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    1. [MDX] Wm. SYLVESTER and Thomas MABERLY ( 1861 )
    2. >From The Morning Chronicle ( London, England ), Monday, December 2, 1861; Issue 29609. FATAL FIGHT AT WHITECHAPEL. - VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER. On Saturday evening Mr. H. RAFFLES WALTHEW, the deputy coroner for East Middlesex, held an inquest at the London Hospital, on view of the body of William SYLVESTER, aged 39, a cigar maker, who died from injuries received in a fight, under the following circumstances:- The deceased and several companions had been drinking at the White Hart public-house, Hooper-street, Whitechapel, on the night of Wednesday last, when a man named Thomas MABERLY, a gun-lock maker, commenced quarrelling in the tap-room. They fought several rounds, and were seperated by the landlord, but the man MABERLY followed the deceased and attacked him again. He threw the deceased heavily several times upon the floor, and fell upon him with great violence. The latter exclaimed that his leg was broken, and he was removed to the hospital, where it was found that he had received a fracture of the leg. The limb was reduced, but he gradually sunk and died on Friday last. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against William MABERLY, for killing and slaying William SYLVESTER.

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