The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-21 00:00:00

DREADFUL SUICIDES IN 11012+0E. ,__

This morning INQUST/I—C=B DAY.)
Mr. John Mum_phreye,
resumed, et the Flint House Tavern, Huns, orlls
relative to the supposed suicide of Mary sre—u•ll/
aged 39. Inas,
The evidence taken on the opening of the tan.,
the effect that the deceased was the widow 4:
&island porter, and lived with her wised* II
No. 2A, Northport-street, Horton, on wtl
she sent her daughter to a chemist's fee a boon ersh
W. Burnett's disinfecting fluid, saying that de, bike fit
to drink it, and that she could not live. The be
West
asked the chemist whether "it was good be mak..
was of course told not. Upon bringing the bottle te ke
mother the latter pressed her to drink some. ,
you do I will drink the bottleful." The gut•
was sent out of the room. In two hours the
found dying, and some of the fluid had 141
died before medical aid could be procured. Ii ese
that deceased was in the habit of drinking iasseeetril
that her favourite beverage was brandy and isedsmi:lol
The deceased had been left 800 f. by her bedew, .1.
died only two years since, and she hM an Menu ;
letting Wrings, but she drank herself into a sans hales
laura poverty.r
. Lothar", professor of chemistry at tin Len.
Isepital, reported that the bottle of Sir W. Berestlia:
infecting fluid contained a strong solution of ehkelle
zinc, a very strong poison. He found in the stomach
deceased a large. quantity of chloride of nu sad We
matter strongly impregnated with the colouring rimy"
blood. Death was caused by the poison, which wu is gen
sufficient quantity to have killed. Dr. Hoskin+ us dill
same opinion.
The Coroner having remarked upon the tees,
The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide by tildegi
certain Roison, chloride of zinc, while in a state of nun
mind arising !rota drink."
Mr. Humphreys then held an inquest at the Grua ide
Tavern, Horton Old Town, on tshe. body of geisnt
red, a Lear , who committed de b tekiiiipirs;
Esther Duncan, 6, Maidstone-place, gegingew
widow of the deceased, said that he was a alilitery
maker, but had of late been out of work. He was giee
to drinking. On Wednesday last witness and he
quarrel about her child by her first husband. an*
• Don't strike him ; strike me." He turned mead ad
struck her at once. He was then under the killers d
liquor. He took from under his coat a bottle cads*
cyanide of potassium and nitrate of silver. He duets..
of the poison, and said, " Esther, forgive me fer gym
you. I have done it." He was about to driak the 1;
minder of the fluid when she snatched the bettle bee
him and flung it into the passage, where it was brekm.
was then nearly 7 o'clock, and he died in • vary aheAtlsw
Mary Ann Graham, a lodger in the same house, Mind
being alarmed by the disturbance on Wedneedm ems.
she went into the deceased's room. The demana reid-je
her, " Mrs. Graham, I have taken what will end all is st
hour. I will leave you now, and you can all go easy
you like." He died almost immediately. A Aroma
and a doctor arrived, but their services were of no re
The cyanide of potassium and nitrate of silver, wink
deceased had in the bottle, were purchased for ine
business.
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while la a eish
of unsound mind."

A MURDERED CHILD POUND ON rn
METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.

Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy-coroner for the City,
held an inquiry at the White Horse Tavern, Hawk%
£'ripplegate, respecting the murder of a male shad In
known.

6itTast Tuesday morning, between 4 and 5 o'dock, n'
platelayer was going to his work on the M
line, he saw a parcel lying on tho Great Westernet=
the Milton-street bridge. He picked it up, and fossil
to contain the body of a child which had=
been murdered. The police were made a
with the facts, and Dr. Simpson, of Forests*,
was called to examine the body, He dam
vered extensive fractures of the skull, and he *Col
that they had been caused by the child's head bugforcibly and repeatedly knocked against some rielip:
surface. The child had been born alive, and ha bee
to death by the means described. The body bad len
wrapped in a quantity of dress lining and a 'beet diem
Paper, and there were no marks to lead to a discovery d
the perpetrators of the crime. The parcel motel*/
have been flung upon the rails from some passing kia
thrown over the psrapet of the Milton-street-bridge.
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder gad
some person or persons unknown."