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London, England, 1862-11-13 00:00:00

TIC stiNo LONDON, TIVIRSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13,1861.

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it should be considered--is extended to peasants
who are acting or have acted as elders of the com,
mune, syndics, churchwardens, deputies at the
village assemblies, and, in short, who have occupied
any post of confidence.
In political cases juries are not allowed, nor are
the proceedings to be public. Advocates are to be
employed, and, in the interest of the accused, the
marshals of nobility of the province and of the dis-
trict to which he belongs will be included among
the judges.

No prisoner of any kind is to be detained 24
hours in custody without being brought before a
judge, nor can his examination be proceeded with
until a distinct accusation has been made against
him.

None of the above laws are to be applied in places
under a state of siege. There is no great hardship,
however, in this. In the only provinces likely to
be affected by the exception all the upper and middle
classes are Poles, whose language is excluded from
the courts of justice, without that of the peasants
being substituted for it. To Poles it matters com-
paratively but little what the laws of Russia may
be ; for, good Jr bad, they cannot understand them.

STRANGE SUICIDE IN THE THAMES.

Yesterday evening Mr Bedford, the coroner, held
an inquest at the -Westminster Hospital, touching
the death of a female unknown, who committed
suicide by throwing herself off the steamboat-pier
at the foot of Westminster-bridge on the morning
of Friday last. The evidence as to identity merely
showed that she was of the class termed unfortunate
passing in the name of Rose Montague, but it was
not proved that she had any friends or relations.
She was supposed to be about 19 or 20 years of age.
Emma Harwood, a young female residing in
Charles-street, Westminster-road, said that on Fri-
day morning last, about three o'clock, she saw de-
ceased and another female in the Haymarket. She
followed them as far as Westminster-bridge, when
she heard deceased say to her friend, " Let us both
go together." Her friend answered " Yes," and
they both went down the steps, and deceased threw
herself off the pier into the Thames, her friend ap-
parently making no attempt to prevent her. Wit-
ness ran up the steps and called a policeman, and
returned with him, and she then saw deceased float-
ing on the top of the water. She did not see de-
ceased again until she was taken out of the water,
which was in about half an hour after. The friend
of deceased was holding on to the pier, and it was
with d;fficulty witness could get her away. She
was crying, and she asked witness and the police-
man to save her friend. She said they were both
out of a lodging, and deceased had had a quarrel
with some young man.

In answer to the Coroner, the police said de-
ceased's companion was in custody for attempting
to poison herself, but they would endeavour to pro-
duce her if necessary.
The Coroner said he should certainly like to have
her in attendance, and he wished the police autho-
rities to endeavour to find out something about the
unfortunate deceased if possible.
The inquiry was then adjourned until Tuesday
next.

DESTITUTION AND DEATH AT
STEPNEY.

Last evening Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, the de •
putt'-coroner, held an inquest at the Maid and
Magpie Tavern, Wellington-place, Stepney, on view
of the body of Elizabeth Loney, aged 56 years, who
died from destitution at No. 4, Annie-street, near
the Thames Police-court.

It appeared by the evidence that the deceased
was a charw3man, but for some time she had been
unable to follow her occupation through ill health.
She occupied one small room, for which she paid
2s. per week, but was in arrears of rent to her land-
lady to the amount of 11 ss. On Saturday last
the deceased did not make her appearance as usual,
when one of the lodgers finding the key in her door
it was opened, and deceased was discovered lying
upon the floor a corpse. She had a quarter an
ounce of tea in her hand, and it is supposed, when
she returned on the previous evening, that she
must have fallen down from exhaustion, as she had
complained to a neighbour of weakness, which she
attributed to her distress.

The Deputy-Coroner said he was much surprised
to find the body of the poor woman still lying on
the floor, fully dressed, as she had fallen. He
would not have allowed a dog to lie in such a man-
ner : it was a disgrace to humanity. The parish
authorities ought to have been made acquainted
with the case, and the body should have been put
into a coffin. She ought not to have been allowed
to remain in that condition since Saturday last.
Mr. Stevens, the summoning officer, said when
he first heard of the case he found the deceased as
described, and the parties belonging to the house
were going to put an execution in the room while
the corpse was on the floor, but he dared them to
do it at their peril.
Deputy-Coroner--Let the parish authorities at-
tend to the case at once, and get the body removed
without delay.
Mr. Stevens said he and the police had been
using every effort to find the friends, and they only
found them late on Tuesday night, but ,they were
too poor to bury the body.
Mr. Horton, the divisional medical officer, said
he was called by the police, and found that the de-
ceased had been dead several hours. He believed
the deceased had died from disease of the heart,
accelerated by bad living i.nd the want of sufficient
nourishment, The weather had no doubt acted
upon her condition. The room where deceased
lived was poverty-stricken, but clean.
After further evidence, the Deputy-Coroner re-
marked on the case, which he considered a very
distressing one.

The jury returned a verdict in accordance with
the medical testimony.

ANOTHER CRIN )LINE FATALITY.

SHOCKING DEATH.

On Tuesday evening, Mr. James Bird, the coroner
for the Western Division of Middlesex, held an in-
quiry at the Golden Lion public-house, Fulham, re-
specting the death of a lady named Anne Maria
Leaver, aged 39, who died on Monday night from
the effects of severe burns, The evidence elicited
was of a very melancholy character, and the case
may be added to the long list of crinoline fatalities.
The unfortunate deceased and her daughter, a young
y a were staying at the re-
sidenced of
gMaathews, the comedian, Gore
lady
Lodge, bFof u
Mr. Charles
Fulham, 17 years
iham,oanrlesavisit from America. On Mon-
day last the whole household were terribly alarmed
by the piercing screams
of the deceased, who was
found on the stairs enveloped in flames. Immediate
steps were taken to extinguish the flames, but not
before the deceased was burnt in a moat shocking
manner about the lower part of the body. Mr. Ree,
the surgeon, of Walham• green, promptly attended,
but all his efforts were unavailing, as she died in a
few hours afterwards. It also appeared that the
drapery about the fire-place of the room in which
the deceased had been was in flames, and they
were extinguished without much damage be-
ing caused. No person was present when
the unfortunate occurrence took place, and it was
supposed that the deceased was standing in front
of the fire, and in turning round to look at herself
in the glass her dress, being expanded by crinoline,
was pushed into the burning coals, and was soon in
a blaze. The burning dress ignited the diaper of
the mantel-piece, and upon the deceased finding that
she was on fire she rushed out of the room and down
the stairs screaming. The bannisters of the stairs
were scorched by the fire. The jury, after hearing
the evidence of the deceased's daughter and Mr.
Ree, returned a verdict of " Accidental death." Mr.
and Mrs. Mathews were from home at the time, but
on the melancholy event taking place, they were
immediately telegraphed for.

711 E ALLEGED POISONING AT IVOII7II
SHIELDS.

NOR I H SHIELDS, WEDNESDAY.

The investigation into the circumstances under
which Mrs. Gillespie came by her death was re-
sumed this morning, for the third time, at the Town
Hall, before Mr. S. Reed, the coroner for the
borough.
Mr. H. Brignal, solicitor of North Shields, ap-
peared, tts before, to watch the proceedings on
behalf of the husband of the deceased ; Mr. Kewney
was present in the interest of Dr. Fenwick, who
had been very considerably implicated by the evi-
dence previously given, and which has been already
fully reported.
After a lengthened inquiry, the jury returned the
following special verdict
"That the deceased died from the effects of strych-
nine, administered to her from Dr. Fenwick's stir-
fiery. That there isnot sufficient evidence to show
by which of the two dispensers it was sent, and
that greater caution should be used by Dr. Fen-
wick in the dispensing of his medicines."

EXTRAORDINAILY CASE OT ABOR7ION.
ADVERTISING PRACTIIIOAERS.

Yesterday afternoon an adjourned inquiry was
resumed at the Kent Arms, Mabledone-place, Bur-
ton-crescent, by Dr. Lankester, the Middlesex
Coroner, respecting the death of Maria Ellworthy,
aged 31, housekeeper to a gentleman, who was
alleged to have lost her life through an attempt to
procure abortion.
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The Coroner read over the evidence taken on
the previous occasion, of 'which the material part
was to the following effect :
Mr. B. H. Humpage, surgeon, said that on Oct.
15 he was called to No. 6, Bedborough-street, and
found that deceased had been delivered prematurely
of a child which appeared to be a six months' child.
It died the same night. Deceased was suffering
from wounds produced by blunt instruments, used
to bring on premature labour. She died on the Ist
inst., from inflammation of the bowels arising from
those wounds.

Mr. Galliers, 7, Gray's-inn-road, surgeon, said
that death had been caused by wounds in the uteri
from blunt instruments employed to bring on abor-
tion. The child died on Saturday.
Mr. Galliers was now recalled, and said that
he had made an additional examination of the
body of the deceased. He found a very small
portion of the placenta remaining in the uterus,
which might have set up the inflammation, which
was the immediate cause of death.

By the Coroner—The wound from the instru-
ments employed to procure abortion were in them-
selves sufficient to have produced death, but he
could not now state positively that it was the
wounds that had done so.

Mr. Humpage, recalled, also said that he could
not now speak positively upon the point, but the
injuries inflicted were undoubtedly enough to have
produced the fatal result.
Jane Collard, 13, Victoria-road, Islington, said
that she was cousin to the deceased. Deceased was
thirty-one years of age, and unmarried. / She was
housekeeper to Mr. Himing, at 13, Victoria-road.
She had sent for witness to take her place at Mr.
Himing's, as she said that she was going away for
a fortnight, because she did not feel well. She left
on 11 ednesday (the Bth or the 15th October) that
witness went to Mr. Himing's. Witness did not
know where deceased went to, but saw her the day
before she died at Bedborough-street. She was then
too ill to speak.
Mr. George Himing, 13, Vietoria-rosd, deposed to
the deceased having been in his service and obtain-
ing leave of absence, as described by the previous
witness. He also deposed to her having sent to
him for money, and to his visiting the house where
she was staying and finding her ill.

Dr. Harris, 33, Great Windmill• street, said that
one evening, three weeks ago, deceased came to his
surgery and asked him to attend her in her con-
finement, and said that she lived in Highgate, and
had been recommended to him by a Mr. Scott, of
1, Strand. She said that Mr. Scott had examined
her and found that she was very near her confine-
ment. She asked witness to recommend her a nurse,
and he gave her the name of Mrs. Forrester, M,
Bedborough-street, Burton-crescent. Witness saw
nothing more of her. Witness believed from hear-
ing the evidence, that deceased was suffering from
injuries spoken of by the previous medical witness
when she called and told him that she had been
examined.

By the Jury—He arrived at the conclusion from
the fact that persons are constantly advertising that
female complaints are particularly attended to.
He was much surprised when she told him that
she had been sent to him by Mr. Scott, as he knew
Mr. Scott's position.
The Coroner had Mr. Scott called in, and informed
him that the evidence was such as put him rather
on his defence, and therefore wished him to be in
the room. The inference was that the injuries
were inflicted by Mr. Scott. Would he wish to
give any explanation ?
Mr. Scott said that he was sure the coroner
would put no improper questions to him, and he
would explain.
Mr. Mayhew said he appeared for Mr. Scott, and
he objected to his giving any evidence.
Mr. Scott said that he was convinced he could
not commit himself, the case was so clear.
The Coroner said that he would not swear Mr.
Scott.

Mr. Scott, 7, Adam-street, Adelphi, then said he
had written on medical subjects, and occasionally
saw patients, but he had not a license to practise.
About a month ago a female came to him and
asked, "Did he attend the midwifery cases?" He
answered, "That depends." She asked, "Did he
take in women to confine them ?" and he said not.
She then pressed him to recommend some doctor to
her, and he gave her the name of Dr. Harris, who
had walked the St. GeDrge's Hospital with him
sixteen years ago. Dr. Harris had once attended
his (Mr. Scott's) wife, and he was a hardwcrking
little fellow. If the coroner asked him further it
would pain him to answer.
The Coroner said he did not wish to do so.
Mr. Mayhew, however, insisted that as Mr. Scott
tendered himself he should be sworn and cross-
examined. Mr. Scott was accordingly sworn, and,
in reply to the jury, said that he advertised to give

advice in midwifery, pregnancy, and other female

irregularities. He did nothing to commit himself.
He was never criminally prosecuted. He had been
prosecuted for using a medical title by the Medical
Protection Society, but the charge was dismissed.
By the Coroner—lt was not his practice to exa-
mine women.

By Mr. Mayhew—He neither examined nor used
instruments with deceased. It was false of anyone

to say so.

Dr. Harris recalled—Deceased most decidedly
said that she had been examined by Mr. Scott. By
examination he meant, and he was confident she
meant, her vagina.

Inspector Pierce deposed that last night he called
at Bow-street station to make inquiries respecting
Mr. Scott. He found that eight years ago he had
been tried and convicted of a criminal assault on a
woman, and administering to her a drug when she
called on him to procure abortion. He was con-
victed under the name of Hamilton.
After some other evidence had been given,
The coroner then summed up, and said that un-
happily there was reason to know that abortion
was frequently procured in the metropolis, and that
instruments were used for that purpose. Persons
were extensively engaged in that infamous traffic,
which was rendered lucrative by the desire of young
women to get rid of all proofs of their shame. It
was clear that abortion had been attempted in the
present case, and that the injuries produced by the
instruments used were sufficient to cause death. If
the jury were of opinion that the use of the instru-
ments was the cause of death, or that there was
sufficient evidence, which he doubted, as to who
had used the instruments, it would be their duty to
return at least a verdict of manslaughter.
That
the
instruments had been used there was not
slightest doubt.
After a long deliberation, the • jury returned a
verdict " That deceased died of inflammation arising
from a portion of retained placenta and injuries from

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lenceinflicted with instruments to procure abor-
tion ; a-ed the jurors find that who the person was
who inflicted the aaid injuries to procure abortion,
there was not sufficient evidence to show."

GOVERNMENT PROSECT7ION OF

.D.ROirERS.

Yesterday, at the Clerkenwell Police Court, Charles
Howard, Frederick James Lewis, Robert Holwell, Frede-
rick Spencer, Thomas Hall, Alfred Crittenden, John Free-
man, John Hall, Charles Masao, Alexander Reynolds,
James Priam, Edmund Pinchber, and Alfred Slaughter,
drovers in the new Metropolitan Cattle Market, were sum-
moned before Mr. Barker for unlawfully acting contrary to
the rules and regulations made according to lap, for the
driving of cattle within the metropolis—to wit by driving
cattle and sheep between the hours of 12 at noon and 7 in
the afternoon.

Mr. T. Beard, solicitor, of Basinghall- street, appeared for
some of the defendants, and the court was crowded by per-
sons anxious to hear the proceedings, and who are interested
in the sale of live and dead stock in the metropolis.
Mr. Beard, before the cases were gone into, asked his
worship to adjourn the hearing of them for a few days, as
he was about to draw up and lay before Sir Richaid Mayne
a memorial asking
for an extension of the hours during
which the cattle could be driven alrough the streets. He
was aware that when the persecution-12e would not call it
fair prosecution against these men cocarnenct34 , deputa-
tion waited upon the commissioner, and a slight concession
was made to the drovers and their employers, but it WAS
not sufficient. Why, only on Monday last there were over
6,000 head of beasts in the market, and as it was dark the
sales did not commence until late, how was it possible to
get them all out before 12 o'clock in the day? He (Mr.
Beard) might be told that those that could not be removed,
could be put into the lairs ; but that increased the expenses
' and was one of the causes why meat was so dear at the
present time.
Mr. Barker said he did not see how he could interfere to
prevent the cases going on without he had the sanction of
the Commissioner of Police.
Mr. Beard said that the gran ers, cattle salesmen, and
slaughterers that he represented felt that the drovers were
very hardly dealt with at this and sonic ether ceurts. NP
might state that the magistrates were divided in opinion as
whether these men should be convicted or not. The worthy
magistrates at the Thames Police-court had refused to issue
any more summonses against these poor men, and said
that they worked hard enough for their little money
without being continually mulct of it in fines by them. The
case of the licensed drovers in this matter was really very
hard. They had to earn their livelihood in about two or
three days of the week. In many instances their pay was
very scanty. Many of them were incessantly employed on
the Sundays, and through the whole of the night, as well
as having to attend the market at Copenhagen-fields till
the close of the market on Monday at 2 o'clock. Now, cattle
may be driven through the streets and out of the market
until 12 o'clock in the day, but after that time, when ho
(Mr. Beard) contended that the streets were really clearer of
traffic, they may not be driven until after 7 in the evening.
Very often at 12 o'clock there remained at least 2,000 head
of cattle, lambs, sheep, &c., in the market, which, in the
course of things, would be quietly drawing away in tens or
twenties, really to the discomfort of no one that he (Mr.
Beard) could see, in comparison to the confusion caused by
the packing this large number of cattle in the lairs until
the specified time when all the drovers got to work. The
consequence was that the greatest confusion prevailed, the
poor animals of the different droves got mixed together,the
men,even by the use of lamps,could not see the marks upon
them,and a source of the greatest cruelty was thus practised
upon both the men and the cattle. But what made the
matter worse in his (Mr.Beard's)eyes was that the thorough-
fares became crowded with cattle, and the scene of a con-
tinued noise and tumult which could otherwise have been
easily avoided. He (Mr. Beard) might add, that by this
arbitrary rule the poor drovers, who were for the most part
already tired, were compelled to suspend thefr labours for
seven hours, when they might have finished their work and
gone home. As it was, they could not leave the market
until it closed at 2 o'clock, and then, on these cold and
cheerless days, they could not loiter about the lairs,and they
had only one place to go to, viz., the public-house. He(Mr.
Beard) contended that the new rule only tended to debase the
drover instead of raising him. He was ready to admit the
necessity of some stringent rule to prohibit the driving the
cattle in certain places during the day, taking, for instance,
Cheapside, the free bridges, and other crowded thorough.
fares, but the masters themselves would not allow that, as
the cattle would get bruised by the constant knocking
against the wheels, and the collision with the carts and
drays. As many of these poor men had widowed mothers
and helpless sisters depending on them for support, he (Mr.
Baird) hoped the magistrate would not be hard on them
and fine them for offences like those they were now sum-
moned for, merely to suit the caprice of those in power, to
the ruin of the drovers and also the inconvenience of a large
and respectable body of the trade.
Inspector Judge, N division, said he would lay the mat-
ter again before the commissioner.
Mr. Barker said he had begun with fining be., but as that
did not do he had increased it to 30s. In each case in which
the offence was proved he inflicted a fine of 30s. and costs,
and said if they were again brought before him he should
increase the fine. In default of payment the defendants
would have to go to prison for 14 days .

THE GAME LAW DISTURBANCE AT
BLACKBU.RIV.

Yesterday nine of the rioters, of 18 in custody, named
Roger Livesey, John Richmond, John Livesey, Nicholas

Hindle, John Hindle, James Waddington, James Ashton,
Samuel Rigby, and John Stones, were charged with insti-
gating the riot, by assailing the police and the gamekeepers
on their way from the Town-hall to Pleasington, on Thurs-
day last.
They were placed in the dock at the Town-hall before the
Mayor, and Messrs. Baynes, Land, W. D. Coddington, and
James Johnston.

The case was opened at half- past 9 o'clock by Mr. Clough
calling the following witnesses for the prosecution :
Police-constable Robinson, of the county constabulary,
stated that he assisted several other county policemen to
escort four of Col. Bowdon's gamekeepers from the Town-
hall on their way home. Before they had gone far a crowd
of 2,000 persons assembled around them, and hooted and
hissed and threw stones at the gamekeepers. Before they
had got to Messrs. Dugdale's shop they were assailed with
a perfect storm of stones and mud, and they found it neces-
sary to go into Mr. Dugdale's shop for safety. Presently a
posse of borough police came and a cab, into which the
gamekeepers at once got. The driver started to go up Pres-
ton New-road, but a crowd of persons going before it and
stoning it, the driver turned and drove quietly to the Town-
hall, where the keepers got out and ran for safety into the
building. Ashton threw a stone at him, and one of his
fellow-officers proceeded to run after him, but was told to
never mind, as he was known. Witness and the other po-
lice followed the cab to the Town-hall, the crowd following,
and remaining opposite the hall until dusk, when they be-
gan to throw stones at and break the windows of the Town-
hall. He saw John Livesey square his fists at him, and
afterwards strike him on the breast. He also hooted and
incited the crowd to violence.
William Sleigh, sergeant of county constabulary, said he
was at the Town -hall on Thursday last, when the men
were tried for poaching, and assisted to escort the game-
keepers from the Town-hall. This was a little after 3
o'clock in the afternoon. After corroborating the evidence
of the previous witness as to the conduct of the crowd, he
said he received a serious blow with a stone on the back of
the head, the wound bleeding profusely. They were com-
pelled to take refuge in Messrs,Dugdale's, keepers also went
upstairs, in consequence of their lives being endangered•
Thoy remained there until the cab and some borough con-
stables came up, when the gamekeepers got into the cab,
and were conveyed away, amid the yelling and shouting of
the crowd, to the Town-hall. Witness went to get his wounds
dressed, and on returning to the Town-hall ho found that
many windows had been broken.
Police-officer R. Eastwood saw Waddington among the
crowd in Preston New-road. Heard him shout and say
"Go into 'em ; don't lot 'em go away quietly." Saw John
Hindle throw a stone at the cab and then run away. Stones
fell like hailstones thick and fast. The stone that hit the
cab was about the size of a man's fist.

Nicholas Taylor, aged 13, said he knew Mr. Dugdale's
shop, Preston New-road, and was near it last Thursday
afternoon, and saw Nicholas Hindle throw a stone at a po-
liceman. The gamekeepers were with the policemen, going
up Preston New-road. He was in the crowd, and followed
it, but did not throw a stone. After being charged as one
of the rioters on Saturday, and taken to the police-court,
they asked him if he knew any of the rioters, and took him
into the office. He was shown a boy, but could not identify
him. On Monday he was shown five of the persons in cus-
tody, and identified Nicholas Hindle, Howarth, and Stones.
He had not been in custody.
Sergeant Eastbourne, of the Blackburn police force, said
he partly heard the poachers examined. He accompanied
the chief constable to Mr. Dugdale's in the afternoon about
a quarter past three. There was a large arowd of persons
near to Mr. Dugdale's, hooting and shouting. When the
cab came up to Mr. Dugdale's house the gamekeepers got
into it, and were driven off amid a shower of stones. It
was obliged to return and drive to the Town-hall. Tho
cab windows were broken, and the driver hit with stones.
Waddington, Richmond, and Rigby were among the crowd,
but witness never saw them do anything. The crowd next
assembled round the Town-hall. He remained about the
hall till dusk, and the mob increased in number, and hooted
volley of stones was
athe lamps over the door
ken.
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tahnrd shouted hnattetdhempuolcihce..offiAcbeodaotord,uasnkd
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half -past six the police
turned out, and he was present when the Riot Act was
chief constable. 1 men, the inspector, and

John Law, county policeman, corroborated the evidence
of constables Sleigh and Robinson. He identified John
Livesey, who struck Robinson and was one of the ring-
leaders; Richmond was there, but did not see him nor
Athtoll nor Roger Livesey do anything.
He thought his