The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-07 00:00:00

The Mysterious Death at Brighton.

On Saturday the adjourned inquest as to this
mysterious case was resumed at the White Horse,
Rottingdean, before Mr. F. H. Gill, coroner for
East Sussex. The object of the adjournment was
to ascertain what had become of deceased between
the Bth of November, when Mr. Louis Adolphus,
with whom she was connected, stated that he bid
her good bye at the London-bridge station, and the
25th, when her body was found in the sea. The
inspector of police had no evidence to produce on
this point.
Dr. Noakes said he had made a further exami-
nation of the body, and found no fractures or
extensive marks of violence, but there were bruises
occasioned by contact with the rocks, which he
believed to have been occasioned after death. The
body was so fresh that he did not think it had been
in the water 24 hours—certainly not from the 9th
to the 25th.

Elizabeth Young, of 2, Queen's-road, Camden
town, said deceased lodged with her three years
ago, and recently one month, up to the day in
question, Nov. 8. A Captain Bruce, whom she
passed off as her husband, called for her in a cab,
and she left the house with him, and subsequentlY,
her luggage--a large packing-case, a trunk, a
small boxes—was sent for. She knew Capt. Bruce
when she saw him, and said she had that woo:
the
seen him enter the White Horse Hotel;
said her
morning of the day she left deceased
sallexelaimed,
husband was in the neighbourhood,:l3
IVitness re-
" He will kill me, he will kill
Enelid she said, "
identified
plied, "Then don't go with hira,e"e
was
must go." A photograph produced
s:len Capt. Bruce
as that of Capt. Bruce. Ski:el:led was lodging in
it to be the same man.
three years before, wheno;
Cambridge-terrace,and.kany
that a person named
Had heard deceased
somethingthe City, had passes-
Lewis, who was of hers containing valuable
always called herself Mrs.
spiroonpoerf
property.
three largep. beodx e
to see
Deceased
Captain Bruce as her husband, ,
Bruce, and spoke
to go once a week to Forest-hill
and A which she said was with his family,
used
her child,
Jolla WreYmouth, of 9, Camden Cottages, had
known deceased for some years, and also I\Tr. Bruce,
„a knew deceased was not married to him. Mr.
Adolphus had also called at her house to see de-
ceased three or four times. Witness also said that
Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Bruce Were not one and the
same person, and on seeing the same photograph
which the previous witness had sworn was that of
Mr. Bruce, she declared the likeness was that of
Mr. Adolphus, and not of Capt. Bruce. She saw
deceased on the morning of the Bth instant in her
usual cheerful spirits.
Maria Pratt, deceased's sister, who lives at York,

said that in a letter she received from deceased,

dated the Bth of November, she stated that " Mr.
Adolphus had taken her away from her lodgings,
and she had nowhere to go to, but to stay with him."
It was dated from the Great Northern Hotel. Her
sister always spoke kindly of Mr. Adolphus. She
had seen both Mr. Bruce and Mr. Adolphus. They
were two distinct persons. Deceased always went
by the name of Mrs. Bruce.
Mr. Adolphus was recalled, and repeated his
statement that the last he saw of deceased was °ll
the Bth of November, when she left him at Lond""
Bridge terminus for Brighton.
bad ad-
A letter was produced, which deceased
dressee to Mr. Adolphus on the day before, request-
ing him to spend the night of the 7th with
the
writer. This, he said, he declined to comply with,
but met her next morning, spent the day with her
at the Great Northern Hotel, and saw her off to
Brighton in the evening.
The jury ultimately returned a verdict, "That
the deceased was found drowned, but there was no
evidence to show how she got into the water,"