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rrAston Clinton received the Magistrates9 signatures.^ On the 15th inst. an inquiaidoti was taken by John Charsley, . Coroner for this county, at Aston Clinton, on view of the y of John West, who was found drowned in the Grand Junction Canal in that parish. It appeared that onthe previous day the deceased had been drinking, and towards the evening was intoxicated; he started from a public house at Haltonto go to his home at Tring; he was persuaded not to go thei thenot know the upper road. Another person named Daniel Nor-lower road (which was the towing path by the canal), but he persisted in going that way, as he alleged that he didhood, who had also been drinking with the deceased, undertook to go home with him, and when Norhood bad got about three hundred yards from Halton he fell down and went to sleep, where he lay until the next morning. The deceased had proceeded about a quarter of a mile further on. when it is supposed that he fell into the water, where he was round the next morning ; and his umbrella and two dogs were in the towing path, ana would not let any person pass. The deceased was taken out quite dead. Verdict *4 found drowned.”On the 19th another mauisition was taken before the same coroner, at the liberty of Barney, on view of the body of Thomas Neale, who was a pauper on the parish. He was subject tofits, and in his walks m the neighbourhood it was supposed that he was seized with a fit, ana fell head foremost into the ditch, and suffocated. Verdict, “ Found drowned.” Manslaughter.—On the 16th inst. an inquisition was commenced before John Charsley, Esq. coroner, at Great Mis-senden, Bucks (and after two adjournments finally taken on the 21st instant), which has excited much feeling In the neighbourhood, as it concerned the violent death of a poor travelling woman named Sarah Climpson, who had been run over by horses, and received a mortal fracture on the front part of her head, besides having seven of her ribs broken, and three of-them in two places, one of which had perforated the lungs. As the supposed offenders had by the witnesses been described so as to leave no doubt of their identity, it was thought by the Coroner and Jury advisable to have them apprehended before the inquiry terminated; and by the perseverance and activity of Mr. Stone, the constable of Great Missenden, the parties were secured and brought before the inquest, and by the witnesses clearly identified as those who had on the preceding Thursday ridden their horses from Great Missenden towards Little Missenden at afurious rate, endangering the life of every person they met or passed on the road; and the poor woman travdling in the same direction, she received through this unlawful and unwarrantableconduct of the riders the injuries described. She lingered under her sufferings till the Saturday morning, in an insensible state the whole time.—The aggressors turn out to be Robert Bruce, the groom of Captain Locke, and James Mabey, the groom or Captain Hammond, who were returning on their masters* hunters from the neighbourhood of Aylesbury, where the diversion of stag-hunting had taken place. The poor woman was found lying on her back quite senseless on the side of the road, several yards from her cap and bonnet, and having the contents of a basket, which was under her arm, strewed to the opposite side of the road, her gown and apron tom with marks or horses* shoes both on her person and clothes, which left no doubt of the instrument by which the violence was committed.—The Jury, with a steadiness and perseverance which did them much credit, continued .this inquiry, considering that it was their duty to prevent the recurrence of such transactions which tend so much to endanger the safety of the public; and they found a verdict of “ Manslaughter” against the two individuals, who were afterwards by the coroner’s warrant committed to the county gaol at Aylesbury.BEDFORD.
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London County Herald and Weekly Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Apr 30, 1831
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