and the latter, for many years also was mellifluous as from under the St Clement’s pulpit it announced the invocation “Let us sing to the praise and glory of God. Mr. Cox was the oldest officer of the Corporation, and his remains were followed to the Halton churchyard by some of the minor officials and by all the police-force off duty under the direction of Superintendent Glenister. His father preceded him as clerk of St. Clement’s Church, being appointed to that office in 1793, by the Rev. Thomas Fuller. James Cox, father and son, were descended from a very old Hastings family, an ancestor being John Cox, who was the Hastings Mayor in 1665. See pedigree and other particulars of the family, page 167, Vol. 2 Premier Cinque Ports.
Suicidal Death. The evidence given at an inquest held on the 3rd of January, was to the effect that Myers Woolf, a travelling jeweller had lodged at the Hastings Arms since the 15th of December, had lived rather irregularly, had talked affectionately of his wife and family on the day before his death, saying it was the twentieth anniversary of his marriage, had drank 13 or 14 glasses of rum and ale during the day, but did not appear drunk, had gone to bed rather earlier than usual, and found next morning dead through having taken poison.
Death of Mr. Jinks. At an inquest held on the 11th of May, on the body of John Jinks, keeper of the Silverhill toll gate, the following evidence was elicited:- The deceased, who was 40 years of age, and married, had been unwell for some days, but feeling better on the morning of the day in which his death afterwards occurred, went to the Silverhill spring for two pails of water. Finding that there was no water at the spring (which had been cleared out on the preceding day) the deceased, it was supposed, went to a pond to dip for water, and, according to the testimony of surgeon Penhale, who made a post-mortem examination, must have fallen into the water dead, most likely from an apoplectic fit.
Death of a Burnt Child. On the morning of the 21st of May, Charles Colbran, a child of four years, was left, with a younger child, of two years, in a room at 16 Lavatoria, St. Leonards, whilst the mother proceeded to her daily occupation at a laundry. By some unknown means the child’s clothes caught fire, and a neighbour hearing screams ran in and extinguished the flames, but so terribly burnt was the little fellow that he died next morning.
A Fisherman Drowned. On the 20th of May, Robert Breeds, a fisherman, 63 years of age, was employed by George Page, master of the fishing-boat “Crystal Palace”, to go off to assist in clearing an anchor, as the boat, lying in the roadstead, was seen to be drifting. During the operation, Breeds, who was a good swimmer, fell overboard, and although every effort was made to rescue him alive, he died before he could be got ashore.
