The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-18 00:00:00

AN EXTRAORDINARY TVILL.

At the fortnightly meeting of the representative
vestry of the parish of Paddington, held at the Ves-
try-hall, Paddington-green, yesterday, the Rev.
Canon Boyd in the chair, Mr. Aveling, the vestry
clerk, announced that he had received a communi-
cation from Messrs. Williamson and Co., solicitors,
Great James-street, Bedford-row, referring to a be-
quest recently left to the ministers and churchwar-
dens for the time being of this parish, under the will
I of Miss Marian Mayne, late of No. 2, Lisson-grove
South, Marylebone. In consequence he (Mr. Aveling)
had felt it to be his duty to write to the Messrs.
Williamson to furnish a summary of the particulars
of the will, with a view to bring it properly before
the vestry. He then submitted a copy of the will and
other particulars he had received, which went to
show that Miss Mayne had made a bequest of her
principal worldly possessions, without describing
them or their value in any way, to the parish as above
stated, for the benefit of the poor parishioners, and
for the purpose of keeping in thorough repair Pad-
dington-green, and the family vault and monuments
in the parish Church of St. Mary's. Mr. Aveling
also read a strange account, supplied by the solici-
tors of the parties interested, the main points of
which were, that Miss Mayne had described herself
in the will as a spinster, and had always passed for
an unmarried woman, even with her most intimate
friends. But since her death and production of the
will, a Scotch gentleman named M'William, had
come forward as her husband and laid claim to her
property. In support of his claim he had produced
a certificate purporting to be that of his marriage
with Miss Mayne, at Dumfries, in 1847. It de-
scribes the usual particulars of a Scotch marriage
ceremony, with the very remarkable addendum
that the fact was never to be revealed until after
her death.

Mr. AVELING said it was supposed at first that
there was no property to devise ; but a subsequent
search of the deceased lady's sleeping apartment led
to the discovery of £7,000, in railway securities, in
her name.

A discussion ensued upon this announcement, in
which Mr. Dickenson argued that the matter would
come under the Charitable Bequests Act, which
provided all necessary machinery and expense for
an effectual settlement of the question ; it would be
well, therefore, if the churchwardens took the initi-
ative in the matter.
Mr. C. MILLS ROCHE maintained it was not a
question for the vestry, but for a committee, and to
prevent premature proceedings, moved a resolution
to the effect that all the communications on the sub-
ject be referred to the Committee of the Vestry on
Charity for investigation and report.
The motion being agreed to nenz. con., further
proceedings in the matter were adjourned.

COMMITTAL OF A MOTHER FOR THE
11ANSLA UGHTER OF HER CHILD.

Yesterday an investigation was held at the George
Tavern, Shadwell, by Mr. H. Raffles Welthew, the
deputy coroner for East Middlesex, touching the
death of Mary Mahony, aged seven months.
Dr. J. Brown Ross said that about 5 o'clock on
Wednesday morning the mother of the deceased
was brought to his surgery drunk, with the child
in her apron quite dead. There were marks of
great violence on the child's face and head, and its
clothes were covered with blood, which, however,
the mother accounted for by stating that she had
been herself struck on the face by some one. The
post-mortem examination showed that the cause of
death was suffocation by pressure. The injuries to
the head and face were caused either by a blow or
heavy fall.
Eli zabeth B rien , 4, Risley Rope-walk, Li mehouse,
said that deceased's mother lodged with her, and
that she admitted the mother with the child in her
arms on the Wednesday morning at 1 o'clock. She
was then quite gone in liquor, and appeared to
have been quarrelling, as she had a dreadful
black eye. She was not sober enough to go to
bed but sat on a chair. Next morning witness was
called up, and found'the child dead on the floor, and
thats its mother had just been lifted from over it.
She
and Mahony put the deceased in her apron to go to a
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eahgaavinmetg been adduced, the Coroner
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the deceased.
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the committal of the prisoner to Newgater,rtaonttafkore
her trial at the ensuiug
sessions of the Central Cri-
minal Court.