Joseph Oliver, a lad of fifteen, was playing with some
others on Sunday afternoon, in Wilmington Square. There was a cry that "the beadle was coming," and he ran into a sand-bole to hide himself; but he had not been there five minutes before the shoring gave way, and the sand fell in upon him. He was dug out in the course of a quarter of an hour ; but his bead was smashed, and his left leg broken, and he soon died. His father is a jeweller in Spafields.
A dreadful explosion of gas took place on Wednesday evening in the kitchen of Messrs. Stinton and Halson, of King Street, St. James's Square; which blew up the flooring of the kitchen, and destroyed all the furniture. A female servant who was sitting in the kitchen was shockingly injured, and is not expected to recover. The cause of this explosion is supposed to be owing to the escape of gas from the pipes laid down in the street.
An inquisition was taken on Wednesday night, on the body of Eliza Allison, a fine infant, who died from the effects of laudanum incau- tiously administered, by a female servant. The Jury, after a long dis- cussion, returned the following verdict—" That the deceased died from the effects of laudanum, incautiously administered by Margaret Darnley, she not being aware of its dangerous nature ; and the Jurors regret that the laudanum was sold without caution."
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