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CORONER'S INQUEST

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CORONER'S INQUEST 011 the body of Sarah Williams, the toll colteetor at the Hen Turnpike Gate. On Monday last, an inquest was held at Pontardulais, William Bonville, Esq., coroner, on the body pf Sarah III] liams. aged 75. THE JURY. Griffith Henry Jenkin Heorjy Thomas Samuel John Bowan> John Thomas John Pugh Walter Hopkins David Davies lohn Bowen, jun. Samuel Griffith John Thomas David Evans John Jones Richard Davies. THE EVIDENCE. John Thomas, labourer, sworn Is a house carpenter, resf" ding near the Hendy gate toll house, in the parish of Lialnedy, in the county of Carmarthen. Knew the deceased, Williams, who was the toll-collector at the Hendy gale, aD t has been so for about a week. On Saturday night last, a^°[|e 12 o'clock, or early on Sunday morning, I was alarmed by report of five or six guns near the Hendy gate. I was ,en. bed, and soon after the deceased came lo my house, and cal e me and my family so assist in pulling out the fire at the to house, which had been set on fire and was then burning ',u we did not go, as we were afraid to do so. In about a quarter df an hour or twenty minutes afterwards I heard the report ot another gun and about a minute after deceased came to ØJ1 house, and my wife went to the door and saw deceased cOØJipf towards her. She (the deceased) was crawling along by the wall to support herself until she came to the door, when 5 bt cried out, Dear, dear," and fell down, and I found she vvs* dead. The deceased has been a toll collector at many gate* years. Margaret Thnmas, wife of the last witness, said that bet 12 and 1 o'clock on Saturday night last, the deceased came our house, aod asked my husband and me to get up direct y> as some one had set the toll house on fire. I went out to door aod told her to carry her things out of her house. went back to lhe toll house, and took her furniture out o° road. I asked her several times to come into our house, she did not come. I heard the report of four or five gun» • terwards, and the deceased, in about three-quarters of an bo after I had first spoken lo her, came towards my bouse, at time 1 was standing within the door, which wis open. *.e deceased did not speak a word that I heard, and seeing that was exhausted, I laid hold of her round the waist, and down at my door, on the outside. My husband came out, we took her into the house, but she did not *peak a word, husband held her, and put her in a silting posture on the fl and she died in about two minutes. I did not see any except a little on her forehead. I thought at ifrst that she t frightened to death. I did not hear the noise of horses, footsteps, nor did I see any persons from lhe beginning to end. I did not hear any horns blown, or aay shouting. husband was in the house all the time, J By the jury 1 did not think from the blood on tbe I°,e lhat she had had a blow, and that that had been the her death. I did not think she died from a blow, but by sU cation from loss of breath. By the Coroner: About eleven o'clock I saw the toll hO:bl and gate still standing, and in the course of the night I saw The toll house on fire. That was when the deceased called to put it out, and in the morning I found the house and jL# both pulled down, there being only the walls standing. t()|| house had a thatched roof, and contained two rooms. The to hoard had fallen down some time back, and was then 111 ibo house in pieces. of Mr. Benjamin Thomas sworn I am a surgeon, residiot Llanelly. I have, with Mr. Cooke, inspected and made Wil- mortem examination of the body of the deceased Sarah ,$. liams, now lying at the Black Horse, Pontardulais. We, mined the body externally and internally. On the anterior bo of the body, whilst the corpse was lying on its back, frO f tio. feet to the breasi there did not appear to be any mark o' Of lence. The marks of shots were seen penetrating the o'PPe(.a| the left breast, one in the arm-pit of the same side, and se shot marks in both arms. On the external end of the left vicle there were two shot roaiks, one on the left side 0 wind pipe, several on the forehead, and one in the exte angle of the right eye. There was blood on tbe cloths c0 .M the breast, and the marks of blood having escaped from mouth. In moving the body to a kitting posture, a cons, iders ble quantity of fluid blood escaped from the mouth. The bgc view of the body did not shew any mark of violence. On moving the integuments of the scalp, the shot marks obse* on the surface were found in the bony structure of the but not penetrating through it. Upon removiog the bone^ t vering lie brain, the external covering of the brain, or dO" mater, was exposed entire, and appeared slightly vascular^, did also the entire structure of the brain. The lateral cles contained no more fluid than is generally found in On opening the chest the left lung pressed higher up \b natural, and was darker in colour, and on cutting into it, of substance was found considerably congested, with B4' some shots on the surface, two of which we found iu the stance of that lung. In the right lung, there was an ad i to the side, on nearly the whole of its external surface. "I øc" considerable effusion of dark coloured blood into its subotglo I In the cavity of the left pleura there were about three P1 ,ød blood, a large portion of which was in a coagulated sta<e> the remainder fluid. 'The head was natural, and wedi^^t proceed further with our examiuation, being satisfied as to^ was the cause of death, which was the loss of blood o" j i? state of the lungs and pleura arising from the shot fO" ro". the substance of the lungs, and which had caused this ex sation of blood. "Obr Mr. John Kirkhouse Cooke, of Llanelly, surgeon, COI rated Mr. B. Thomas's evidence. !JOdi The jury then retired to coosider their verdict, and d" a quarter of an hour returned the following That lbd ,Iblc ceased died from the effusion of blood into the chest, occasioned suffocation, but from what cause is to ibis jur* known."

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