The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-07 00:00:00

A LADY KILLED ON THEGREAT WESTERN

RAILWAY.

An investigation was held hut night by Mr. O.
S. Brent, the depute coroner for West Middlesex, at the
Coadi and Horace, kaliug, on the body of a ladylike im-
m, unknown, about 30 tears of age, who wal found dead
0647 the Ealing•bridge on the Great Western Railway,
having apparently been run over by a train.
It appeared that about $ o'clock on Monday evening
last a policeman at the Rehm station received inform.ition
from the driver of the 6.4 train from Windsor that be had
run over a woman. He took a lamp, and on proce: ding
about 21-.0 or :C) yards down the line he first found a
cape and thee a limpet, and subsequently the body
of a female. She laid with her head inside the
rails and her body outside. The left arm was
separated from the body. She was conveyed to the Coach
and Horses, where she was searched, and in her pocket
were two very good pocket•haodkerehiefe, marked
" A. M. D.," a pair of gloves, and a portc.inessaie, con•
Mining 2a lid. and smaller roomy. She was very respect-
ably attired, with lace or open work round her under•
clothing, and she wore several articles of jewellery.
The dnver and iirenum both my her coming down
the took. but it was impassible to stop the train.
The amassed had been seen in a neighbouring rasp
during Monday, and also between 7 and 8 o'clock the same
evening ou Falum-briille. When L►t seen she appeared to
a study. but there was nothing remarkable in her appear-
ance. Inuiiiiire had bees made at a photographic artist's
in Regent-street, onus:quail on a ticket being found on her
berth that address, and apparently her name, "Mist
Hari, The body, however, could out be identified, u
some other person had fetched away the portrait, and no
copy had been lakes.
The jury were in doubt as to whether d-ceased attempted
to croft the rails before the engine could reach her, whether
clue accidentally slipped down, or whether she bad a suicidal
intention, and therefore returned an open verdict, with as
expression that no blame was attached to the railway com-
pany, or say Aber poss.

EXTRAORDINARY SitaarArrox CASE IN
OWNION.

The people in the neighbourhood of 425 Argyle-
wait, Glasgow, bare been throws into • state of great ex-
citement is coasequence of • rumour theta girl had bean im-
inured Ma garret, and been aimed dermid, besides bolsi sub.
jetted to cruel usage, by bee parents, at the shove
number. It appears that bete's= Mae and tea drink
en Tuesday eight • girl seed Jame Insitym,
el • ors named Duncan N'lntyre, middies cm the
led at as, Arwyle-street, was shirred on the street afar
bee Ilethee's here la as eso=ly weak
ecurlidee. Tema what she sees weed,
that she bed lade her gimps he: far hewn, sad wee
on the oist of dominos. Her father, it appears, removed
from plwreay. when he earned ea • grocery badman,
to his mead residents, shiest Ave yeas. ago. This pro-
perty, • tarp and mikado haddieg, is hie own, and he
appears to poems selleima means of niaintainum • re-
spectable penition without followieg say m* The
stated that slues her paresis had come frost Rotheray
she hid bees ace led in the beam all that Una, haw*
may beim twice outside during live years, the bet time
en Taseday sight, sad the other castles about three
yam sea. At eight she wee mat to deep I. a puma
'Awe the boom le whisk was kept a greatly of 'w-
aitera tier bed mailed et two es these -piens ai
appead epee the deer, with a midi pillow, ea
unrest,
she lay, and with au eld woramet lelnalket sad
coverlet shoes bee. Thin wee the ally fadele slept co
deriver the extneme host ef het wirier, and se are was
ever pissed in the apartment. The was kept continually
at wort la the Imam, and had always • set teak to perform
berme she reeeleed any food. When say partial called
at the home she was immediately seat to the garret to
reams them while they were present. Hee father was
I. the habit of beating her, while her mother looked
quietly on, sad afterwards they ordered her to the piyet.
tilts was frame* met thither without having tasted food
for a long time, sad had to endure all the asneatittas at
imam till she was many times on the point of *treaties.
She 6,1 taken the opportunity on Tuesday eight, when no
one was in the house, of going out to try sod obtain food,
m she was suffering much from hunger. Seek is the sub-
stance of what the girt stated, sod cidaialher appearance
seemed to corroborate her statements as to the gruel treat.
meat she said she was subjected to. Though die is
seventies years of age, in bulk she is no
lama a child. She iv only shoot 3 feet 9 lash..
is height, and her body is wasted to such a degree
that she resembles more au animated skeleton them a
living human being. When fouud I,u the street, elm was
able to walk, but apparently with great difficulty; her
leek was elightly Lent, se if from a long course of ill•unwa
sad her whole aspect was sufficient to induce the belief
that no girl of her year., in health, and without any
natural bodily defect, could be reduced to so pitiable a
emedition bad she been properly taken care of. She was
amminsd by several medical gentlemen in the police office,
who were all of opinion that both physically and mentally
the girl was eatandly in a healthy coe&tion, and could only
...gat for her present appearauce es being occasioteed by
want of proper treatment. The girl was removed to the
office of the procumtor, bed, who investigated the case,
and she is now living with relation.. in Seuehieballatterst.
The result of the ievestigatiom of the procurator-fiscal baa
limit transpired.

DIA= OF THE OLDS/R CLZIOYSIA.N IN LONIX/N.
—The metropohe tits Peet keit wed its oldest beneficed
clergy, in Use mem of the Rev. Sermiel Wiz, M.A., vicar
of St. Bartholomew-the-Lem. SmitMsld, mid reMor
Dilworth, sem Kelvedoo. The rev. gentleman was in early
life • member of Christ College, Cambridge, where he
graduated in 17130. He was ordained dames is 179.3 by
the Bishop of Ely (the Hoe. and Rev. Dr. Yorke), and
priest in IAOO, by Dr. Briny Porteous, Bishop of London.
Is ISBN he was presented by the governors of St. Bar-
tholomee's Hospital to the rectory of St. Bartholomew•
the-Gees, • very small parish, ounsaatiog of little more thee
the hospital and its precincts. Six years prier to lb
namely in PM, be had been presented to th. rectory of
Inworth. mar Relvedoo, and held bcth baseless up to the
timed his death. He was • fellow of lb. flodety,
and served in doe manse the Ohne of pret of lion
College. He was the author of a very remerksble work,
published in 1819, " Redectioos cocooning the &pease,
el
• Council of the Church of Rutland mid the Church of
Roam beteg holds@ with a view to accommodate Rehear
DiMereaces," • subject ie which he always took a sleep I.
tarot Many other weeks os the emeatiel ehmasesredise
of the Church if Ecgland also proceeded Lon his pea.