The Potteries Examiner : — 1876-11-11 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MURDER AND SVICIDE.—A distressing case was brought to light last Saturday, at No. 14, Coldbathsquare, Clerkenwell. A respectable married woman, named Sarah Jane Langley, and her infant daughter, Hannah Florence Langley, were on the previous evening found dead by the head of tbe family, Mr. George Langley, who is a silver polisher. In the pursuit of his trade Mr. Langley uses cyanide of potas,ium, and under the bed was found a bottle, Sll,l on the chair a glass. both containing small portions of the liquid. A second child lay uninjured in a cot close by. lu the adjoining room a piece of paper was found, on which was written, "Dear George,—! cannot bear to meet you, as I have pawned all you have gat." Dr. Dyer, who was called in, fetid the mother and child had been dead some hours. It appears that the deceased, a very respectable, well.conducted, sober woman, has been ailing some time, and that her illness took such a turn that her medical attendant desired that she should be watched, but ,m apparently sane was she that the precantien was not deemed necessary by her friends. The Langley family lived in a comfortable way, but it is stated that the deceased woman aid pawn only one article of her husband's clothing in the course of last week, which she knew he would require on Sunday, and this it is felt preyed upon her mind. The husband and wife lived, it is stated by the neighbours, on the happiest terms, and both were devoted to their children. Mrs. Langley was 27 years, and her child, five months old.—On Toes. flay Dr. Hardwick° held an enquiry, at the Clerkenwell Tavern, Farringdon-road, London, into the sad circum. stances connected with the death of Hannah Florence Langley, aged five months, and Sarah Jane Langley, aged twenty-seven, who came to their deaths at 14, Coldbath.square, Clorkenwell, on the night of Friday last. The jury, after hearing the evidence; returned a verdict of "Suicide" in the case of the mother, and in the ease of the infant a verdict of " Murder by the mother whilst of unsound mind."  A RAILWAY ACCIDENT CAUSED BY Bove.—An inquest wag opened on Tueolav by Mr. F. Price, at the RORC and Crown Inn, near the railway station, Staly. bridge, respecting the death of Frederick Ingham, aged 14, who reeitled with his father in Dickensonstreet, Queen's Road, Manchester. The deceased was a telegraph clerk, employed at the Stalybridge station, and was in the habit of. travelling to his work by the railway. James Howard. a railway porter, deposed, in his evidence before the jury, that about a quarter to eight on Monday morning he was in Stalybride station when the train from Manchester arrived. 14,' saw the deceased alight upon the platform from a second-class compartment, and while holding by the ,and-rail of the carriage move alongside of the train, which was still going slowly. At that moment five or six boys, who were shout to go in the train when it returned to Manchester. made a rush to enter the comnartment which the deceased had left and not being able to do so as quickly as they wished, some pushing and eon. futs.on tank place. One of the lads took hold of the back of the deceased's clothes. and Ingham and another boy fell. The hater was not hurt, but, unfortunately, the deceased fell beneath the moving train. A number of wheels passed over him, notrly cutting his right arm off and his body into halves. He was extricated and taken into one of the offices at the station, hut he died immediately. It wan the practice of schoolboys at Stalybridge station to struggle together on entering the railway carriages, and some of them had been cautioned against doing so. William Clark, fruiterer, Stalybridge, who saw the accident, stated that the lads who tried to rush into the compartment which the deceased ha I just left forced the deceased, by pushing, to relinquish his hold of the handrail of the carriage. In his (the witness's) opinion the death of Ingham was owing to the conduct of these boys. The inetniry was adjourned in order that the boys who are said to have caused the accident may be produeed.