The Express. — 1846-09-11 (London, England)

INQUESTS HELD YESTERDA7.--BY Mr. Carttar, at the Duke of Kcnt, Royal Hill, Gres. is on the bly of Richard Ryder, aged 43, who commiti'id suicide on N ed. acids,. morning.' Deceased was found on .Ilet morning susratled by a rope from the bannisters. A riedical man "Tula been sent for, he- pronounced him deed.. He,.had tame before attempted self-destruction. Verdict. ominsanity.—By the same coroner, at the Eight ill'i 'Alurch-street, Greenwich, on the body of Hannah WL.‘1.9.1, 17 years of age, lady's maid to a Miss Carter of 38, Yon:, Portman-square, and of Loarniit-hill, Lewisham. wed hail received from Miss Carter a letter, which was Produced, alleging that the deceased had kept back certain Isms, of money entrusted to her to pay over to the washeretiles, and desiring her to obtain another situation. .1)e eseeei been. mei ellielek lopyiskeis the most positive ' weak ant My et oho lea bus ', charge. The body wee alwerods piabasep lathe Temp. Mies Carter, who wa=talind eat trAthei __the letter she had the dew of edine the mosey was 411011Plia. " Pm' drowned." Whilst this hrsatiovle lag UM, third the ea= dicer received of a a to By Mr. T. Watley, at thella High Admiral,' Agar-town, on view of the body of George Laker, aged 62, a ladies' shoemaker, lately_ resifts& No. 6, North-street, in that neighbourhood. Deposed was drowned in the Regent'. Canal on Sunday • ant on examining the body the brain was found to marks of serous apoplexy, and the surgesin bad seem Esebb whether he actually died from that disease, atter taterbe the water or from suffocation. It was not Ise the jeer to solve a scientific question which the medial sereesr mid was a most difficult one, and they found a mast of " Drowned whilst bathing."—By Mr. Bedford, at the Flask T , Ebury-square, on the body of Joseph Mahon, aged 21. The deceased had been a porter at the Polytechnicon, Belgrave-square, and between one and two o'clock on Wednesday morning last was found sleeping in an unfinished 'house in I.°w:idess:pier*, on a heap of shavings. He was taken to the Eburysquare police station, and locked up in one of the cells along with a drunken cabman, and the cell was visited at intervals of 20 minutes up to 2.5 minutes to six o'clock, when the deceased was discovered hanging by a handkerchief f 'trued to an iron her in the cell window. The body wee still warm, but the efforts to restore animation were ineffectual. It appeared that the deceased was subject to an overflow of b:ood to the head, which rendered him at times incapable of answering for his actions. Verdict, "Temporary insanity." —By Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of a female whose name is supposed to be Jane Robertson, about 3.5 years of age, and a single woman. Deceased, last Monday week, had a cup of coffee at the Cheltenham Coffee-house, Westminster Bridge•road, and mixed arsenic with it. She was removed to the above institution, where she died on Tuesday last. The cause she assigned for taking the poison was great distress. She gave the name of Jane Robertson at the station-house, but she would give no account of herself at Vie hospital. There was a mark on her flannel petticoat, " Lambeth Workhouse—on loan." There were no papers, and only 81d. in her pocket. Upon this evidence the inquiry was adjourned to Wednesday next.