The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-15 00:00:00

Mrs Jane Wolff, of 7, Homer. street, Marylebone, said
she was at the Portland road station on Saturday night.
She was in the last down train, having taken a ticket from
Farringdon to Edgware-road. She road in a third-class
carriage. When the train arrived at Portland-road she saw
a woman come to the door of the compartment next to that
in which she sat and take hold of the handle. The woman
beckoned to some one, and said "Come along." Witness
could not see who it was. Her attention was called away
for a moment, and when she looked again towards the plat-
form the woman was gone. She did not hear any shriek,
but she saw the guard dragging part of a woman's dress—
a shawl or a cloak—from among the wheels, in which it was
entangled.
The Coroner—Was any one with the woman when she
was trying the door ?
Witness did not see any one.
The Coroner—lf there had been any one near enough to
push her you would have seen ?
Witness—Oh, yes. The train was in motion when the
woman had hold of the door. She did not get it open.
you see any man trying to gat into a
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Witness—No.
The guard Giddens said ho had never hold of the woman's
dress.

Mrs Wolff said she could not have been mistaken. She
swore positively that a shawl, or cloak, was pulled from
among the Wheels and laid on the platform.
Mr Burchell, the solicitor, said he bad not heard of that
before, and that no part of a woman's dress was found on
the platform.

The guard, in reply to the Coroner, said he had his flag
in his hand while the train was leaving the station.
The Coroner asked Mrs Wolff if she could have mis •
taken the fl ig for what she thought was part of a
woman's dress.

Mrs Wolff replied that was possible. She added that if
there was a man with the woman he must have got into a
carriage.

Mr Burchell produced a ticket, bearing the number 3,656
and a cancellel mark, which ho understood had been given
up at the Edgware station; and the ticket clerk at the
Portland-road station identified it as ono of the two which
he had given to the man and woman in question. It ought,
he said, to have been given up at the Edgoware station,
The Coroner—Then the person who took it must have
gone on to the Edgware-road station ?
The ticket clerk replied that the ticket could not have
available for any station beyond that.
Mr Burchell said it must have been delivered up at a
station beyond the Portland-road, and the same night too,
as that was the last train.

In reply to the foreman, the summoning officer said the
other ticket had not been found.

The Coroner remarked that it was vary odd that otter
persons besides Mrs Wolff had not come forward to state
what they knew on this occasion, for many people in the
train and at the station must have seen the occurrence.

Mr Thomas Sear, of 106, Hampstead-road, said ho was
at the Portland-road station on Saturday night, and was a
passenger in the last down train from Gower-street to
Bishop's-road. After the train had started at Portland-
road he saw a man, dressed is dark clothes, on his hands
and knees on the platform, and about five or six yards bo-
hind the train. The man was not a porter, for he was not
in the dress of one. Witness was in the second compd.
ment of the last carriage from the engine. He knew
nothing of the accident at that time.

Rance was recalled, and, in reply to the coroner, P, aid on
crossing over to the down.platform he got on to it on his
hands and knees.

Mr Isaac N. Jakins,a surgeon, deposed that he was called
to see the deceased about half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday
night, She was then quite dead. He had since examined
the body. Tho lower third of the left leg was nearly divided
in two. There was a large wound on the thigh at the same
side, and the opposite thigh was nearly separated from the
body. All the great vessels were divided on that side, and
the wound there would bo sufficient to account t ,r instant
death. The right foro arm was smashed. She might have
died from hemorrhage. The deceased was about 30 years of
age, and he thought it right to state that there was a shawl
or cloak on the body when he first saw it, so that the wit-
ness, Mrs Wolff, was, perhaps, mistaken in what she had
said respecting tho guard. The deceased wore a ring on
the wedding finger.
Mr George E. Douglas, the master of the workhonse,
said the body of the deceased was brought there about 20
minutes past lon Sunday morning. Along with it was a
small reticule, containing a packet of envelopes, some note-
paper, and 12 lead pencils, with a portmonnaie, in which
were 6d in silver and 5d in copper. The witness gave a
minute description of her dress, but as that was with the
view to the identity of the body, and as it has since been
identified, it is not now necessary to state the details, lie
added that 23 people had been to view the body for the
purpese of identification.
Thomas Crossley, ticket collector at the Edgware-road
station, said the cancelled ticket produced by Mr Burchtli
appeared to have been delivered up there on the 10th inst.,
but ho could not say at what time of the day or night.
Mr Henry Fisher, acting for the general manager of the
line in his absence, explained that the ticket in question
had been found in
.a bundle returned from the Edgware
station.

George French, the ticket collector at the Portland-road
station, said he could not have collected that ticket, and no
one had passed without a ticket.

The Coroner said it was a groat point that the man should
be found, and he hoped any questions that might occur to
the jury might b 3 recorded by the press.
Mr Brewer was called, and said he did not think the man
to whom he issued the tickets talked like a foreigner or with
any peculiar accent.

Mr Charles Samuel Swift, of ]SA, Cleveland-street, a
juryman, said he was a stationer, and on Saturday last some
ono bought pencils of him exactly like those now produced;
indeed, he believed they wore the identical pencils. They
were of white wood, and had stains on them liko stains of
blood, but they were stains of logwood. They were bought
by a shabbily-dressed man, who had the appearance of a
foreigner.
Mr Burchell said the authorities cf the Metropolitan
Railway were most anxious to give every facility to the
inquiry. That was the first person who had been killed on
the line, out of an enormous number of people who had tra-
veiled on it during the twenty months it had been open.
The Coroner adjourned the inquest until three o'clock on
Monday, the 3d of October, remarking, as he did so, that it
was much to be desired that persons who had seen the
occurrence at the Portland-road station would come for ward
and state what they knew about it.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
The coroner and jury had not left the inquest room
more than five or ten minutes when, amid great ex-
citement, a respectable-looking elderly man made his ap-
pearance, and said he had been to the dead-house and iden-
tified :the body as that of his daughter. lie stated his
name to be Mr C. Prichard, upholsterer and undertaker, of
No. 3, Crescent-street, Euston- square, and Adam and Eve-
yard,Euston-road, and said the matter had been brought to
his knowledge within the last hour, under the following
circumstances : —While at dinner that day he sent for a
paper to read an account of the Foresters' fete at Lord's
Cricket Ground on Monday, and his eye lighted on the
paragraph headed " Mysterious Death on the Metropolitan
Railway," containing a description of tho deceased woman.
Ile at once recognised it as that of his daughter. He has-
tened to Marylebone Workhouse, where ho found his sur-
mises to be too true, anti that the body of the cleansed was
really that of his child,
Mr Prichard then made to those present the following
statement ;—IIe said her name is Emma Jane Gollep, aged
33, the wife of henry Gollop, a cabinetmaker to trade, re-
siding at 15, Harrow-street, Lisson-grove. They have three
children, one 11, another six, and ono three years of age.
Her husband was an invalid and in very bad circumstances.
She had unfortunately formed a connexion with a married
man named Henry Powell, an organpipemaker, working,
ho believed, at Messrs Cray and Davidson's, or some other
organbuilders, in or near the Euston-road. On S Lturday
night, between 11 and 12, his son and daughter were having
something to drink with him, Mr Prichard, at tho Adam
and Eve publichon.e, near the Hampstead-road, and she
went di in a bit of a huff, and threatened to go to her aunt,
from whom she had some expectations. Her husband left
to go by the train, and on Monday morning his son in law
came to him and said he believed his wife had gone off to
her aunt's, as she had not come home ; but ha added that
while be was in the train and just as ho was moving off
towards Baker •street he saw her and that fellow Powell
together on the platform, and had he seen her before the
train started he would have got out of the carriage and
made her get in. They had heard nothing of the occurrence
till he had read it that day iu the papers.
Subsequently some ether relatives arrived, and with them