The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-19 00:00:00

DEATH OF A LUNATIC ON A RAILWAY.

Last night, an inquiry, which did not terminate
until • late hoar, took place at the Elephant and Castle,
Bing'proad, Camden-town, before Mr. Brent, deputy-
coroner, touching the death of Jane Stanton, a lunatic,
aged fifty, who died' in a carriage on the Great Northern
Railway, nadir very extraordinary and mysterious carom-
stances, while ander an order of removal front the Stsmlo:d
Gains, Lincolnshire, to the Camberwell Lunatic Asylum.
A young female, named Thorpe, who had lodged for
some time with the deceased at Stamford, and who, in com-
pany with Mr. Withorne, the assistant-oveneer of the
Stamford trains, travelled with the deceased to London,
was examined. She said that on the journey the deceased
was in a very weakly condition, and she a:premed the
opinion once or twig that she was either dying or dead.
At Engadine, a few miles this side of Stamford, the de-
eeased wee In to helpless a condition that upon ehangiag
Mates she bad to be annoyed in a chair from one train to
the other. The witness wag unable to say if the deceased
was than dead or not, but afterwards some other passengers
impressed their opinion that she was either dead or dying,
and this Induced her to cover the denased's face over with
a shawl. Hower, notwithstanding this, the usistaat-

overseer, who oat reading a hook, took no notice of
the deceased until they arrived at the King's Cross
terminus, when they found that Vie deceased was really
dead. Throughout the journey, and fcr two days previous.
in consequence of the deceased having attempted suicide
by jumping out of a window, she had the strait waistcoat on,
and the witness added that the deceased bad not taken any
food for two days prior to her remove/.

Mr. W. LazlMrt, proprietor of the Railway Hotel It
Rasendine, also gave evidence as to the deceased'a weakly
condition upon arriving at that station; as did also the
gaud of the train ; and Mr. Lambert said he considered
she was dying, and he was surprised she should late ban
taken on to London.

Farther evidence of a corroborative character haying
been given, the coroner summed up, severely animadverting
upon the careless and indifferent conduct of the asaistant-
overseer, Mr. Withorae, and the jury, after three-quarters
of an hour's deliberation, recorded en open verdict as to thie
precise cause of the deceased's death, specially adding, And
the jury (*wider that the deceased woman did not receive
sufficient attention fret Mr. Withorns, relieving officer of
the Stamford Union, while travelling in the railway train,
and that medical attendance should have been procured
when the deceased was first discovered ill, and they highly
censure the conduct of Mr. Witborne." The investiga-
tion then terminated.

SUDDEN DEATH.—Our obituary records the and.
den death of Robert Mapleton, Req., late of Stunned, in
this county, which took place under the following painful
circumstances. Oa Tuesday afternoon, about half put
four o'clock, Mr. Mapleton went into Mears. Hearn' Bank,
Fleet-street, London, and paid in a sumo( money to the ge-
ment of his aster. Me observed to one of the Pettier clerks
that he had known him for some yeas, but the deceased
had not been reeognised, and immediately after this he fell
backwards, and when Mr. Whitley, a gentleman in the
bank, attempted to lift his head from the floor, he gave one
deep gasp and expired. Medical gentlemen were imme-
diately sent for, and on their arrival announced Mr. Maple-
ton amt.—Bury Post.
MURDER or THE GIPSY KINO.—We stated in
the Express, a few days ago, that the body of an old man,
named Stanley, the " Gipsy Klee of the West," had been
hued in the river Dart, and that there was no doubt, from
the medical evidence and other circumstances, that he
had been murdered. At the inquest which has been held
before Mr. W. A. Cockey some 11.1ditiOnSi evidence was ad-
duced. Rhoda Stanley, the wife of the donned, stated
that her hasband left the van early on Tuesday
morning to go to Tunes fair; she did not accompany
him, but saw him in the afternoon. when they had
some drink together. He left her to go to the bone
fair, and she sever saw hint alive again. Almost his last
act was to buy a pony for his poor old woman to tide"
as he thought she was getting up in 'ea.', and needed such
help in her wanderings about the country. The witness
seemed frantic with grief, as she said demand " was such a
good old man to her." The ostler at the inn where deceased
stopped last saw hint standing in the passage in company
with a, 'strange man," who wee respectably dressed. Mr.
Haines, surgeon, deposed that death bad been caused b
strangulation. There wa • dark red band round the neck
of the deceased, which t ad evicently been produced by the
neckcloth being tightly pressed against it. His hands were
clinched, and were raised as if in relf-esfecce, and there
was a heavy frown on the countenance. It was suspected
that the old man had met with foul play by some of the
gipey tribe, but no evidence has teen adduced tending to
support that suspicion, inasmuch as !se seems to have been
popular among his fraternity. Active exertions are being
made by the police to endeavour to discover the murderer,
and the inquest has been adjourned for that purpose.
SUICIDE AT ROTHRRUITHE.—Yesterday morning
considerable sensation was created in Clarence-street, Ito-
Wilhite, in consequence of a most determined suicide having
been committed by Mr. Jonathan Tucker, aged 37, an
American, nude r the following distressing circumstances :
It ay piers the deceased had ems from Boston, in the Fa-
vorite, which had undergone most extensive repairs by
Messrs. Green, shipbuilders, at Poplar' mad bad sailed on
Moseley morning for G d, where deceased was to have
joined her. He, however. lett home early yesterday morning,
in his zonal health and spirits, sod returned at breakfast
time, when he part iok of a henry nue, and told his land-
lady (Mrs. Catherine Laly) that he had 500 dollen in the
bands of the American eonsul, which he intended to get,
when he would pay her, and leave for G red. He was
shortly afterwards mission, and was diec,vered in the front
parlour, weltering in a pool of blood, which proceeded from
a terrific gash in the throat, completely severing the wind-
pipe and carotid arteri.e. Without loss of time he was
conveyed to St. Themat's Hospital, where Mr. Wo'd, house
surgeon, assisted by the medical 'tell, was in attendance;
but life was wino. No cause can be omigned at present
for the rash se'.
FIRE IN WALWORTH.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween two and three o'clock, a fire broke out cn the pre-
mises belonging to Mr. W. Latham, a builder, No. 3,
Acton-place, York-street, Walworthiroad. The dissent.
arose from some unknown cause in a brick and timber build•
iog used as the workshops, in which property of considerable
value was deposited. In the course of a few minutes the
engines of the London brigade, as wet es that of the West
of Ragland losurance.office, grind, hut the firemen were
usable to get toe confiegration extinguished until the work-
shops were nearly destroyed, sod the contents consumed.
Fiirtunately the sufferer was Insured in the Allietee Fin-
ale,. An extensive fire also took ph co during the night at
the well-known tar ge of premises belonging to Mmes.
Thomas and Co.' termed the Lavender-dock, situated at
Rotherbithe. The joiners' shops and the saw-pits, neatly
100 feet long end SO feet wide, were destroyed. At GEE
time it was apprehended that the splendid ship Candahar,
belonging to the Ileum Sheldon and Co., would have been
consumed. As it wee, the larboard side of the veeael was
eatessaively damaged by fire, sad the premises of Mr. B.
Jolliffe, manure merchant, have the side windows burned
out, and their contents are damaged by water.
A TEMPERANCE LECTURER AT Holm—The Rev;
T. L. Coyle', of the Dutch Reformed Coma, in a letter
from Massachusetts, thus speaks of Mr. Gotieh at home :
" Mr. Gough resides about five miles from Worcester, in a
retired portion of the township of Roylston. Here, amid
the hyaena air of the Massachusetts hills, and with all
the In-door comforts of a fine librsty and a happy house-
hold, he nate body and mind for next winter's new
campaign @gaga the demon of the bottle. Friend
Gough Is sot rich, save in moral trophies and
the benediction of the good; but he has managed
to lay by enough to boy a very attractive
house. The house is a white Italian cottage. Far up
one commanding elevation, with a retinue of royal hills
*boat It, looking down into waving groves of maple and
chestnut, sad into meadows knee deep in verdure, with all
the unending green of New England upland. in full view.
• stands the summer-house of oar young Boanerges. Here

he Wows of the pauoply of the reformer, and toras prac-
tical farmer. His c)rn bespeaks good tiUsgs ; his • Halo-
catoons* 'maid greet a Jersey peach-basket. The humane
that waveless vast audiences abroad onkel our brother
most entertelalng bott, sad quietly streams Iff bim is
'bamboos of *mat sketch sad sasodots."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
orra•Sll IS AUICDDIFOILS /MIMI CLAIWILL, WILLIAM, AND
camma.
?AIR'S E. /L/Itts.-111MT Or SNAITTATIATION AGAINST •

Wilsby moved for armlets set aside a writ of sr quit-
tr.,* uhica Lel best Mast agatast the benefice of
e defendant, who is a clergyman. The defendant had, on
the Sept. last, presented a petition is iesolvancy to the
r tint, ram of Abe rystwith, acd obtained an Interim
of protectian. The plaintiff shortly afterwards issued
writ of sequestration against the defendants benefier.
Ifa 5 and 6 Viet., cop. 117, enacted that insolvents baying
*Mimed an order of protection, should be protected from
si; prates whatever against their pampa or property of
cony description." It was submitted under there eirClllll-
genes', that the writ of seqasetration could not be pat in
!arc.
Hale granted.
llATltift V. LORD MAIDITOKI.ACTIOIII ON ♦ SILL OITLI

Ir tatILWAL or a 1,01013) BILL.
This was an wart spot • bill of eschaage for 1,0001.,
ace.. pled by Lord blabletone, and the pleadings rebind the
&frac, that the bill had boss gives by Lord Maidatoa•
at remotest of a bill which he afterwards foaled oat to be
forged. The trial took place at Guildford before the Chief
Brion, and the jury foaled • verdict for th•
defendant. Subsequatly however, a rile wee
obtaised for • sew trial, spot the ground of mie-
d,ncrira, it being stated to the wart spot that mouton that
the Citiet Baron bed told thejary that to entitle the plaintiff
to reover, it should btprod that he gave value for the
forged bill. The cese,lbwerrer, cese on for argument to-
day, and the Chief Beret twat Ms totes of the trial, and
stated his direction to the jury to ha that the bill sued on
was gives for • forged ate, bet that that was no deletes if
the p'aletiff well the hose fide holder foe Tau of the
b:11 saod en, and that to aside the Minima Is a vordist,
the jery mast tlad that the dandiest hed bees defrauded
oat of the bill, cad that the plata led set given value
few the bill, and wee set a be.. die Mk& That the Jar,
fonad that the &Umbra heed hew dassled eel of the
b.l, and that the planar NI en the Mae die haler for
.d•.. •

Tim roan espremed aMaileitmeat at the difference be-
tween the direction of the Olaf Hares is stated when the
mottos was made, and u arm MOW bybiaself.
Mr. Lash eskal leave to velhe t) samara% writer'e note
of the questions lift to the Jury.
Mr. Justice Cremwell, however, lodised to allow a short-
hand writer's not* to be reed, to eteatradiet this sots is the
Chef Baron's own haadwriting.
bir. Leas said that his own seta agreed with the short.
hand writer's, and be believed that the now of his leaned
Mend, on the Othir Bide world be fosad to agree with hie.
Mr. 11411. who appeared ea the other aide, teed his mace
of the summing up at the signet of the nava, sad it was
fond to agree with Mr. Lust's. He, however, might have
mieenderstood the Chief larva

Mr. Justice Cress",ll saidhat if the dint:tam of kis
hrdship had totaled the leemed seismal, it very probably
tad misled the jtuy. nem essmad to be some mistake is
the matter, sad tberehme ate loomed mussel had better
commealeate with the COW Won apes tle sabjest. At
MAVIS the roan nail be keaad by the Chief Heroes
tOtti.
The toss wee assordkasly pastposed.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
urrvcos 111 imcco.:nran ?I1 LOAD aim 11411011, ML LION

ALLMON. M. 142031 ISANWUJ. AMD XI. Li= WATIPDX.

OORKWILL IP. 10151

nto aroa nag of tha
Ch 7 .the...'le7g;;teat
mitt is this ease, raid the desiesalles stated that the
pleiotitf classed a right to all the segue puska throve'
wide leads sad the peeperty et the athadear.
which it wooa bed heed demi sad diverted
from their foram osesehe wee 'she thealtest, lookiag
et the evidence WWI wr IMMINNI at the that the
',idiot which hoil wad Is ham el the swabs
tot to be disterbe4 me. *seeder% the epthestith
hod bees stole tel a sew Idel ea the mad that the jury
wired et sa improper vsedlet, sad that the judge wen to
have allowed the plalatdt to mead the daderetisa, Rad be
afro/.

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Hats Wised laserdiagly.
PIOTRITCCIO TVJ

The Chief Berm Woo deli.a.d Yee jodiarat of tho
ooze is IN..sr, WAS was OM OWN= by
tha plaiadff mew hos ha foe
wales WAS ha hal hymns SSP holsollaat'a
neglinesee. It Sea bas hossoa wr stag* tho sow,
that the jar, wipe salosssil this widish is Ism: of the
plaintiff wore ermehbrohtp lallusod by lios lasoalabis
accident which had ossanoiloo it mood that limo Soh al
the elthadaat's slide had .stand tho plalaars
anis, sad pasissil tub a hufal leandos
mod nett • dsgswas wosad, that So laws-
thos woolly posonsist Os time sppliestios for a
as Vial It was sniped Sat la reality ha Wary hod re-
Mei Is essesessass Odle plalatira ova otrolsoson sad
iMaamass Ss hall Ism ettribeheblo
th aseisiles $ lbs sesinseS sods by his wife,
sok slaseslirs. Ors as `'dross solidi had loss gives
finis
ass was ossibmillslssy. sal es oboe said too fresh
ties slims& tot asholvol,
wilt to Iv a sow al.. IS lo orbs world hie
selloff St Westin la aft saw testis soh
oats hot when the sails at Wes bad boos
diossod of by • jury, —_l It • ..tear
fraught With swots lisp, to sad It Wove
asetnerjety, saleos It thodii is lb.wsrM hilubsed,_
ft (mad sold b. Lush/ to tam Slassom Thera
had hots la this sae so lispoissin of klai, harsh»
the vole fora saw trial saat bo shod.
halo &end.
1101111.1111 ..Sit 511 AT. NOITNIZX slummy COMM T.

•
This was is motion besaght to neater sormoonssigen la
dawn. fee a brash if sootesee. At the trfal erfalmh tab
place daring the peons own before Mr. Baas Martin,
the leaned asmsel ter the plaintiff reread, setwithmlinding
vet de was nand a de se, Si state what spell' sum ha
awned as dosages; sad tbajory, wader the dirostrea of
the jar, mused a 'Dahl for the dandant. Sena-
quad,. a Isle for a now tria was applied for, en the
erased that the quanta as to the manta of damages
ahead have bens left to the jury.
Toe court sow pa it as tam °puns that the arenas
of the lamed jades a' the trial was comet, ad netwith.
mediae that the plaintiff sight have bees sallied to re.
are? for the anged beach of entree*, it was avesseary
state what woo the waffle sun claimed for sub breath. and
mot to leave it to the any to say what they wesid award by
way agaves' damages for what sight have bees entaiderad
deny or diseppoiatnest is the delivery el the goods.
Tarawa the rase mast hi .toned.
Rase Wow.

Is the ewe of Smith w O'Brien, whisk ease ►efore the
court yesterday, sad which oppeared is oar isprission of
this day, t►oir lordships granted s rule.

Mt: LLLL V V. ataaona.—JVDQMIJT.
The Mist Biros said the court were of opinion that':
there ought te be o rate to show case is this cam The
action had been bromibt to recover dowses tor a trespass,
in taking some ore from defendaat's mine. The defendant
pp eaded the statute of limitation. A verdict was OM in
las favour. Bebsequently an spoliation was made by the
platettli, for a rule to show cause why he should not be
permitted to reply equitably, on the ground that the acts
of the defendant were fraudulently cremated from the
plaintiff, and that, therefore, the stating of limitation did
Mat. 'cording to former decisions, bar the plaintiff's
cairn. They cousideref that the paned of application was
well founded, therefore they would grant a rule to show
mole,

Role panted seeordiegly.
The eoort were of op own that in the twee of " Clerk e.
Lawrie," the tale which had bees obtained oven to he
&sober's&

ARCHES COURT.
71111 [NIGIIITSZITDOS CURS.

air :Gila Dodo°a accounted that be weald delfverjadg-
scent I. these emus next watt day, Tbanday, the 27th
minicab

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
MOUS US. COMEUSIOriII 1.1111111101131.
11 2.11 TlLLllT.—itamixarrr.
The bankrupt, • den contractor, of Old It. Pastres.road,
applied for his eertilleete s fiw days ego. The facts of the
case were then reported.
His Honour sow gave judgment, sespeading the certifi-
cate for sic months from the dote of the less examinatioa
(October); when erantel, to be of the third elm. The
trout-ace also be withheld fee that period.
The bankrupt had Ices frailty of fraudateet pretenses to
three creditors—lir. Ooc,, Mr. fikeitle. sad Mc Regg ; sad
he books bad been mot imperfectly kept, thin loin
onimioas from the cub IKok to the 'Meat of 3,0004 There
were no entries at all in referents to the delete of the
preferred creditors; and the boobs lad bees emaialy
made up since the twakceptry. It was Indispensable In
thee eoets, if they blooded to mown erieditom, and
to decide jsstly and imputially la commercial ewe, to
mart their once ((each conduct as had occurred is this cave.
Tle malanoe to hap proper hocks of amuse was a daily
eteurrinee, sad the Melon inevitable mesh was Mckeurcy.
AU the ellUlSielkaf /9, he beloved, tied c me to the deice° a
Ile nomad the comfiest' in was where traders megleeted
to keep their books poverty. There eau evidence of a
deep me the put of the bankrupt to conceal the true state
his affairs, and an thev ground the mart withheld pre-
NOM.
Mr Lieklater asked for prosodies tar a limited period,
to enable the baoktapt to appeal, should he le advised to
de N.
Protection was grassed fee to. dem

Tat MIDDLB TEMPLE —Us honed Attorney-
Murat (ale A. rockets- ), who boo suespied the °Sae of
Chief 'seeks of the Cocoon Pls. Nab Ma farovel of
aka Inas of court, of whic he has bass so distlegalshed a
'umber, so Moodily sight, is a very fall bW. Llor A.
Cockburn was mit loud:p sad aproattoesly chewed as be
loft the ball. "bleb be sektowledpd by bowing rereatedly,
idally nosh affected.