The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

THE MURDEd AND SUICIDE IN SOMERS

rOWE.

Last evening at 7 o'clock, Dr. Lankester, coroner
far Ordeal Middlesex, and she Jury esipanselled oa Thu's-
day lest, as so the deaths of Baena Bebop, sped 42, and
Jaen Brows, aped Id, Qs kende of whose wee Reardon,'
by the latter, at Is, Smith-arrest, 808141111 Town, resumed
Mien *airy at the lispheat sad Castle, Omar' Town.
Os Mee jury reamemblusg, the wooer referred to the
evidence provirmely takes, sad mid is order to complete the
cam of the murdered Wilds, be bed direeled the knife, the
hatchet, sad the cwt beloogia" to Brows, to be seat to
Dr. Harley for analysis u to blood, arid it would be better
Led se hair him._ . .

ifir.iflarleyVas Ikea sworn, sad gave it es Ids °plaice
thee there was no boos ci hams. blood oa either of the
articles in quertios, although oo the hatehiit there were sours
hairs, wile might have Woofed to the deceased warm
Harriet Loader, the lodger is tho hest /rimier, wae re-
ealled, and mid she baud the serous of Mrs. Bishop on the
Tuesday w►en the opens! took place. Did not go to her
mistence because the was shied. After lariat the
Brown mune sad milked bar to go ad est woo boar.
By • me—Will swear that I did sot go to the back
kit ehew and as the blood all over it.,. Bishop's fuse. I
went acid asked if I shoeld fetch some water to wash Mi.,
Bishop's face, and was going late the back kitchen when
Brown shut the door in my has and mid she had ably
foisted. I thee wait for the beer, sad pat it at the corner
of my damper, sod Brown camels arid fetched it, •ad took
it tato the bark kitchen. _ .

ibrpretiiirsThy In; readied—Elhe said when she war
into Na. IS, Bouthrreet, for thnpsil al water, the bed a
osevenation with the previous wiWirs, which she bed not
✓iled to the jury on the previous ooaeioa. Bbs WI as
guilts the time at the quarrel, Brows same lead asked bee
top for •are beer, sod redid so, sad wire she brought
it bask Brown asked kw Mistrials, and that she replied to
hiss, as, she would eat drink, but she would trek some
water ler the poor creature bleadsag as the ground (allading
to dr ilsersed wear). She aid she saw lbs. Bishop
Wag ea thejloor, sad she saw she bed two teeth titres
down ►er mouth. He refused to let her get the water, sad
said she would see her jump up sad pall t►e hair oat el hi
heed. Loader said she then west out, and oa her Mara
she saw Brown titling in his prier. It was hearing all
this that made I dining' think the woman wee murdered.
and Lamar them agreed with her, as she said air did not
believe the wawa raid have 60.111 Gat ia a quarter of as
hour atter, in the state in 'thick she saw her ma the day al

maa, sad &Med positively that she had
ono ease Me deceased woe's alfn atter she fetched the
beer. BA. did sot reeollost haw* told Mn. Murphy that
she bad ems Mr Moodie( ce the woad. Recollected goiag
to a Yrs. Bond's far ma. is Damerotreel, ea Moseley week,
before the murder wee diacovered, sad said she wee to
lean, as they wise always guarrelheg. Did sot
tolling Mrs. B that she bed seen the dammed seems
bleedieg as the pound.
The °wiener said if there wee widow* that the "Items
Lawlor bad seen the woman an desonbsd, she was ea mem
matter the fact, sad would be liable to posmiation es
Impostor Oiboa, S Divisios, ?iodised a Lathers bonnet
whisk the sitcoms Loader had gimme bar ea the mem* of
the murder, about gm minium berme she beard thew:ream&
Bin said NIL Bishop cams bean, and Boding Brown woo
thus came tato bar kitchen and on it to hos to take can
01, and then want into the hook kitchen when Brow, was.
flhe gam him the basset on the 27th, the day alter she gam
him the letter she lad witeived addriamed to Bishop.
. .

WillisZZyTl;sios said beeved at 16, Elatithutreet. sad
bee.ring of she murder he *raped over the beck wall and
new Mrs. Loader. She laid ehe wee there when the wader
rook plane ; for hearing scream@ she opened the hank kitabea
door ad new the woman bleeding on the door, having beard
memos end a heavy fall previously. She exclauoid, "My
Ood, Brown, are yen murdering the woman ;" sad be said
so, only faint ; and be mot bee for some leer, which
she fetched, and that be then seat bar oat for liver sad
bans, and when she came tack she asked when Mn..
Bishop mom and Brows mid she bad gone out and flood at
the window and made faceeat

By JurorLßememberedMrs. Leader distinctly stains
that she saw the poor wretch bloodies in the beck Ithaca.
Elisabeth Royalton, wife of the lest wheelie, pve cor-
roborative testimony on this point, sad added that Mrs.
Lawlor told her that she was to unnerved by the sisht of
the bleed, that when oho waist for the boar she had three
halfgasey worth of `in to soak her Nerves. Witness told
her W‘rod of 'Min se she had dose she ought to have
brought in • policeman with her.
Mrs. Loader wee retailed sad asked what she had to say
in answer to thin evidence. Me said she wee very excite 4
but did met recollect saying anything of the kind. Le answer
to qmstioes she said she bred the soreeme and a cry of
nude, mid • blow tied • fell.
After sours further midge*e the room was cleared of
strangers, and, after a coefereme of half an hour the court
was re-opecied, and the jury returned the following 'ordain :
—"Thai the and Rosetta Bishop died from the hectare of
her skull from blows given by teems of • hatchet used by
James Brown, sad that the said James Brown did fedord.
mely sad maliciously kill mid murder the said Rosetta
= „47 That the raid James Brows did artf all aid
subsequently destroy himself by s
being at the tame time ha sound state el mind, end that
the said James Brows wee guilty of fel° de es."
The (kroner said it wee now his duty, is accordame with
the law, to direst that the body of the said James Brews
should be buried within tweettfwer haus, sad that the
said bark should take plate without the anniony of the
church or any other religious ceremony being performed
over it. _ _ _

ittowitotoo Ladle vas titoo dirostoa to to broosttt into
court. _ _ .

-7" he ()wooer said be was mamba by the jory to massro
her roost severaly far aet haviag ogled UNI attention at
the polios to the fact, clearly serabliehed, that she had
seem the poor woman covered wtth blood sad heard her
=ems. He had also to tell her that her evideme through-
out bad base most usaMisfeatery sad prevericatiag, sad
that she was deserving of the mast severe moue for her
conduct tluoughout Ws dread al 'Heir.

A 1101711131 SIMPICTED Mumma. i Tan Butt
00UNTUT.—Yesterday afternoo• a ma wood lbehird
Hales, who was ocrevieted some time ago of having neg.
lasted his wife, whose death he wee charged with causing
by starvation, was arrested at Cooley on suspicion at
having murdered his child, aged between fi and 6 years,
who was missed on the 20th of Jnly, and whom body wee
footad yesterday, very much decomposed, in a cornfield at
that place. It was so much decomposed that it fell to
please what it was pinked op. and can ooly be idootilled by
the clothe*. Not fu from the body a silk handkerchief
was found with blood upon it, and m a memed form, as
though it had been used in tyiog across some ooe's mouth.
Thu handkerchief the prisoner has claimed, and there is
other evidenoe against him.
_ _ _

TRH DZATH FROM CHLOROFORM AT ST. KART'S
Hoareraz..—Yesterday an inquiry, adjourned from that
day week, wee regained by Dr. Leicester at the Beck of
Enka& Paddington, and adjourned to the oommitte►rooa
et St. Mary's Hospital, to investigate the oircumstagess
sou-
weetd with the death of John Birch, aged 56, foreman at
the carriage department of the Great Western Railway,
which resulted from the sdmioistratioa of chloroform at the
shove katitatioa by Mr. Edwards, the clikeoforatist. Mr.
Bet* instructed by Kr. Rim, was sowed for Yr. Edwards,
and Mr. Pa ,Ip for the deceased's waloW. The jury retaraed
a verdict the effect that the deceased's death wee the
joist effect of chloroform and the disease of the heart. The
jury lidded as their 11111111i2100A opiatee, " that greater
mattes ought to be used in the aitastratioa of chloro-
form at Bt. Mary's Hospital."

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MB COLLISION AT T9s MAILOATZ RAILWAY
Sr•7lo/I.—Tbe railway modest which recurred at the
Swath 'WWII station, oe Moor* af tomes, inn
of s mash mere serious annular tins was al first appre-
hended. One pasessger, the MN of a atationmeat, mud
Leeks. died 'bent so boor sad a bell after bung eitirlealed
iron the Woken carriages. She was literally embed, •
greet Portion M her hear base afterwaids fond with lisr
herd-dreet mot* the debris. Both her thighs were hie-
tarok sad she bed Miter braise sod onstesims en her
heed sad body. dandier pesseager, • gestleame mating
at Faversham, had tare rib baster* sad statshood other
Wen n] interim. whisk It is feared will move tabaL Two
barbee—Yre. Goodyear sad Mrs. Taylor were severely
Inked sad srealied, hit had wo bones broke.. Novara
odor prosagers were on.. or lin shakes, led ono al
that milsiand tithes emus eastesism.