The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

rms STITNET MURDER.

Yesterday afternoon, at one o'clock, Mr. John •
H nays, the Coroner for the Eastern Distrait of
met a highly respectable jury, amembled at the
Railway Tarns, Orr-read. 1111e-esd, to loveseigate the
death of the decried lady_ whom seine was given as Mary
&inky aps TO years, of No. 9, Greve-raid, Stepney. Mr.
Rees, eobettar,
_wee present
The room woe densely crowded long before the inquiry
commenced, sad a number of the guardians, trustees, and
friends of the dressed were present to hear the evidence,
and the utmost interest was manifested by all in attend-
ance.
The jury having been more accompanied the coroner to
the here to new the body. They afterwards went over
th;nisse to examine them.
the coroner sad jury were absent, it wee ascer-
tained bons Mr. Thornton and Mr. Tanner, the two dere.
tire ufficen who have inquired thoroughly, and with great
intelligence, into the case, that they had found money to
the extent of 4dl. in the house, 321. in gold and Hi/. 2a in
silver. The police expect a still larger amount of money
has been secreted.
Mr. John Faith, of park-house, Bow road, was the first
witness examined. He said thedeceseed was his stepmother.
The property left by her husband would go to the daughters ,
of the late 11r. Rowley by his first wife. He did not
know whether the deceased had any other relations.
Catherine Wears, of No. 3, Jamaica-place, rid she knew
the de‘wased. She saw her between half.past four and
five o'clock last Monday evening. The decreed called urn
her for her weekly rent. Bhe was then in good health.
When the deceased called she asked in the usual course far
her money. Her husband was at home at the time. He
worked for any one who would employ him. He was a
labourer.
Mr. Faith, in answer to the Coroner, said that the de-
ceased kept no servants, but a person who bad been con-
nected with the family twenty years used to go end see her.
He did not know where she was.
Mr. Walter Thomas Emm said he lived at Emaley brick-
yard and was a shoemaker. He collected rents for Mn.
Emsisy. The last time Le saw her alive was Let Monday
afternoon, at Baradepstreet, Lamb's.fields, Bethnal-green.
She had just collected her last rent. from
wlliizsealeay.street.
AIM SO
;tat-Twit house for them. e sent his son for them on
Tuesday, in the morning sad at night. He went him-
self on Wednesday, twice, his wife accompanying
him. He went again on Thursday, but still finding
that she was oat, he sent his daughter at six o'clock on
Fridxemornum to see whether anything ivas the matter,
but returned without obtaining admission to the house.
He then told his wife to go the house, and not let anybody
iii, as he intended to go to Mr. H, Rose, Mrs. Emsley's
legal adviser. Mr. Rose met him afterwards at Mrs. Fans
ley's house, sad an entry was snide by a police-minstable
who had been called.
By a Jurymen—He did not call a policeman on the re
vious night. He thought the deceased had received 25/. or.
261. on that day. That was about the average amount. She
was never in the habit of showing large sums of money, and
he did not believe that she ever kept large sums of money
the bowie.

Several questions were put to the witness as to his motive
for sending his daughter to Yrs. Emsley's at six o'clock in
the morning, in reply to which he said he had a suspicion
that she aught be ill. The questions generally were quite
irrelevant, sad the coroner more than once checked the
jurymen who put them.
Edward Dillon, police-constable 19 K, deposed that from
instructions he had received he inspected the premises, sad
opened the home so as to make an entry. He went up
stairs with Yr. Faith and Mr. Roes, and after searching the
rooms they proceeded upstairs to the top floor, and in the
front room be eaw the deceased lying on the door with her
head to the partition. He found a mourning ring and three
halfpence, but no other money. There was a bed and bed-
stead in the room, but it hail no appearance of being slept
on. On the bed were a number of pieces of paper hanging
and under the arms of the deceased were two or three
pieces of the paper. He observed blood on the partition
and sear where the deceased lay. The body was not
touched, by the direction of Yr. Rose, until the surgeon
had seen her. She was armed at the time. except one
clipper. He saw also blood marks on the doorpost. The
whole of the rooms were open, and neither the freed nor
back doors were locked. In his opinion the deceased's
head struck the doorpost, as the blood upon the panels
could not have been caused if the blow had been given
while she was on the floor. The blow was, therefore, peen
while she was standing, by her falling against the dour-
poet
Dr. Lawrence Gill, of Bow-reed, woo called on Friday
last between 1 and 2 o'clock. In the front room on the top
floor he fated the deceased, and be believed she had been
disclaims time. The deoeseed was lying at fall length on
the Soar ; a portion of her gown and petticoat was drawn
up over the head. A portion was screwed up as if blood
W been wiped upon it. On renew* the ewe and pet-
ticoat be found that she was lying with two pimes of per
at tie hack of her lead—one was open and she was
with bier face downward. She had all As clothes on except
one slipper (tie left one), but her heed was uncovered,
harts( no cap one. He foiled the hair of her head matted
with Need, and the back of her heed hanging in shreds, the
bone prearoding. He then turned her on her beck. The
face was green and swollen, showing decomposition had eat
is There was en satire lose of countenance, her
head was diving the leg of a table. He found
blood on the door posts and on the panel, and
also on the paper which laid over her head: The
blood on the wall was bright and shiny, quite different to
the blood decomposed on the door. The next day a cep
was found with an ornament torn off, and in the cap was a
circular hole. He had since made a poet nonce examina-
tion of the body, and in the head he founds 'operated wound
,nie and a half inch long on the left aide, and a contused
wound, half an inch long, on the right side • also a
wound,
an inch and a half long, over the left eyebrow. Theheed
was full of extravaaatel blood ; the vessels on the left side
were much comiested ; the extravaaation of blood extended
over the temporal bone, which was fractured, as also the
occipital bone, which was broken through and forced into
the brain. In removing the skull op it was ahead blood-
lege. The cheat, the abdomen, and the body generally was
healthy. The wound on the back of the head lie believed
to have been ceased by a heavy circular blunt instrument,
and could not have resulted from a fall spinet the door-
post. The came of death was the laceration of the brain.
Inspector Kerrie:o laid, from information hereceived, he
went to the home of the deceased, and was admitted by
Sergeant Dillon. He went upstairs, and saw the d
lying on the floor ; be examined the house and found the
shutters closed but unfarteued ; the window was up a few
Mates. He searched the garden, and also the gardens of
the adjoining premises, but could find no footmarks what-
ever. He searched the deceased, and only found a knife,
but no money. On hie vise down stain, on the Ara deer,
he found a piece of paper with marks of blood upon it, and
also marks of blood on the lower stairs, as of a foot mark,
which be had carefully covered over with oil skin. He bad
canoed every part of the premises to be searched, and had
caused the privy to be emptied, but could find no instru-
meat which would have caused the wounds. He had taken
peat care of the piece of paper he found with blood on it
down stairs.
A juror asked how he supposed the parties had enteral!
The witness declined to answer.

The Coroner said it was better not to aak any questions
at present. They had quite enough before them to show
that the dammed had died from violence to justify their
9ourning the inquiry.
the jury •cquiesoea, and the inquiry was adjourned to
Monday neat.
Mr. Sergeant Thornton and Mr. Tanner have the govern-
ment charge of the use as detective., and the house is still
being searched.
The polio' are most active in their research ; the coroner
himself had • private interview with Mr. Thornton and
Mr. Tanner after the inquest adjourned.