The Sun. — 1862-05-26 (London, England)

ALLEGED ,12UDDER OF .A DEAF AND DUMB GIRL.-EXT.RAORDINARY CASE.  On Saturday morning an inquiry was held at the London Hospital, by Mr. Sohn Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, touching the death of Anne Rush, a deaf and dumb girl, fifteen years of age, which occurred under circumstances which have led her parents to prefer a charge that she had been murdered. Mrs. Rush, the mother of the deceased, stated that on the night of last Saturday week she sent her daughter on an errand to a house on the opposite side of the court in which she lived. Shortly afterwards witness was alarmed by hearing loud shrieks, and upon going to sea what was the matter she found deceased lying disabled at the bottom of a flight of stairs, down which she appeared to have been flung with great force. She was covered with shocking bruises all over the body, particularly on the left side. She appeared to be in a dying condition, and stated by signs Innthatlnnis, a when she got to the first landing, Mrs woman whose furious temper was the terror of the neighbourhood, an.l who had long borne witness's family a grudge, run out, and lifting her up, flung her on the floor with all her strength, and then threw her down the stairs. Deceased had to be removed to the London Hospital, where she died in two days. Witness then charged Mrs. Innis with having killed deceased, and brought her before the magistrate for murder. There were several witnesses who could corroborate her statement as to the screams, and who could describe the girl's state. Mrs. Connor said that she heard piercing shrieks on the night in question, and soon afterwards saw deceased in a most deplorable condition. Witness stated that she had not seen Mrs. Innis at all on that evening, and that the latter was in the habit of treating the unfortunate deceased usually with great kindness. There was, however, a regular feud between the two families. Mrs.lnnis, having received the usual caution, said that she did not see deceased at all on the night in question. She heard her voice, and some screaming, but there was a disturbance in the court at the time, and witness did not attach any importance to the matter. She never struck the deceased, but had often given her food. On the Monday witness got a summons against Mrs. Rush for using us language, and then for the first time the charo abusive language,e made that witness had murdered the deceased. A number of witnesses were then examined, but none of them could depose to have actually seen tne deceased ill-used, and it was stated that the staircase where the occurrence took place was quite  dark. Mr. H. Dyne, the house surgeon, said that do ceased was admitted to the hospital with severe contusions, the result of violent blows or heavy falls. No bones, however, were fractured,aecoiit f o re rd death.tl injuries did not seem sufficient to u found the Ho made a post mortem examination, and immediate cause of death had been disease of the  heart. The Coroner said, in reference to the conflicting _ _  nature of the evidence, that it was possible that the deceased, who was deaf, might have been deceived in the darkness as to the person who assaulted her, or that Mrs. Rush might have been misled in her exitement as to the meaning of her daughter's signs, which were made at a time of prostrationand confusion. He should, therefore, recommendcace the jury simply to return a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. A verdict accordingly was then) beration, returned: after some deli.