The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

THE LATE MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Yesterday Mr. W. Baker, the coroner, opened an
inquiry at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Nelson-
street, Stepney, respecting the deaths of Willia:n
Thomas Eliiott, aged eighteen months, who died from
complainingany symptoms of insanity. of headache.
violence, and Jane CoiAins, aged sixteen years, who
committed suicide under most extraordinary circum-
stances, the particulars of which were reported yes-
terday.
Elizabeth Mary Elliott deposed that the deceased
child was her son. The other deceased was her ser-
vant.On Monday morning last, at 1 o'clock, the elder
child, aged four years, came to witness's bed-room
Deceased
e
and said, 'Oh, father, Jane has been beating Billy
so." Mr. Elliott get out of bed, and left the room.
When be returned witness asked him to call Jane.
He did so, but she did not answer. Witness went up
a s
eSdh e
wasnever
repeatedly exhibited
stairs and found the infant
lying dead on the bed,
partially covered with the bedclothes. A search
was made for the female servant, but they could not
find her.

pas-
sionate before Mr.
heard a noise on the night of Sunday:
Mary Collins,
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asked lodger,
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s hdei
had
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was
tasaid
Witness spoke to
Elliott and his wife came home.d
been beating the
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walk,
toD Deceased
was loud screaming.
children, for witness had heard
‘‘ I could do anything when
very she
By a Juror—The deceased
the deceased say on
sionate at times. H
When witness remonstrated
the Bible, and generally
with her, decease
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Sunday evening, while her master
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seemed haPPY*
Mr.HenryH Taynton, of Bedford-place, Commer-
cial-road East, readingg
surgeon, stated that he was called to
the-- deceased child on Monday morning last, and
found him dead. Witness had examined the deceased.
The appearances externally were not sufficient to
cause death, and in the absence of a poet moriens
examination witness could not say what the child
had died from. Witness afterwards went up stairs,
and found the female servant lying on the floor quite
and mistress
dead. She had just been pulled from the hole, and
had two superficial cut wounds in the front of the
neck. There was a mark round the neck, which had
been caused by a cord or ribbon being tightly tied
round it. The immediate cause of her death was
strangulation. The wounds were not sufficient to
produce death.

The witness Lee was recalled, and in answer to the
coroner said she had repeatedly heard deceased say,
" When I am in a passion I could kill the child, and
then cut my own throat."
The Coroner said the case was one of a very pe-
culiar nature ; and that as the investigation could not
be completed that evening, he should adjourn the
proceedings until Monday Beat, to give Mr. Taynton
time to make a proper examination of the body of the
child, and to give the summoning officer an opportu-
nity of obtaining additional evidence.

The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and
Rotterdam produce markets allude to a greater feeling of
confidence among operators. The demand for coffee, al-
though not extensive, was sufficient to support prices, and
in some cases a slight improvement had been established.
Several large transactions had taken place in sugar at an ad-
vance. Rice had not been so freely purchased, but for indigo
there was an active inquiry, and quotations were rising.
The accounts from Antwerp and Hamburgh represent a si-
milar state of trade.