The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-24 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY DrEcorENY dP
HUMAN AIMAI33 11/ TSB CITY. •

rL4TEI3T SPORTHEG INTBLPIGXDTOE

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DIQUMST.—(TIDS DAY.)
Thin forenoon Mr. Williams Payne, Ow Oity
coroner, held an investigation at the Crown Tavern, Bed
Cram-street, Barbican, respecting the supposed murder of
a male child and Use discovery of a numbs" of human
bones at No. 11, Hanover-eourt, Milton-street, City.
Michael Manion, 8, Bun-court, Milton-street, a our-
peater, deposed that on Thursday lut b. was employed in
making some repairs at Mr. Rvynolds' house, No. n,

Hanover•court. In the rear of the house be observed that
the pavement needed repair, and be went to look for •
atone for the purpose of settling it. In the cellar close by
the stairs he observed a atone some 16 inches long by 9
broad, and thinking it would snit his purpose be struck
it preparatory to pulling it up. To his surprise he beard
• hollow sound. He did nothing more then, however, but
in half an hour he decided to go back and lift it rap. The
place was dark, and be put his hand and pieced it on
something cold, which he found to be the head of • child.
Upon examining the place with • light, he sew the naked
body of • child lying on its back. The following day
(Friday) he told his employer, who had the contract for
repairing the house, and the police were communicated
with. Wit•sse accompanied • policeman to the cellar,
and showed him the child, and it was taken up out of the
hole. There we something fastened around the child's
waist, and the legs were tied together. They dug down
about two feet, and found • quantity of bones. There
were legs, arm., and bits of skulla.
Police•constable Skeet, 107 City police, said that the
lower part of the hones in question was occupied
by Mr. Reynolds, an undertaker ; the upper part is let
out to lodgers. Everyone could have atom to the collar,
for the dast.bin was there.

Dr. F. H. Simpson, police-mugeon, rid the body of the
child was that of a male. There was a flannel bandage
and a piece of white canoe around the body, the legs were
tied together ►t the anklet by means of a plus of white
tape. There were two wounds on the right side of the
head and there was another wound on the left. The
latter wound was nearly 3 inches long. The scalp was
parted from the bone and the skull was
fractured at both sides of the head. The frac-
ture extended to the back of the head. There
was ► bruise over the ribs on the right side, and the sixth
rib was fractured. The only sign of decomposition was
a diaooloration around the eyes ; in his opinion the child
most have bean dead only a week when it wee discovered.
The post mortem examination showed that the right
lung was fully distended by respiration, end the left pertly
so. Both lungs and heart floated in water. The child had
been born alive. The body had been washed. He did not
think the child had lived 24 hum. The cause of deceased's
death was, in his opinion, the extensive injuries to the
head.

Mr. Thomas Reynolds, 11, Hanover-court, City, deposed
that he was an undertaker, and that he had lived at his
present residence for fourteen years. The cellar in ques-
tion was open to all in the house, on account of the dust-
bin being there. He could not say how the body came
there. The street-door opened by a string. He put all
stillborn children that be got into shells for burial, and he
could show by receipts (which he produced), that he paid
the fees for burying such children. Since the discovery
had been made in the cellar the door bad been nailed up.
George Sturgess, 11, Hanover-court, said that he was
eon-in-law of Mr. Reynolds. He bad been frequently in
the cellar, and he never saw any appearance of the ground
having been disturbed. He had no idea as to who had
put the child there.
Sarah Kelly was then Balled—She said that she was a
widow, living at 50, Regent-street, La:nbetb. She we
recently absent from home, attending her daughter Eliza-
beth Beckley, who was married last year to a carman, lir-
ing at 62, Long-alley, Bishopsgate. Mrs. Beckley was con-
fined on Saturday fortnight; wittier was present and so
was a doctor. It was a male child, and was born about half-
past I in the morning. It lived ti116.300n Saturday evening.
The doctor saw tke child during the day ; it was con-
vulsed at times, but the doctor said, " While there is life
there is hope." It had received no hurt during birth. Wit-
ness Identified the body found in Mr. Reynolds's cellar as
that of her grandchild. She knew the flannel. When
the child died it was laid out, and the father got an un-
dertaker, who came and measured it, and took it away on
wadneeday week.
Coroner—Did you see the state of the child's head when
you looked at it this morning?
Witness—l sew something of it, but it was so dreadfdl
that I did not like to look at it.
Coroner—Was it in that state when the child died?
Witness—No, sir, nor when the body leas taken away.
It was taken away in a shell nailed down. Money was
paid to the undertaker, and a receipt given, which I saw.
Mr. James Flack, 56, Shoreditcb, said that he attended
Mrs. Beckley professionally at the birth of this child.
There was no difficulty in the birth, and the child lived
for the day. There was difficulty of breathing, and the
child was convulsed, and died on the evening of Saturday
fortnight. He saw it after death, and it was not then
cellarin u 1
real. He had not as yet seen the body found in the

—The coroner directed tkat the witness should be shown
the body in question.
Joseph Beckley, a carman, said that he was the father
of the child. It had received no hurt at death that he
knew of. After the death he west to an undertaker, who
asked too much, and then he asked a friend who buried
his children. The friend told him Mr. Wicks. He wont
to Mr. Wicks, who sent him to Mr. Reynolds, to whom he
then went. Mr. Reynolds was not at hone. He was in a
public-house. Witness told Mr. Reynolds that he had a
child dead that he wanted to get buried "Do you want
to make a funeral of it?" Mr.lisynolds asked. Witness said,
" No, I am only a poor man, and my money ain't much."
" Well," said Mr. Reynolds, " I'll do it without • funeral
for Ils." On Wednesday, while witness was out, Mr.
Reynolds took away the body in • shell. Witness got •
receipt from him as follows :—" Received of Mr. Beckley
lls. for the expenses of his child's funeral, March 13,181i8.
—T. Rarsoms. ' . _

Joseph Fowke, detective of the City force, said that
the boa appeared to have been formerly a sort of well
bricked around and filled up. He had it dug out and dis-
covered a quantity of pieces of the skulls of children. He
afterwards saw Reynolds at Moor-lane police-station, and
told him the body of a child had been found in his cellar.
He said he knew nothing at all about it, and that he had
not got a still-born child to bury for the last ten or twelve
months. Witness eventually succeeded in getting the
receipt signed by Mr.
Mr. Flack said that he bad just seen the body of the
child in question. It was so disfigured that be mold
hardly recognise it. Ite had not taken off the cap to see
the head when he saw Mrs. Beokley's child after death.
He therefore could not say whether the injuries then
existed or not.
The Coroner said that the evidence went to show that
the child's death bad not been caused by violence.
A Juror said that Dr. Simpson's evidence was very posi-
tive that the child had died from the injuries to the head.
Dr Simpson sold that his reason for believing that the
injuries could not have been caused after death was that
there wee an effusion of blood from the wounds.
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Dr. Flack sZdThat it was oertaioly unusualto And so
mach effusion after death, but it might have been caused
by the pressure on the atoms.
The pohee-offiser, recalled, raid the stone did not pews
:pas the child. Them was part space enough under it for
he child to remain untouched by it.
Dr. Simpson said that he was quite certain that the rib
moat base been broken bet oLe death.
The detective Fiske said that the hole in which the
child was found was only just long enough to receive the
body of the ohi2d, and it was quite possible that a speck
some instrument miOt have bees used to farce the hed
down. In that Iva, Qe bead might possibly have been
injured.
The Coroner salted whether the police thought they
could get evidence to alter the complexion given is the
case by the evidence of Yrs. Kelly.
Detective Fowke inid that be did not think that was
likely. He heard that the child died is the arms of a
respectable woman named Jones, who was not, however,
present.
Dr. Simpson said that he would modify his fret evidence
from what he had hoard. It appeared that the child had
been dead longer than he sappowd, and it was just pas-
sible that the effusion on the head, where the injuries
were, had been occasioned by the pressure and the lapse
of time. But the broken rib could not hare been pesi
mortem. . _ .

The Coroner asked wbether the broken rib could have
been the calm of deeth

Dr. Simpson said he thought not.
Dr. Flack said that be would attribute death to debility,
or exhaustion from oonvultione
The Coroner said that it was very satisfactory to find
the Game so far cleared up, for at list it seemed as if a very
foul murder had been committed. The ecaduct of Mr.
Reynolds could not be dealt with by the jury, but nothing
could be mare reprehrmtible. This case showed what
facilities such a disgraceful system would give for the
thsilof murdered children.
fror said that the court ought to recommend that
the police should deal with Kr. Reynolds.
Inspector %Eby said that the facto would be reported
to
7hthe commissioner,.
e jury then returned a verdict of "Death from ex-
haustion from convulsions from natural causes."
A quantity of house found in the hie in the miler wee
produced and examined by Drs. Simpson and Flack. They
found that the remains of at least fear children wars in
the tercel. Bosse bones of animal, were mowed them
of the children. Li was supposed lo be useless to attempt
to go into the case of the Children the portions el whose
ekeleteas were discovered.

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The report orthe In Vag read, m-
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I Th• MAluLair said the dbeetems heeled 2,0001. • year ;
they nevertheless neglected the mast frepereast of the
preeentions provided by the deed of eettlement for
the aseurita of the bank. Money was lent recklessly. In
mimeos to Ur. Holden, • memorandum was found in
the ledger, in January, 1863, limiting him to 5001.,
yet is the half Tear ending December, 1863, 10,0001.
was chirp& to his acconnt for returned bile, and Is
the following half year upwards of 21,0001., and so it
ite_pt on till when the bank cloned Mr. Holden owed
MAW. When the bank stopped, the amount
shown by Returned Bill Book was 36,0411., in the D 41.7
Cash Amount stated as 36,5711. ; but the amount of haus
banded ever to the liquidstor• was only 34,3831. showing
• deficasney of 2,1881. When the bank stopped the bills of
exchange, as shown by the books, amounted to 385,0/01.,
but the amount aduany handed over to the liquidating, or
amounted for, was only 351,4211., showing • dallriftey of
33,6481. This daideney of accounts was said to ban been
accumulating far some years, and was unexplained. Of the
351,4211. bill; 81,5061. were overdue, the principal part
ben doe is 1864 and 1866, and rose out of the weenie of
Mr. W. IL Beaumont, the manager, and Mr. H. A.
Holden. In 1860 the bad debts amounted to 425,000 E
The bad and doubtful debts in Juno, 1864, amounted
to 703,3141. In • the lam of this, new shams
were issued. The report dated February, 1865,
was untrue, as 22,5001. was taken oat of
prolits for bad debts incurred prior to the bane
of fresh alarm. The total amount due from directors on
overdrawn seseunts on the 13th July, 1866, including
bills discounted for Mr. L. Foster, was 184,1871. Oa the
14th June, 1866, a committee was appointed. consisting of
Menem Weise's, Warden, Pemberton, Poems, Pays
Webb,
Banows, Foster, sad Heston, for the purpose of
looking up and priming the payments of all backward
accounts. In 14 days, namely, from the 30th June, 1866,
to the 13th July, 18N (bsing the day the beak cloned) the
direeton had so well looked up backward accounts as to
increase their own liabilities in the sum of 37,7891. onaking
their Wanes account 184,1/371. The ahairmanobeerved that
it was represented by Mr. Lundy (ow of theofficial liquids-
tors), that there was • surplus of 198,9651., whilst there was
really • deficiency of at least 101. per share, the &threw*
between the estimate and the result being 450,0001. In
conclusion, the chairman said the bank ought never to
have mopped ; it might, indeed, would have been saved
had the directors attended to the article of essorialica
requiring them to call the shareholders together or apprise
them of any serious loss or difficulty. It rested with the
shareholders what course should be pursued. rpm the
faith of certain representations, slthougb at the time
they were made the beak was something like 700,0001. to
the bad, persons were induced to take new shares that
were issued. He thought those shareholders bad • claim
upon the directors, and counsel's opinion justified them in
proceeding against them. A resolution was passed to the
effect that the Investigation Committee be requested to
continue in once to watch the interests of the shareholders
during the process of liquidation, and to take such steps,
with regard to the directors, as might be deemed advis-
able. A considerable sum of money was subscribed•bcdore
the meeting broke up.

MINES.--(THIS DAY.)

ONE O'CLOCK.

The mining market is quiet to-day, and prices,
with two or three exceptions, are unchanged.
West Chiverton shares are quoted 644 to 651 ;
Chiverton Moor, 64 to ; North Chiverton,
to ; Great Vor, 18 to 19 ; Whorl
Trelawney, 84 to 9 ; Great Laxey, 161 to 171;
Great Retallack, to 3; Wheal Buller, 12 to 1 ;
Cern Brea, 18 to 19 ; Wheal Setnn, 85 to 90 ;
East Cam Brea, 30s. to 321. 6d. ; North Treekerby,
230. to 25c ; New Lovell, 14s. to 16s. ; Chivertou
Valley, 4 to 44 ; and Prince of Wales, 54a. to 56a.
Subjoined are tho quotations for foreign and
colonial mining shares :—St. John del Rey,
18 to 19; Don Pedro, 21 to 4 prem. ; Anglo-
Brazilian, 4 dia. to par; Pestarena, i to 4 du. ;
Chontalea, 4 to 4 de. ; Roses Grande, 1.16
die to 1-16 prem. ; Anglo-Italian, par to
prom. ; United Mexican 14 to Prontino and
Bolivia, 9-16 to 11-16 ; Port Philp, 11 to 4 ; and
Central American, dia. to par.
At the meeting yesterday of the Don Pedro North
del Rey Gold Mining Company a dividend of sa.
per share was declared on each share of 1/. each
with 14s. paid.

VONEY MARKEr.--owm DAY.)

ONIE O'CLOCK.
Notwithstanding the Amerce of disquieting fea-
tures, the stook aurkets main trey inactive. The
tone, however, is lightly better than yesterday, a few
pnre.haseshaving been made nponthe announcement
that upwards of one million sterling in gold is now
on the way from Australia to this country, a por-
tion of which, according to present appearances,
will be retained here. Consols are without variation,
but some of the railway and foreign stocks have
experienced • moderate advance. American rail-
way shares are slightly firmer. Colonial Govern-
ment debentures show steadiness.

The discount market is rather quieter, but
the general rate for the best paper is 2 per amt,
transactions at lf being quite exceptionaL Ad-
vances on English government securities are not
obtainable in the Stock Exchange under lit to 2 per
cent.

Consols are quoted 93 to } for money and
93} for the account (April 2), and Three per Cents.
Reduced and New Three per Cents., 911 to 92.
Home railway stocks are inquired for, and •
rise of to per cent. is observable in Caledonian,
London and North Western, Great Eastern,
and Brighton. The prices are as follows :
Caledonian, 801 to 1 ; London and North Western,
115 to }; Great Western, 481 to ; Midland,
1061 to' ; London and' South Western, 85 to 88 ;
Great Eastern, 32 to } ; Brighton, 48} to 49 ;
South Eastern. 721 to ; Metropolitan. 114} to ;
Great Northern, 104 to 105 ; ditto A, 99 to 100;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 18} to } ; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 125/ to 1 ; York and North
Midland, 93 to 94 ; Berwick, 109} to 101; and
North British, 331 to 34}.
A few dealings have been recorded in colonial
railway shares. East Indian, 109} to 110 ; Great
Indian Peninsula, 108} to 109 ; Grand Trunk of
Canada, 151 to 1; and Great Western, 161

The foreign stock market is firm. Italian Bonds
of 1861 are in request, and have risen per oent.,
the present price being 471 to if. Mexican are
quoted 151 to being higher; Turkish of
1865, 33} to I, showing an advance of 4 ;
Brazilian of 1865, 72 to 73 ; Chili= of 1867, 89
to 4 ; Egyptian of 1864, 87 to 4 ; the Viceroy's
Loan, 734 to 74 ; Peruvian of 1866, 784 to 79;
Russian of 1866, 87 to ; Spanish New, 314 to 1 ;
Turkish of 1858, 591 to 60 ; and ditto of 1862, 63
to 4.

Indian stocks show no movement. The Five
per Cents. are at 1131 to 1141; the Four, 1001 to
101, ex div. ; the Bonds, 28s. to 334. prem. ;
and the Five per Cent. Debentures, 106 to 3.
Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 16e. prem.
With respect to Bank shares, Anglo-Austrian
are 2s. 6d. better, at 33 to 4 prem. ; but other kinds
are unaltered. London and Westminster, 673 to
683 ; Australasia, 693 to 603 ; Oriental, 421 to 1 ;
London and Brazilian, 34 to 32 dia. ; and Im-
perial Ottoman, 1 dia. to par.

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The market for financial shares is inanimate.
General Credit, 21 to 1 dia. ; Credit Foncier, 71
to 6* dia. ; International, 11 to 11 dia. ; and Lon-
don, 26 to 25 die.
Apart from a reduction of 2s. 6d. in Hudson's
Bay, viz., to 14 to 1, iniscellaneous shares are with-
out variation. National Discount, 61 to 61 prem.;
Egyptian Trading, 41 to I dig. ; Telegraph Con-
struction, 111 to 3, being flat ; Atlantic Tele-
graph Eight per Cent. Preference, 5 to f ; and
Anglo-American, 213 to 22.
American securities have been dealt in to a mode-
rate extent. The 5-20 Bonds are quoted 72 to 1,
being steady ; Erie Railway shares, 461 to 471,
being f per oent. better ; and Illinois Central, 89*
to 90—a rise of 1.
Foreign and Colonial Trust Certificates are at
11 to If prem. The new inn° of Debenture
Stock of the Metropolitan District Railway is
quoted If to If prem.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

The dealings in the Stock Exchange continua
upon a very limited scale. Consols are
without change, at the quotations given
above. The variations in railway stocks com-
prise • rise of l per cent. in Caledonian, and
a reduction to the same extent in Berwick.
As regards foreign bonds, Mexican and Turkish
of 1885 have declined to per cent.
The steamer Asia has taken out 25,0001. in specie
for the Cape of flood Hope.
The amount of Australian gold known to be now
on the way to England is as much as 1,005,0001., of
which a considerable portion will be due in about a
fortnight. The large increase in the remittanoes
arises from the circumstance that the export duty
on gold was taken off at Melbourne on the let of
January last. The Lady Melville has 264,0001. ;
Kenilworth, 37,0001. ; Maoduff, 290,000/. ; Media-
tor, 37,0001. ; True Briton, 115,0001. ; Holmeedale,
198,0001. ; and the Superb, 72,0001..

In consequence of the receipt of private telegrams
from Bombay, announcing a reduction of id. in the
exchange upon London, the silver market wee fiat
yesterday, and bars could not be sold at the recent
quotation of be. Oid. per ounce. Holders, how-
-1 ever, were not disposed to preen sales, in the belief
that further advice, may communicate a recovery
in the ex
Mr. It.ellPTarding, the official liquidator of the
Joint Stock Discount Company, has obtained
authority from the Master of the Rolls to pay a
further dividend of 2s. in the pound to the credi-
tors of that company, making, with former divi-
dends, 12s. in the pound. Thu will be payable at
the offices of Messrs. Harding, Whinney, Gibbons,
and Co., No. 8, Old Jewry, on Monday next, the
30th indent, and on any subsequent Monday.
The South Bastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an indeed of 2,4621. over last year.
The traMe return of the Great Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 20th instant
shows an increase of 901. over last year.
At the meeting yesterday of the proprietors of the
Bank of Australasia • dividend and bonus were
declared for the half-year at the rate of 10 per cent.
per annum, free of ineome-tax.
An extreonlinary meeting of the International
FinancialBocietywas held yesterday, when the row-
lotion pawed on the 6th instant, in favour of the
reduction of the liability on shares, was confirmed.
It was stated that the necessary steps, legal and
otherwise, would be completed in the course of
two or three months.

From the report of the directors of the Oredit
Fancier d Mintritine (Limited), to be presented at
the gamma meeting on the 28th instant, we ex-
tract the foaming :

is otaaaMkg air fourth amid report aad Wear
she* the ffss emergaiste the sharabsibeee ea Ile
oestiresd sad els* peeper el the sespeay Amin the
pre year. The areas* of amelpsee hiveireate se tie
rid elf ler was 108,8701. 3a. id., Bitter
is asered
ihrlisalerropereig. el the egooras Of
1.. The helf-yeeily peremis. by tir
mar4pesee, 11111111iSUO to be made with greelyweeelier.
The assersis Ail the year show a iur reit el Ulla
06 104, tibia, with the balance of the pi az,
Rhos 60 eftellebb tes et 9,7341. 10s. Id. The
reseessmad that • trid. of 7e per asst., bee of
tax. be tieskeal ter the peel ,al whisk 84 inr ant.
or 7a. 44. per lime, baa brayear already paid fa 1110 Ms of
au herein dividend for the err re moat& of the pear.
A berme of 12101 6a 24. will be erred lo mei ea- ,
amt. Tho aired= have the rehiselisa be elate that
the island has bre favouued with most propitious
vesiker. ARd the of a large Imp al sager this
year en roe"
An extraordinary genera meeting of the " Cal-
cutta arid South fraltank Cor•PenY
mited and Redacted)" is fixed for the filet into, to
confirm the reaoluibns for • refuniarY winrhng
up which were passed on the 17th inn, Bosh tiona