The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

DEATH OF A FRENCH BUROtLARIN NEWOATE.

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
Thin forenoon Mr. William Payne, the City
coroner, held an inquiry at Newgate Prison respecting the
death of a Frenchman named Louis Victor de Londe*, aged
28 years.
Mr. E. J. Jonas, governor of Newgate, said that the de-
ceased bad been convicted at the last sessions of the Cen-
tral Criminal Court of burglary, and he had been sentenced
to five years' penal servitude. He had been a clerk, and was
• native of Parts. He declined to write to his friends, and
he pleaded guilty at his trial. Finding that the deceased
was ill, witness wrote to the French consul, and he com-
municated with his friends, who called after his death.
They did not attend the iaqueet because they
said they did not know what good they could do.
Witness sent for a catholic clergyman, who attended him
every day. When a French gentleman saw the deceased
in the infirmary he said to him, " You ought to be very
thankful for all this kindness. You know you would not
be treated thus in your own country." The deceased had
run away from his family and friends, and fallen into
great poverty in England. His aunt and the French con-
sul stated that fact.
The deceased bad broken into a gentleman's house at
Greenwich.
Dr. Roland Gibson. prison surgeon, said that the de-
canard had only left Pane three weeks when he enmmitted
the burglary. He said, " I have not a friend in England."
He had been a commercial traveller. He died on Saturday
from pulmonary consumption, rapidly brought on.
The Coroner having aundneil up, the jury returned a
verdict, " That the deceased Frenchman died in Newgate
from natural causes."

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER OF A YOUNG
WOMAN THROUGH JEALOUSY.

An inquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys,
the Middlesex coroner, last night, at the London Hospital,
respecting the death of Mary Anne Jeffreys, aged 25 years
who was alleged to have lost her life in consequence 01
injuries inflicted upon her in the public street by a man
named John Bennett.
The accused, John Bennett, having been sworn, deposed
—The deceased young woman was my sweetheart. I kept
company with her, and she lived at No. t 2, Swan-street.
Bethnal-green. She bad been a worker at a cotton fac-
tory, and she went by the name of Mary Bell because it
was prettier than her own. She lived with me occasionally
as my wife. I was jealous of her, and on Thursday, the
6th of last month, I had three sharp word. with her at
the corner of Swan-street. I thought she was going to see
another young man, and I told her to go home, but she
aid she would not, and I gave her an open-handed smack
in the face, and the pavement being slippery she fell. She
tot no injury, but when she was picked up she could not
stand. I can't explain why she could not stand. I did
not do it wilfully for the purpose of killing her, as I was
much attached to her. I loved her,and I was goaded to do it
through jealousy. I thought when she was leaving one
she was going to see another. I and another young man
raised her off the ground and she was lifted into a cab and
taken to the hospital. I went every day to see her in the
hospital, and brought her tea and other things.
Edward Dunn, 29, Swan-street, said that he saw the
blow struck. It was given with the open hand. The de-
ceased slipped, and fell veiny heavily upon the ground.
Witness did nut think that the blow was wilfully and mali-
ciously struck fur the purpose of injuring the young
woman.
It was stated that the accused was sorry for the occur-
rence after he discovered that the deceased was seriously
injured, and he was frequently seen crying while at the
hospital.
Mr. Richard Leigh, house-surgeon, said that the de-
ceased died on Friday last. Her death resulted from
disease of the kidneys, but it was accelerated by the fall.
The Coroner add it was evident that the accused was
not actuated by any malicious motive when he struck the
deceased. He did not desire to injure her, but the blow
given had been the cause of the fatal fall, and it was for
the jury to say whether they would hold him criminally
responsible for her death. The law held that if a man
committed a wrong act, although at the time of committing
the wrong act he had no intention of causing the death or
injury of another, yet if a fatal result followed, the wrong-
doer was guilty of manslaughter.
The jury, after a abort deliberation, returned a verdict
"That the deceased woman died from the mortal effects
of injuries received through a fall in the public street,
and the jurors further say that said fall was caused by
John Bennett, and that her death arose from mis-
adventuve."

Shares Shares
Quarters ending I in i eom- Total j Receipts.
progresa piste& Shares.

24, 1865 I 603 Z a. d.
Dec.
84 657 1 U,151 14 S
March 3, 1888 I 699 88 785 , 25,6231 S 8
June 24, 1805 50!441 650 I 34,2.1 11 t
I Sept. 30, 1866
Four quarters ending' I
3liclute,it3. 1566 I 2,437 312 12749 .120.070 10 11
Totals Co Sept. 30. 1865.28,118 4,8.49 i 22.925 .802,1349 16 11
-
Grand totals to Michael-I I I
rasa, 1854 I 20.683 i 6,011 125,674 983.820 810

The last share issued up to Michaelmas, 1866, was
No. 25,674. The reserve fund to Michaelmas, 1866,
amounts to 12,5641. 18s. ltL ; sale of land from
the formation of the society to Michaelmas, 1546,
433.091 f. se. The total withdrawals since the formation
of the society to Michaelmas, 18611, are 2343,364/. 16s. 4d.
The returns of the register of the order of rights (for the
next selection of plots in rotation on the order of
rights) are as follow :—Completed, 6,207 ; drawn, 3,303 ;
seniority, 1,758; total, 11,270. Deduct rights exer-
cised on estates, be., 81..49 ; unexercised rights, 2,621.
The last share number on the register by seniority of mem-
bership is No. 15,83. The allotment of estates and ground
rents since the last quarterly report have been :—The West
London Estate, North-end. Fulham, July 23, 1866 ; Rams-
gate Estate (East Kent), August 29, 1566; Sandowu
Estate (Isle of Wight), August 29, 1666; Ipswich Ground-
rents (Suffolk). August 29, 1666. The directors can con-
gratulate the shareholders on the highly successful result
of the West London and Ramsgate allotments, which, with
the Ipswich ground-rents, have been entirely disposed of.
The second Sandovrn Estate is so eligibly situated—
adjoining the first property acquired by the society
in the Isle of 11 ight, every plot on which has
been sold—that there is every reason to expect a
prompt realisation, now that building operations at San-
down, which had been suspended owing to the dearness of
money, have been resumel The Ramsgate allotment took
place after a public meeting in the town, at which Colonel
Brownlow Knox. M.P., the Hon. and Rev. W. C. Talbot,
and Newnham Winatanley, Esq., members of the execu-
tire committee, attended as a deputation to explain the
society's system. The contracts for the drainage, roads,
and other works on the Deal estate, being on the
ere of completion, the unallotted portion of the
Victoria Town Estate will be offered for sale on
Wednesday, the 14th of November. The first portion
of the Forest Gate Estate, close to the station
on the Great Eastern Railway, will be allotted on Friday,
thel6th of November. The committee havingarranged with
the local board at Bebington, the contractor for the roads
on the New Ferry Estate (Cheshire) has commenced opera-
tions. Although the committee have been disappointed in
not holding the present quarterly meeting in the premises
in Norfolk and Howard-streets, they look forward to be
enabled meet the shareholders in the new offices at the
annual tang, on Tuesday, the 11th of December, when
the babuseersheet for 1863-6, sad the annual report of the
board, will be presented. The candidates, of whom two
are to be elected as auditors of the shareholders at the
quarteriy meeting, advert:sed under Rule 30, are
Mr. W. IL Ciemow, Mr. J. Goad, and Mr. C. Gray.
The committee have nominated Mr. Perse Strict, public
accountant, and Mr. Newnham Winstanle7, as the two
auditors on behalf of the board. After the day's election
by the shareholders, the accounts of the financial year
ending September 30, 1866, will be examined and audited
In due course. The claims of the allottees for the free-
hold franchise in the several mantles in which the society
has obtained land, have been successfully supported free
of expense in the registration courts. On the 7th of Sep-
tember the Conservative Land Society completed its
fourteenthyser, and the executive oommittee have entered
on theie fifteenth year with fall confidence as to the eon-
' anuance of the prosperity which has hitherto attended
1 its operations even in the most trying times."