The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-02 00:00:00

CORONERS' DiQUESTS.—YEbTERDAY.

MYSTERIOUS DRAIN BY DROWNING.—Before Mr.
Cuter, at the Nag's bleed, Battens*, on the body of Anne
Arnold, hired 27, who was bound in a water-cour,e near W
ere ek•bridge, Battersea. It ensured from the evidence
that on Tuesday morning, alum 11 o'clock, a labourer
named Dobbinium we. ring to work in a field near to the
Crack-bri•"ge, when he e,w a human hand above the surfxce
of a water-ouune or common sewer. Having obtoined the
esais.shee of a man named Bedworth, they wok the body of
the deceased out of the water. The deceased (who had no
bonnet or shawl on) had a wedding ring on her finger, about
2, in money in her pocket, and a magnet. A search was
afterwards made for the deceased's bonnet and shawl. The
former was found in the river, and the latter wrapped
several times r .und a piece of oak fencing and partly sunk
in We water about ono hundred yards above where the body
was found. Inquiries were instituted by the police,
to ascertain who the deceased was, and it appeared that she
!and Mien missing from home since Monday night. it fur-
ther appeared that the deceased had been engaged all day at
a laundress's, and, on coming home at night, found that her
husband, his brsther and his wife, and some other parties,
hat pone to Wandsworth fair. Upon learning this, the
deceased became much excited, and, although it was then
pouring torrents of rain, dcclsred she would go aud seek her
bust:and, and would cot return home until she had found
him. She did not meet her husband, however, end, on his
returning home at kelf-past 2 o'clock the next morning, and
not finding the deceased there, he supposed her to have gong
to her mother's, and this, he said, &emoted for kis not in-
quiring earlier after her. Verdict—" That the deceased was
found in a common sewer, but how she frame there, there
was no • erMin evidence to show."

I.DEXTII FROM SrAitrAnoN.—Bcfore Mr. Baker,
at the London Ilotpital, on the body of a female, unkn'Avn,
who died from watt and destitution. The deceased was
;tnown in tie neighbourhood of Whitechapel and Dun-
n., or any friend to waist her. Si. had no habitation,
was found
nh•ry•lane el a mendicant, and she appeared to have no re.
and it ~vent by the nerve of Gardiner. She was in the prac-
;nig:ftgui;;:b......,en:titem,orein,igayrthaaieic.essut;rtaneeindts
oialiniamtnhiiigeohunts.,liTtrietogi:neahley
!LI a state of
a iheit". in a cable. She was out a 1 night on Monday,
exhaustion. A plies constable removed her to the :tati:"."
house In Leman-street, where she soon afterwards diet:.^
Mr. Ltldie, a surgeon, ',aid he had found the deceased
o•vo red with old rags, which were completely saturated
with water. Ile tad opened the body, and found the
I stomach quite empty. All the organs were healthy, and Le
had no deuht she had died from exhaustion. The body was
in a most filthy condition' and covered with vermin. Ver-
dict—" Death from txhatution, produced by the want of
the common necessaries et life."

EXTRAORDINARY COMMITTAL FOR HORSE STEAL-
ING AT RUGHT.—On Saturday last, Mr. John Wilmot,
coach proprietor and farmer, of Lenten, near Nottingham,
was brought before Jame' Alty,Esq., on a charge of stealing
a h^rte.—Mr. Masters and his sin, two farmers living near
Rugby, ptovcd that they had a horse stolen from a field in
their possession on the 24th of May, 1847, and that the
horse now in the care of the police inspector wu the one so
stolsn. .1. Isaac, inspector of the Warwickshire police,
matt d that, in consequence of Information he received from
a men named Richards, lately convicted of horse stealing,
he want on thy 16th lost to the farm of Mr. Wilmot, and
from a printed bill he hat with him, and which was published
at the time of the robbery, offerinf a reward, he found a horse
answering the description therein contained. Mr. Wilmot
refused to give up the animal until he had consulted his
attorney. Lase api lied for a warrant to seize the horse,
but could not obtain one; and on the Friday following he
prom, ded with a warrant he had obtained. and apprehended
' Mr. Wilmot at Blanchester. He asked Mr. Wilmot where
he got the horse from, when he stated that he bought it at
Len'on fair on the 26th of May,1847, of a man who had a cart
with the none of William Smith, Ashbourne, Derbyshire,
upon it ; that he hod seen the mon before and since, and had
net the lent doubt but that he would be at Lenten fair the
wee k hollowing. Mr. Wilmot was committed to take his
trial at the next assizes at Coventry, the magistrate taking
bill for his appearance.—Nottinghans Mercury.
A NEW WAY OF RAISING TUE WIND.-000 of
the grossest attempts at imposition perhaps ever recorded
took place at Dudley, on Monday morning last, in the
Market place. A r rson styling himself " The Worm
D ctor," end who almost hebdomadally exhibits in the
various mark, in of the district pieces of tape and parchment
of voluminous LEP., and convolutions, and infinite length, in
narrow bottl a of tome transparent liquid, to puff the
astoeishing efficacy of his powders, tkc., and secure the
hard. earned pence of the unwary and ignorant, thought
proper to chaciei his " prefession," and appeared at Dudley
on Moaday as " The Great Corn Doctor." Havieg bor-
rowed a era:o from a crockfry stand, and covered it with
the whitest possible sheets of paper, " the doctor " entered
the shop of a plater exactly oppcsite to the hotel, and
purchased a to: of wafers, abort the colour of which he was
very particular, preen being the only favourite. Hating
paid a petty for be articles, he returned to his "stand,'
and wrapping each wafer in • piece of white paper, ha-
rangued a crowd of kW es on their efficacy to immediately
,'tract corns root and branch, being composed of the leaves
and flowers of a wonderful plant recently discovered 11, car-
'lin aWasted neturalists in the interior of China. Just as
he was about pocketing tine penny for one of these wonderful
.afere, a abeemaker named Ellis, who hod seen him pur-
chase the whole box for the same sum at the printer's, made
his appearance, and gave such a thorough expose of the
gross Imposition the quack was practising, th '•
p 'ck, d hie wares, and decamped with all • t
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'ten, amidst the hiwtowe and groans of the irdigtiant popu-
lace.—Ten Toms Messenger. .
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