The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-15 00:00:00

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kC..T.lOties, the resident medical officer of St. George's
Hospital, said he received the deceased child from last .;t.
nese at ball-past 5 on the morning of the 10th. On it. *done
sioo it was alive, but the breathing was quite suspended;
it was painless and perfectly insensible. It vim ti
remarkably fibe etroog child. There was a lip.
tire tied very tightly Toned the neck ; in fact, so tight
as to canes • deep &preemie°. This was removed, and mesas
were adopted to restore life ; and after permvering for about
a quarter of an hour the child began to rally, and ahoy e
lapse of two hours it breathed perfectly, and as.
tinned to breathe for half an hour, when it became omit,
and died at half-past 8 the same evening.
The Coroner—What was the cause of death

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Witham—The child had been strangled. That wu
the came of death.

Servant limnan, of the B division. attended on behalf at
the police authorities, and said that, though every maim
had been made. the pollee had been unable to find any elm
to the inhuman perpetrator of the murder.
The jury return a verdict of " Wilful murder avant
some perom or persons unknown."
The inquiry then terminated.

DEATH PROM STARVATION.

SPECIAL VERDICT.

An inquiry was held at the Prince of Wain
Tavern, Charles.terraos, Victorialiark. before Mr. flue
plum, respecting the death of Jape Crowe, aged 6 yals
who expired under the following circumstances :
Mn. Dobson, 4, Gibranar.walk, said that she we
called to No. 3, 'Fork street, Betbnal.green, and tourd
dammed lying in the corner of an unfurnished room, on
beep of rags. The girl was in • dreadful state, and ass
dying from want of food. The mother of the de.
ceased, Martha Crowe, used to leave deceased from
• Tuesday till • Saturday with only three-farthisp to
support her for that time. The mother used also to lease
deceased from a Frid till • Tuesday with a similar sum.
The child died on Friday. Bbe was sadly neglected and died
from starvation.

Amelia Hollis, 3. Turk-street, saki that the deceased hail
been for a fortnight lying in a dying state, from want et
food, on a heap of dirty rap, in an almost empty room.
Mrs. Franklin, landlady, said that the father of the
deceased was a bedstead maker. Nine weeks ago the famly
took the room. During that time be used to leave scam
times a pound of bread and a little treacle for the demon
and her sister, who was fifteen yowl old, to live upon for s
whole day. He used to be drunk on the floor while he
daughter was dying of hunger. She got the unapt
from neglect ; witoesils family were infected from her, nod
three of the children were now is small-pos.
The Coroner said that the health of the whole district
might be affected by such a 000dition of things, and he
dieted Mr. Burrows, the officer of the court, to communicate
immediately the facts disclosed to the sanitary inspector.
Martha Crowe mid that three weeks ago she separated
from her husband, as she was in danger of her Weft= him.
At the beet of times he only used to give her 3a a week is
support the family. Witness used to give the children, what
she could, but they wan all in danger of dying of starvation
Witness was obliged to get her liviog as best she could.
because Crowe used to beat her savagely and throw cold
water over her. They were not legally married.
By the Coroner—She once left deceased for four den
without seeing after her. Witness had Dever been ken.
mooed in Wandsworth for shoplifting.
Sophia Crowe, sister of the deceased, said that they had
been constantly starved. Her father had applied to hero
deceased taken into the workhouse, but they would ham
nothing to do with the case. Wanes* and her mien trod
to earn moue by making little hoses, but they could eat
all thorn. Witeses mod to lie ma the bare bosidsoteight.

Mr. C. Iwws, surgeoe, said that he .1.11 called in to
deceased and fouled her lying lea a heap of rags, dring fee
stareatiov. She had small-pox. He made a post-mortem
11111111111illatiell and found that the stomach sad iatestise
were perfectly empty. There was Dot a particle of food
them. There was no tat in the body. The child had
perished from want of common food. If food had bees
given deceased she would be now alive. It was a regular
case of manslaeghter. . . . _

The Coroner, in summing up, said that a charge of mu-
slaughter could not be brought home, because the father,
however morally culpable, was not legally responsible. as he
was not married to the mother. And, as for the latter, d
she were not able to support her children except out of the
Produce of shoplifting, she could not be held criminal!'
liable. It was evident that the parents had made no !wino
application to the workhouse authorities.
A juror remarked that such a state of affairs would not
be tolerated among a eet of Africans.
The jury returned the following verdict :—" That the de
ceased, being a child of tender age, died from the mortal
effects of exhaustion arising from the want of food ad
proper care, through the gems neglect of her parents."
The proceedings then terminated.

EXTRAOILDINARY StrICIDG-00 Saturday mon
log, between 5 and t o'clock, u Robert Rudd, a waterms
was in his boat on the river, off Greenwich, be discovers
the body of • man floating is the water, and on briorin
it ashore found that one of deceased's eyes had been bins
out, and that the face bore marks of borne from
; gunpowder. On the body baits searched • quantity d
gun-caps, powder, sod bullets were found, and at a Merl
' ()Wages from where the deceased was tint seen • pistol,
the nipple of which was broken. was picked up. TO
deceased was very respectably attired, and is described
' about 33 years of age, am feet in height, brows hair. aid
dark complexion. Only a peony in money was foetid
his pockets, but two linen handkerchiefs be had bear the
' initials " P. R."—South !Potent Ga:(tte.
DETZRMINED SUICIDT.—A suicide of a mast de-
terraised and extraordinary character was committed
Brighton oo Saturday night. The promenader, of theJoix
Lion Parade and West Cliff were alarmed, at 8 o'clock. 11
' a loud report from the beach, and, on looking in the .hrec•
hoe whence it proceeded, • man was seen falling from the
Groyne, known as " Anscombe's Gwyn.," opposite Brat
swimming baths. Information was at ogee forwarded w
the Town Hall polioastatioo, and the body of • mu war
r with some little difficulty got ashore, when it was discorend
that the right upper part of the face and nearly the stole
of the top of the head were blown away. The body waist
once placed upon • stretcher and conveyed to the dead
house, but up to last night had not been identified. abil
the act was contemplated is plain from the fact that he bad
so placed himself that in the event of being only sliohtB
injured by the pistol he would have been drownert Esen
means bad been adopted to destroy identification, as the
portions of two letters which would have furoisbed • del
to recognition had been carefully tors away, and not
mark was to be discovered on any ',nicest of the chitlins
An inquest was held on the body by the borough corom
(Mr. David Black), last night, at tlin Tows•lsall, and 0
open verdict as to the state of deceased's mind was retiree.
Judging from the portion of the head which la left. thf
body is that of • young man of fair complexion, between '.2-1
and 21 years of egg, about ties. tiro. in height, and ref
slender.

An Englishman, named Gibbon Corley, was trir
on Saturday by the Court of Awizes of the Seine re
charge of abduction. It appeared hum the indictment the
the prisoner had induced a girl in Ler teens to leave he
pareote house and cohabit with hint for some dam. 50,14
promise of marriage. The prisoner was ably defended
Mr. Junes, the only English member of the Paris baz,
ultimately the jury brought in a sordid, of sot guilty, ac"
the court ordered hint to be discharged.