The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-18 00:00:00

kg both Cosham and Wy rearing as covers to the r
right and left flanks. No s.ioner had they made this move-
ment than the garrison made &general sortie, and commenced
an attack with a vigour which drove all before it. They
eiterally swarmed from all the Works of the lines, and almost
as instantly as they reached the open their skirmishers were
thrown out, reserves placed, and a rapid advance made
against the enemy. It was almost wonderf el to see the
rapidity with which the force poured forth, end the ease and
precision with which they fornied up their ranks, even while
advancing. At one port of the lines the bridges were not
sufficient to give caress to the forces lathe manner which the
emergency demanded, so a pontoon bridge was formed across
the creek. It would scarcely be credited, but this bridge
was constructed and fit for the passage of infantry within
ten minutes from the time of its e.inuneueement, mid
within fourteen minutes after, artillery pined over it. The
1 sortie from all parts of the garrison now became general and
in each masses that the enemy were borne down and had
nothing left them but to recall their skirmishers and
support., and, leaving a thin like in thickets and bulge-
roes to annoy the advance, concentrate their strength in the
villages of Coshani and Ws merle& The takieg of these
villages was toe of the most aulmated parts of the whole
day's programme. For the first time the Volmiteers fought
In the streets and amid the houses. Every foot of ground
w:.s contended for in alleys, houses, and stables, and the
scene as, with all the village whitlows crowded, the enemy
isei driven fnns point to point, Wes most exciting In its
Me ry and rush and etorin of mike it seemed as pure a battle
as was ever fraight, hut without its carnage. At the end of
the village of Coshim the enemy made a tierce stand, and for
a time held the upper part of the little hamlet, hut they had
hist enough ground then to give their assailants room to
deploy, and column after column opened out against them.
The artillery got into positions commanding every spot in
this village, while bete eeu Wymering and C. oham the
sklmiahers and reserves were pitshed forward ao art, coni-
Idetely divide the two positions, and get in rear of the
latter. There was Ito help for it then hut a hurried
retreat, tied the instant Cobham was lost the main
London road was lost with it. Up this, sheltered, by the
village, great I,lll'llllS 4if the now itssailants were hurried
to Vire the right II ink of the enemy. The sty le in which
the Volunteers respoeiled to this call of a rush to the front
was most creditable. Though they might well have been I
considered as tired out by what they had already gone I
through, and though the treat Mali great aml the dust stifling,
still they came in great niastes along the London road at the
. rate of more than six miles au hour. Wymering wits
I occupied with less resietance, for, with the rising tide, the
, gunboats had come so close as to drive the enemy from
every part of it, besides the hos of Cosham at once necessi-
tated a retreat from Wymet ieg, and not only that, but •
chaege isi front aloug the Portsdown lulls to meet the at-
tacking force, which, by the poseeision of the I. nolon-road,
had toile turned their left dank, as their right had been
term dby the fleet at Wymering. The Volunteers .lid this
mime tidy. The sight was now, as a mimic hattle-fleld, one
of sOpossing beauty. The enemy were ranged is, masses of
lines between Forts Wilder and aguthwick. The light wind
kept the smoke away and broke the clouds of dust which
marked the rush of infantry anti artillery from every point.
Gun after gun as it got intoposition began its roar, and the lines
of in no.try, now deployed in front of each other, maintained a
tile fire that has ahsolutely deafening. For a hung time the ,
enemy, though always going back and losing ground yard by
yard, maintained a desperate defence, tied the uproar of
cannon and rides was terrific, in the midst of this great din
*lid elouds of smoke, and rush of guns and troops, the 97th
and 3,l'h Regiments of the Line, with a powerful force of,
Royal Marine Artillery, were brought quidtly up the road
on the vitally's right, and the latter force, advancing in
splendid order, came into action against the dank of the
enemy with their breechloaders. It would be impossible to
give an adequate idea of the effect of this fire for rapidity.
It seemed . inci remit volley, and the general impression
was that troops armed with the mezzle-loader would have no
more chance against hreech-Maders than if they were armed
with bows and arrow. Under this foiled°, which struck
all with astotilehment who heard it, the enemy were sup-
posed to wither away, aml it being then a quarter to four,
the time agreed ul.t•ii. the begles were ordered to sound
"Ccaie drive," and iii' irreatest and the most successful
Review the Volunteers eVi r had was brought to a close. The
diepersal Of the v.. 17. 11‘ lie ades awl corps and their break-
ing up to march elf tr m all ports of tie gerund to their
various rust 'et.us airs :11,110et as brilliant s:ghts as any
afforded by the varied 11.141.1.1 es of the day.
It is gatifylog te; he Ode to state that the casualties were
Ivery few- iiiileed tills man had his hand tnjure.l by •
Cartridge, another his band injered by a ramrod. There were
two medical caste—olio of palpitation of the heart, sad the
other of exhaustiou.

withstanding the assurances which were given her that Dr.
Ellis had clearly identified the body as one of his patients,
she persisted in her statement, and declared that she could
not be mistaken.

Owing to the publielty which had been given to the cir-
cumstances under which the body of the man was dlecovered,
the whole of Monday as well anon Sunday large numbers of
persons flocked to the locality for the purpose of viewing the
premises, and crowds collected around the mortuary where
the remains of the deceased have been deposited. There
were numerous applications throughout the day at Hackney
Police-station from persons who had missing relatives and
friends, and many of whom brought photographs with them.
Up to Monday afternoon the identification of the body as
that of the lunatic who escaped from St. Luke's Asylum on
the let of February, rested solely on the testimony of Dr.
Ellis, the medical officer of that institution. At that time,
however, Mr. Heasman, of Great Perry-street, London,
viewed the body, and stated that it was that of his brother,
Mr. 11 ileasman, who was confined in the lunatic asylum_
From the information furnished by him it would appear
that the deceased, also was possessed of • competence, waa
very active, and extremely fond of athletic sports and
ere cises. He was an admirable runner and swimmer, being
only second to the eliampion swimmer of England. lo
October, 1006, It became necessary to have him removed to
the asylum, owing to his having exhibited symptoms of
mental aberration. Ile war, LoWeVor, perfectly sane upon
all porn's lent one. His delusion was that he hart been
poisoned, and that lie was dead Ile was married,
and has left a widow and eight children, the eldest
of whom is only fifteen years of age. So far the
case would appear to be clear OM .ugh as to the
question of identity ; but in direct and bewildering coethet
with the evidence in support of this view Is the testimony 4.f
Mrs. Mary A 1,,, Banks, of 25, York-row, Kiegsland-road,
Londe., who identified the body as that of her missing lins-
laud and who is now sustained upon the point by her
sisters. Mrs. Hanks declares that the deceased was her
husband, Mr. Ebenezer Clarke Banks, a commercial traveller
for a spirit is erchant. She has twice visite.' the mortuary
and examined the body. She unequivocally testifies to its
identity with that of her husband, and she bases her recog-
Mtion not alone on the general resemblance in features arid
form, but urn Ilse existence of a peculiar mark upon one of
the finger.. This mark she specially described to the con-
stable before seeing the corpse, and the officer found it as
she deseribed it. On Monday afternoon she again presented
herself at the Hackney Police-station, accompanied by
her two sisters, Sirs. Williams and Mrs. Sumer, awl •
asked to he elboved to see the body once more. Some
eldliculty was raised on the ground that all questions
had been set at rest by the identification of Dr. Ellis
and Mr. Hewitt.. She maintained that these gentlemen
were certainly mistaken, aa it was Impossible she could he
deceived as to the identity of her husband. By this time the
rod warm examination had commenced, and it was there-
fore impossible to admit anyone. Dur;ng the two hours
which the examination occupied Mrs. Banks and her sisters
remained outside the mortuary. When they were admitted
the appearance of the head was found to have been con-
siderably changed by the operations of the medical ex-
aminees. Mrs. Books, however, remained unshaken In her
ale Ante identification of the body as that of her husband.
Mrs. Williams stated that she could not speak us to the turn-
head, on account of the mutilation consequent on the open-
ing of the head, hot that she could distinctly identify the
lower part of the face and the beard and moustache. She
also nail that she recognised not cosy the general formalism
of the body, hut In per,icular the shape of the chest and
shoulders. Sirs. Starner likewis, declared that the desxaseel
with her brother-in-law, Mr. Hanks.
On Monday morning a lady came to the Hackney Police-
station mid produced a photograph of a missing relative,
which bore a far more striking resemblance to the deceased
than list either of two photographs subsequently shown by
Mr. Hueneme as those of his brother. The police, however,
, assured her that the body had already been identified, and
• therefore could not be that of the friend of whom she was In
search, and she was afforded no opportunity of viewing it.

On Tuesday, the Coroner for Middlesex held an inquiry at
the Old Town Hall, Hackney, into the circumstances attend-
log the discovery of the be-el ot the deceased and those by
sshch be came I-y his ilea, h
Mee. Basks was the first witness called. She stated that
she resided at 25. York-row, lei iigslaud.rowl. Her husband,
whose name was Eiienezer Clark Banks., left her three years
ago lust March lie was a traveller to a spirit uteri:tient
named It imsden, and 35 years of age They had been
married 14 year. lie was employed travelling six months out
of the 12, and was sometimes at home for about three months
in sneers . She had visited the mortuary and minutely
examined the remains of the deceased on two occasions. and
she had nut the least deubt that they were those of her
Miseenil she knew this to he the ease from the feet of
there being a mark on the foreflmerof the right basil, which
was caused by a cut when he was very young, and round
which the thsh hail never grown 511100 She mentioned this
ninrk to the mate., before she saw the body, and the constable
wit eceimpanicil Its C it the mortuary fiend it up it tha
body. tier hushatia's life was not insured, but he lidotiged
ti, the odilfellews' Scciety at Tunbridge Wells she had no
Idea Who her lily SU'li ni.uld lie rec.:dyable f min that s itidy
were his death proved, as neither herself nor ally member of
her family had kept up the payments
In reply to Mr. Neale, a solicitor who attended to watch
the case on behalf of the family of the lunatic Beaman,
the witnesss stated that although she was lilt prepared to
swear that the body 11111511 was that of her husband, she was
perfectly convinced iii her own mind that such was the ea..
Mr. Elward I leasume, a clerk in the Reeistry office 41 the
Court of Chancery, Pottonville, dep..' that he had ex-
amined the body of the deceased, and identified it as that
of his brother, Benjamin Ileaeman, who had hem' a clerk in
the same °nice as himself up to the early pert of the year
1166, when he was oldiged to relinquish his duties owing to
severe pains in his head, at the back of his eyes. 111 the Sep-
tember of that year he was removed to S•. Lobe's Lunatic
Asylum, at which institution the witness last saw alive
during the molter of 15117. The delusion he entertained
was that he had been poisoned and was a dead tram lie
hail a suicidal temlency. Laudanum was list' Jeered in his
MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY OF A
cupviard, nail he ace is the habit of plachei a razor tied up
with ap ureter the ebair by his bedside. The witness wes
DEAD BODY. eteibled to Went fy the betty from the equarstiess of the
forehead the high cheekbone, and the getieral c intour el
A herald° discovery was made on Thursday in last week at the features. Ile wee aware that five year. since the il e •
Hackney Wick, Landon. In the immediate vicinity of the ceased iiijured one if his lingers by doing semetling with
1,1,1 Ilmkticy Wick or Victoria Park station on the North suites on the roof of his house, but the witin ss hai never
London Railway, a new street has been recently limit ruu- ebserved the merle 'lie life of his brother was not insured,
ming down to the railway embankment, and known as Elgin. nor ild ho belong to any burial club. The witness WAS 11,4
place. Severel of the houses in it have reniaiued for some aware that he had a meehanical turn-ef mind, 14041 as would
time unfitiished. To the last week of December they were lie evidenced, by i•otang out articles in wood.
swept out and secured. the front doors being screwed up and In answer to Mr. Neale, the witness stated that his
a her placed tiepin them, and the back doors bolted. The brother's family would lose a pension of e.lee per annum by
windows, however, were simply pet in and not fixed, leaving I his math. lie was al iem s talking on mile.s sehjects, and
access pissible by this mese. It appears that the owner I saying that he Woe not long ter this world and had nothing
and budder, Mr. Dahlia, of Belvidere, surrey, had messily ! to do with it. The etockincs found upon the body of the
determitied to complete theui, and on Thursday afternoon deceased acre marked with the name " Reesman" In the
one of his 'carmen WAS %simnel] to leave a load of sash lianilwrdine of his wife. The flannel aid shirt upon the
weights at the boner No. 21 in the etreet. As son, however, body were also thrown open in a peculiar manner. similar to
as lie opened the door he perceived an offensive well, sill that adopted by the witness's broth, when at home ill. The
called to the fireman, Thomu Newsom, and told him to go evi toess hod 104 the 'lightest doubt of the body being that of
into the house mid find out the cause. He did su, and looked ' his brother.
hito the various rooms. Ile found tltutlllilg hilt a black kid r Mrs. S.,phia HOSIMAS, the wife of Benjamin Ileasman,
glove in the back room on the ground flour. llt, opetiing a who wag evidently deeply affeete I, deposed that she bad
cupboard beneath the staircase on the same floor, however, viewed the hely in the mortnary, and looking at the face
the smell was foiled to proceed from it. The two Men a-as quite sure that it was that of her husband. She had
obtained a light, and on returning with it they found, to I been married to him 15 3 ears, and saw him last on the 19.1 i
their home', the dead Wily of a man fully dressed, with his lof January this year. She never notiged any scar on his
head towards the door, and in a reclining position, Ding , finger front the accident alluded to by the last witeese. Her
against the side of the. cupboard. 00 toe deceased no husband 'll3ll threatened her life, an-I she remembered the
poceet i:auuitl,v nide f, pencil. scrap of pip r, or small article incident ntentioned by the previous witness as to his piecing
nny di seri pt,oti was tenet. A o lellyco...k hat" mid the ! a razor under the chair by hie bedside. She was pecuniarily
pier of lea•her slippers which he 1m I beetl wearitig were j a safferer by his death Subic-meetly this wit.is rec
f ~,,, el-se to his load. and eleo a sinine Blucher boot and ' Hired the hindwrithig on the underclothing of the deceased
a frockc ~t iii good make, bid very much worn. The lappets es being her own, All 4 also stated that the trousers found
of tt.ie coat were torn, and the arms and 'nick bear span Ihe body were in obitie-teade. and other own working.
timus.reits stains of blood. The dress of the dere:met when The evidence of Dr. Ellis. the me Real otli.r of St. Luke's ,
the I,ly 55115 limed wan disarranged, and the braces, which Asylum, coneisted of a distinct identifiedioa of the body I
were much stained with Weil, appear to have been broken which had been found as that alit tedieut baffled Reesman,
in a s.rneple. who was admitted in S.mtenilwr, 11111, and ese sped on the
The age elf the dereaxed nitist have been about 34 or 3-5, eight of the let of February last, taking With lIIM mime
and his height from Oft ein. to Mt, yin, articles of clothing ll:hinging to other patimits. The boot
On Saturday a resident is the neighbourhood tendered found by the side of the deceased, sod marked " Harnett,"
evidence as to having semi him on a saint-heap in the rear of belong. dto a patient of that banie. In the left jaw of tlie
the house No. 21, nen-piece, cue day in the first week of patient named Beaman, who was under his care, a tooth
February last. This party, Mr. Prier, carpenter, of Hackney- was niissmg end this was Mao the Cote as regarded that of
wick, WAS, it appears, engaged at the time named iit tood'lC the discover.ed body. The dress found upoii it was also
a row of housen just below Elgin-piece end on the same side identical in every respect with that worn by the patient be
of the street One afternoon, about half-past three &Mock, had referred to. Reesman, while in the hospital, exhibited
his atteution was called by some of the labourers employed in nii seicidal tentienoy, and could convene sensibly, but had a
Amer'. brickfield, which adjoins the rear of the houses, to a deluelon that en Paid w.• 111.1 pass through tern
gentleman who was sitting on the mind heap, cutting 5501511 e.t.a!, w 'mania of 58, Jamaica-row, Bermondsey, sister of
piece of the wood need in the rooting 011 which he Wet Slrs. B mice, stated that she hied seen the buy if the de-
nt work. Pelee slibsequently clone olowu from the roof, and ceased, and thought the 1.-wee part of it exceedingly like her
on passing the sand-heap observed that the party who had sister's hitsband, but she avoid not say positively that it was
been minded out to him hail a very gentleinably appearance, he, she had not seen him for seven or eight years, and had
fuel that he was makilig a boat out of a piece of wood. 110 remembrance of the rear her Mister hail referred to.
It being a bitterly cold day, Price said to the getillemen. Deo tilt said he hail made it po4t morterit examination of
"YOU have got a Cold seat there, sir." To this he replied, the body. Ile should think the man had been dead two
"Von, are toe civilest man I have spokea to to-day..lly m inthe The body was that of a muscular, well-formed
God keens me warts. Friend, ilo yon attend church or man, forty years of age. There were no marka of violence
chapel? " Price enswered that he went hi church, for he on any part. Ihe right hand a-as opened and the left partly
hed been brought up a churchman. The gentleman re.loilml, dosed. The right side of the face and head was gorged with
always prop to God in nip Own room, and have got a nice hi ,ml, which gave the appearance of a severe bruise, but
one :et my sister's at Poplar " Price sail, "Itis a cid,' job that might lie apt-Petted to the gravatioe of the blood and
you have got, anyhow," to which the gentleman replied, "1 decomposition. Ile was satisfied of this. The brain waa quite
do it for nip amusement. There Is a river near my sister's decomposed, but no fracture whatever on the skull. There
where I swim my boats. And naw, my frieuit, you go 11114 was no appearance of disease in any organ. The shirt and
mind your 1,11/411055, 14114 I will mind mina" Price noticed cent was saturated with a bloody fluid, which hail trickled
whilst this converser was taking place that the gentleman down from the aide of the face. The bottle spoken of cou-
was cutting out the little boat with a taro buckhorn- tallied a small drop ,If brown Med. The MALI° was lying
handled knife, and that there was a plece of leather spread down on Its side, and the IMO bad dried in the neck chit,
aria over his thigh, apparently to prevent injury to his At this p•ent, the Coroner, addressing the jury, said:
Donner. lie had aISO a Mien rag with which he occasionally Centlemen, we have gone an tar as we can go to-iisy, hut we
wiped the knife. Ile was still in the same place, finishing have elicited nothiug as to the cause of death. I shall,
the boat, alien Price and the men employed is the therefoin adjourn this inquiry in order to have the con-
bricktield left off wink. at five o'clock in the eiteeing. tmds of the sioniach of the deceased analysed by Dr. Letheby,
In addition to the knife it wee observed that he had a wim will also make an anal, ohs of the contents of the bottle.
bradawl with which tie niade the 1.4 s for the masts of the In the meaetime the tiody inust be buried. There are two
boat. parties claiming the right of burial, but with your eon-
Immediately Price gave this information to the police he eurrence, I shall issue an order in the name of Benjamin
was token to the niormary and shown the bedy which was 'feast...,
foetid in the clipboard of 21, Elgin-piece. and he identified The Foreman: We quite concur in that opinion.
it as that of the potion with whom he had thia singular con- Time Coroner then male out his order for the interment
versation. But note itlisquiding the strict searches which of the body accordingly, and the inquiry was adjourned till
have been made, rehlier tile knife, nor the awl, nor the Tuesday.
leather, nor the boat here been found. A very careful
examination id the clothes on the body, and of those found
contiguous to it in the cupleiaiii, resulted in some important
discoveries. In a corner ill the under. Manuel, and on the
stockings, end Weide the flap of the slippers was written in
ink the tante "B. Helton on" Beide the blucher boot,
which was to ind ',deg beside the body, was inecribed the
risme of " Harnett " In the pocket of the black frock coat
which WAS Mend en the thew id the cupboard was a portion
of the Morning Star, dated January 31, 1860, folded up ea
thonigh It hail been used for the purpose of wrapping up a
pocket-boiik or parcel of letters, liii the outside was written
isi a hand nearly illegible, the uanie .• Ile . . . tt." The
back of this cat is deeply stained with hhuc,ll, PIO there
are mime marks also on the arms but there are none on the

Twenty trains had been kept ready nt the Staiioll to bring
the Volunteers back from Portmainth. Tl:e tlmt it these
trues Jet at 535 p.m., and the last got away by a quarter-
past 7. The ordinary traffic, which Med la t.?! MIF/irllo,l from
415, was resumed before half.past 7, a smeial train being
kept ready for Volunteer stragglers. Ueder the supervision
of Mr White, the station-master, similar arrangements had
been made for the management of the up trains as those
which hail answered so well in the morning and the result
was, that at a quarter. pant 9, there was no crutch or difficulty
and the traffic between Portsmouth and London war
positively slack.

The correspondent of the Morning Post relates • stirring
Incident at the Portsmouth review. A mounted officer o.
a Kentish corps wan proceeding to report himself at the
Governor's house when his horse ran away with him, rushed
into an artillery corps on the march, knocked down six or
seven artillerymen, and then fell, throwing its rider heavily
on the hard road. The gallant man of Kent remounted and
turned his horse's head towards Inoue, when it instantly
bolted again, and was only stopped by the wall of the Cans.
liri4e barrack, against which it rushed at furl speed, again
throwing its rider heavily on the hard road. The °Meer, it
is needless to add, was a good deal shakers, though not
seriously hurt, anti tilt' not take any further jetrt in the busi-
ness of the day. Strange to say, none of the artlllerymen
were at all the worse lOr the COUCLISIIiOO, nor was the horse
injured.

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GETTING OFF WITH A LIGHT
PUNISHMENT!
After an interval of nearly three years between the
commission of the crime and the verdict of the jury,
a mud, case of a most heinous character was finally
tried last week (writes the Naples correspondent of
Ihe Times). It is marked by three features,---the
horrible character of the crime the comparative
leniency of the punishment, and the slow administra-
tion of justice. The case was tried, indeed, in 1800,
the murder having been committed in 1865 ; the sen-
tence was annulled by the Court of liassation, and
only last week was a final verdict of the jury pro.
nouuced before an extraordinary court. Whatever
improvements, therefore, may have taken place in
Southern Italy in the administration of justice there is
great MOM for many more.
One of the prettiest villas in the charming neigh-
bourhood of Capodimonte, now inhabited by an Eng-
lish fancily, was in Isai tenanted by Captain Nicahtro,
his wife, and sister. The Rev. Stefano 1-firolo, spiritual
director of the Military College of the Nunziatells,
was an intimate friend of the family, and on the even-
ing of the 20th of September, in the alwence of the
captain, went to visit the ladies. As night came on
he took leave of them, and, in spite of the most diligent
search, no traces of him were found for twelve days,
when the body was found floating on the water of a
cistern in the grounds. It was dressed as on the even-
ing when the priest left the holm-, and his watch,
purse, and cigar-case were on it. Robbery was not,
therefore, the motive of the crime. The orderly
of the captain, the mirter, the gardener, and the
guardian of the villa, who were arrested immediately,
moot stoutly denied all knowledge of the crime, but
Rizzo, the gardener, afterwards confessed that Sept',
the guardian, had offered him L"2 out of £l7 which
had been promised him by a Signora Maniacal-
cone for the murder of the priest, who was
dishonouring the family. Rizzo refused, and was
threatened with being cut in pieces if he breathed is
word of the affair, but on the night of the crime he
WM compelled to be present. Tine manner of cinn-
mitting it was thug. As soon as the priest appeared
the orderly from behind threw a sheet liver his bead
and struck him to the ground. After having reducci
hhu to an almost lifeless state, they put his hat and
umbrella in the sheet, and shot him out of it into the
reservoir, throwing in at the same time heavy stones
to prevent the body from fisting. 'finis confeanion
was afterwards retracted by Rizzo, whi, alleged that it
hail been insinuated to hien by the Marchese
Elephatite, now deceascl, but it was confirmed by
many witnesses on the trial, especially by an under
gardener, who said that on the night of the murder he
was ordtred by the three accomplices to watch at the
gate, as they were going to take some grapes and fiv,
that while there he heard a heavy sound as of a body
plashing in the water, and that on asking what it was
they told him that they had thrown the priest in and
would! treat him in like manner if he were not silent.
The jary found them guilty, and the Court pronounced
the sentence of 20 years' hard labour for the orderly
and the guardian, and seven years of seclusion for
the gardener. Thus in a country where murder is a

tails, which are torts
After these discoveries the police authorities despatched
Sergeant Foden to the house is I.:hitt-piece for the purpose
of makiug a thorough re-exantitiation ot the whole of the ,
premises. A close scrutiny of the rear of the house failed to
disclose any trace of the means by which an entrance had
been effected. If any styli hail ever existed, the lapse of
Little had obliterated it. The rooms were searched in sue-
ces.ion, hut nothing iambi he found tending t•i throw any
light upon the slide Tile cupboard was then minutely
searehed, and in the furthest comer, immediately under
the first step of the stairs, was found secreted • S oz. glare
bottle. It was quite empty, hut it as labelled with the words
.Llllll4lllllM—Poise n." What connection, if any, may flint
between the secretion of this bottle and the fate of the de.
craned. is • problem yet to he attired. lift he assumed that
death was commit by poison, the Injuries on the head and
blood on the person of the deceased, and 011 the frock coat
and on the door of the cupboard, have still to he accounted
for
Nnmerons applications have been made at the Hackney
policostation, hy parties whose relatives or friends have been
missing for some months past; one, a lady, gave a descrip-
tion of her brother, a lie Slime , which closely corres-
ponded w Ith that of the deceased. This gentleman was
fornierly id St. John's College, Cambridge, atid has been
unaccountably missing for the last hem months He had a
sister resoling at Ilackney-wick, but lived in another part of
the town. Another lady and gentleman came for tile pur-
pose lit identifying the body, which they supposed was that
of a person who deserted his wife awl fatuity eighteen months
sii:ce, taking with hint a suns of £2,000. They produced •
photograph, the feathres of which strongly resembled those
of the deceased. A third application eat made by relations
of a person who had retertiedNyeAr shice from New Zealand,
and who suddenly disappeared, leaving no trace whatever.
S. me if these applicants declined to view the body
it account of its effensive condition, and notie of
them succeeded In identifying it Some information has I
been received which, lilt stood alone, would appear to he
conclusive as to the identity of the deceased, tiviugh, MI will
he seen, it does tint throw any light upon the circumstances
attending his death. A police constable named Nixon,
hearing that an lomat.. of St Luke's Lunatic A,ylum
hail
been missing for Vine time, communkated the fact to the
authorities Sergeant was immediately sent to the
asylum, where he saw the medical officer, Itr. Ellis, who
at once proeteded to Hackney to view the body in the
mortuary. He is positive that the body is that of his patient,
ile.isman, and lit Mental, s the clothing as that which h.
ti-k with him fr im the asilum. The blucher to it marked
“Hirnett, C belongs to a patient of the tr,rie ot Har-
nett, in the central wing of St Luke's, throurh which
Reesman passed MI the night of his escape. The Lundy of
the unfortunate patient, Heasman, hold • re,pectable position
ttseuoely.
Almost at the elute time that Dr. Ellis had to all appear-
ance satiefactorilv identified the body of the decease •I, a
1 Lily visited the mortuary, and as it sitively dc lured that
he 1.13401 were iliac of hr hushatio, who was mis. fig tot
some time past She asserted that she was enabled to speak
: with certaihty npon the point Dom the fact of one of the
• fingers of the deceased bearing • peculiar mark, and not-