The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

MANOR Of THROWING 'VITRIOL OVER A WOMAN.
I'. orris Afyon, s Frenchman, 50, residing at 6,
•-tolk-place, cabinet-maker, was charged with throwing
.uantity of fluid, supposed to be vitriol, over a woman
v4l Kate May.
l'osseutrif, who is a dressmaker, said she went

a friend who liver in the same house as

• prisoner. As she was going into the
• proamea pulled her into the room and seized passage
thicat. Prisoner then fastened the door with a nail,
aid he intended to murder her. PPe then struck her
:Lc nose with a piece of lead attached to some string.
10-at held a knife over her and then a poker. After
her with the poker he rushed to the cupboard,
• Nsue stuff in a cup and threw at her. She turned
and it went over her black velvet mantle.
mantle was produced, and various portions of it
1, holes, and other portions burnt quite brown.
M, M.nitfield inquired of prosecutria if she had known
n....dier before. _ _

...sot:ix said some time ago she went to ask for
she had lent the prisoner's wife. That was
li.ew of him.
r—You wanted it twice over. He added that it
sitriol he threw over her, but oxalic acid.

M urticld gave instructions for the mantle to be
a skilled chemist, to see what acid it was
I.eivi thrown, and remanded the prisoner for a

}'.ILLS FROM SECOND FLOOR
WINDOWS.

IIS Qtr ENTS. (THIS DAY.)
• .n•uoon Mr. John Humphreys. eormer,
lee.t at the Royal Oak Tavern, Galway-street,
illative to the death of Joseph Strutt, aged

• m •iy Ann Strutt said that deceased wax a ear-
. i leg at 244, l'ity-mail. Formerly he had been
. ,i,• of Colney Hatch Asylum ; but that was 12
--.. Witness was absent when he met his death.
.• •. i..w from which be fell was very dangerous ; any
hi tall through it when gowing up or down stairs.
- ; • ooline M`Plierson said, that on Saturday after-
' • •:IV/ .leveased going upstairs. He placed his
• his legs as if in pain (he had been run over by a
•y before), and when he got to the window of
• .•iig on the second door, he put his bands on the
: lowered it. The sash was so unsafe that a slight
• would send it below the level of the landing.
turned round to put by her work, and that instant
-ased disappeared out of the window. Whether
rot or threw himself out she could not say. He
• i chair in the buck yard below, and was killed on
. .
; • wry returned a verdict "that.ileceafed was killed
. • ' .• cidental fall from a window. '
•-.- .squat was held in a somewhat similar case at the
,-ii llospital, lust evening, by Mr. Richards, deputy
-I. The deceased was a Jew, named Reuben Rosen.
vii• .1.14 years.
• •'•-• Soma Goldenhurg, 144, Wentworth-street, said
. ' U.' deceased had been a general dealer, but he lost
• husiiivss and became much reduced in circumstances.
;• 'vtt tune since he came to witness and said he was
' -.• isior. and had been in prison; he seemed like a man
himself. Witness assisted him, and he went to lodge
li Marlborough-court, Whitechapel. He went, it sip-
I •""1. Mk Saturdav, to the Jewish Board of Guardians,
''''i they directed him to come again on Monday. They
• .n.withred him to be distraught, and they intended to
• it hire to Bellmsl House Asylum.
N„Nuenrihrilll',lll. 3. Marlborough-court, said that on last
ii, ~, .i lue• t"'tw•en 10 and 11 o'clock, be saw the
~,,,,i,,,, . all li,iiteng from the second floor
II cam. ,:n 't tht.i.'t L".,... No. 1 in the same court.
• 1 . • eh.- • I the pavement on the top of his
*.'" wit's """'kie:.• •iv .h. The blood gushed out, and
..0 •liad testae:lv. Whether he fell out of the window
°. i, line. li i 1! I loon could say. The deceased was
I '

:^,l' I,llinil ,1 a verdict " That the deceased was
. -Y hy rill tr..in :a window,
~but whether the faU was
. ,-.01 .I. 'l"''l,tor •dacCitiellit the evidence wa4 not

hiltiren were at play upon the Brighton
"101 day %bile the crew of a lugger were en-
,:insting it with bath stones. One of the chi!-
, ." • *•..) mg s
hift the boat when it suddenly heeled
• to the ing of the ballast, and the child
, = 10. the stern and doubled .up under it. She
•, ..ottost immediately, and it was found thnt
, • r hls, were fractured, and thnt she hail sus-
' '• ,erious centesimal.