Sad Death of an Upholsterer

SAD DEATH OF AN UPHOLSTERER.

Yesterday Mr. Geo. Collier held an inquest at the Green Man, Hoxton, as to the death of John Neal, aged 56, an upholsterer. The deceased worked for an uncle in Hoxton, and being ill, complaining of pains in the chest, swimming in the head, and shivers across the shoulders, he recommended him to stay at home, and gave him money to buy himself an extra chop. Not coming to business for a day or two, the uncle got fidgetty, and went to his nephew's lodgings in 4, Holywell-place, where he discovered him lying on his face on the floor, in a pool of blood, and quite dead. He found that the landlady had not seen him for some time, and he had apparently when drawing off his trowsers, been seized with a fit, and shot forward on his face into the fireplace, his trowsers being under his features. He had smashed his nose completely flat by the fall, and so became suffocated while in an apoplectic fit, having probably been dead a couple of days. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.

Source: Lloyd's Weekly London Newspaper, April 2, 1882, Page 12