The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-18 00:00:00

I visited the deceased daily, and knew that the fenny were in
the habit of drinking. Had subsequently beard that deceased
was.—Mir Catherine Sheridan, of 31, Mare-street, Hackney,
daughter of deceased, was examined at great length, but her
teetaineay wee very little more than a recapitulation of that
taken at the police court on the previous day. In answer to
the coroner, she stated positively that she had not the least
suspicion of her aster, Mrs. Johnson, who wisseparated from
her husband, and lived in the seam house with deceased, but
had a strong suspicion against the prisoner. Her reason for
supposing that the prisoner administered poison to his
mother was his general conduct to her. He had often com-
plained about the money he had to pay out of his salary for
her support, and which, he said, should not continue much
longer.—By the jury : Could not say whether the prisoner
was wanted or not ;he had some bad companions, and
deceased had often expressed her horror of his connexions.—
By the Coroner: Witness's brother (the prisoner) had a
policy of insurance of his life for 6002, payable to deceased
in the event of her surviving him, and, three years ago, when
he paid the interest, he declared that none of the money
should ever come to deceased or her daughters.—By the
Solicitor : Witness's sister prepared the arrow-root whenever
the deceased required it. It was also given to deceased by her '
in the presence of the prisoner—After a very rigid
cross-examination by the solicitor, in which no evi-
dence of any Importance was elicited, the inquiry
Was again adjourned to Tuesday next --SUICIDE OF
• YOUNG Latnr.—Before Mr. Mills, at the Jubils., Gee-
street, Seymour-street, Huston-square, on Miss Alice
Tansy, daughter of Mr. Tansy, 43, Clarendon.square.
—Mr. T. Tansy, solicitor, brother of deceased, deposed that
his sister was 22 years of age, and had latterly betrayed peat
depression of spirits, which ha attributed to her religious
feelings. On Thursday lest she took a dose of laudanum, '
the effects of which were destroyed by the immediate appli-
cation
of antidotes. Sunday evening she was visited by the
Rev. Mr. Phillips, who appeared to have convinced her of
the heinousness of the crime she had committed, and for
which she expressed greet regret. The next morning she
flung herself from the three-pair bark window into the
garden, and died in a few hours.—Miss Elizabeth Mu-
nn, sister of deceased, stated that she slept with her sister,
and that shortly after eight o'clock on Monday morning she
left her for a few moments, and during her absence deceased
got out of bed and flung herself out of the window, a height
of forty feet.—Mr. Frazer, surgeon, who was instantly
called upon to attend deceased, said she had sustained a
compound fracture of the left thigh, and other injuries,
She exclaimed, " Don't save me ! Don't save me !" And
subsequently, when her senses became obscured, said, " Oh,
1
nave me ! Pick me up !" He had previously attended her
while she laboured ender the effects of the poison.—The
coroner alluded to a report that the deceased bad destroyed
i herself through unrequited love, and observed that, whether it
were so or as now stated, their inquiry into the cause would
only pander to a morbid taste, without enabling them to
ascertain its real history. lie would not, therefore, enter
into the inquiry, and would merely leave it to the jury to
decide whether the act was her own act, and, if it were,
whither she was insane or not —Verdict : " Deemed de-
stroyed herself in a fit of temporary insanity."—A gen-
tleman stated that a brother of deceased had committed
suicide, a few years ago, by throwing himself from a river
steamer in consequence of his having been disappointed in love.
--CILLSOII AGAINST A CHEMIST.--Before Mr. W. Carter,
resumed for the third time, at the Hampton-court Palace
Tavern, Frances-street, Newington, concerning the death of
Harriet Jane Cloak, aged 7 weeks, who, it was alleged, died
from the effects of syrup of poppies, administered by direc-
tion of Mr. Bellamy. The investigation was adjourned to
allow time for an examination of the body.—Mr. J. Hilton,
surgeon and lecturer on anatomy at Gay:, Hospital, de . sed
that he had made a post modern examination of the .. y,
which was generally emaciated, apparently from the want of
proper nourishment. Witness was of opinion that the death
was a natural one, but the symptoms spoken of by Mr. Prior
in his evidence were certainly brought on by the use of
opium, alth nigh he could not undertake to say that the
child's death was the result of the opiate. He should not have
given such a dose to a child in that condition, and he mo t
certainly would have visited the deceased,and watched its pro-
gress. The dose was a large one, and quite possible to produce
death, although the appearance of the body at the examina-
tion did not give sufficient evidence.—After other witnesses
had been examined, the coroner summed up, remarking at
great length on the case, which he said was of the utmost
importance; for, if Mr. Bellamy had, recklessly, or without
due and proper care, administered a certain mixture, he was
amenable to the law, and must be responsible if death re-
sulted. He should leave the case in their bands, to decide
according to the evidence of the several witnesses.—The
jury, alter an hour's consultation, returned as verdict—
" That the deceased died from an opiate medicine injudi-
ciously forwarded and ordered to he administered to her, but
not sufficiently so as in our judgment to amount to any act of
, criminality."