The above is the penny-a-line account, given of course in
all those great depositaries of truth and knowledge for whose conservation the newspaper and advertisement taxes are specially continued—the Daily Journals. Let us look at the account as it appears in evidence— An Inquest was yesterday held on the body of the man supposed to have been robbed and murdered near Camden Town [supposed in the Daily Journals, to wit], before Mr. Stirling, at the King's Arms, Kentish Town ; when there appeared no ground whatever for supposing that the unfortunate man had met his death in so horrible a manner. When the deceased left his home, he was not in possession of any money. After his death, the suns of 9d. was found in his pocket ; which, it was supposed, had been given him by charitably-disposefl individuals. It was proved that he was subject to fits; and the Jury, after hearing all the evidence, came to the following verdict—" That the deceased met with his death accidentally ; and it is-supposed that he fell down in a fit, and received the bruise upon his head either from a horse or carriage passing. The Jury express their regret that the part of the road where the deceased was found lying is so badly lighted."
Won't the fellow who gave the first account, without knowing and Without inquiring into one "tittle of it, be instantly discharged, asks some simpleton? lie will be cherished. If he had told the story truly, it would have possessed no interest ; the great depositaries would not have inserted it.
A child named Mary (not Letitia) Elizabeth Landon, whose parents live in South Street, Manchester Square, was treated some weeks ago for scald head by a-medical practitioner. The child was recovering as rapidly as could be reasonably expected ; but not rapidly enough, it would appear, for the impatience of its foolish father and mother. They dismissed the medical man in consequence, and placed the child under the care of a woman named Spiller, of Highgate Archway, who pretends to have a secret for eurine-° such eruptions. Spiller applied a plaster to the child's head, which cured it effectually ; for the con- sequence of the application was extensive mortification of the scalp, penetrating in two or three places to the skull itself, and the death of the child. A Jury was held on Saturday, and by adjournment on Mon- day; when, after a careful consideration of the evidence of Mr. Carter, South Street, and Mr. Randall Vickers, of Thayer Street, the Jury found MrS. Spiller guilty of manslaughter. She was immediately com- mitted to Newgate, on the Coroner's warrant. Mrs. Doctor Spiller's terms were—one sovereign down, and two more when the cure was effected. Besides the plaster, which covered the whole of the head, she advised a regimen of gin and water, varied with weak brandy, porter, a few drops of laudanum, sago, or any thing that wou'd keep the child alive..
A robbery of jewels, to the amount of several hundreds of pounds, was perpetrated on Thursday last week, at the residence of Lord St. Helen's in Grafton Street. No traces of the thief have been dis- covered.
A man named Hollis, with an alias of Hickman and Harcourt, ac- cused of uttering forged notes, was captured, on Thursday, in Trafal- gar Piece, after a severe but short run, by Mr. Beardsworth, of Bir- mingham, whom he had cheated by a forged note of 501. in September last. The fellow was conveyed to Bow Street by his captor, without assistance. Mr. Beardsworth, by this feat, saves 1001. of reward offered by himself for Hollis's capture, and gains 1001. offered by the Bank.
On the 25th of October, Mr. John Bumpus, bookseller, of Skinner Street, walked out of his house as if on his accustomed business. As he did not return, his family continued in a state of great grief and anxiety, not knowing what had become of him. On Monday. morning, last week, a bargeman discovered the body of a man floating in the Surry Canal. It was taken to the workhouse at Camberwell, where it was recognized, by his friends, to be that of Mr. Bumpus. The deceased has left a widow and six children.
On Tuesday, an Inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, at Chelsea, on the body of Mr. Charles Hilde, a courier to the Hanoverian Consul, who jumped over Battersea Bridge, on Sunday evening last, and was droivned. It appeared the deceased had lived with a widow lady of the name of Arthur, in Godfrey Street, Chelsea, and was much attached to
her. The deceased dined and supped with a police constable, who
gave evidence before the Inquest, on Sunday last, and the latter per. suaded him to sleep at Chelsea, lest be should go to her and get into trouble again, as he had been twice charged with an assault on her. Hilde said " My God ! I do love her, and cannot help it." Ililde then returned home with the constable, and cried bitterly several times during the evening. He left a little before ten o'clock, and was per- fectly sober. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
On Tuesday, a female, named MrClare, the wife of a boot-closer in Nevill's Court, Fetter Lane, cut her throat with a razor. Such was the determined manner in which she effected her purpose, that her head was nearly severed from her body ; she died immediately. The de- ceased was about five-and-thirty : she was on good terms with her hus- band, to whom she had been married about seventeen years, and her circumstances were easy.
Mr. J. Wood, a respectable tailor, late of Chandos Street, hanged himself with a towel on Thursday morning. The loss of his wife is said to have preyed deeply on his mind.
A poor woman, residing at Clapham Common, was severely wounded with an axe on Tuesday last week, by a lodger,: a man eighty years of age. He has been committed : he appears to be insane.
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