The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-15 00:00:00

FATAL AND SUSPICIOUS APPALS.

On Saturday William Carter, Esq., comer for
Eat Barmy, held a long Inquiry in the Bard-ears of New-
ington Workhouse. relative to the circumstances attending
the death of Nue Selina Bishop, aged 21, who lost bra Ste
eta Bre which broke out on Thursd• morning last en 'the
=of ha shier, Mae Ellen Elahop, who
~o•rrkd on
at No. 21, Dover-road, ea a dealer in fancy goods.
Sara de
liesilenea, brew of the ere brigade Medea it the
Seethweek-bridireame, proved that after the fire woe sada-
subbed be dbetwated the body of the deemed In the beck
parlour. filte had on the skirt of a drew, bat no stockings.
He believed that no one could with /stay have entered the

remises.
Mime Ellen Bishop, the dater of the demon* stated that
she had carried on business shout two years. Her deter was
moan partnership with her, Mimes feeding and clothing bee,
and sometimes giving her a little potato& mosey. The
place was lighted by two gas-burners, one on
the coveter, and another in the back-parlour, where
they slept. At 10 o'clock on Wednesday night the
shutters were up, sad the door, which Jammed with a spr
fng
lock, abut. Witness turned off the gee at each branch, and
the tap of the meter. am tiara had Meet an roam of ;WI for
four or five days. At 12 o'clock the deceased finished a dress,
and, after trying it on, got Into bed. Witness we writing a
letter, when the deceased said, " Ellen, there is some one in
the gimp." and witness got cap and saw a man who, in the
dark, looked like a policemen. He a.ld, " Any one might
be here as well as see." She replied, "Go on, policeman,"
end then heard a step of some one, and went to the door end
slammed It Whams efeerwarde went to sleep, and vow
awoke by the deceased, who " is the cat in the shop
or the maim r' Dommed pet one leg out of bed, and
opened oaks., to let the eat in, when there was • donee
mesh of and where heard a noise as if the flop was
at lire. Willem ran to the door, and some man In • white
mat paled ler oat. It was ante policeman. The policemen
meld lens saved bit slater, but he told her to bold her
row, The stock and furniture were Mewed for 1001. She
had dace made an macrame, but could not say how much.
The street-door would open with a push. There waa 71. 10s.
in gold, end shout 21., or a little more, In silver. Counted
the gold and wrapped It in some mew, but did not want
the silver. In the drawer were some bills. Had since
Dodos& that the drawer In which she placed the money had
teen pallid out and placed on some bone on the shelves.
Wee cartels' the drowse which had been pulled out was the
one in which she placed the money, as she found the half-
burnt bills In it. The money was miming. Had also a gold
watch and chain. The latter she showed to a young lady
named Bradford, and afterwards placed it In a purse, end
then in tic till. The gold watch was placed in • deep box
ender the counter. The part of the box where the watch WWI
plead had been burned. Neither the watch nor chain had been
found. Could not in any way recount for the lose of the
watch, chain, or money, unless they had been destroyed by
libellee.
Polies-constable Jones said that he tried the door at twelve
o'clock, and went Into the shop. The woman (Mies E.
Bishop) ran out into bia arms, but there was a men mending
near him who wove a white coat.
Mr. Henderson said he considered the fire was caused by
an escape of gas.
Mr. Roberta, surgeon, of 33, Great Dover-road, deposed
that be was called to are the demised, and found her to be
quits deed. She was but slightly burnt, her death being
caused by suffocetice.
Thomas Cooke, the coroner's ofihner, said that the mhos
had been turned over, bat there was no tem of watch, chain,
or money. He bad since examined the pygmies., and he ob-
served a mend bale under toe counter, which had the ap-
pearance at it the fire had been somewhat confined there.
His impression we that some person might have committed
• robbery, and left • piece of candle burning, which eat fire to
the place.
The Coroner, in summing up, mid that as regarded the
disappearance of the money and the watch and &du, the
seek was most suspicions; sot a trace of either had been
discovered, and therefore it seemed probable they must
have been abstracted before or after the fire. As regarded
the origin of the fire, Mr. Henderson, from his great ex-
pwleece, must be looked upon as an authority, and he stated
it had been caused by an escape of gm. As regarded the
eceduct of the police, he thought they had done all in their
power to save the life of the unfortunate young women. AA
he had before said, be considered the loss of the money and
watch at the least extremely enspicione.
The mart having been cleared of *wringers. the jury, after
, a eonsultation of some time, returned the following verdict:
" That the deceased wee accidentally burnt to dsath, sad we,
the ury, areal opinion that eery ressemable asses WA Men
need to rescue her by the police sad salsa= perm.'

Nsw PECKHAM AND HATCHAX FLORICULTURAL
Boctrvv.—ln node* the show-neined exist, we w
ay
mention that it hes been established by a few 'asthma* n
the month-seaters districts, for the purpose of improving the
sacral and social position of their neighbours residing is cot-
ter*, by awarding_ prises for gardens that are kept in the
beet etre compatibis with their means, ae well is rerenne-
ratleg those who have the best collection of pot plants and
oat fiowsn. The ant exhitinos lea taken place within the
past week, and pared off in a very satisfactory and ancomefal
manner, showing great advencemeet among the working
dames in the cultivatiou of flower., thus keeping them at
home la their gardens, and improving their Wawa hoar. and
domestic habits. Every prates is due to Messrs. Fenton,
Ashford, and other 'endorsee, for their energies in pro-
moting this society, and we trust that en example so wor-
thily set may be the means of inducing other to follow in
the setae mane.
THE MEETING OF TEE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSAM-
TION.—The executive committee Me for some time been
In making the local arrangements for the annual
of the National Aroderien for the Promotion of
1374‘171 %deuce, to be held in Bradford. on Monday, the 10th
of October next, and five following days. At one of the
recent meetings of the committee, Mr. Hastings, the general
secretary, was present to afford his essistancia Other towns
in the Riding are co•operatieg with Bradford, in order to
promote the nooses of the meethig. At Haddonfield and
Sheffield, end probably elsewhere, boil committees love
been formed for that purpose.
GOOD Haws PROM THIDIGGDIGE.--A young MSS I
salmi Watson, who emigrated trots Rochdale short thus
sem writes to his friends front " Iron Berk Gully, Bondi
in very glowing terms of Ids eureese. He seye. " During
the lest ten weeks we have taken no loss than 2,400 oz., of
gold; one oak' of which weighs,' 1,270 than
msd was mold
Mr. Oeo. Andrews, of the Beek of Metrelarikforlii.lBs.
per ca. It I. the Imge4 vibe of amalgamated gold that hes
ever been produced ta the Twill. It wee the result ot SO
toes of wee, exactly foot lave' week ; but it took tee zoos
three weeks to get."—Dsde Reentry.
The Weekly Register nodose the conversion to the
Boman catholic faith of a number of Europeans in lodia, ins
audios tanLieutenanwriatn, eemniendlui her Majesty's
sammer Victoria,
officer of the Nth Regiment, and
earn.
Crry or LONDON HOSPITAL roi DISEASE' or THE
Caw, V 1010113,11 PARE.—The ember of patients relieved
as this terdersien darts; list week We. 878, of which 123
Re 1101 i seam.

At the Mansion House on Sattrdey, Mr. Phillip
Canting, &voltam and theme:Waage% fa Laadenhall-
maim, was summoned upon the of Mark
Loma for having nelawfally In Ws posesestos is floe
pheassets and mi>t live putrldps, after the expiration of ten
bye from the Ist et rehrostry, exam* to the maims of
the we tat am 201 Me nth. 4"
Oreldp appeared fee the prensentlon; ear. Beet far
the defame,
Mr. Ongoing he haLltabstreeted to spew by the
Ameba= for te►. ramie the Bele of 0e me ouJ of
&sears society remedy by • nimbi of gen-
, demon who were detenedasti to pit the law a force what
' epreestimari& deb
Milk had b makeees gob; eate with whiskr
yeas the timilmdant was
t It vas too
freepsetly the ease NM they had to roomed eggest poor
With in the e...erfse weemeitee of poothing, but in
this kameases the 11110 111116 of paition, and
Mc • then .=.."*lte AAA &pm at game,
mid so pm Magee to io inclined.
The use was me of comiderabis hayersam, sad
illul4ElFltemisrb:lowsue7shok.gmiZtasamirwilinslioat:esii..:l!
bic.gai.tb Ailloguatti". "":".thewsseltHbood.oxlilalleastell"ilt'ltad
puse la hie pommies. By the et thereat
WI or Mb potrideeshaween the la FebrAvy the
of September-, or pbeassets between the Ist Me
end
la of Oetobsr; sad the 4th sedges elected OMB my year
mall mod to lea ht by Mined the boob
er
ath, or Imariagly ye in his holm
Weise ediffee-Wq of gab, she* be of
lea depedballhe Y eft Yebrusey, he MOM befog • gun
▪ emee 14 for limey bird 00, inted,M4 that any •
Mott ssed to deal ta game, who
use tam '
(noes bag he a
glees) he tin. to • dustier penalty. It alialle
urged on other side that the birds were foreign,
been bomb hem skald; bat ~lf it woes es, threaten
of Mime awe se large se es embrees birdie of pm if 06111
Mawl there would, therekm be ao difficulty is
idisiant within the penal pregame of Babe
admen thee salad • ,
Made Lemma who said-1 en a anprouneared rowithsief
the Meteepolites police form, and us sow mumbled by_the
Osage Patellas redety This is eay fourth week le War
an.. It le • pert of my deli a Mit mast, and steep
of tees bps* Oe the months( of the 4th Melee I
make the IFellembers shop. Thin was a board over the
dookralb lie sear are, but It did sot state that he ma
lieentiM tra deal he gem. 1 bees stem awartabod shale
was Yang an the 27th of July. I sew • basket in the
Milberg* shop b whit& woe ems plaseesten end pert-
butheme were.: pbewants, and from six to ton ma-
M•
esa I could not count tbe pa-Mgr early, became
they ewe very wild, and would not keep stM. TB, beget
was abroad to "Mr. Camber, Lemenhallamarket," Mat
had a label with the words " lees bird." There way •
young mac in the shop, end while I was thou he got
calico and patrome the meads of the basket, me as le pre-
vem people from snag whet they were. Defendant tereeff
the add -rees which was on at bet, and pat on another, "To
Gurney, laq., Nuffield. ,Itedlefil." I ibis watt enteide
the ahoy, and sew the deimient put the basket eethe bad
of the young sae, who went away to the Soethn
Railway station, end followed him to the boo ce
there. Whoa Mem, eat I want in and ameinsel-71;17411-
kat, which still watained the pheasants and partridge,.
Crosatexamined by Mr. Best—l have been a dimities of
game four wake. I was 16 years In the metropelitaa patios
force. Before that I wont blackazoith ; but I base bee •
good deal in the cavalry while in the police, and know pim-
iento when I see thew. 'There is not mach difference in en
appearance of partridges and plasma% when they are half-
grown. A plummet when half-grown looks vary much like
a partridge when full grown. I know what guinea fowls
am. They would mike half edema maridges„ sad there is
• good deal of deference brasses them and pelmets. The
basket was covered over the top when drat I saw it at Mr.
Carstang'a. I said him the pries of a dim pheasant,
white was la • cage in the frost of his ahem, mil be Mil a
pines.
Mr. Bret—Than that was a "guinea" fowl. (Laughter.)
Wltneew—l sappiest so is Mae. Ido not know what
Weir AMA we. in Vster Maxi round the baba. • I
could not count the ' the basket, but I will swear
te six., and I gbh ware eight or ten.
By Mr. Orridge-1 have so roma to suppose that atten-
dant knew I was a detective.
Wm. Bescrott-1 am a porter at the Smith Eastern Rail-
way station. I took la the basket at the booking-enema
the 4th Maine and looked at birds with the lama whims.
They were pheasants and partridges.
Crome-emmised—l dli not count them, bet Wen wen
Mont six of molt. They were addratied to " Chummy,
Beet., Nuffield, Radial."
Lord Mayor—Bow came you to let the last wither look
at them ?
Witness—Because he asked me to do so.
Lord Mayor—Do you allow any moon who Le • stranger
to yon to come Ia and look at goose f What basinew had
yea to do so?
Witness—They were on the counter whets he came in.
Lord Mayor—Bars you *meted this matter ?
Wtteese—To the station-toaster I have.
Lord Mame—You ooght not to have weed so. It ia no
=lot! you duty to allow other pages to look at goods
t to the station.
W tome—They were on the mounter, and I could net help
his seeing the babe
Lord Mayor—Bat you misted him, and I should °Mainly
complete tf any officer of the company were to let in people
to look alSerhich I bad s
he ant to the station.
Mr. 0 But perham will tell you what it was the
officer told .
Lord Mayor—Be had embalms whatever to do it. and I
shall take are to report this commence to his superiors. It
is a dangerous thing to do, for if allowed in one cam it might
apply to marking elm, and then parties having • knowledge
of valuable goods being sent might go there end contrive a
robbery. The witness should have made his inspection
while In the shop.
Mr. Outage—He did, bat he looked at the birds again, to
make sasuranos doubly sure.
Mr. Best, upon the pert of the defendant, said be was
anxious to avow himself ea muoh opposed to poaching prac-
tices as the gentlemen who hied instituted the prosecution
could be; but the caw, be apprehended, was one which did
sot at all axe the game laws, nor come within the meaning
of the sot of parliament. It was the first case of the tort, he
believed, which had come before the court, and it was there-
fore important theta decision should be come to upon
Ito merits, as there were many tradesmen in the
City of London who dealt In game, and many persona
were in the habit of rearing pheseants sad parteldps ram-
steely, and mending them abroad or supplying anstosers
here. The practice, in feet, had existed for year.. It the
construction put upon the act of parliament by the leatned
petleman opposite were the coma me then every lady who
amused herself by keeping • silver pageant or two must be
liable to • penalty, sines it could not be denied that silver
pheasants were game equally with other plasmas; and yer.
although the sensor Looms saw • aim plasma expeed
for sale in the defendant's shop be took no notice of that, but
summoned the defendant for having in hie possession birds
which came within the same descriptim The sot made an
exceptioe in the care of " birds of game kept he a mews or
braeding•place," and he submitted that the basket in which
the birds were oocithed in transits came within that
daecription. The question rased by the summons
was, however, one which had nevee been raised before,
although It was • practice which bad beta going
on for years and year. without any prosecution having been
Instituted, and be (Mr. Beet) therefore hoped that if his
lordship decided that the defendant had rendered himself
liable to a conviction under the act, the penalty would be
thehmereeeyhlwaybinoeLigeeald,oliweinegoinwrdlekgeth.beitettfbetasehsof
dergepersoezdnamenwtg.hhoetrebilwb:eictntsdetin,
Me Mr. Gurney would be equally liable with Mr. Carstang,
but there was no proof whatever that the birds had ever been
with.
Mr. Oradea said he was instructed by the easocietion not
to pews for a heavy penalty. They would be satiafied with •
conviction and a nominal one.
The Lord Mayor said there could be no doubt that the
=of selling live birds had been going on for years;
looking Into the act of parliament he was clearly of
opinion that defendant had rendered himself Balla to penal-
ties for pommies the birds, for neither the baskets nor the
slice where the birds were bet found could be oonsidertd
• " • mews or breeding plea" within the meaning of the
set. Be ma not himself • morasses, and meld not theatre*
may whether the practice wee or was not injurious to the
preservation of game; but se the birds were alive, he took
it for granted that Mr. Gurney required them for breeding
beand not foe eating. But, however that might be,
be felt bound to convict the defendant, who most pay •
nominal floe of Is. for each bird, making 12a., and 2a. for
the soeszoom without farther meta.
Detendant—Them were no pertridges In that basket, my
lord. any more than there are in that boa.
The Lard Mayor—Then why did sot you Instruct your
Money to that effect, and why did not you all your
assistant to prove It?
Defendant made no answer, but paid the money and left
t°l the wart.

TBSTIMONIAL TO A BARRIBTER.—A massive silver
inkstand, of unique design, sarmomted stilt • figure of
Judas, hie been finished by *M OS. Widoweon (of the
Stwold. London) whom it is on vies, for meemistion, with
en Indian inlaid escritoire, imeribed " Gratitude's trifle,
from Captain Lees (of the Beat India ship Senator), his Bio-
ta", and merchants of Liverpool to F. solly Floods
the Temple end Wexford, berrieter-et-lew, to
tie Niece* °entows., and gratuitous OXIT40•11. which
were crowned with mom, lx mom( fal hludefat men
from en anima prosecution, nefalrfy cantseted, at SRH•lesi, 103-9. Jail Godfrey, solicitor; Pewee sal
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