The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-15 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN THE REGENT'S

C4N4L.-SUSPBCTED MURDER.

Last evening, shortly before six o'clock, con-
siderable alarm was created in consequence of the discovery
of the body of • male person in the Regent's-man, at Twig
Polly-bridge, Green-street, Bethnal-green, under very mys-
terious and auspicious circumstance..
It appears that • young man named George Canby, a
labourer, was standing on the bank of the Regent'weenal
inmenately at the rear of the Queen's Arms public-house,
when he suddenly nee • human body rime to the surface of
the water in front of hire. lie raised an alarm and called
senen meal to his aseinanee, when the body was got on to
the towing path. The body prevented a shocking spectacle,
there being two large tenon wounds in the neck, from which
blood was issuing, and there were also severe contusions on
the has and body, evidently the result of considerable
violence The hands were much bruised, and the body had
only been in the water about two days.
The deceased was conveyed into the Queen's Arms, where
• polio-emends of the If division took charge of the body,
while another ran for Mr. It. Meldota, the surgeon, of
Grew-rued, who attended with promptitude, and ordered
the body to be stripped which was accordingly done, when
It wee found to be that of • man, apparently 40 years
ittm6 fen 10 inches in height, light hair, and fair eon-
. There were two cute, about an inch in depth, in
the front of the throat, Indicted before death, and the general
result of the examination wee, that the deceased had come by
hie death by some foul and unfair means. The marks on the
face am similar to those which might be caused in fighting.
When the body wee taken out of the water, he was without
coat and waistcoat ; his shirt sleeves were tucked up and
certain pert, bore marks of blood. The deceased's clothing
only cionatsted of a pair of corduroy trousers, • blue striped
shirt, • black neckerchief, and lace-up boots with nun
eyelet holes. The latter articles were nearly new, and in the
toe parts were hob-mile
Ties police searched the pockets, and found a tobacco box,
marked J. P.," • clasp knits. and • quantity of handbills.
Lan sight several active onions of the K. division made
inquiries in the neighbourhood of the man, sad enertained
boos persons living near the spot where the deceased we.:
found that on the morning of Monday hat, between one end
two o'clock, they were around by cries of "murder" sad
"police," and although several individuals left their beds,
theyd were unable to learn the cause of the outcry, or =eke
any iecovery.
Thezwhere the body as found is a very dirk and
, Welly badly lighted, and dangerous for foot pereasere
deer bt.
The police of the &grid forwarded a full dewortietioa of
the dowsed throughout the whole of the metropolis, but
bile lest sight the body had not been idcatifted.
The body wee plaoed is • shed at the back of the Guiana
, Arms, where the inquest win take place this &Ramo= Wore
' 7r. MMus Baez, the maw.

IzmaL OP SHELTER TO THE HOMELESS
POOR. DISTRESSING WE

Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Wakley, coroner for
Wen Middlesex, held at the Elephant sad Castle, King' a-
rea, Caraways, an hatdry touching the death of Elan
bath Ilaghaa, Mod 47, who, tt yea alleged, had died from
choirs. It wee tartar stated that the poor creature, after
" heaping " the way from Birmingham, had been re-
fund sdnil a few hours before her death fora night's
shelter et Langton Workhouse, notwithstanding the weedier
was exceedingly tempestuous at the time.
The evidence of the deceased's hueband, a minable-look-
int being, went to prove that he and the deceased,
before
her all the way from Birmingham, on the night before
her death as it wasreining very feet at the time, applied
fora night's lodging at the Islington Workhouse. They
were refand admiesion, and nut on to St. Pancras Work-
house, the Islington officials telling them that the litter
place was only ten mantes' walk, whereas it was more than
an hour's walk. After walking through the drenching rain
they salved at BC Panora. Workhouse at eight o'clock pan.,
and were Matta at nine o'cleck. They were then sepa-
rated, end he heard nothing mom of his wife until be was
Informed of her death the next morning, she having died
about two o'clock cm. After hie admission be had nothing
eves him to eat until breakfast time the next morning, when
he wee sappiied with some " skilly," which was a kind of
gran given them for neskfast.
Me. Co',ste the workhouse surgeon, said that supper was
annaly 'span to all tramps on Manion.
The vrfdsa reiterated hie statement that he had nothing
until tenakfin time the neat morning.
Mr. Coster, upon this, observed this he moat have been
admitted after 'taper hour.
The witness further said that it was put to him whether he
would remain in the workhouse a month breaking atone and
picking oakum, or be discharged. He of mune nopted the
Hof remaining in the house, for he belonged to that
The Coroner considered, from the wretched mane de.
tanned sad worn appearance, that he was not fitted for such
work en stone breaking.
The workhouse task master replied that the witness had
not been put to stone breaking. It I...unlikely they would
make snob a man go to the stone yard.
The witness, in answer to the coroner, said it was true he
oa was
kunot put to stone breaking, but he had been picking
m.

Mr. W. T. Coats, on being swore, deposed that shortly
after the deceseed'm admiesilon on the night preceding her
death, she was seed with violent vomiting, cramps, sad all
the appearances of cholera. She was removed to thelefirmarr,
where everyththg was immediately resorted to to save
life, bat she died away after two o'clock the next teaming.
Upcs making • post mortem examination be found extensive
dimes of the heart, liver, longs, and other organs, which,
with a severe attack of diarrhea, bad proved fatal, and the
deceased had not died from cholera, as was at first
The Coroner said it was manufactory that they bad strived
at the prelim cease of death, but be took comae to contest
upon the treatment of the vagrant poor, who it seemed were
bandied about from one workhouse to another without the
obtaining proper relief.
Mr. Coster explained that in St. Pease there ware ream.
lion wards for such cams, and the wee that the
adjoining partake got rid of this pa clams by sundae
them there, as they had no such accommodation for the poor
Greaten, thmemeives„ . _

The Coroner MM;ldered the system alsnald be shared, and
It wee then further stated that the ceroperatioa of edge
=
wss
that being sought by tba St. Psalm parochial an-
for purpose
azbuctiary then returned a verdict in accordance with the
testimony, and the inquiry terminated.