The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-27 00:00:00

MANSLAUGHTER OP A WIPB.-COMMITTAL

OP viz HUSBABD.-(TB13 DAY.)

At noon to-day, Mr. Jobn Humphreys, Middle-
0011.011111f, held en inquiry et the London Hospital, seeped-
lag the death et Nary Aube Haynes, aged 63 years, *Hood
to ►ave been tined b► her hushes& . . _ .

Burl GOOddliki NI,.

Betheal.

a porter, Sa—id that diereseed wee ills mother.
Cole'r bushels& George Haynes, was • weaver. Os
Tuesday, the 19th iostant, valises west in the even-
ing to see deesamed, at 3, Chaddrectreet, bet found
that she had boss carried to the hospital. He went to the
hospital, when be saw her. She said that ohm had bad a
quarrel with bet husband, mid that she struck him with •
broom. Her husband then took the poker or the shovel,
and gave her • dreadful blow over the bead. She said that
the quarrel was about • shilling, and that they ware both
interested. as it was holiday time. They were both germ-
' rally of very sober !Akita and they lived happily together.
Mrs. IL Walker, 11, Chashinostraet, tee wife of •
weaver, said that on the Tuesday night in question she
beard cries for meirtance, sod she saw deceased standing
at her own door and bleeding from her haul. Witness ran
to her and found that she had meelved • were wooed
on the head. She raid. "See what he has close. It same
mbaht, for I gave him one for his nob first." Witmer
t her to the hospital, as she was very badly ie.
j Her husband was is the room up -stairs bleed's(
LA:y frees • wooed the head, which his wife said she
iesse him. He said to hie wife, " I have streak yam
sad you struck me." They Wife both a little stader the
influeore of liquor, as they had bade speeding the Whitsn.
tide together. Witasses lied seem the husband mime, bat
may by saddest. He then said to her, "ftis • bad job,
bet she streak me violently the first blow. She aggravated

Mrs. Blake said that re heard deesessd my she
bad gives her bared something for himself, " sad good
luck to me for it. red I shell do it aria If be hits me." 'Her
horsed said, " You spilt my blood." Wiress believed cle-
ared said that she struck her husband Oar. He did set
admit that he drank his wife.

-11;. N. H;cliti; ,I,hoses:4tugeoa, said that deceased was
admitted to the hospital with a large lacerated wound in the
meek. The wooed errs dressed, bat death ensued on the
25th irk. tees erysipabia the result of the wooed. She
bed her for moms time past in • very unhealthy esaditioa.
George Hayes, was thee motioned, and asked whether
he bad say stabensent to make. He rid—" I have nothing
at all I. say, except that I know nothieg about the matter.
I was drunk, that in all I It eow. I am told by a man
that when I west late • publis-hoses to have another plat
of beer else followed me la, and aggravated me, and maid
she would smash • pint pot on my bead. She got
me bane, sad what happened thee Ido not know. lam
' parry for it."
The Coroner thee summed up, sad said that the fact that
the diseased was struck by her husband had been admitted
by him twice. Bat the fact that he had been struck first
reduced the crime from need murder to manslaughter.
The jury returned • verdict of "Manslaughter &pipet
George Harass fur feloniously killing and slaying Mary Ana
Haynes, his wife ;" but they added that he had acted
under circumstanoes of great provocation. and they therefor*
wished that be should be recommended to mercy.
The Coroner thee issued his warrant for the committal of
the accused to Henske. to await his trial at the easnieg
esselons of the Central Criminal Court. The coroner said
that he would take ball In two aureties al 501. each.

A general meeting of the International Rise As-
acclaim was bald yesterday aftareeoa. The Duke of Cam-
bridge presided. Lord Elobe explained the favourable
financial position of the sammistioa, the malt of which
would be a large incresee is the scriber and value of
the prizes at Wimbledoo ; and bevies entered into the
various practical details, was complimested for his zeal and
mew oe behalf of the eagoaistice.. Last year the prises
sere of the value of 1,1001. ; this year they will amount
to 1.6761.

AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An acci-
dent, singuler in its cireometariess, and unfortunately fatal
in its resells, boa befallen a young gentleman named Edward
John Templar, aged 16, a pupil at the Cowley DiooNsa
School, near Oxfoed. Contrary to the expressed wish of
the Rev. Mr. Herman, the member, who has a hundred
scholars under his care, amoral of them proceeded to bathe
at • part of the Isis known as the Sandford Leger, a dan-
gerous spot from the peat fall and velocity of the stream,
where the obelisk erected to the memory of the
son of the late Dr. Gaiderd, dam of Christ
Church, and another magmas, who were there
drowned, steads. John Ward, aged 16, fell over some
diestise into 20 feet of water, and being unable to swim.
there appeared to be scarcely any hope of hie escape from •
watery pare ; the dammed, however. wbo was an expert
slimmer. attracted by the cries of his oshoolfollow. !mi-
lady rushed to his aesistanok and landed him safely Do a
•cerryy exhausted elate, bat the effort oast him his life. Ica.
med• he parted with Ward he fell hook powerless sad
we. awned away by the force of the stream, a considerable
time having elapsed before his lifeless body was recovered.
At the inquest a verdict of " Accidental death" was re-
tamed. sod the oorereardslivred an
to the weavers who amonimaisd the

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Bohm ,W be orated is about two wastirf Ors.