This afternoon, as the Chatham and Rochester coach came out of the gateway of the inn-yard of the Golden-Cross, Charing-Cross, a young woman, silting on the top, threw her head back, to prevent her from striking against the beam: but, there being to much luggage on the roof of the coach as to hinder her laying herself sufficiently back, it caught her face, and tore the flesh up her forehead in a dreadful manner. She was conveyed to an hospital, where slie died on the 19th.
A coroner's inquest was, on the 22d, held at the Westminster-Infirmary on the body of the above young woman, who, it appears, was only 19 years of age; and brought in their verdict, accidental death; but, on account of apparent negligence in the coachman, they fined him five pounds.
It appeared, that the deceased had come to town to visit a lying-in sister, and was on her return to Chatham, when the accident happened.
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