The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-23 00:00:00

THE PM AND LOSS OP THREE LIVES,

INQUEST.--(THIS DAY.)
This morning Mr. Wm. Payne, the coroner
for London sad Southwark, opened an inquest in the
Board-room of St. George's Workhouse., Mint-street,
Borough, on the respective bodies of Charles Avery,
Thomas Neat, and Frederick Fervor, who were burnt to
death in the fin that occurred on Saturday morning in the
of Yrs. Barnes, •lodginghomeAmper, No. 4A, in
Clots street.
Yr. Donator Read attended to watch the case on
behalf of the Folios authorities ; Inspector Bayard WAS
present ea behalf of the Royal Society for Protection of
Life from Fire ; and Yr. Henderson for the London
Brigßarses said that she rented the house in which the
deceased met with their deaths. It was • lodging-house.
Shoham the deceased, but only one by name. They were
all lodgers. About 3 o'clock on Saturday morning she
was awoke by • ache se if some persons were running up or
down stain. She opened the door when some one cried
out, " Foe God's sake, Yrs. Barnes, come downstairs, for
the house is on fire." She ran down, got out at the bath,
and paned through the nut house. The house was closed
about ten minutes after 12 o'clock. Throe men were deep-
' big in the kitchen, and the deputy tried to get them to go
umthirs to bed, but he was unable, and witness went to
them and they left and proceeded to their sleeping-room.
By Mr. Heodersou—She had some wet sheen hanging in
the Indent, but she never said that the line had broken,
sor did she ever say that • spark had fallen from a candle
amongst some linen. The gas was completely turned off at
the main before she went to bed. She believed that the
fire commenced in the front parlour, but from what cause
she did not know. She never ud the fire out of the
stoma, for fear any of the hot cinders might fall through
the cracks in the hearths. The deputy always had the key
of the front room, but there was no necessity for his coming
downstairs after he went to bed. She had been insured
for ten years.
Thomas Ward said that he was the deputy at the house.
He toroodthe gas off at the meter and went to bed about
half-pest 12 o'clock. He went out for some beer about ten
minutes to 12 o'clock. There were three persons in tLe
kitchen then. He Wood them to go up to bed, and they
did so mum afterwards. He fetched • hadn't of clothes into
the kitchen, but it VP% the wrong one, and it was taken back
Etsad afterwards carried upstairs. Witness slept in
na floor as the three doomed men. One of the de.
ceased cried out " For God's sake, Tom, get up, the home
is on fire." That plum was, however, unable to get out,
sod he was burnt to death. Witness ran down to the tint
Boar window and jumped out at the back. There were five
mums sleeping in the same room as wham% He could
not tell how the fire began. The deceased took their elothes
off before they went to bed, and he believed that they
gtoirin the room to dress, and thereby got euffouted.
ea
ph Hubbard said that he slept in the hack room ad-
joining the one in which the deceased were. Witness tried
to pt down, but was unable and returned to his own room
sad jumped out of window. He broke his fall by laying
hold of some smith
Benjamin Prophett mid that he lodged in one of the
houses opposite that of Iles. Barnes. Witness got home
about 12 o'clock and was in the first floor front. His wife
being ill he was standing at the window, when he noticed
• light In the room on the mound floor, and smoke issuing
through the cracks In the shutten.
Richard Percival, police constable 100 H, said that in
peeving the house he discovered smoke issuing from the
windows. Hs sprang his rattle, and sent off for the engines
sad fire-escapes. Herm a man come to the etreotgloce in
his shirt, with his whiskers and headaiaed. The seethes
and engines arrived very shortly afterwards
By Yr. Howard—There was not the least delay in ding-
ing the enspe, bat owing to the density of the smoke he
was unable to say whether the conductor entered the house
or not. - .

—iiiiiietiosstelle 166 111 proved going to fetch the escape,
end aoooropanyiag the =doctor to the Ere. He helped to
bring the =iodine. The escape-man could not have been
quieter in getting to the fire. The escape was raised. and
the meditator ascended it and went into the moms, but he
come back end said he was unable to stand the heat. He
thought the firs was coming out of the first floor. The
other escape =rived in two or three minutes afterwards.
Mr. Thomas Cooke, the summoning Ales& said that he
was sent for about half-past fire o'clock on Saturday morn.
tog hat He went to the premises. and found the three
Catin the second Boor frond They were all droned.
il the bodies removed to the workhouse.
The beds were partially burned, and it appeared
to him that the fire =pal below. When be summoned
lira. Banes he asked her whether she could throw any
liAt on the fire, and she said that the deputy had goes to
a beast with a candle, and be might have dropped a spark
in it. . . .

Hr. Henderson, the foreman of the fire brigade, said
that when he was called the smoke was rushing out of the
home and over the Sonthwark-bridge-road. He found upon
has arrival the hones on fire at the hack and front—in fact,
the house was completely alive with flame. He th=
the fire was ceased by the deputy having taken the
too neer the clothes hanging in the room, and innocently set
them on fire.

"'he bodice having been idwti6sd, the jury returned •
verdict in each case c " Accidental death."
The proceedings then terminated.

SAD MID Old YELVERTON.

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If, about 2 or 3 o'clock on the morning of
Saturday lan any one had chanced to wander
down Barrack-street, one of the vilest of the
many vile beck slam in Douglas, Lela of Man, he
would have (ono& lying in the gutter. the stiakieg half-
frozen refuse water Bowing over and monad her, the body
of a woman, literally half-asked, and actually from to
death, the sight beingpiercingly cold, with a
bard frost. If the wanderer had bees sa in-
habitant of the tows he w3tild, immediately at
!colds; at the face of the dead fisesals, have recognised the
depraved, besotted, bloated countenance of the drunken
sod dissolute Hon. Jam Yelverton, alias Jimmy Keefe,
by which name she was better known, the widow
of the Hoe. Augustus Yelverton, brother of Lord
Avoesaore, sod fellow-side with that nobleman to the noto-
rious Major Wrenn'. whose adebreted marriage and law.
silt have for the last Ave yore oompied the armoire of the
bile. At aa Jagger held es the body of the woman ca
tiatarday it was stated that the Hoe. Augustus Yelverton,
the husband of Jassy Keefe, to whom he was married about
25 yeare since, died in Liverpool about two mouths ago ;
that he left bar a imesiderable ours of money for her mint,-
soma, which was to be paid to her in iselahmete by
lawyer In Liverpool, from which tows Ms had arrived
is Doggies es Tannaw last, her fare to the blind (so-
coedtr'oogg to a statersest she made se a wooer in a low
ppuablic•hou a es the eight before her frightful death)
having bees paid by the lawyer is question. The
%goer was held by Jamas (1011, high built ol
tow di sad duets( tie peoredings he stated that the
Hes. Augostss Yelvertea aid the dammed had lived
is Oastletows for many years, and so dissolute sad
depraved were they in their habits that he bast
ommitted Mese to prism fully a headred times for king
busk sad disorderly. At Mistime they were allowed by Lord
A yours, it was understood, an ample aroma to keep them
matfortaidy, but they were is the habit of spleen it I.
drink as eerily as they got it, sad they scarcely ever had
as them estlidest raga, let shoe clothing, M ewer •
their subdues. Jemmy Keefe, who ma a low-bora
weems, the tlibd wife of the Hes. Augustus
Telegram, be having proves* bees married to a
Spanish lady and as Mob use. He had so children
by hie last wife, bat Iss had emend by his former wives.
Ts commeemee, however, of his depraved habits, they
were taloa from him, end dry sow occupy
pushiest' Is life. Ahhoegh in rank and is
also Mere was each a Menem between Jenny Keefe
sad her husband, yet they were greatly attached
to each other ; they laveriably accompanied each other
to their orgies, aid If ice of them wet seat to gaol
for soma entree oddest the pesos committed du-
sing a &ankles At, it ma the practice of the other
to smash some shop windows, or make a disembarks
in the stream for the ode purpose of gettawg eonssetteed to
gaol also, is order that they might keep each other compsay„
rarcely ewer bed a place to lay their heads in, and
they lived the greater pieties of their time either is the
meta or I. prem. gush were the Hoooorable Angoras
and Jame Yelvertee •, and their dissolute lives and frightful
fate—ens dying ia slow ledging•hunse in Liverpool, and the
ether flora to death is the streets of Dowiles—ore=
sink* lame of the evils of intemperance. AU the
that Jimmy Keefe hod as wham she was fogad dead was—Zol
gauss trash whisk did sot reach to her knees, sad was as
thicker than a pima of paper, as old pair of socks that Jun
reached above bar amides, and a pair of this slippers. A few
hears before herdsath ire was seen Medias is a home
deer dose to when she was toned dead, and was beard
trolling out, in a voice husky with drink, a street ballad
called **True bliss for ever. The jury returned • medial
of " Death from expemere."—Liserpoof Mercury.

MMISOPOLZTAN RAILWAY.—The report of Mr.
Yowler, Übe enetnew, elated that the Farriersion-elreet
Station sahrgeorent, under contract to Yr. teak, wee
.early orespleted. The new locomotives which the
&beware had ordered night be expected to be delivered
diming the mestbe of Mal sad June next. The eagles sad
=ships at the Erinware-reed Swam were is as ad-
data Mr. Kelt bed completed his
it a Amos proseention of the works of tableTa=
extension ; sad from the tare • proportion of property
already *ed, Mr. Fowler exported they would be in
sperstth every put of the hoe and Mations in •
few wastes.

---Hitowart; HituarierM, AND LONDON RAILWAY.
I The report al the directors dates that emiaiihrabie prairies
has bees made etth the works, sad that the amehltite al
had she promoded favoembly. The directors had later
desert a bill late parlemsat this awoke for powers to ma-
street a braadi from the lee sear kligipte to hbozsedoe
park, and to widen the Iwo hem the poist M jaw:Pisa et
lb. breath to the Great Nathan /railway. They
both= the trade to the park mad prim weal ha
very largti mid that the outlay for the prepreol aseemew
dahlia weal be ressaaerMive. Tb. Zebedee" sad Hamp-
stead Ompaap wire likowes applyiai ter peva, to astern.
their Has le the hisseadrepuit, a masses* idea ert
earimaly be the sompaey's helmets, sad which sad
therefore las statist parr meal sosswat
showed that WAAL bad hoes expeaded, {smug a baser*
el 3,8021.