The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-06-03 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.  °VIE EATING.—An inquest was held before Mr. Bedford, the coroner, at Westminster Hospital, on Tuesday, on the body of a man unknown, who died from the effects of overeating. He had the appearance of a respectable mechanic, and was about 35 years of age. Dr. Tanner, the house physician of Westminster Hospital, stated that when the deceased was brought in efforts were made to remove something from the stomach, when it was found that the stomach-pump became choked up with large pieces of meat. Every effort was made to restore the deceased, but he expired in about two hours. A pose-morlemexarninatiorehad been made, from which it was clearly shown that death had resulted from disease of the heart, tamed by the deceased having eaten • large quantity of pork and fat, which was found in lumps in the stomach. The coroner having remarked upon the singular nature of the case, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.  Moue filuanExa.—Murders and allegations of murders are now so numerous that we can scarcely find space in which to detail the particulars of the whole of them. The public had not muted to shudder at the fearful Manehester crimes when they were called upon toned the sickening detaiL of the Ludgate Hill mystery, and this is still fresh and unexplained when we receive intelligence of two more alleged murders in the metropolis. The alleged victim in one of these new cases was a girl about fifteen years of age, deaf and dumb, named Ann Rush. On the evening of Saturday week the girl was sent by her mother with a message to exactly opposite that in which she lived. A few minutes afterwards she was alarmed by loud shrieks, and on going to see what was wrong she found her daughter lying at the bottom of a long flight of stairs, down which she had been apparently firing with great force. Mrs. Rush stated that her daughter before her death communicated by signs that when she had got to the first landing to the stairs leading to the house where she had gone with the message • Mrs. Innis, whose temper was the terror of the court, rushed out like • tory upon the girl, lifted her up and dung her over the stairs. There was, it appears, • family feud between the Rushes and the Limes, but from the evidence given before the coroner on Saturday the assumption that Mrs. Innis injured the child seems to have had no foundation. The girl WAS suffering from disease of the heart, and her death was attributed by the jury, directed by the eoroner, to that cause. In the second new case the alleged victim is a married woman named Gelding, who has cohabited for some years with a man named John Lemon. The woman, it is said, died from the effects of poison on Friday morning, and Lemon is in custody on suspicion of having been the poisoner. On the body there was evidenee which tieems to show that the woman had received a blow, and the man admits they had a quarrel, but declares that she poisoned herself with chemicals he used in his trade, that of • dealer in counterfeit coin.  ..... Jewellery to the valve of 21,000 was stolen from Lecher's, High-street, Cambden Town, on Thursday morning. HORRIBLE AcczBENT IX A