The Express. — 1858-07-30 (London, England)

THE LATE EXPLOSION IN THE WESTMINSTER ROAD.  Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Payne, the coroner for London end Southwark, held an inquest in the boardroom of St. Thomaa'a Hoepital, on the body of John Murray, aged 40, who lost his life in attempting to save actin persons supposed to be in the premises of Madame Coton (Mre. Bennett), the pyrotechnic artist in too Westminster-road.  Some pialcedir's of the distends/ affair have already spin this journal as well as the reports of the previous rite. he learned Coroner, on opening the proceedinge, said that he ocosidered it to be his duty to again assemble the same jury to inquire into the cause of the death of this the fourth Individual, and he hoped the leaf, who had perished in consequence of the lamentable explosion that had taken place on the premises belonging to a person named Mrs. Colon, a firework maker, or, se It had bait since stated, the wife of a person named Bennett. He did nut conceive that the inquiry world hut long, as the facts of the previous inquiries were fresh in their memories; but there were two or three important things they ought to bear in mind ; one woe how dirt the unfortunate fellow went with his death Y The ,sound was, was it mused by the tire mid explosion which followed? And the third question they would haver* cmisider was, was it hi. own fault or that of any other person P Wm. Prober, of de, Granby-atre t, Waterloo-mad said that Dowse a master wheelwright. On Monday, the 12th of July, he was at the corner of the Waterlou-road when the Brat alarm of ere at Madame Cotea's was given. He went to the house and found the windows of the fire floor closed. He opened them, and then abut them down on teeing amok* outing out. He went up by • ladder, when another man came up. He appeared tipsy. Another man, who also appeared tipsy, came up the ladder, who, he had no doubt, was the derseued, end he pulkd a chair out. He tried to remove him, when an expbidon of a Plight character took place. another followed, and still he cuitrl not be induced to leave; but the third, or great explosion, blew him and several others off the balmily of the brat floor, and the deoesaed, beside' being much buret, had hip leg fractured. By a Juror—He tried to keep him from entering the room, and while trying to prevent him trim entering the wiedow„ and holding him in his arms, he ups blown from him into the next garden. B• the Connor—Ms don opinion was, that at the time the deceased wee on the balcony the poor fellow had been drinking, and thereby became reckless or uncerseious of the great danger he ran. Mr. Edward Pokes, ono of the house sturgeons of the hoeOW, maid the deceased when admitted was severely burnt about the body, and also mitering from a severe fracture of the leg. He was when brought in evidently intoxicated— delirium tremens al:pervert( d, and be died en the 27th hut. The cause of death was from the borne, end the fracture to the leg. Ho (rebus.) was happy to say that, out of 12 saw that had been brought Into the hospital, the present was the only one that had terminated Wally, and the ether pestles were progreasisg nest favourably. The Coroner said he rejoiced to hese the remarks from the ipurgeon, as be had heard that others were mortally wounded. Margaret Murray, of No. 22, Frannie-skeet, Westminsterroad, identified the body of deceased as being that of her husband. Ile told her when he came home to hie tea that some one Dreamed out fire, and he went to render indolence, and thereby got injured by the explosion. The jury immediately returned a verdict that the daceued was mortdly burned, and hie leg ?mitred, by the oxplosion which compered on Monday the 12th of Joy bast.  FrLo•Dg-Hg.—On Tuesday morning last a man named Henry Roberta*, • dealer in artificial dowers, in Chandler's lane, Nottiogborn, committed suicide by banging himself to the bed-post in hie s'eeping-room. He wag disco. need, quite dead, by • relative, and his wigs oosotag in at the time, cut the rope by which the upfortunate num was suspended. At an inquest upon the body the evidence went to show that the demised was slightly embeirralosd in oh. cumatances, but when he committed self-mtuder it appeared to the jury that Im was M a perfectly sane slats of mind, and • verdict of Pria-do-so" wee returned The body of the deceased was WNW at midnight, on Tuesday, in St. Anna laurial-ground, Mirlthightn4 FariaTICHIM AND ITO CONSEartEISCES.—A aged feral% beisimper te Mr. Thorley, of Speing-gardsna, chime•ace. keebarft the week gone deranged, through, it Is said, witgfeas,sek Rho was connected with the primal sad k eoppowsi that the r,vivel services weedy 0 which -the 1001E0 ore wrought up to the highest Web of entkosiaam, have been too much for bee. Oa Monday last she precipitated herself, at midday, from see of ths bedroom windows, injuring hared: coneilerably. She has sins been handed over to the cage of ha fither.--.64eoford Mel clay.