The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-20 00:00:00

Coroner's Inquest at Highgate—(This Day),

This morning Dr. Lankester resumed the inquiry at the
Angel Inn, Highgate, into the circumstances relating to
the death of Mr. Richard Golding, aged 80, whose death,
it was alleged, took place under such circumstances that it
has led to the exhumation of the body, in order that a post-
mortem examination might be made.
Francis Julia Southgate was recalled—She said deceased
told her that before he went to bed, on the evening pre-
vious to his death, that he should take two pills. She saw
a box containing, four pills that evening, and the next
morning on looking at the box it only contained two. She
did not know what became of the box containing the two
remaining pills. The pills came from Dr. Part's. Ti•ero
was also some medicine sent, but the deceased only took
one dose of it after.

(boss-examined by Mr. Beard—She considered that the
pills came from Mr. Part, as ho was the medical man in
attendance, and 'also because Mr. Golding told her Dr. Part
had sent his medicines and his pills. Sho looked into the
box by direction of the deceased. After the deceased took
the medicine he became drowsy, and he only took one
dose of it. She did not tell Dr. Part, or Mrs. Part of the
effect of the medicine. She never told Mrs. Part that the
deceased was better after taking the medicine. She told
her that the deceased was better that day than ho had been.
She should not have left Mr. Golding had she not believed
he was much better.

An angry discussion hero took place by Mr. Beard and
the witness, which ended in a number of letters being read
from witness to Dr. Part, and the doctor replying thereto,
in both of which the most serious charges were made one
against the other.

By a Juror—Dr. Part only knew the deceased for about
48 hours before his death. The deceased had told her that
he had seen Dr. Part but once before he attended him,
and that was about 20 years ago, at the house of a friend.
By a Juror—Previous to the death of the deceased he
never expressed a wish to be buried in his trowsers. He
always wished to be buried in a Christian-like way.
Mr. Beard—Then you didn't know that Prince Albert
was buried in his trousers ?
Witness—No, I did not.

Mrs. Todd, the landlady of the house in which the de-
ceased died, recalled—She said he appeared much better
the morning he died. Ho tried to speak to her, but he
could not do so. She gave deceased some cocoa, but he
had great difficulty in swallowing it. He did not then
appear to be drowsy.

Professor Julian Edward Disbrowe Rodgers said—l have
made an examination of the stomach, spleen, liver, and
other portions of the intestines of the deceased. I first
made a search for alkaloids, and I found a mere trace of
morphia. I have made a special search for strychnine, and
anything that would produce convulsions, without discover-
ing any trace. I have also made an examination for metallic
poison ; and here I would say, as I am bound to speak the
truth, that in the stomach I found a small quantity o
arsenic. In the intestines 1 did not find a sufficient quan-f
tity to say it was arsenic, and in the liver none. I need
not say that the greatest care had been taken in preparing
for the examination. I discovered the arsenic by Reinch's
test. I made a special examination of the liver, and from
finding arsenic absent 1 came to the conclusion that no
quantity of it had been swallowed that could destroy life or
shorten it for any length of time, for had that been the case
I must have found it in the liver.

Coroner—You are quite sure you found arsenic in the
stomach ?

Witness—Yes, quite sure.
Coroner—Did you look for other poisons?
Witness—Yes, and found none.
Coroner—Have you formed an opinion as to the cause
of death ?

Witness —Yes. There is nothing inconsistent in a man
so afflicted as deceased was with bronchitis. Convulsions
sometimes precede death from bronchitis. The throwing
up of the arms would be an effect to get air.
Coroner—Whore do you think the arsenic came•from ?
Witness—My impression is that there must have been
an error in making of the medicine.
Coroner—Yon don't think it was natural arsenic that
was introduced after death ?

Witness—No, or I should have discovered more of it.
Coroner—Have you ever found any natural arsensic in
a body ?
Witness—No, never.
Coroner—Do you know of any case of death from
arsenic without vomiting ?

Witness—Yes ; but then very large quantities had been

takon.

Coroner —Do you think that the arsenic could have
been introduced as adulteration of food or medicine ?
Witness—No.

Coroner—How much morphia did you discover ?
Witness—A very small quantity—very much less than
the arsenic. It was merely a trace.

Coroner—There could havo been no dose.
Witness—Had there boon deceased would have remained
drowsy to the end of life.

A Juror—Do you think the arsonic you discovered
could have been contained in the cocoa the deceased took
a short time before his death.

Witacss—No. Had it boon made in an enamelled sauce-
pan, that might possibly account for it.

Mrs. Told was here itgain recalled, and in answer to the
coroner, said she did not boil the cocoa in a saucepan. She
made it first into a paste in a teacup, and then poured boil-
ing water upon it.

A Juror—Are there not evaporative poisons ? •
Witness—Yes; but from my examination I have seen
nothing that could lead me to infer that poison of any kind
had been taken.

Mr. Beard—You are quite sure the copper you used in
your experiments was pure.
Witness—yes, quite.
Dr. Part, at the termination of the evidence of Professor
Rodgers, was examined, and said that his great endeavour
was to alleviate the sufferings of Mr. Golding, who had
been during his illness very much neglected. He denied
ever using any persuasion to induce the deceased to make
a will in his favour.

The jury had not returned their verdict when we went

to press.

Central Criminal Court—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)
THE ST. GILES'S MURDER.
John Richard Jeffery, 31, tailor, was indicted for the
wilful murder of his son, Richard Arthur Jeffery, on the
30th of July, in the parish of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields.
31r.-Poland and Mr. Besley prosecuted; and Mr. Daly and
Mr. Straight defended the prisoner.
Mr. Poland opened the case, and detailed the circum-
stances of the alleged murder.

Winesses were then examined, whose evidence was
nearly identical with that given recently at Bow-street
Police-court, on the occasion of the prisoner being com-
mitted for trial. The circumstances then deposed to will
be so frosh in the recollection of our readers that no reca-
pitulation of them is needed now.
We shall publish the verdict in our late edition.

Emily Bradbury was indicted for the manslaughter of
Jane Edwards, wife of George Edwards, of Longford-road,
Kentish Town, on the 3d of August.
Mr. R. N. Phillipps appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Montagu Williams for the defence.
It appeared from the evidence that on the 3rd of August
last the prisoner and deceased, who were neighbours, had
a dispute about some clothes which were hanging out to
dry, in the course of which the prisoner seized a clothes-
prop, and " jammed " it at her eye, which it entered,
inflicting a severe wound. The deceased was taken to
Middlesex Hospital. and died there in a few days from its
effects.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, but: recommended
her to mercy.
Sentenced deferred.

Yesterday afternoon the failure was announced
of Prenichund Roychund, a large native merchant
in Bombay. The amount of liabilities, it is said, will
be very extensive. The stoppage has arisen from
speculations in cotton.

RAILWAYS I! ITALY.—There Will shortly be in
working in Italy 5,23 k kilometres (I of a mile each) of
railway. Besides the completion of the Venetian lines,
which will be terminated in a few days as far as the
borders of Illyria, and the 302 kilometres recently
finished in the valley of the Tiber and the Arno, that is
to eay, Ancona, Orte, and Monte-Varchi-Torricella,
within two months there will be opened to the public
317 kilometres of new line, namely, those of Pay:a and
Cremona, Brescia, Messina, and Catania, the comple-
tion of the Aretima and Ferrara and Rovigo, which
includes the temporary bridge over the Po. Within a
month Florence will be directly united by railway ; on the
one side with Rime and Naples, and on the other with
Venetia and the Frioul ; the working of the Italian railways
will then begin to acquire a perfect organic character.
They will have for basis two groat lines without inter:up-
tien ; the one, 1,080 kilometres in extent, wi'l traverse
the peninsula from Udine to Naples by way of Padua,
Ferrara, Podetta, Arezzo, Foligno, and Rome, and w:11
cross at the Bologna station the other line, 1,200 lelo-
metres long, and which already unites. Suza with Lecce
by way of Turin, Alexandria, Piacenza, Modena, Rimini,
Ancona, Bari, and Brindisi. At the same period it is ex-
pected that an impor:ant modification in the railway tariff
will be adopted; the subject is already under consideration,
and a long report on the subject has been drawn up
MORE LAST WORDS.—Richard Baxter, the Non-
conformist minister, was born at Rawton, in Shrop-
shire, in 1615. When he lost his wife he published, for
the edification of other pious Nonconformists, a "broad
sheet," headed "Last Words of Mrs. Baxter." This "broad
sheet," still extant, but very scarce, and dear to the heti--
of bibliomaniacs, had an immense sale, and tb
very shortly afterwards, brought out a see"
"broad sheet," headed, "More Last T"'
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THE ATLANI IC CABLE of 1835.

The following is the continuation and conclusion
of the diary published in The Sun of September 10 :
Monday, Sept. 3.—At 9.15 a.m. yesterday, the
splice having been made between the picked up and
that in our main tank, the critical operation of
slipping from the bow to the paying-out machinery
aft was completed. It was an anxious time. As the
first bight was let go eyes were strained to see the
next drop clear, and so rapidly was the cable passed
along the starboard side that one was °bated to run
at a fast pace to see it go to the stern, and on to the
paying out wheel. At 9.22 the paddles were started
ahead, and we commenced to pay out in 1,900
fathoms. By noon we had paid out 28.96 miles, and
were in lat. 51.56.20 N., long. 36.42 W., having
given for slack 25.91 per cent. On receiving the
Greenwich time direct—through the recovered cable
—as formerly, Staff-Commander Moriarty found that
the mean accumulc.ted error (in 25 days) of the re-
maining four chronometers, by Mr. Barraud, of
Cornhill, required a correction of six-tenths of a
second only. All went on well during the day,
several messages were sent from the ship. to Eng-
land and Newfoundland, awl we got the current
news from home. We learned after dinner that
Captain Commerell had arrived in the Terrible at
St. John's, at noon, and we were also informed by
Mr. Kerr, commanding the Lily, that he and the
Margaretta Stevenson would meet us at the ren-
dezvous at the entrance of Trinity Bay. Orders
were sent to the agents, Brooking and Co., of
St. John's, to bring stores for the Great
Eastern to Heart's Content, and Mr. Wyatt, of
that house, replies that he will be there on
Saturday morning And so, being in the middle
of the Atlantic ocean, we talked to Valentia,
Valentia to Newfoundland, Newfoundland. to
Valentia, and Valentia back to us, a distance of
nearly 5,500 miles. Captain Anderson wants to
know what sort of weather there is in Newfound-
land, and while sitting with Mr. Willoughby Smith,
in the electrician's room, I saw the message sent to
Heart's Content, via Valentia, and in less than 10
minutes the answer comes back, " Wind north, light
breeze !" What will Lieutenant Maury say to a'l
this ? For we hear that he has told the public that
it is an impossibility to pick np the cable of 1865.
What will Professor This and Dr. That and Philo-
sopher the Other say who have been shaking their
wise heads for the last year ? Where are the ab-
struse calculations about the forces engaged in lift-
ing the cable? Where the theories about volcanic
action in certain places well known to them at the
bottsm of the Atlantic ocean? What about the cer-
tainty of the failure of gutta percha as an insulator ?
Why, simply and-practically thi 3, the Atlantic Tele-
graph cable of 1865 has been picked up after a
fortnight's hard work, and we aie sending and re-
ceiving messages through it. But now we have to
try and finish the work by landingit at Heart's Con-
tent, and have to encounter all the difficulties inse-
parable from ocean cable laying. It was only this
morning at 3 o'clock that we were reminded of our
old enemy " Foulflake." A part in the coil brought
away the next turn with it, but before it could get
up in the " eye" it was held back by the watch in
the tank. The order was given to stop the engines,
but it was all right before the paddles and screw
ceased to revolve. It is a curious coincidence that
this occurred a'most at the precise spot where the
cable was lost last year. It is blowing very strong
from the E.N.E. with a heavy sea. Towards noon
the glass was going up, and there is evidence that
the wind is about to moderate. At noon to-day we
were in lat. 51.34 N., long. 39.35 W., DR., having
run up to the present time 117 miles from the splice,
and paid out 134 miles of cable. Distance from
Heart's Content 586 miles.
Tuesday, Sept. 4.—ln the afternoon of yesterday
the wind moderated. The ship has evidently been
much affected by a strong current, carrying her to
the N.E. The large percentage of slack can only be
accounted for by the ship not having gone hercourse.
Taking Capt. Anderson's observations we had paid
out 32 per cent. of slack at 8 a.m. yesterday. The
night passed very quietly, the wind having gone down
completely. Our progress since noon yesterday to
noon to-day, Capt. Moriarty having obtained sights,
has been 109 miles. Course, N. 73 W., lat. 51. 2.26
N., long. 41.53 W.; 226 miles from splice, and 494.6
from Heart's Content. Depth, 2,424 fathoms.
Friday, Sept. 7, Noon.---The progress of the ship
and the paying out of the cable since Tuesday last
have been in every way satisfactory. Last nights
congratulatory telegram came to Mr. Cyrus Field
from Mr. Low, president of the New York Chamber
of Commerce, requesting him to send a message to
be read at a meeting of that body held to-day. It
was thought right to send a
reply in the names of the
directors' on board who have accompanied the expe-
dition. It was in the following words : "The under-
signed diresSors on board the Great Eastern send
their greetings to the New York Chamber of Com-
merce, and take advantage of the success which has
crowned the efforts of the Telegraph Construction
and Maintenance Company to recover the cable
temporarily lest last year, to convey to them through
it and the cable laid in July last the hope generally
entertained thsoughout the United Kingdom that
the telegraphic communication now established be-
that country and the United States will tend to
promotepeace and harmony between them. (Signed)
—Danl. Gooch, chairman of Great Ship Company
and of Anglo-American Company; Aug. T. Hamil-
ton, Cyrus W. Field, directors of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company and Anglo-American Tele-
graph Company.,, Tile Medway has just been
despatched to look for the Terrible whom we expect
in a few hours, as she left St. John's last night. The
weather is very fine,
and the sea quite smooth.
We hope to be well up the bay by 12 o'clock to-morrow.
Saturday, Sept. 8.-.4t was not till 5 p.m. yester-
day that the signalman made out the smoke of the
Terrible on the horizon, and on coming on deck after
dinner we saw her plain enough, and close near her
the Margaretta Stevenson. At 8 o'clock a boat was
sent from the latter vessel with Mr. Kerr, R.N., who
was to pilot us up the bay, and the Terrible sent a
boat with our letters which had arrived by the last
mail. By 10 p.m.
we saw the lights of Catalina and
Bonavista, on the northern shore of the entrance to
Trinity Bay, and Bacalieu on its southern side. It
continued: calm all night. This morning a
glorious sunrise welcomed us into Trinity Bay,
whose broad waters were as still and placid as a lake ;
and as the morning light became more distinct the
whole cable squadron was well together. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Terrible, her Majesty's ship Lily, with
his Excellency the Governor of Newfoundland on
board, the Medway, and the Margaret:7,a Stevenson,
and the Hawk, formerly her Majesty's ship Plover,
from St. John's, with a large party on board, joined
the fleet, and we proceeded on until 6 o'clock unin-
terruptedly. At that hour the wheels of the Great
Eastern were suddeniy stopped, the alarm of a fault
in the cable having been made from the electrician's
room. While a message from Valentia was being
received, the spot of light disappeared from the
scale of the galvanometer, indicating " dead earth."
cut immediately forward of
the paying-out ma-
clhnisnterruyc,tiaounds weretcst speedily
e
clthrough wire leading to the
testing-room ; the result of which was a
given, and the cable was
a
declaration on Mr. Smith's part that the
fault was not far off. He next tested the sea end,
and very much to his own gratification as well as
to the joy of every one on board ship, it was re-
pot ;Jed to be perfect. Valentia, upon being
gave an immediate reply. Communication was now
cableor order
thet after tank, and iu about half
length of
a spree with another
an hour it was completed, and the ship on her wsy
up Trinity Bay, Heart's Content being distant 13
miles. The discosery of this fault was instantane-
cus, and showed the great practical utility o: Mr.
Willoughby Smith's new testing arrangement,
which has already been desermssi
paddle-bo We went on
paying out until 2 Greenwich time, or 10.45
ship's time, shortly afterwards the Terrible's
*coats, under the
ter command of Lieu-
-
_..nt Curtis, First Lieutenant, and Lieutenant
Asandell, were under the stern of the Great
Eastern. The cable was then cut and handed

into his charge to pass to the Medwlty, on boa-d of
which was coiled the shofe end. The big ship, hav-
ing now completed her work, steamed slowly into

tho harbour of Heart's Content, fol!owed by the