best friend I ever had in the world." The EA said a spill at Kilmington led to the deaths of thousands of fish, including some protected species, in the River Axe. before H. A. Vallack, Esq., Coroner, on the body of JOHN SMITH CUDMORE, illegitimate son of GRACE CUDMORE. - A young woman named SARAH SMITH, who lived a servant in the family of Mr Bucknole, Paris street, put an end to herself by taking arsenic on Tuesday last. It appeared in evidence, that she had gone to bed early in the evening with her husband; and it is supposed she got out soon afterwards for the purpose of fetching a myrtle plant which stood on a post, close to the quay, and that whilst stooping to take it up, she lost her balance and fell into the water. It appeared in the evidence before the Jury, these boys went to the Lime Kiln to warm themselves. On the Jury receiving the evidence of Mr Southcombe, surgeon, it was deemed necessary that a post mortem examination of the body should take place, which was carefully and minutely done by Mr Southcombe accompanied by Dr Newbolt, whose combined evidence shewed that the deceased died from the effect of severe and general inflammation, but the proximate cause of which they could not take upon themselves to determine. "Thursday 24 July 1834 EXETER - On Wednesday week an Inquest was taken before John Gidley, Esq., one of the Coroners for Exeter, at the Ring of Bells, West-street, on the body of NICHOLAS GRIFFIN, the younger, who, on the preceding day, had fallen from a coal lighter lying at the Quay, into the river, and was drowned. "APPLEDORE - On Sunday last, a young man called WILLIAM PIM, shipped on board the brig Shepherdess, Cap. Coroner, on the 2nd inst. Verdict, "Died by the Visitation of God. On his return home, being taken very ill, he was put to bed, and died about twelve o'clock at night. Published: Thursday 04 May 1854 Newspaper: North Devon Journal County: Devon, England His two grandchildren had left him but a few minutes before, apparently in good health. Verdict - Lunacy.On Tuesday evening last, as ARTHUR COHAM Esq. It would appear that they left in good season, from half past four to five o'clock, their object being to cross the passage and the Exeter canal before dark, and having done so they arrived safely at Lewis', at the extremity of the canal, it is said, before night fall. While she was standing by the fire, in the temporary absence of her mother, her clothes took fire and she was so burnt that she died soon after. - On Tuesday evening last, an Inquest was held before Samuel Walkey, Esq. On the preceding day she had been taken very ill with violent vomiting, and a medical gentleman being sent for, she confessed having taken a quantity of arsenic, but assigned no cause for so doing. There was a very black mark on the temple, and deceased was lying on the left side on the part which was injured; his hat was lying about 18 or 20 feet from him; his clothes did not appear torn. A great number of witnesses were examined by the Coroner as perfectly to identify R. Ware as the agent of the death of MARY HOLMAN, and were subsequently, together with Dr Blackall, of this city, and Mr Hole, of Silverton, surgeon, examined by Mr W. Tripp, who attended on behalf of the prisoner, as to his state of mind, when it appeared that he was insane in May last, and he then was, and had been for a fortnight previously, afflicted in a similar manner; and unanimously agreed to the verdict that the deceased came by her death by the hands of R. Ware, he labouring at the time under a fit of Insanity.Thursday 10 December 1829 On Saturday, an Inquest was held by Jams Partridge Esq. The body of the unfortunate girl, on being examined by a surgeon, was found to be in a dreadful mutilated state; a deep gash extending several inches, was discovered near the abdomen, her mouth was very much swollen, and her cap was stuffed into her throat. A fatality seemed to have attended this poor child, who narrowly escaped a watery death about twelve months ago, when an elder brother fell into the river Yeo, and was drowned, and in her endeavour to save him, the nurse maid, with this child in her arms, fell into the stream, from whence they were rescued by some persons who accidentally witnessed the occurrence. The application will be made from the Coroner at their request.On Thursday, an Inquest was taken at Tiverton, before J. Partridge, Esq. Tucker, stated that the deceased had been in his employ 7 years, and was always a sober, honest, and industrious young man; he had complained of illness on Sunday.
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