The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-02 00:00:00

DEATH OP A CITY WINS MERCHANT.

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
This forenoon Mr. W. Carter, Surrey coroner,
resumed, at the Duke of Clarence Tavern, Penton-place,
Walworth, an inquiry relative to the death of Mr. Charles
William Pay, aged 41 years.
The deceased was the head of the firm of Pay and Ron,
wine merchants, of Fenchurch-street, City. On last Wed-
nesday week he went down to Mortlake to collect monies
belonging to a deceased brother's estate, and at 4 o'clock
he was seen, perfectly sober, but complaining of slight
illness. Between 12 and 1 o'clock on the following Thipay
morning he was foundlyinf on the naps of Hawkestone-hall,
near the railway-station in Waterloo-road, in an insensible
condition. The police, believing that be was under the
influence of liquor, placed him on a stretcher, and carried
him to Tower-street police-station. There,
_the sergeant
duty smelling spirits in his breath, locked him up as
drunk and incapable. In the morning, at 5 o'clock, Dr.
Corbett Blades was sent for, and he directed the deceased's
immediate removal to the hospital, as he was still insen-
sible, and apparently in a fit. He was then searched, and
541. in notes and gold, a pocket-book, &c., were found in
his pockets, and his name ascertained. He died in the
hospital the same day, and then it was ascertained that he
had received a fearful fracture of the skull, extending some
seven inches, and that the consequent pressure on the
brain bad caused death. The inquiry which was opened
last Monday failed to throw any light upon the case, and
the proceedings were adjourned until
whether
to see
whether any evidence could be obtained as to whether the
fracture of the deceased's skull was the result of accident
or of violence inflicted with a view to robbery.
Watson, police-constable 2,n the employ of the South
Western Railway Company, said that he was stationed at
the Waterloo Railway terminus on the night of Wednes-
day week. The Kingston train arrived that evening at
11.17. It was an ordinary stopping train, and had stopped
at Mortlake and all other stations. A gentleman that
came in the train was brought to witness by a ticket col-
lector. He was not able to stand or speak, and was drunk.
Coroner—You presumed that he was drunk.
Witness continued and said that he tried to rouse the
gentleman but could not make him speak. Inspector
Taylor directed that he should be carried out into the
Waterloo-road and given up to the metropolitan police.
When witness got him down to the entrance gate he saw
no policeman there, and he plaeed the deceared on the
steps of Hawkestone-hall. Witness stayed there and did
not lose sight of him until a police-constable came up and
took charge of him. Witness saw no blood upon the
deceased. His hat was not on when he was brought to
witness. It did not appear to have been injured.
It appeared that the ticket from Mortlake was found on
the deceased, but that the deceased had given up a ticket
to the collector who brought the deceased to the police.
constable.
After some further unimportant evidence the case was
adjourned until this evening, at such time as the Mortlake
station-master could be brought up to town to give
evidence as to the condition
that of the deoeseed when he
entered the railway carriage at place.

EXTRAORDINARY FORGERY BY A BANK
CASHIER.

An extraordinary and heartless case of forgery has
just come to light in Newcastle-on-Tyne, the victim of the
cue being a widow lady named Brown, and the perpetrator
of the fraud James Vinson, chief cashier at Lambton's
bank, Newcastle. About three years since Wilson was
entrusted by Mrs. Brown with the investment of 1,8001.,
but instead of doing so he appears to have appropriated It to
his own use,while,to cover the fraud, he drew up a deed pur-
porting to be a security for 1,8001. lent to the River Tyne
commissioners, and to this document he affixed the names
of Alderman Cowan,M.P., chairman of the commission,and
of James Guthrie, its secretary. Latterly Mrs. Brown
became uneasy as to the nature of the security, until
Wilson at lth, after several excuses, produced the baud
on Friday night, when Mrs. Brown, on getting pussessiuu.
refused to return it. Subsequent inquiries proved that
the document wee forged. The police were informed, and
Wilson was apprehended at a late hour an Saturday night.
Wilson is 80 years of age, deacon of a congregational
asps', sad has been many years the empeointendent of a
Sunday school in the town, and has been forty-foul=
in the bank, and for thirty has acted as chief
Re has been twice married, and has five children living.

CRAKPIONINIT or THR PRI= RING. —Arrarge-
manta hare been made for a light for the champimslup al
the prise ring, and 001. a side, between Naos and Goss,
end all the preliminaries, wok as dimwits, to., hays been
settled. The fight is to take plats in what is milled "the
London district," in bay, but the precise day is not yet
publicly known.
EXTRAORDINARY BIRTN.--On Wednesday, the
14th Met at Neaten of Callan, Yrs. Nowak gays birth
to Jost hal grows inksain—two melee and two females.
Dr. Wilson, of local celebrity suceeeefelly performed the
&Mies of the aeoottebeer, all the ehildrea satins bass de-
livered alive. Yrs. Hey, midwife, was else in setandenes.
—lawfahirs lemma.