The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-07 00:00:00

0010111Z8 INQUIBTB.

EXTIIAOIDDIABY BUICIDI OP A YOUNG INDIAN
Ormase..-Testtehrg shwas= Kr. Webby held an inquiry
faro the doer of Osiris lissirds Theirs Ash, walla,
at his Wilma reigansai Ns. 81, Uwe Gineoecter. pima,
Hewer shire be 1111111.111•1 stlf Armin is the
moss ,weer, s Pithy lest. Ihremst
Edwead Mihaly was Ni keetiess. sed bed treaty
messed hems bah, where hew WNW u the eh Light
Natl.* Istlishrtageed leek as entre pert la llMMllimin the
rshellien. He art bran well, complaining el-great pens
Ni bead. He west to Brighton on Wednesday, for the
bin& at his health, bet only raterrel sae sight, as be was
NW. Oa Thursday WOKwe with bin wry late ; he was
nu=ll, sad riser did sot leer him ern 2 o'clock in the
rershig. Darin the early rant af Friday morning=
K ems was art to deceased, bat fiedlag his door
art them his as rawer, it was thesght la lied vat to
ors% mid it was delertlied not to awake him. Where
loweted at the riser at ober 1 o'er* sod ressitleg so re-
ply Mares sherd, eel the mem having bass forcibly
erred dearer or Boni Wag on the doer ha a pool of
Wed; be was err deed, sad then was a large wound fa
kis left arm, eel a revue lying are Hun. Mr. Hoary Gay,
id.R.C.B., aril he woe ethyl to on Friday, about half-
pan one dolor, wed hoed iseresed lyre es the door on his
hook deluged ie hind. The weird wee r:Ot scrum the left
arm, dividing all the whsle sad mesh is as traps muscle.
It was only one parer gab, Time was a slight wound
mom the wrist of Ilis mass are Oa the chest of drawers,
where he bed Ism sloshes there was kis beaker's
keel, a bleak sheges steed. end seer weirs throttler r
to how hie Remy wee le he get hem the bank. Time
wen no los of a efts& • the beddoths were turned
down as if heti swille4 get or of bed. The body wee
rid. He beimd that death had taken place from lose of
blood hem the wend Is the left arm. Had known deocased
from a boy. Hamm sanidered one of the most fortunate
men in Mammy. He bad distinguished himself very much
in the indium anmpaign ; was just gazetted to the captaincy
of his comp, sad, In addition, bad an appointment waiting
for him it at. worth 1,2001. a year. The Coroner having
summed up, the Dry returned a verdict " That the decreed
cownsirted self whilst in an unsound state of

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FRIGHTFUL BUICIDI OP A CAPTAIN IN TEI
LONDON DOCILLIANS sight Mr. John Humphreys, the
coroner held as Inquest at the Wellington Tavern, Cannon-
sweet, St. Georgers-in-lihs-Ran, on view of the body of John
Allison Booth, aged 40 years, who committed self-destructlon
under the following oirenesearane ; It appeared from the evi-
dence that the deemed was the captain of the barque Alma,
of Suaderiaad, at pessest lyterg is the west quay of the Lon
don Docks. The dement lied been on a voyage to India,
which had turned sat a Mims. This fact seemed to prey
upon his mind, sad be had complidned of severe pains in the
head. On Friday morning lest one of the altiphespere went
tato the cabin, sad discovered the deceased lying between
two boxes. There was an extensive wound in the front of
the decAsed's neck, and blood had spirted ab nit the fluor.
There was a razor-strop and a atone upon which some In-
strument had been sharpened. Search was made, and after
an hour • new was found lying under his head. Dr. Eng-
lish on celled, and promptly attended, but life was quite
extinct. Mr. Peter Anderson, an oMoer of the cus-
toms, said that he bad know• the deceased for
several years. Deceased bad suffered great pain in the
head, would pace his bedroom at night, sad speak (*cohe-
rently to his wife. The deceased had a large family and he
seemed devotedly stacked to then and his wife. had
Way said to his wife, "What will become of you if I go to a
lunatic asylum t" Deceased had ales ben beard to szelains,
'• I shall die." Mr. Robert Ord, the bran to the owner al
the ship, stated that the need had made a voyage which
was naproenble. The deceased was very essaitive and
easily excited. He had recently reached a communication
from the owners relative to the aceonate elute ship ; hut,
se they peeled through a operas of three years, they had
not been rendered. Toe deceased said to whams a few days
belere he died, tt Come and see me on Saturday, if I am sot
deed." Waiters remonstrated with deemed, when he
added, " I think I shall cut my throat." The deceased was
of opinion that the owners of the ship had some mistrust of
his conduct in the voyage, but witness was certain that
when the woman were fully gone through there would be a
Inge balance due to :the deceased. The jery returned a
verdict of " temperary Insanity."
FATAL FALL DOWN A SHIP'S HOLD.-00 Satur-
day Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner held an inquiry at
the George and Dragon public-house, Shadwell,
as to the death of Alexander Winhart, aged 68 years. The
deceased was ship-ken of a vessel called the Cumberland,
lying is the BhatiweU-terdn of the Larks Doris, and on
Thursday last he was crowns the deck, when he fell head
foremast down the hold. He was raised up, and seen by
Mr. J. B. Ross, the surgeon, but life was extinct, from frac-
ture of the skull and lacerations of the brain. The jury
rennin a verdict of " Accidental death."
Tan MURDER AT WINCHIELtiILi.—The inquest in
this ewe coneinded on Saturday with a verdict of " Wilful
smear spinet some person wr persons unknown." The
deerseed, whose body was found by the seashore at the earn
side of Rye Harbour, was identified as a man named W.
Rode, a native of Cexbeath, neer Maidstone, Kent. He was
oboet forty years of age and when found had been in the
water apparently but a few hours. On his head were no
lees than six deep incisions, end also another over the tight
eye, evidently infliett I with some sharp instrument, sad
leaving no doubt that a moat brats' murder had been
nand, the murderers afterwards throwing the body oretrh7i;
victim Into the am. The medical testimony clearly proved
that the donned met a violist death, and the jury returned
the verdict stated above.

THE SECRECY or ran CONFEBSIONAL.—A Pee
whop bad excited emisiderable Moffett and mriceity, was
beard In the County Polio Court, Gateshsed, on Tuesday,
the presiding justices on the occasion being G. H. Ramsay.
C. Lamb, TOM. Bramwell, and C. Balmer. &qrs. The
party accused was • pitman, named William Hay ; and the
charge was that of baring, in company with others not yet
In custody, feloniously &ranked Maid Kennedy sod stolen
from hi. person a watch and 16t. in espy, on the highway
et Felling, on the 24th Deo., 1869. The prosecutor having
been examined in support of the charge, Inspector Roger., of
the county police force at Felling, came forward and stated
to the bench that, on the receipt of informatim of the rob-
bery, he Instituted en active *smelt for the leading Pleader,
who, it spears, is still at large. In the operas of his in-
quiries he eacertalned that the stolen watch was in the
possession of Father Kelly, the Roman catholic pint of
tie village who. be wee also lammed. had gone to the
blase et the • father, and awed to restore to
Mu the wMi. To IbM request Mr. Kennedy meet dusty '
refused to secede, remarking that, es the cam wee them in
the Made of the police, it wee not Ids provisos to interfere.
Fe:dished with tole spperestly favourable clue Mr.
Rogers, In hie ofikdal asperity, proceedsd to the hones of
the rev. father, and got the watt* from him; but his
endeavours to obtain from Ms the user sad whereabouts
of the lodividual by whom It had beta left in his custody
' were Ice vain. Wined of the sosseqautoss, he persisted
' Is emery. giving the oMoir to uuderstsad that he was
perlistly Sorter ad remelte, and would as so amount (livable
she feet. When hakes the magletrotm he maelfated the
elm disposal to ecernalment, in which, notwithetendhig the
ealpetury sparks of their worship., be lAttelnagiosely perse-
vered. observing that be bad rewired the watch in moor.
dope with • mimes Hu of the church, which he meld met,
Ma fee the earls of justice, violate ; end in justification of'
Ms coeds* he quoted the wads of • religious authority on
the point. She beach. In wry Atoms terms, commented on
the otetinary displayed by therm. gentleman, and committed
the prisoner to take his trial at the ensuing maims ; Father
Kelly sod the other witnesses being b ituid over in their own
recornisames to appear ace/ give miasmas against him on
that musks.

CAPTURE OP THE ESCAPED CONVlCTS.—Through-
out the wbole of Saturday the comity potion in the neigh•
tendered of Windsor, Maidenhead. mid Heading were
votively swami in seerching for the two couviote who early
oa that warning succeeded in escaping from a train on the
Great Wasters Railway, wow the Itakleehesd Mellott, while
es rents from Dertassetk to Chadian, as reported In pear-
day's &press. Oe Basiday mooning the county ice
authorities at Reediest received ie formation that during l
the
revises night the Chequers cubl,c• house, at W.odley (a
village about three miles distant from Reading) bad bees
broken into by two tam, who were routed by the inmates,
but succeeded is making their escape, carrying with them
two " wide awake' hats and leaving their own caps ; they
also left their boots at the boom and quitted with those
belonging to the landlord. These articles were examined by
the polies, and from the lettering upon them, were found to
belong to convicts ;it therefore became ore- sin that the two
who bad escaped from the train wars is the neighbourhood.
It was also found on the previous day that two persons
easygoing their description had been men. Accordiegly
a large body of p .lios, attired in plain clothe*, sratimail
rhemerives at various points in the neighbourhood, but
nothing was noes of them. However, shortly before same
o'clock in the *mein Inspeotor Townsend, of the Reading
bootie b ordiro.whlle es duty at the etetioo, received infer
matlon that two stespleistae-looking characters bad just pro-
ceeded down the sserket-giare. Be lostiediarely followed
is that directive, sad when war the Upper Ship Hotel,
be observed the two sews, melt of whom wore a " whites-
wake ;" this arida him that they were the " gentleussor
in request ; and he at easeseised hold of them. Inspector
Audits/at was near the apt, and at once hastened to the
aseletance of hie brother dear. A desperate struggle weaned,
and lucre .tor Townsend reesived a revere Wow on the face.
A com.able came up, sad the *Roes were removed to the
poll. e rutin°, whore they pie the names of Robert Berill
sad Jobs Brows. They were then charged with being .he
two convicts who hell made their mops, ohm both oon hes&
aid sled they were seder a seateere of en yetis' peed
'mantled'. They were both disguised, having their shins
over their conviad el Mee sad a brown slop over all. Brown
had a women's cloak secreted about him, fie the purpose of
farther disguising himself, should it be neoseeary. They were
both lodged is the county gaol, where they at reactmade.

011 USE 1313170CATED.—On Friday the horn mid
art of Williams Baseborn. carter, wee We for a short time
by the madtide, near liald.ot Wood. St. Oeyth, when the
bons aooldestally slipping Into the clitob, costaleing but a
law isolate depth of lessor, was unable to robe i.o head hoot
the abaft of the vehicle, which wee preeetar apes it, and we
awe balsa at dead to extricate the poor animal, it eat id-
ibee?.4 —Snot Herald. _

WILECICIL—The tot al number of wreck, during
the moth of Jaasary we. M.