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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 286, 5 December 1893, Page 3

At an ir quest held at Bilston on the body of an aged paralysed woman, who was bnrnt to death while left alone in her houee, it waß stated that when the neighbours disoovered her en .eloped in flames and in front of the fire, they rrade no effort to move her or extinguish the fire, aB they thought tbey bad no right to do so until policemen arrived. Tbe coroner severely condemned such non_en_ic*l views ; and instanced another oase of ignorance, where tbe life, of a man, who hanged himself, , might have beeu saved if he had been cut down when first observed. A verdiot of "Accidental death " was returned. The favourite horse of the Chinese Emperor T_i having died through negligenoe on the pare of the master of tbe : horse, tbe Emperor, in his rage, would ' have rnn tbat functionary through with his sword. Tbe Mandarin Yent-Se, bowover, parried the blow, myi-ig*, '* -irr, th's manjis not yet convicted of the crime for which he deserves to die." " Well, ihe: , tell him bim what it ie.?' "Listen, you •scoundrel," said tbe minister. "First, you have allowed a horße to perish which tbe Emperor had entrusted to your safe keeping. Moreover, it is owing to you that our sovereign became so exasperated that he waa on the point of killing you with his own hand. Lastly it is your fault that he was abont to disgrace himself in the eyes of everybody by killing a man for a horee." " Let him go," interrupted tbe Emperor, wbo understood the le&eos, " I pardon him."