The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-04 00:00:00

SUSPECTED MURDER_ IN THE KINGSLAND•

ROAD.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning an inquiry was held at the White
Hart Tavern, Kingslaud-road, by Mr. H. Raelea Walthew,
the deputy-coroner for Fist Middlesex, touching the
death of Elizabeth Hubbard, aged 39.
It appears that the facts as detailed below in evidence
were communicated to the coroner last Monday afternoon,
as the funeral of the deceased was in the act of taking place,
and he immediately issued his warrant to Mr. Wallei, the
sumemo *Seer, to cause it to be stopped until the pre.
seat iiMina was held. The oZcer accordingly pro.
wads& altar the procession, which he overtook in Shore.
ditch, when he bad the hearse turned back and the body
removed from the coffin. The case excited great interest,
and the court was crowded.
Sergeant Jones, 22 N, attended to watch the proceedings
on behalf of the police authorities.
The first witness called was
Isabella Baker,who stated that she was sister-in-law to the
deceased, who was a married woman residing with her husband
in Harrim's.buiklinga, Kiaplaod-road. She saw the deemed
last Tuesday week, and aloe was then ailing, though net
obliged to keep her bed. Witness called to see her on the
following Thursday, and was told by her husband that she
had died at two o'clock that morning. Witness went into
the room, and law deceased lying on her face and hands in
the bed. There were marks of blood on the sheets.
lLn. Anne Bream, 93, Haniss's-buiklings, said—l knew
the deceased, who resided is the house directly facing mine.
so that I could see into her room. On Thursday week I
beard Hubbard cell out to his eon to get up and light the
Ire, which the latter did but not to his father's liking. I
then saw Hubbard get out of bed and beat the boy savagely
with a stick, striking him on the face and head, and leaving
large wales from his eyes to his lips. The boy was sant out
shortly afterwards to buy bread, and I spoke to him,
and asked him how his mother was. He air.
peered reluctant to speak, but at length he told
me she was dead. I asked when she died, but he
mid he did not know. I went immediately to Hubbard and
asked him Low long his wife was dead. He said, "Since
seven or eight o'clock last evening." I said, "Why did you
not call in any neighbourer He replied, " I sent next
door and they would not come." I sand, "Of course not,
for they are strangers, only just come to live
here. Why did you not tall me!" He remained
silent. I then entered the room and saw deceased, and I
noticed marks of great bruises on her face and head.
Deemeate mother came in shortly afterwards, and,
sera seeing the body and the marks, said to Hub-
bard that deceased must have been murdered,
and he hung down his head and said nothing. He
ebrenumudy resisted having the body washed, but her
mother insisted, and it was found to be covered all over
with marks of kicks and blows. I bad frequently
men her with similar injuries inflicted by her husband.
He was in the habit of making the most ferocious assaults
spool her, and I often saw him knock her down while at her
meals, and kick her with his heavy boots. I attribute her
death to the systematic brutality with which he treated her.
By the Coroner—l cannot socounti for the peculiar posi-
tion in which the body lay. The bed clothes were smeared
with blood.
By the Jury—Hubbard certainly stated the time at which
she died to be 7 or 8 o'clock on the night before. He ap-
peared to have slept all night in the same bed with the
00/pBO.
Catherine Harris gave corroborative evidence, and said
that from Hubbard's manner and his notorious habit of
nonarly assault' nt his wife she had no doubt in her owe
mind that deceased had been unfairly dealt with, and she
therefore went to the coroner's office and stated the fact/.
Dr. L. Buechel! said that he had made a post mortem
examination of the deceased. There were exteuaive din.
colourations all over the front of the body. The brain and
all the organs were highly congested, and the walls of the
heart were thin and feeble. There had been low fever of a
typhoid character, and he was inclined to attribute death to
that immediate cause and feebleness of the heart. Violent
ill-treatment would of course accelerate death under thaw
conditions. The black marts on the face and limbo might
be accounted for by the gravitation of the blood.
arth:itrione would be justified in ascribing them to violent
blows.
The Coroner said that, though the immediate came of
death might have been a natural disease, yet if the coarse
of the disease had been hastened by ill-usage, it was clear
that some one was criminally responsible.
The jury expressed a desire to have the evidence of the
son of the deemed, as he might be able to prove what had
occurred on the actual day of her death.
The summoning officer said that he had served • sum-
moos for his attendance, but that he had been kept out of
the way by Hubbard's friends.
The Coroner said that he should certainly not conclude
such a grave case without hearing the evidence of so impor
tent a witness, and he should therefore adjourn the nowt
to enable the officer to find and produce him.
The inquiry was accordingly adjourned.

Sir George Grey heir, it is said, appointed Mr.
William Major Cooke, recorder of Southampton and of the
Western Circuit, to fill the Toomey in the list of metier.
titan magistrates caused by the decease of the late Mr.
Radon.
We (Stamford Mercury) are authorised to state
that the Earl of Yarborough his expressed the risk to
evince his respect and affection for the memory of his late
lamented father by placing, at his own cost, • memorial
window in the cathedral et Lincoln. It is probable, there.
fore, that the subscriptions to the window will be die'
continued.
The ex-Queen Marie Amalie, accompanied by
the Duke de Nemours, and attended by General Coast
Damao and suite, left Claremont yesterday for St. Leonard..
ou.filea. Her Majesty travelled over the South-Faders
Railway from Dorking, leaving that station at 1.45 p.u,
and arriving at St. Lemur& at 4 p.m. Here curiae.'
were in waiting to convey the distinguished pail IS
Starkey's Royal Victoria Hotel.
On the Civil Service Estimates, Lord Elcho will
move " flat an humble address be presented to her Ms.
jesty praying her Majesty to be graciously pleased to Use
a royal commission to inquire into the present positive 01
the Royal Academy in relation to the fine arta, and into the
circumstances and conditions under which it ocupiei
portion of the National Gallery, and to 'ingot such
immures as may be required to render it more useful m
promoting art, and in improving and developing public

Sir Roundell Palmer's hymn-book is to be pub-
limbed by Mews. Macmillan cud Co., as a volume of tbor
Golden Tremary Series, under the title of " The Book et
Praks."
Mr. Carlyle, who has found that it will require
five volumes to contain his History of Frederick the Greet(
has resolved (says the Critic) to publish t►e third volume(
which has been printed off some time, by itself. The fourth
volume, which is well advanced in type, will likely be kept
, tack until the completion of the fifth.