The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-26 00:00:00

8110C.UNG NURDBR IR CAY4D.A.

On the Bth instant a brutal and deliberate murder
was committed in Hamilton, Canada. The Throttle Glebe
says: " The victim is a woman named Eliza Welsh, sold to
belong to Toronto, and the murderer is a man named. John
Ileagham, or Mitchell, who posed as her husband. The
murderer, for sows must term hire, has lately been employed
in the vicinity of this city in the capacity of a railway
labourer. The facts of the awful tragedy, so for se ..nr
reporter could learn on the spot Omen), after the fearful
currerce took place, are as follows. It appears that
Mitchell left Toronto on the afternoon of Thursday by the
teeth for Hamilton, accompanied by the woman Wel.b, with
whom he cohabited, and an infant stout 3 months cid. On
reaching Hamilton they proceeded to a small tavern situated cm
the south side of Yorkedreet, between Bay and Park•areeeta,
kept by a person named Morden. The unfortunate woman
told the landlady of the saloon that her husband's none watt
Meagham, and that he was on Lis way to work on the
Hamilton and Port Dover Railroad. A.s the parties pre-
sented the usual poor appearance of labouring persons out of
work, they were In consequence not treated as very welcome
gamin. They stayed, hew vet. at the house, paying for
their bed, and providing theruselees with food, and whatever
else they were in want of, in the bee' way they could, until
Saturday morning. Between nice and ten o'clock on that
morning the wife came down strike, acd, procuring some
tea, she returned to the bedroom, where she had left the
man who called her wife. She had hardly entered the room
when the landlady of the r.lOOll, hire. Meriden, was startled
by a loud *cream from the bedroom. She immediately
rushed op stairs to learn the cause, when she wee horror-
struck at wing the suave anate woman lying on the floor In
a pool of bleed, and struggliew with the 11i412, who sea hold-
ing her down to the floor. Vier seeing Mrs. Merlin enter
the room, the woman endeavoured to call out, and tried to
speak to her; but the only verde which could be distinctly
heard by the landlady were 'Neighbonra r and 'Murder
and almost immediately afterwards the expired. The words
were evidently meant to signify that she had been mur-
dered, and to get anistance tram the neighbours. Mrs.
Morten oleo states that when ohs opened the door
of the morn, the murderer was still busily en-
gaged doing eoMethi/1 to rho throat of the
woman; but that rho (Mee. Morden) was so much
frightened and excited by the te irful scone which met her
eye, as to be unable dietiectly to *co what be really wee
doing. She instantly gave the edema, end a large number of
peewee, acoompanled by the pollee, were soon in the house,
and Mitchell was taken into custody. It is reported that a
eervant girl belonging to the tavern accompanied Mrs.
Morden to the berbroone. when they heard the screaming, and
that dereurd Internet she girl that it was her husband who
had done the deed. lire. Moelleu dad states that when Mit-
chell was discovered, he commenced to Inform her that
his wife had committed euicide; but that the woman,
who was unable to 'peak from tee of blood, held up
one of her heeds, which was badly cut, as if to contradict his
statement. On a march bring rued° for the weapon with
which the deed bad Wen perpetrated, a razor, with marks of
blood on If, was found in the bed close by where the woman
was lying, end the bed-clotbee were thickly coated with
blood, es were also the clothes 44 the man and the woman.
The gash in the woman's neck lions of the most fearful
cha-
racter. It is very deep, end seem' to rztend over fatly three.
fourths of the surface of the crib, being from the back part
of the head round under tho chic. An inquest was held the
next day, and Meagher' committed on the charge of wilful
murder."

DEATH FROM EATING HOLLTDERRIEB:-A little
boy named Fuller, the sou of a I.bourlug man at Northkra,
died a few days shire from the "Cue's of eating the red ber-
ries of the holly. His parents appear not to have known the
poisonous nature of the berry, end allowed the child to eat
about twenty or thirty before It was discovered I y • neigh-
boor. Though he was very ill and vomited during the night,
medical aid was not called to till the rooming, what it
woe
too late to save the child, Mr. list" is, a surgeon, said the
betties bed produced violent kit intotativn of the intestines.
and caused death. The jury at the Inquest returned • vet,.
dirt of Died from inflvemstton of the stomach caned by
eating • vegetable irritant."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAT.)

EQUI IT COURT.
(Edon the Log Chase:elks sad the Leeds Judea.)

11 aT ILAXD 11. MO/TIROL

me, to which a gunners wss rased whether a
ph.. glimpsed woe monied tsice to the same person—first
wader the same of Jaws Mastery, on the 20th of Februsty,
Wit, and waxily, under his teat name of John Sheppard,
no the Mk of March Wowing— or whetter she married two
lamas (rud of the feet. of widish fall reports have appeartd
la the /sprat), judgment was this aorsing given.
The Coot, after missing the seldom at great length,
bad there could be to doubt that b,ilt the marriages
were celebrated with ems Tenon, namely, the John Shep-
pard, with whom the await marriage took ti ice, with whom
aka lived for teeny rota, as her husband, whose widow the
was reported tote, sod to whose eetata she had administered.
The deenioe, therefore, was, that the ddendants, to whom
Mrs. Sheppard left her property, were entitled to it, end not
the plektid, ths next of kin, or John Sheppard, who would
hers hers alined to it if the woad reurtrste with Pin wr
illegal, la ceasequence at bar drat muffin* being with a
Slim* pima, who was really awned Marten.