The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

AMERICAN POLITICAL PORTRAITURE

SUSPECTED OUTRAGE AND MURDER OF

A SERVANT-GIRL.

An inquiry was instituted on Friday, by Mr. St. Clair
Bedford, at the board-room of St. George's Woikhouse,

London, in reference to the death of Mahala Howard,
eighteen years of age, late a general servant in the
family of Mr. Poole, 9, Devonshire-road, Wandsworth-
road.

1 Mary Lindford was the first witness examined, and
deposed that she knew deceased. The last time she saw
her alive was on Sunday night, when she met her by
chance and alone on Battersea-bridge. She accompanied
the &Ceased, who was then quite well, to the house of
Mr. Poole.
A police-sergeant of the B. Division said that at
twenty minutes past font a.m. on Wednesday last, as
he was passing along Thames Bank, Pimlico, he found
the body of deceased, lying with her head and shoulders
in the water, the other portion of her body upon the
strand, and her clothes hitched to a pile at the mouth
of Cnbitt's Pier, opposite Rutland-street. Her bonnet

and shawl were missing.
Jane Constable, mother of the deceased, stated that
her daughter left her house at Colchester to wait upon a
sick aunt at Grays, in Essex, about eighteen months ago,
and she had not seen her since. , She had, however,
frequently received letters from deceased. The last time
she heard from her was on the 13th of last March,
when she only spoke of having procured a situation in
London.
Mr. Edward Poole, of 9, Devonshire-road, Wands-

worth-road, Surrey, was next eiatilined, and stated tha

deceased had been a general servant in his family
for about two months. She appeared to be always
in excellent health, but had latterly been very depressed
in spirits, evidently from some severe hidden sorrow.
She had no followers that he was then aware of, the
only persons coming to see her being Mr. and Mrs. Lind-
ford, who represented themselves as her uncle and aunt,
and a brother of Mrs. Lindford, whom she introduced
as another uncle of deceased. Deceased left his house
on Tuesday evening, and not returning at the time
expected, he sat up for her until one o'clock, when he
retired to bed. In the morning he went to Lindford's
house and saw Mrs. Lindfercl, and having told her her
niece had left, Mrs. Lindford (the first witness) said,
I won't decelve you, Mr. Poole ; the fact is, I believe
,she (deceased) has formed an attachment to my brother,"
and ho (witness) immediately exclaimed, "What, with
her uncle ! You do not mean she had formed an im-
proper attachment ?" and she replied, "I do." Then
he said that accounted for it all, and left.

The mother of deceased was recalled, and emphatically
denied that the Lindfords were any relations whatever,

or that she knew anything of them until the presen

Lnquiry.

Dr. Eloxam, of Duke-street, Grosvenor-square,
deposed that he had performed a post-mortem examina-
tion. There were extensive discoleurations on the
head, throat, arms, and back, which may or may not
have been the result of direct violence. There were
also four slight bruises on the left side of the fore-

head, and a larger bruise on the knee. She had been
in her eighth week of pregnancy. He would like to
have had some evidence as to her state of health just
previous to her death, as he believed that she had had
miscarriage. lie also considered,. without doubt, that
she had been the subject of an outrage of a most violent
character, probably immediately preceding death, or
within twenty-fours previous, at the farthest limit:
In consequence of the suspicious nature of the case an
adjournment was unanimously agreed to, to afford time
for further inquiries by the police.

MR. SPURGEON AND THE NOBEL] IY.—This eelebra-
.f.,l preacher attended at Aberoarn on Wednesday last,
where he preached in a large field belonging to Mr.
Rogers, to at least 20,000 people. Our informant says
that among those present were the Lord-Lieutenant of
Monmouthshire, and Mrs. Leigh; Lord Tredegar,
Lady Tredegar, and family ; Lord Llanover, Lady
Llanover, and family, and a large number of the leadinm
gentry of the county. Previous to commencing divine
worship, it was represented to the great preacher that it
would be advisable for the large concourse of people to
move aside, to enable the several carriages-and-four to
approach nearer the platform, so that the occupants
might more easily hear him, upon which he replied that
he did not come there to preach to horses, but to men;
four horses and a carriage would occupy the ground of
fifty people, and therefore the horses and carriages must
remain where they were. We are also informed that
after the service the lord-lieutenant sent for Mr.
Spurgeon, and invited him to come to Pontypool ; but
Mr. Spurgeon replied that he was sorry he could not
comply with his lordship's wish, as he had full engage-
ments for the next two years.

.DEATH OF A. DISTINGUISHED OFFICER.—We regret
to have to record the death of a distinguished veteran
of the Indian army. General Sir David Leighton,
K.C.8., the senior officer on the Bombay establislunekt,
expired at his residence, Bafford-house, near Cheltenham,
on the Ist instant, in his 88th year. Sir D. Leighton
entered the service of the late Hon. East India Com-
pany in 1705, and served in the Mysore campaign of
1799, and was present at the siege and capture of Serin-
gapatam. He accompanied the force under the late
Duke of Wellington (then Colonel Arthur Wesley) in
the operations against the Mahratta freebooter, Dondia
Waugh, in 1800, and took part in the storming of the

forts of Dummul, Rollcbad, and Syrhingy. He served in
Malabar during the rebellion in that province, in 1803,
and in 1815 commanded a brigade in the Deccan field
force. Re took part in the expedition under Sir Lionel
Smith to Arabia, in 1821, which resulted in the subju-
gation of the Arab tribe of Beth 800 Ali. He held for
many years the office of Adjutant-General to the Bom-
bay Army, and the firmness, regularity, and impartiality
which characterised.'his administration, gave general
satisfaction, and gained 'for him the esteem and respect
of all those with whom he was brow-A in contact.
ARREST OF DECAY.—you remember reading how
upon a day not many years since, certain miners, work-
ingharads
far underground, came upon the body of a poor
before.fello Somewwhoha chemicaldperisli perished
agent
nentht etosuffwohcaici tilngpit 40 ye
the
body
been subjected—an agent prepared in the laboratory of
nature—had effectually arrested the progress of decay.
They brought it up to the surface, and for a while, till
it crumbled away through exposure to the atmosphere,
it lay there, the image of,a fine sturdy young man. No
convulsion had passed over the face in death--the
features were tranquil; the hair was black as jet. No
one recognised the face—a generation bad grown up
since the day on which the miner went down his shaft
for the last time. But a tottering old woman, who had
hurried from her cottage at hearing the news, came up,
and she knew again the face which through all these
years she had never quite forgot. The poor miner was
to have been her husband the day after that on which
he died. They were rough'people, of course, who were
looking on ; a liberal education and refined feelings are
not deemed essential to the, man whose work it is to get
up coals, or even tin; but there were no dry eyes there
when the grey-headed old pilgrim cast herself upon the
youthful corpse, and poured out to its deaf ear many
words of endearment unused for 40 years. It was a
touching contrast—the one so old, the other so young.
They had both been young these long 'years ago ; but
time had gone on with the living and stood-80g with
the dead.—Fraser's' Magazine for June.

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If American editors and reporters "whip creation"
in. anything, it is certainly in their memoirs of men who
may be permanent or ephemeral herbes. The laSt papers
are fail of details respecting the democratic nominations,-
and *let the title of " Sketches of the Candidates,'
Play gibe not oily the grivate did Valle histoty, but
the phySiaal diriensiOns, peculiarities, and even deform
ties of the men theinselVes, to an extent which can only
be rivalled by the camera. Lincoln, for instance, (the.
republican candidate for the Presidency) who it appears,
"stumped the state" (of Illinois) in 1858, in, opposi-
tion to Douglas, "is no orator, statesman, or legislator;
but is classed among the stump speakers of the Tom
Ford stamp." "His manner before a popular assembly
is either superlatively ridiculous or very impressive:"
"I is height iS 6 feet .1: inches; his cemtileflon is about
that of an octoroon ; his face is genial looking; he has
a mouth of magnificent proportions, and nostrils such as
Napoleon always liked to fiad in his best generals."
"He employs but little gesticulation, but when he
desires to make a point, produces a shrug of the
shoulders, an elevation of his eyebrows, a depression
of his mouth, and a general malformation of countenance,
se comically awkward, that it never fails to bring down
the house." It appears that Lincoln and Hamlin (the
candidate for the Vice-Presidency), are both lawyers by
ppfessioni and , that the, hitter has
.been ten years a
tneniber of the Senate of the United State