The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-12 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN HOLBORN.

1 NQU EST. —(CH IS DAY.)
This morning Dr. Lankeeter, the Central Mid-
dlesex coroner, opened an inquest at the Queen's Arms,
Red Lion-passage, Holborn, as to the death of Eliza
Chandler, aged thirty years, the wife of an assistant at
Prosser's oyster shop, in Holborn, and residing at 13, Red
Lion-street.

It appears from the report of the police end from the
evidence adduced that the deceased was discovered last
Tuesday night by a Mrs. Perkins lying in the passage
of No. 13, Iland-court, Red Lion street, apparentlyaae
drunk and incapable, and, with the assistance of some
lodgers in the house, why were (Wends of the deceased, upon
whom it is presumed she was calling to see, Mrs. Perkins
conveyed her to a room where she was laid on a sofa, and,
being supposed to hr drunk. she was suffered to remain there
unnoticed until the following morning, when, on an attempt
being made to arouse her, she was found quite dead.
. .

M. Sheen, • tailor, living at 13, Hatid court, deposed
that on his return home on the night in question he found
Mrs. Perkins attempting to get deceased upstairs, and he
=listed her. Deceased appeared to be under the influence:
of liquor.
Henry Chandler said deceased was his wife. He missed
her on his return home that night from business. The fol-
lowing morning be received a message from 13, Hand-court,
stating she was lying there ill. His tint question was, has
she cut her throat or poisoned herself because she had !
previously attempted suicide. He found her lying dead
in
Hand-court, and at once sent for Dr. Valpy.
Mr. Valpy, surgeon, of Gray's-inn-lane, deposed that he
attended upon the deceased and found that she had been
seriously injured at the back of the head. He performed a
post-mortem examination of the body, and discovered
severe fracture of the skull over the back of the bead and
great bruises and depression on the bone. Internally it was
ascertained that the occipital bone was fractured
nearly under the seat of the bruises extending from
the upper part of the back of the head to the
base of the skull, with considerable effusion of
blood. He examined the brain and found clots
corresponding with the depressed surface of the bone, and
considerable effusion. All the other organs of the body
were quite healthy. The cause of death was from fracture
of the skull. _ _ _

By the Coroner—He could not conceive that it was mused
but by a very severe blow. It was not, in his opinion, such a
fracture as might be produced from falling downstairs. Dr.
Heasley, of Hatton.garden, Amsted in the postmortem
examination, and was ready to fully corroborate his evidence.
The Coroner thought it unnecessary to examine farther
witnesses at present, as the case assumed too serious a
nature to be at once disposed of.
Inspector Pierce, of the E division of police, produced a
large stone which he rid was kept to fasten back a door at
the foot of the stairs where deceased was found insensible,
and be desired to know if the deceased fell back against'
that stone in a state of drunkennees, whether such injuries
would not be likely to be produced.
Mr. Valpy was quite sure no fall would produce such in-
juries.
The Coroner adjourned the inquiry to enable the police
to make an investigation of the affair.

THE FATAL COLLISION ON TER CRYSTAL
PALACE RAILWAY AT LONDON-BRIDLE.

INQUE3I.-(THI§ DAY.)

This morning the investigation was relumed by
Mr. John Humphreys. one of the Middlesex coroners, at the
Three Crowns Tavern, City, into the circumstances of •
collision between • passenger train from the Crystal Palace,
and ► ballast train at the London•bridge Terminus, on the
sth August, by which Mn. Harriet Coleman, aged 42, boat
her life.

The jury, after a long deliberation, returned a verdict—
" That deceased died from the effects of ulceration of the
intestines from typhoid fever, accelerated by a shock to the
system from a collision on the London. Brighton. and
South Coast Railway, and that the said collision was occa-
sioned by the driver of a pilot-engine coming out of a siding
without leave or due caution, and that the pointinnan at the
said siding has no means of stopping, by stop-points or
otherwise, an engine no coming out of the aiding, which is
highly dangerous to the lives of the public."

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LAMBETH
SUSPENSION BRIDGE.

LATDST PARTICULARS.—(THIS DAY.)
We were happy to find, upon inquiry at the works
this morning, that the results of yesterday's ►ccident
were by no means so serious as was represented in
the hurry and affright which immediately succeeded.
It was at first stated that two boys, named Smith
and Henderson, were drowned, since neither could be
found, and both were supposed to have been among
those at work on the scaffold, when the ktter gave way.
Now, however, it is proved that Smith was discharged some
one or two days ago, so that Henderson remains only to be
accounted for.

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt a to the fact of hie
having been drowned, although his body has not yet been
recovered. With regard to the workmen who were also pre-
cipitated into the river, eight in number, and several
of whom it wu at first feared were severely
injured, it seems that they were in reality more frightened
than hart. They were all again at work this morning pre-
senting no further external marks of injury than a gurgle
black eye. The came of the accident, in the opinion of
Mr. Barlow, engineer to the company, vas • de.
feet in the construction of the scaffold itself,
which rested on a series of poles. tapering from one ex.
tremity to the other, and suspended transversely under the
bridge upon iron slings. To equalise the strength of a
platform or scaffold so sustained the ordinary mode
of construction is to hang the poles with thick
end. and thin ends alternating ; but in this in-
stance, all the thick ends were on one side, all (the
thin ends on the other ; and it was while the men were
crowding together upon the thin end side rivetting the car-
riage-way girders with red hot bolts, that the pole imme-
diately beneath them broke, and the whole were precipi-
tated into the river.

SYMPATHY WITH GAILIBALDI.—A memorial is
now in course of signature, requesting the mayor to sell a
town's meeting to consider the recent lamentable event
which hu consigned the Liberator of Italy to a prisoo.
The object of the meeting will be to express the
sympathy of our townsmen with Garibaldi, and to memo-
rialise her Majesty's government to use its influence to
hasten the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome.
The memorial has already been numerously and mast re-
spectably signed be persons of various shades of political
opision.—Birwunghant Post.