The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

TES WOLYZEFAMPIDIEAND DUDLEY

MYSTEMZI.

Yesterday the mquest was resumed in Weiver-
Immploo oaths body of man, William Memory, who was
found dead, and his body in a state far adeenead in elemett-
peeitioo, in the house in which, for a fortnight before be
was murdered, he bad lived with • woman named Rominah
Stsiduiu, who the da) before bin corpse was discovered
was also foui,cl dead in an empty house at Dudley.
Ann Corbett, of Dudley, deposed that on • Friday •
month sgo, • woman came to her at her house in Tosser-
street, Dudley, and asked to be allowed to see • house which
she (witness) had to let. Witness told her what the rest
would be, and she went away, saying sin would go and tell
' her husband. This was in the dusk of tin eveniog. She re-
' turned ; and saying her husband's name was William Smith,
said the home would snit her husband. The house won to
beta. 9d. • week, the first weak to be paid oo the Monday
week following. Witness gave her the key, and did not see
her spin. The house wee locked when witness aisd her hus-
band went to see if the people were in the house. It re-
mised looked, sad • few days afterwards witness's husband
went to the gas works, where the woman said her husband
worked. He found that no one worked there of that Dame,
and by and by, when some persons wanted to enter opou
the house, William Johnson got into the house by an up.
stain window, and came down and fumed open tbe flout
door. On the following day (Thursday), Mr. Shaw and his
family, who took the house, catered upon it, sad solos of
their children after raining upstairs aloe back ervint
"There is a mad woman lying upstairs." Witness ynelj
went up into the attic, sod having seen the foot and leg of
• woman, ran back down stain and made an alarm. The
police then took possession of the home. Witness did not
see the dead body again. When the woman came to take
the house she appeared to be decently ddreseed. She had
on • bonnet, but witness did not remember the description
of bonnet.

Mary Eliza Field and other witnesses also identified the
body ; and the fullowing letter wee titan produced :
" July 31.1863.
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"My dear Mother,—l have been trying to get work at
Birmingham, and I eanaot get any. I caner live this un-
happy life nay longer. You know the reason that I have
sever known what it wu to have one day's peace sire she
came beck. I cannot get work, or, mother, I would ; and
lam too tired of this work altogether. It is not selling ; it
a boggle( of the people to boy. Tell that patty, if l could
hue got anything to do I would have dose according to
promise."
There was no signature to the letter, but Mrs. Powell,
Chancy's mother, said the writing was that of her eon.
She could not tell who her son referred to
when he wrote "tell that party." She knew nothing
of her son having "no peace sauce she came borne." When
she last rw her son he said, " I
Mother you look very bad ;
of come and have a glass port wine. have got MOOS mo-
ney, for I have received it from that party, and I have got
It here," pointing to his breast. Witner had been warned
three times. Had not seen her second husband for twisty
ears, and did not know if he wee alive. Os the 2tith of
July she met her sou in Wolverhampton, and be asked
her to try and get his grandfather at Kidderminster to take
him back again to work. She walked to Kidderminster sod
back to his grandfather to get him work. The loss walk
knocked her up, and she was ill fur a fortnight. When eh*
got better, she went to her eon's house in Wolverhampton,
and found the boor locked op. When her eon spoke
about having some money with him, he said he was oarryieg
it because be was afraid she was going off again. He sever
complained to bar of having been robbed by any one bat the
cleared woman.

Mr. Fran. A. Nesbitt and Mr. Gibbon, the summer who
had made the pat marten examinatioo. As regarded the
woman, Mr. Nesbitt was unable to speak to the cause of
bet death ; but a bottle of laudanum was found spola her.
As to the man, Mr. Gibbon said—From the whole inveatiga.
Um sad examinatioc, lam of opinion, first, that the de-
mised died from injuries to the head and a greet bus of
blood (apparently several quarts), mooed, that them in-
juries and this violence were indicted by some person or
peons other than the deceased himself ; thud, that after
death the body wu laid out and a pillow placed under
its head ; fourth. that the body was painted or brushed over
with toleriely hot gas tar (probably with a view of preveut-
big detection from smell as long as porible) ; and, fifth,
that a sheet and counterpane had been placed co the body,
and tucked under the head by some person or persons other
than the deceased. _ . . .

Some other evidence having been taken, the inquest was
again adjourned.

CAUTION TO 34VMM-A YOUNG OBNTLB•
NAN DROWNID AT DOVER.

Down, Ttlnerthr.—The borough coroner, Mr.
W. H. Pays, held an inquest to-day at noon, at the Guil-
ford Arnie inn, near to the sea front, co the remains of
Richard Murdock, a youth 18 years of age, and the son of •
gentleman reading at Crievelands, Balhbay, near Dublin,
who was drowned while bathing in the sea at Rest Cliff,
yesterday morning. The melancholy event hes itoomioried I
considerable sensation and gloom to pervade the town, 1
especially among visions, the deceased, a promising young
fellow, being himself co • visit here, under the are of his
tutor, the Rev. E. A. Clay too, and in the company also
of • fellow.student. From the particulars which tran-
spired at the inquiry it appears that the deceased expressed
a stronedeeire to bathe yesterday morning, and his tutor,
together with the other pupil, yielded to his wishes, and all
three went to bathe at hart Cliff from one of the machines
placed there for the us. of patliesen. The weather was
peculiarly inappropriate for the purpose. There wens good
deal of wind and rare, and the sea was exceedingly rasp.
The tide, moreover, wee ebbing. The man in cheap of the
machines seems to have offered some impediment I. the
geatlemeo bathing. He himself declared that he positively
declined to allow them to bathe, and refused to lower the
machine ; but that the deceased end his companions see-
withstanding declared that they would go into the
water, sod would bathe from the machine, as it was
at the brink of the sea. The Rev. Mr. Clayton, en
the other hand, mid that nothing of this kind
took place, hut that the bathing-man simply said, " Yen
are nut going to bathe this morning, are you!" and that on
bis &eking " Why not!" all he remarked wee, " You mast
be careful then.' To the beet of his recollection, the man
did not decline to put the bathing machine into the water,
the fact hang that the water was at the time washing the
wheals, so that it was not necessary to have it put is any
farther. While they ware undressing the man brought
them towels, and the jury considered the tact • proof that
the opposition on the man's part wee 'atop determined as he
desired to make out. On the other han the jury did sot
thank he was deserving of any immure, ell the gootheines
being good swimmers and aucustoceed to bathing. After
leaving the machiue the deceased and the Rev. Mr. Clayton
got out beyond the sari, but oa the other pupil, • youth who
gave the name of John Thomas Yeats', ewdeavouring to gee
through the breakers, he hesitated and returned, al
in so doing he was dashed upon the beach and had to
misted. His two companions, boding that the tide use
carrying them out, made the beat efforts they could to reach
the chore, but without sumac The clergyman was twice
hurled to the beach, but was swept out again. On one of
these coosions he was so hart that he told his companion
that be feared be had not strength to reach the shore, but
advised him to keep swimming. A wave larger than the rest,
however, washed him on shore, where he was aught by •
young seafariug roam named Beer, wlm meet courageously
bad a rope lashed round him and ventured into a
see in which, as the witnesses said, it would have bees im-
possible for a boat to live. The wave which cast Mr. Clay-
too on shore seems to have buried his lees fortunate com-
panion, who roust have been nearly exhausted when it
struck him. When he wis next seen, his hood was lying
helplessly on one side, and shortly afterwards his face was
lost under water. The body was quickly recovered, and
conveyed to the nearest boat-house, were Dr. Adley speed
nearly an hour in eodeavouriog to restore animation, but
without success. The jury, after bearing a quantity of evi-
dence embrseirig the Above facts, returned a verdict of
" Accidentally drowsed," and passed s very big% mania.'
oc the gallant intrepidity of Mr. Beer, being of opinion that
but for his exertions H,. Clayton would also have lost his

SERIOUS Gus AOCIDZNT.—On Sunday evening
last, about nine o'clock, a serious accident occurred on the
Earicote•road, at Birmingham. It appears that Mr.
George Dodd, the eon of a butcher at Euncote, was driving
a gig along the road, when it was run into by a ear from
the Warwick Arum, which was going in the opposite direc-
tion. The gig, in which were Mr. Dodd, Mies Whitmore,
and Master Motteram, the son of Mr. Motteram, of the
Dolphin, was going at the rate of seven or eight miles an
hour ; and the oar, which was driven by Mr. Ney, was re-
turning from the Milverton station at the speed of tea
or eleven miles an hour. The collisios, cassioned by Mr.
Nay taking the wrong ride of the road, was terrific, and
the occupants of both vehicles were hurled out of them by
the shock. Master Motteram was picked up in a state of
imensiodity, having sustained casoission of the brain, but
under the skilful treatment of Mr. Nunn he is programing
satisfactorily. Mr. Dodd remised a fracture toi the *altar
bone, in oddities to several severe bruises on the back and
caber portions of ,the body. Miss Whitmore fortunately
escaped with a few maciparatively slight contusions. Nsy
was hurled from hie seat on the box of the car, and fell
heavily on las head, and he was also severely bruised about
the loins. Both vehicles were completely smashed in pieces,
and it is almost a miracle that their occupants escaped
without readying fatal injuries.—Birsiingham Gazette.

Atecrrnma Daum sm Fres—Yesterday afternoon
Nee. Dinah Penes, of John--tweet, OM Heat-road, was
burnt to death in oossequonee of her clothing is some man-
ter taking fire. The body awaits an inquest, but it is stated
that the accident was not in this ease attaibatable to the
use of crinoline, for the deceased did not wear it.
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