The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-27 00:00:00

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FATAL OCCURRENCE AND EXCITING SCENE
AT THE AGRICULTURAL-HALL.

Just at the close of the grand pageant of the I
" Meeting of the Monarchs" at the Agricultural-ball, last
night, en occurrence took place which not only had a fatal
issue to one of the performers, but which created such an
intense degree of excitement amongst the audience, which
numbered at least from 18,000 to 20,000 persons, that it
was a marvellous circumstance that serious injury or
further loss of life had not been the consequence.
The pageant had passed round the vast arena or hippo-
drome of the ball twice when, in obedience to the en-
thusiastic shouts of the audience, Messrs. Sanger directed I
the magnificent triumphal car containing the represents
tion of the Queen of England and her court, together
with the English procession, followed by the whole
cavalcade of horsemen, to proceed round a third time.
This car, which is thirty feet in height, and it
is stated, weighs nearly five tons, and lighted with gas,
was drawn by nine spirited cream-coloured horses, each
outside horse being attended by grooms in the royal livery.
The oar had just made the turn of the western extremity
of the arena, at a rapid speed, when one of the grooms,
named Thos. Gibson, aged 27, either from missing his foot-
ing, or some other cause, was seen to fell, and so rapid
was the pace that before he could be extricated
the wheels of the ponderous machine pared over lat
him. It was the stoppage of the cavalcade that first is
called attention to the matter, as at the moment the band ri
was playing the National Anthem and the people hurrah- 56.
Mg. The moment, however, the disoovery was made, 1:0
hundreds threw themselves over the galleries into the es,
arena, and the confusion wee so great that it was with St.
great difficulty the poor fellow was conveyed to the minor It.
hall, where Mr. Greenwood, surgeon, of Chapel-place, Si.
saw him, and pronounced life extinct. The poor fellow a-
wes literally crushed. So intensely excited was the crowd
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that it required all the efforts of the police, under In- 111..
spector Judge, to clear the building. Messrs. Sanger TIZ
deeply deplore the lose of an old andvalued servant et
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THE DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT LW.
EDMONTON. W.
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LATEST PARTICULARS.—(THIS DAY.)
EDMONTON, THURSDAY Moaftfirn.
A most painful sensation has been caused in and b.
around Edmonton by the awful crime committed on to
Christmas night, and numbers of persons last night and xi
this morning visited the scene of the tragedy. The house 100
occupied by the coach-smith, William Gudgeon, and his so
family, is conspicuous from its staring white walls, and is
situated close to the arrival platform of the railway eta- '7;
tion. Its somewhat bleak and singular appearance is
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now a subject of remark among those whose morbid 9x,
curiosity brings them to the spot. et.
The unhappy woman, Ann Gudgeon, had been for some St
weeks past under the care of Dr. Morris, of Edmonton ;
she was suffering from great nervousness and from the r.
effects of cold. There seems to be no reason to entertain
any doubt that her mind gave way from the effects of her se di.
illness and anxiety consequent on family misfortunes. II
Some three months ago her sister's husband. a man em- st•
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ployed in a pickle warehouse in the City, died, leaving his la„„
family wholly improvided for. Mrs. Gudgeon took this to '
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heart and fretted much ; she did her best for their sup-
port, and WWI in a continual worry at not being able to do at
more. She had latter), become considerably reduced in St
strength, and it was this circumstance that the S
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courageous little girl, Selina Gudgeon, owed her
life, for otherwise it would not have been possible for her ;
to have successfully strarrgled when laid hold of by her if
mother. It is stated by Selina that when she saw her 9
mother reaching over to her with the razor dripping with I
the blood of the two other children she noticed that she
looked exceedingly wild, and that her eyes were fixed and
staring. She was dressed in her night dress and a petti-
coat. The wretched woman was only 34 years of age..
The bedroom in which the murders were committed
and the parlour where the murderess put an end to her
own life present a sickening appearance. The beds in the
upper room are saturated with blood ; the fireplace and
fender in the parlour are similarly stained.
The three surviving children, two girls and a boy, are
at present in the care of their friends.
The bodies of the two murdered children, and that of
their mother, have been placed in coffins under the
orders of the police.

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SHOCKING DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN
BY FIBS.

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
This afternoon, Mr. Payne, the City Coroner,
held en inquiry at Guy's Hospital, touching the death by
fire of Emily Mary Ward, aged 19.
Mr. Thomas Challis, a furniture dealer living at London-
street, Greenwich, said that the deceased was a domestic
servant in his employment. At 11 o'clock on the night of
Tuesday fortnight he heard loud screams proceeding
from the kitchen. Upon hastening to the spot
he saw the deceased rushing towards the door-
way into the back yard. She was holding her bands
up over her head, and she was enveloped in a mass of
flame. She was shrieking wildly for assistance. Wit-
ness seized a piece of canvas and threw it
over her, and by that means succeeded in
extinguishing the blaze. She was carried to the hospital,
where she expired on Christman-eve. The deceased stated
to her mother that on the night of the occurrence she was
standing near the fire-plaoe with her arum leaning on the
mantle-shelf, when her dress, which was distended by
crinoline, caught fire.
Mr. Dense. house surgeon, said that deceased died from
the effects of tetanus or lock-jaw, brought on by the in-
juries she had received.
Mr. Challis said that deceased had received orders from
Mrs. Challis not to wear crinoline, and she therefore only
wore a very small one.
The Coroner having summed up, the jury returned a
verdict of " Accidental death by fire."

POISONED BY MISTLETOE BEERIES.

A singular case of poisoning came before Mr.
Richards, the deputy coroner, at an inquest held at the
Bricklayer's Ans tavern, Fenton-street, Commercial-road,
on view of the body of a child named Emma Fuller, aged
one year and three months.
It appeared from the evidence of Maria Fuller, 1
the wife of a working man, living at No. 9, Duke-
street, Commercial-road, that on the morning of
the 20th instant she gave deceased into the arms
of her daughter Margaret, who was only six years
old, and told her to mind the baby, and to be sure not to
go away from the street.door. The little girl, however,
went off with the child, and did not return till 1 o'clock.
The deceased wa
d ay. very ill, and continued to get worse
during the day. At night Margaret confessed
that she had got, no doubt at the green.
grocer's shop, a quantity of berries like
white currants, and finding that they were too bitter to
eat herself, she hail given them to the baby, who had
eaten a quantity of them. Dr. Spey was at once sent for,
and he stated that the child had been poisoned. He pre-
scribed emetics, which brought up a tea cup full of
mistletoe berries. The deceased lay screaming in
agony all the next day, and on Friday last she died.
Dr. George Spey said that he found the deceased child
suffering from all the symptoms of poisoning ; the quan-
tity of mistletoe berries which had been given to her was
very great, and they were highly poisonous. The post
mortem examination showed that the lungs were exces-
sively congested, and the stomach and inteatines were
highly inflamed from the action of the poison, which
produced death.
The Coroner, in summing up, said that the elder infant
was hardly more to blame than the younger for what had
happened.
The jury retained a verdict of " Accidentally poisoned
,tletoe berries."

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ACCIDENT TO A WOOLWICH STEAMER.—Yesterday
afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock a serious accident hap-
pened in the Pool nearly abreast of the Tower to the
Naiad, Woolwich paddlewheel steamer, which might have
been attended with very serious consequences. The
Naiad was on her way down the river, and being
Boxing-they and the weather floe there was a largethe
number of passengers on board. As she was passing
Tower, the Metropolitan, a large screw steamer, was
sw-.eping round with the tide, when the fan of her screw
propeller caught the quarter of the Naiad and cut into her
side. It was then discovered that
ashe was mak
ming .
water fast at her stern, and, may be ia-
gined, there was considerable alarm among the
ssengers, who as a matter of course feared the wrst.
The captain at once made the necessary arrangements for
getting the vessel ashore so as to save the passengers, and
il4 the tide was rising the steamer was got close to the
Tower Quay, and the passengers were all safely landed.
As the tide made the steamer filled aft. Preparations
were then made to float her, and at low water the damage
which she had sustained having been repaired, she floated.
on the return of the flood, and was taken down to the
company's yard as Woolwich. •
t Monday
TESTIMONIAL TO A CLERGYMAN.--Las
evening a handsome service of plate was presented to the 1,
Rev. Richard Bingham by churchmen and noncon-
formists of Queenborough and Sheerness, u a mark of '
esteem for him on account of his conduct as incumbent
of the former town during the last 10 years.
THE QUEEN AND THE ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM.
—it affords us great pleasure to announce that her Ma-
jesty has signified her intention to publicly open the
Albert Orphan Asylum, at Collingwood-court, Bagshot,
in Juno next, and, at the same time, to lay the
ti Juno
of a dining- hall and chapel. The number of
children new in the asylum is 162, involving en annual
expenditure of 3,0001. The inauguration of the institu-
tion, which was established about two years ago, has been
postponed from time to time, in the well-placed 'hopT that
her Majesty would at length consent to perform the weep-
Jive rites.—London Mirror.

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1866.

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