The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-02 00:00:00

THE ALLEGED WIPE_IifI7IIDICE IR THE CITY

BY A BLIND NAN.

INQUZST.—(THD3 DLY.)
Thin forenoon Mr. W. J. Payne, the deputy
coroner for the city of Loudon, held au inquiry at the
White Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, respec the
death of Eliza Keefe, aged 40 years. who lost here on
Saturday last, it is stated, in consequence of having been
kicked brutally in the abdomen by her husband, Stephen
Keefe, under very shocking circumstances. The proceed-
ings excited considerable interest iu the neighbourhood.
The court was crowded.

Mr. L. Olding, assistant-surgeon to St. airtholomew's
Hospital, said he made • poet mortem examination of the
deceased this morning, at the house in Rose-alley. There
' was • new-born child lying beside its mother. They were
both far advanced in decomposition, and in consequence he
could not discover any external marks of violence. On open-
ing the abdomen he found half a pint of blood in it that had
no right to be there. He found • laceration from which
the blood had flowed. That was quite sufficient to cause
death. The woman had been recently coafinsd. The
wound must have been caused by external violence.
The kick given tqa have been • slight one, but the
fact of the deoe being pear her confinement at the
time would make • slight kick act more severely than
at another time. Her death was accelerated by the kick.
The child must have been alive a very short time before it
was born. The violence of the kick inflicted might have
caused the child's death.

Mary Anne Sweeny, 13, Rose-alley, Bishopegate-street,
sister of the deemed, repeated the evidence given by her
at the police court.
Mary Anne Keefe, daughter of the deceased, a little girl
' eleven years old, said that she led her tither about. She
' recollected her father coming borne last Seturday morning
between 12 and 1 o'clock. He gave her mother a
shilling to Day some things for supper. She and
her mother went out, bought the things, and came
home directly. When they came to the bottom of
Rose-alley her father was standing there. He called
her bad Dames, but did not strike bee. Witness's father
said, " You have been to the public-konaes ;" and her mother
, said, " I have not bees a quarter of an hour." They all
went into the house. The prisoner than seised a walking-
stick that was in the room, and began to beat deceased with
it. Witness rushed between them for the purpose of saving
her mother. Prisoner gave witness two blows, and the stick
fall out at his hand. Witness caught it up, and put it in the
cupboard. The stick produced (a slight walking-stick) is
the same. Prisoner then commenced to kick deceased. Wit-
, ness's suet then came in. Whom saw no blood on the
deceased. Prisoner has been blind since he war two years
old. Prisoner could see a little, but could not see a person in
the room.

-Mr. L. Olding, surgeon, recalled—l have heanl the evi-
dence, and think that the hurt inflicted on the Saturday
morning very likely to have produced the injury from the
effect of which deemed subsequently died.
After other evidence, the limy returned the following ver-
dict :—" blanalaoghter against John Keefe, and the jury
i find that blame s attached to the medical man."

The dhrooertheiti;a7leost hi; warraa t far the committal
'1 of the prisoa.er Keefe to Neonate far trial.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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