The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-03 00:00:00

TEE LIDBURY MURDER.

LEDBURY, TICRSDAT

John Isaac Jones, the clerk in Mr. Masai°ld's
office, who hes been arrested en the charge (ander circum-
stances already stated) of the murder of Harriet Baker, Mr.
Mau&ld's °Moo-keeper, was swain brought up for examina-
tion to-day.
The esme six magistrates by whom the investigation was
opened, presided to-day, 'twisted by Mr. W. Money Kyrie
sad CoPile' Gray, also magistrates.
Mr. Piper, solicitor, conducted the prosecution; and
Messrs. Gregg and Sena defended the prisoner.

Mr. 0. Maeefeld wee the Ant witness. He dented that
the hailiffFreemsn wee often at his office, and should not
think it possible that he know where the mossy was kept.
It was "a fabricstiou as diabolical u the murder that ne
(wittier) had a brother of bad character in indigent cir-
cumstances, who bad lately bees &boat Ledbury; he had Co
relative who was not indeed:led of him and the world."
Joseph Playstead, a neighbour, who was one of the
earliest in the bode after the discovery of the murder,
deposed, amongst other 'Tidier*, that Jones was the first
person who, during the confides Incident to the discovery,
approached Mr. Masefteld's drawer, and said " There has
bees coo 'bevy here." Jones male a circuit to approach the
drawer. _ _

Aber some other whammies had bees eulogised the o
wee adjourned.

(THIB DAY.)

(PROs ODA OWN 001114PONDINT.)
The magistrates met this morning at half-past 10 o'clock,
aid after hearing some more evidence of an unimportant
chancier In corroboration of facts already proved, committed
the prisoner Jones to take hie trial at the next asaires on the
charge of the wilful murder of Harriet Esker, sad all the
wittiest., wore bound over to appear against him.
Tbo prisoner will be removed in the evening to the county
gaol at Hereford.

THE COALWHIPPERB OP THE I'ORT OF LONDON.—
The codwhippers of the poet of London have been butilyem-
*Jed daring the lost few days on the river at the &deemed
pay of 9d. per toy, bat the men still motions to meet to
carry out their resolutions for the pond orgaaisation of the
body.
ma Poon LAW thwrem.—Yesterday morning,
Mr. Humphreys held an 'agent at the Grave Manske Tavola,
Whltoehapel•roal, on the b dy of Wm. Andrews, aged two
years, who died under the Mowing circumstances : Mary
Andrews. mother of the child, deposed that she bad been an
inmate of the Whiteelumel maim, and on Monday morning
last, stout seven o'clock, she left that place, with the de-
ceased fa her arm., to visit a relation. She had cot gone far
down the Whitechapal-rood when she discovered that the
child bad been nixed with a fit. She sat down on a door-
step, when a (surgeon, named Mites, wee called to her, who
pre the child a powder and directed her to go to the Milo-
end OM-town Workhouse, which was close by, sod ask the
porter to admit her, as the child could be put into a warm
ba.h. IdrAtlifin told her to mention his name and tell them
that be sent her. The porter who no nod the gate refused
to admit her, and sent her hack to Whiteohspel. She then
carried the dying child to the forgery of Mr.
Richardson, the parochial medical officter, who era.
mined it and pronounced life to be extinct. Mr.
Edward Richardson sold that when he examined the
body, it re. med to have been in a healthy sate, and be could
not 60031111 t foe death. He had elates made a post-metro
examination, and found the sun of death to he congestion
of the brain, which was exceedingly soft. The e•omach and
other orgasm were perfectly healthy. There were no marks
of violence. The jury expensed their opinion that there was
a want of common humanity r a the pin of the officer of the
workhouse in sot admitutag her; his defog so might have
been the means of saving the life of the child. A err diet of
Natural Death" was rererded, and the jury requcettd the
coron. r to write to the 13 and of Ouare4aaa of she pariah
of Mend Old-town, with the view to seem attention of It e
Plana adopted by the gate porter it asee of an urgent clot-
ranar.