The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-13 00:00:00

TSB 'Wren') NUMB AT RAM 60412.

RAMSGATE, ICEBOAT EVENING.
We reported yesterday that the body of a man had
beta disowned early yestardsy (Monday) morning, under
the Reel Cliff, Ronsgate, under citeumstances of grave na-
pkin'. The whole affair ie dill Involved in the deepest
mystery, bet the most probable solution is that the odor-
tweets deceased, who was known to have • cesiderable sum
of money on his person, wee murdered fa his sleep—pro-
bably in an inferno= house—and that the body with the
olotites were then conveyed during tke night to the spot
whore they were found. It appears that the deceased
was •Re dun, not • Clermen, as Orst reported, and
probably captain of a vessel. He was about 36 years
of op. The body on being discovered by one of the
°Doomed wee conveyed to Piet's storehouse in the harbour,
end there it remained till removed to-day by order of the
earener, be the purport of undergoing a post mortem exami-
nation. While in the storehouse the body Ina viewed by
crowds of persons.
The inquest was opened this (Tuesday) morning, at the
before Richard Romenon, Req., coroner. The
interest excited by the proceedings was interim, tbe leading
gentlemen of the town beteg present, and the large hell being
crowded to excess.
Eugene Callaghan was the first witness examined. He said
I am • coastgnsrd man ststioned at Ramsgate. I was on duty
yesterday Piccolo', from 12 to 6, under the cliff, toward.
Auguitipstairs. I wee coming over the tep of the cliff, end
when I come near Si Moen Montedlorele, I eaw • hat lying
on the beech. I wtnt down through the tunnel and picked
up the hat. I then walked =towards home, end saw a body
lye, upon the beach, about eight yards from the cliff.
saw a men named Thomas Wilktnion *bag up shells, and
we went together towards the body. He said to me, "Tune's
• drowned man." Tie body was close to the weter'e edge,
and the water washing over • part of the body. Wilkinson
went to get a ladder, on which we placed the body, and car-
ried it up to the cliff. I afterwards, in company with
Wilkinson, found a coat, • waistcoat, Portiere, and inside
fletaml. (The clothes were produced, and identified
by the wuresse.) I found the clothes about tea
yards from the body. The body was quite naked.
The trousers were toned Inside out. I did not me any'
blood co the body. The kit band was eat at, and the
wound appeared quite fresh. The dement sou also stabbed
in the left breast. We removed the body close to the Miff,
and • fumigated, with souse travellers, afterwards brought
it into the harbour. From the position in which the body
was lying it was not possible for it to bays Salsa over the
cliff, nor do I think it could have been swum by asy
By the Foreman—l found the body at oat er'=
the mosnieg. It Ina lying along the beach, in the dindisa
the water Sows. The tide was ebbing, and had not rhea
above • foot higher them where the body lay.
By a Juror—Tee body might have been washed by the
tide at high water to the spot where it ley.
George Challie--I em • porter at the Royal Oak
Hotel. I have ma the body shown to the Jerry,
end identify it as that of • gentleman I new
on Saturday lest. I was standag at the door of the
Royal OM, sad sew Ides coming down the street. I asked
if he wanted an hotel ; and, alter Kane hesitation, he entered
the home. He carried • carpet
beg and his boots were worn
over his tresses. I noticed theparticalarly, from the
key being attached to the Moats. ( he bag was produced
and identified by the witnees.). Oa Bandoy morning, about
ten o'clock, I saw the dimmed again In the lionee. He wee
standing at the top of the stairs, look rag at the railway
time
table. He tured coned and gave me Is. fee. I bad the
brushes Mary hand, and asked whether's!' would be brushed.
He spoke Melon Eoglieli, but he gees me to naderstand
the& he would. I bruited bin clothes, and soon aiterwerde
be left the house. raw no more of him alive.
When be went ewer on Sunday his boots were
Wide his Minton; but I did not notice any other change in
his dress from Saturday. I didnot actin his Met bead par-
tioalerly. He seemed in very good spirits as he west away,
for after I had brushed him down he eau `64lltats very
good; very good." I did not notice an pardoular in
his meaner. When I Modred him he both his hands
in his pockets, only taking ma out for • inonieet to give me
• shilling. (The boots were here produced, and the wittier
deposei that they had been cut round the top since he maw
them in the pomades of the deceased.)
A Jeroe remarked that the boots had bees cut by some
person used to cutting leather.
Stephen Kingsford—l am • mariner living at Remote.
I was ee the top of the cbff yesterday
whams
at about •
quarter-peat six o'clock, read 1 sew the whams Callegbaa
and •mu awned Wilkinson, who told me that • murder
had bma commlited. I wort down sad maw the bro:
dmeribed. Mad the elethse, intact sot Maroc tho et

The pockets of the met were turned bum. out, end the
trouser. and flannel shirt were turned completely ds out.
I found a stab on the left breast of the body, hut innsrsponding cut on any of the abaft. Prom the position in
which the body la , lem sere ft could sot have come over
the cliff. It was fix the body to ban been
weeded where it lay as the water. tt that spot is &bellow.
John Bollcks-1 keelethe Crow Ina at B , I
have menthe body of dimmed, wbioll lc that cis=
man who visited my beam Meat 7 o'clock on
asked
evening last He was quite alone. He arm in
if I had any bluer ale on dreright 11* Fmk
his finger over the mutter and touched one of the tape,
to in broken English, " Vat is die r lOW him, sad he
said fora bottle of bitter ale. I took It into the peelour_
where he eat down and drank it. He remained gam OM
reburies. I was in the room the greater part of the time.
The deceased did not speak to say me. Tkera win other
proems he the room who are known to me. Ile ye/d fee his
ale, red I let him out of the door. I did set Mies which
way he went. He had nothing bat is umbrae with him.
I ffid not noticw whether( he bed • geard er wateb. His seat
was beamed when he are in. I did not silos his left
head. When he paid me he leek the moor" sat of ISM
waistcoat pocket, arid I did set nolles that be bad
isany other
money. H manner wee that of a forligner, be I sam
nothing to lead to the impetrate& time he warsot falls right
mind.
James Meadhurst—l am • waiter at the Royal Oth. I
maw the body yesterday morainic and I Identify it as thee of
• gentlemen wbo came to the Royal Oak on Setweday teat,
at ese releck. He bad • carpet-beg and an urabildla. The
beg perisced I believe to be the rune. The diseased se-
maNd at the hems till tea o'clock on litraday meslng..
irks he took Ida perberomeminout to pay me Imbed at
Meet eon sovereigns in It. 85 left hand wee bound eg with
• emegioal bandage. He did
It, appear to suffer say pan
AIM ft, but he tried to conceal petting It into him melted
when any one awns Into the room. Mr. Dane • pothers
who frequently comes to the harm, took sevenil meals with
him, but did not leave the house with him. He wee not in
any other company when he wee is the house. He left
the house about two o'clock an Saturday, and I understood
that he was going by the Deal or Margate train. He came
back at 6 o'ck, bad supper and went to bed at 9 o'clock.
He had the appearance of • risferiag man, of the age of about
U years. The hoots produced are those which were worn by
the threemeL About since
to 2 inches of thn leather has bees
eat swig ire
the tops since be bad them on. There was a
tali signet deg on the fourth finger of his right hand, with
three lesion engraved on • dark green stone.
Mary Jane Lama, lb, deposed that on Sunday evening
▪ Moir 7 o'clock, she met the deemed upon the cliff near
the well of Sir Moms Montellore's house. He wee walking;
towards the edge of the cliff. Witness was going towards
Dumper" anti the deceased, who was alone, did not speak to
ber.
Seamed Gibbe—l have sent the body of the deceased.
It is that of • gentlemen who called at my mothers house in
Faloon-place, High-street. It was shoat cse o'clock an
Sunday. He opened the deer and I naked what he wanted.
He caned me out and said be wanted • young woman. I
weal across to the Sit Bella, and bed a Alm of beer with
him. Coming out we saw • girl no Charlotte Mynas,
and I took him to • house where she was. As we were
rag along be mkt to me, " To-morrow morning you end I
will go kr a ride. I have plenty of mossy." Be bed two
coats on, and under the inside one he showed me
404 or del. in gold aid OR. The hetet@ I took
him to is Mr. Engels', in Church-alley. When we got
there he gave me two half-crowns, and went upstairs with
the girl. I and the landlord stayed below. He left the
beam soon after two o'clock alone.
John Heyben, shoemaker, doomed that yesterday morning
he Molted up the hatchet produced (an ordinary hatchet with
the handle eat short) on the rocks under the cliff, near Sir
Moses Mmtellorr a house, about 10 or 30 soda from when
the body was found.
Samuel Potter, boatman, deposed to picking up an
umbrella and one boot at low-water mirk, eighty-five
yards from the cliff, yesterday morning. Also • small round
bottle holdieg about 4 ounces.
Themes obday, &little boy aged IMO, deposed to Bad-
e' • man 'e band leader the cliff nest lew-watermark.
Inligrltam Balky, boatmen, deposed to yesterday
morn*. g, • mare finger among the rocks, eighty yards from
the dig. In the afternoon he found the remaining fingers of
the bead, twenty f-eit from the R
amsgateo
Importer Pritchard, of the Rtua police, steed that
the carpet-beg bad been found at Margate by a coast guards-
man.
Thames Pettman deposed to finding in the send
a Mkt collar, end cotton handkerchief. (The articles were
produced). Both wristbands were torn, and the buttons of the
collar torn away. Them was net cut nor marks of blind.
The collar bore • foreign stamp, and andsramili ammo—
aggesently " Mackinnon"—was marked. They were se-
vered withered and seaweed.
Sarah Offen deposed to picking up • bleak silk handier-
chief, • seek, an a pair of drewars, on the beech.
Mr. Henry Curling--I am • surgeon at Rammate.
alter
I was
caned to see the dammed on Monday morning, soon
eight o'clock. The body was lying in the storehouse of the
pier. I observed • wound on the lett breast, and
Sat the left band was absent. This afternoon, in am-
yonorion with Mr. Webetee, I made a more =l-
ame examination of the body. Externally there
were errand rube on the skin of the forehead, face,
bet, &e., resulting from the body having been washM
egaMet the rocks. The eyes were open and the pupils con-
tracted. Directly under the lett nipple there was •
wound le inch in length, the edges of which were
everted. The left band wee denim I from the arm by a cut
through the bones
the
ugh.tri There was • second cut,
but only par
thr Pear ample were detached en-
tirely from the hand, and in addition the third hater wee
cut off between the first and emend joints. The middle and
fore fingers presented mars of former ampatatirms, and on
the frost midair of the hand there was • deep cut, but tot
dividing the skin of the beck of the bend. In • line
with the separstion of the fingers the thumb was
severed with the exception of about half an inch
of akin at the back. The hand, when the fingers
are placed in portico, shove three cute on the
inside. The direction of the wound In the left breed
was upward*, tarkwarde, mid a little to the right, emerald-
Mg the lung, end the left ventricle of the heart. A °onside-
inable quantity of blood wee effused into the cheat. This
I wound ceased instant death. The etomachwas quite healthy,
and • full meal had been taken within an hour
of death. Leaking to the direction of the wooed
In the breast, I think it might have been in-
flicted by the deceased himself. I cannot say whether they
were indicted Mime or sitar death.
At Clio point the inqtrat was adjourned till to-morrow
Wednesday) week.

MURDER AND RIOT AT CARDIFF.— 0 a Monday
evening hat hoodm was occasioned woman rt m
Use nerghbo of Netnews, Cardiff, that a had
mot her death at the bands of her husband. It appeal that
Michael Daiwa a tobacconist, residiog in Adam-sheet,
Newtown, had been drinkicg et a public-house called the
Forester.' Arms, nom at hand, and that his wife went there
to fetch him home He refu-ed, at d an altercation arose
which ended in an exchange of blows between the deceased
and Mrs. Mathews, landlady of the house, end • policemen
was calbd in to clear the DOW*. Tho man and wife went
Noma where it WIN that the quarrel wee renew, d, for cries
of t' Murder" were heard, and • little phi ran out sayleg that
Der father was killing her mother. Polioe-constable 35 rani*
to the spot. and at the door met Donovan, who aid that ha
wished to give himself op for killing Ids wife. Another po-
licemen went in, and found the poor woman still bresthing,
but in a dying state; end before medical sasistance could be
brought she had expired, as far as can be ascertained, from
the effect of blows. The prieoner was immediately removed
to the principal police-nation, and the police found it ex-
pedient to remove Krt. Matthews these also for safety, foe
the inhabitants of the vicinity, principally dock labourers
and Irish, had become fearfully excited by reports of the co-
cornea in the tavern, and loudly tapered their intention
of taking eummary
_vengeance on all padre concern d. In
fact a moat &tenant* attack wee made on the Forestal,'
Arms, resulting in the total destruction of the doors and
windows end a considerable amount of furniture. A detach-
ment of police with difficulty cleared the premises, but
mies could
not prevent a continued discharge ofetonea and other i
being kept up for hours, until them was not ovation of glare
lett in a ovr of house. aid to be the property of Matthews.
Even on Tuesday the spot was =mounded by hundreds of
people, who vowel that they would not leave one atone on
another, and the service* of several policemen were required
to keep them batik. An Inquest was commenced oaTrasday
afternoon beton It. Lewis Bit 06, Req., owner. The W-
hited woman has left two children.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. BE A CHILD.-011 Thurs-
day a somewhat remarkable occurrence took place. A little
girl, ten years of ewe, daughter of parents named Davey,
residing at 13, Pottlaudatreer, attempted suicide. Induced
by the promise of a penny she went to work for some person,
who, it mate, did not after all give her the penny. The
child returned home disappointed and angry, and this state
of feeling was still further heightened by a chast'emeefo nt
which bar mother found it necessary tit Maid upon bee r
being absent without leave. 'The child then enbe rc. ui
th tearoat.
rs
and tking her father's MOT cut a deep grub in
Mr. Rugg was immediately called in, and he found tOst the
wand, Owlish deep, was not dromereue. The ihli is
now fast recovering.—Brig Onardien.
which laves Paris for Broads at eight o'clock in the even-
blew his whistle, Ere wee perceived
Mg was, on Saturday, approachieg
la a cartage of the 'lnt.(' a bell
of the train
A RAILWAY CARRIAGE ON FIRE.--As the train
engine•driver did not hear, and the rapid movement of the
traits as the flames to be stronger. At lest en officer
sag °sued a bell to he rang, bat the
who was in the train walked alonit the steps of thecarriages
bo the locomotive, and made the delver stop the train. The
in the barn rib curiae were than mooned, and water
=been procured the Enna, were extinguished. At Fret
these peelers ware accused of hsving caused tbs ire by
smoking cigar', bat they protested they had. not done se, end
on investigation it appeared that the fire mat have Wen
Otaillened by Wake hall ts locomokina