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Barbarity and CruelYy.-—On Friday* March 4* an inquest was held before Mr, Gill* at the Fox, in Wardour-street, on the body of Dorant Lovell, otherwise George Mango, who was found dead on the Sunday preceding, at the corner of Noel-street and Wardour-street. It appeared in evidence, that the deceased, who was a man of colour, had procured his livelihood for many years in the streets of London as an itinerant tinker. He went into the Crown in Oxford-street, on Saturday morning, where he was served with a bason of tea and a buttered roll. He returned in the evening to the same house, and had a pint of beer. About eleven o'clock the same evening, he was discovered by the watchman in Wardour-street, sitting under a door-way, where Andrew Pollock, a watchman, finding him, insisted on his leaving that place, and forcibly dragged him to the opposite side of the street, which is in St. Anne's, parish, where he left him. The watchman belonging to Sc. Anne’s, finding the wretched being in a door-way on their beat, forced him back to the side of the street in St. James’s parish, where he remained till Pollock, returning to cry the hour, asked him what he did there a second time, after he had driven him away, when the deceased exclaimed, “ O God, I am dying !” “ Then (replied the watchman) you shall noc die here; you must do that somewhere else.’5 The deceased answered, (lt; I am not able to stir—lam a dyingman!” *c I care not/* said the watchman, and then either dragged or carried him a second time to the opposite side of the street. At seven o'clock he was found dead on the St. James'3 side.—On the view of the body, the jury returned thefollowing verdid:—“ It is not proved in evidence that the deceased, Dorant♦Lovell, otherwise George Mango, did aftualiy die otherwise than a naturaldeath; but it is very clearly proved that Andrew Pollock, the watchman on♦duty in War dour-street, on Sunday night last, has been highly negligent of his duty, by omitting to take that care of the deceased he was bound to do; andby such omission, the said jury is clearly of opinion, that the deceased lost his life.’'
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Monthly Mirror
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Mar 01, 1803
Page 36
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