The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-05 00:00:00

TEA EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1865.

Lain= SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

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ROYAL CALEDONIAN RUNT MEETING.
(TIIIB DAY.)

T. MEL Ose mile and three-quarters.
Zambesi. Brown Bread, Eland, Ripka, arid Lozenge are
here.

YEOMANRY HANDICAP.
Antiquary, Linde Deb. Enfield, Mignon, Emperor, Biddy
M`Queee, and Louie Napdeon aro ban.
Several others in the neighbourhood.

LOTHIAN HANDICAP. One mile end three•quartefs.
Windbem, Neweetwoh, Noose, Clown, OrWa, Summer-
Nide, Zambesi, Helen, Lozenge, Cutaway, loonoclut,
Avenger, Eliva,Wharesger, Olmar, Madame Tagliaco, New
York, Oar Jim, Tring, Curtain Lecture, Sweet Jamie, and
Bead* are bare.
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ENTRIES FOR HER MAJESTY'S PLATE. Two miles
and a Halt.
Ontawey, Durham, Eland, Claws, Reg►lia, and Brown
Bread. AR are bete.
BUCCIXUCB Hamm/r.—Calaway objected to for crow
ing ; will be decided this

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A BOY.

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning an inquest was held by Mr. W. J.
Payne, the deputy coroner for the City and Southwark, at
the Swan Tavern, Old Kent-road, respectieg the death al a et:
boy named Frank Bell, aged 13 years, who was alleged to IS.
have committed suicide.
Miss A. Bell, 39. Swan.plaos, Old Kent read, said that
the deosased was her brother. He was the son of Mr.
Jamas Bell, who was eoeneoted with an iron works. He It
died some months ago. The doomed was employed by the et
South Eastern Railway Company. Ha was to have be- It
come an engineer. On last Monday his mother 'eked him at
to go for some oil Be said, " I shall not go," SI
end be left the house. Shortly afterwards be :Si.
returned, end got into the house through the et
window, and took the con and got the oiL He was sit
then told to go to bed as he had been so naughty. He went U.
upstairs, but said, " I shall not go to bed before I N.
nod • book." He was very foal of rending. He N.
belonged to the Bruaswick Chapel, and on the
night before he bad recited a piece at that chapel it
to • class. Witness did not think that excited et
him a great deal While he was up in his room he got M.
let. • great pamioa and stamped upon the floor violently. 1
He thee come to the window and threw it up. He then It
Snug • white handkerchief out into the garden and said to lW
witness's sister "Take that !" Mrs. Bell said "It is N.
better to take no notice of him." It was then 5 o'clock in 9
the evening, and at 9 o'clock witness went to deceased's gt,
room to get • book, and in the moonlight which was stream- U
Mg in the witness saw bar brother seetai on the bed with 111-
hie bead hosting down in frost and with a scarf tied round :I;
his neck. One end of the scarf was tied to the bsdpo.t. sf
Witness called her mother and he woe found to be deacL el
Coroner—Was he • boy given to making experiments in M.
Wnastics !
itness—Yes, sir. Me was very food of them. ft
Coroner—What books was be in the habit of reading? 1266
Witness—Every book that he could get. The pivot be Bt
recited at the militarism, meeting of the class onthe Friday is
was entitled " What than?" It was a serious piece. Hie st
mother lately found " Jerk Sheppard" in his room. A boy l
kad lent it to him. The book that be was reading shortly N.
before his death was a novel in the "Journal.' it
Mr. Charles Owen, a clam teacher at the Brunswick
(Atonal, deposed to the general steadiness of the deceased 99,
lad. Up to within the last morning he went to school. II
Mr. J. H. Comb& assistant superintendent of the loco- 10
motive department of the South Eastern Railway, said that Mt
the lad was a month in their employ. He was a very in- at
talligeot boy. 10
Miss Bell mid that the demised was in the habit of ti
getting very excited. He mice fell in the street in come-
=of a pain in the head. He afterwards got into a
It was found that the cams of dreamed's death was suffo-
cation canoed by pressure ma the neck.
The Coroner said that the deceased, being over the ago
of woe years, could be held respoesible for say felony
committed by him. In this Cale be had committed a
crime against society as well as • sin against God. If the 14
jury considered that the deceased's crime was not excused
by insanity, they must retina a verdict of " fel* de se."
It certainly looked as if excitement bad unhinged his mind. 1
The Jury retartied • verdict " That the deceased boy 9t
destroyed his own life whika in • state of temporary IL
insanity."
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THE MYSTERIOUS DNWICH.EArH OP A LADY AT
GREE

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning Mr. C. F. Certtar, coroner for 144
West Kent, resumed the adjourned inquiry, at the Ash-
hurnham Arm, Greenwich, into the circumstances attend. U
ing the death of Mn. Elisabeth Reeves, aged 444 wife of
veterinary surgeon, residing at No. 52, Aslabornham•grove,
Greenwich, who, it was alleged, bad died from the mind- s
nistration of veratria, or white hellebore, on the 15th of g
August Lat.
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SUICIDE OP A WOMAN IN THE THAMES.
(THIS DAY.)

This morning, between 12 and 1 o'clock, a woman j
earned Esther Wilmott, aged 29 years, committed suicide
by jumping into the river, under circumstances of singular I
deliberation. The doomed was a widow, but she lived
with a young man at No. 4, Oak-terrace, Lime-
hones. Last night she west out with him and
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or two others, drinking at a publi c-loupe.on their way home after midnight she went
on before them and turning aside near the Kidney
stairs took off her bonnet and shawl. As her companions
were oorning up she turned round and coolly jumped into
the water. They got the oars of a beat and got her out in
a few minutes. She was still alive, Omagh quite insensible.
Mr. Jones, surgeon, was called to herand he endeavoured to
restore grooseiounissa, but without avail, and she died in half
an hour. There appeared to be no motive foe the suicide
beyond an apparent wish to show her companions that she
was not afraid to drown herself. It is remarked by the
polies of the waterside as a characteristic circumstance that
nearly every family who throws benolf into the water is
careful to divest herself of her bonnet and shawl, which
an placed on the ground In ouch a manner as not to be
is the least damaged.