The Express. — 1867-03-05 (London, England)

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE IN SHOREDITCH.  THE ISQID3T.-ITHIS DAY.)  • This forenoon, Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquest at the Green Man Tavern, Heston Old•town. on the body of Jane M'Carthy, aged 32 years, who died partly from wounds inflicted on herself after she murdered her youngest child. The inquest upon the child in question, Hannah M'Carthy, aged two years, was resumed and concluded at the same time. _  Kate Imy, 10, Shap-street, Shoreditch, said that the deceased woman lodged in the same house. She was the wife of a labourer who was in prison. Her mind seemed to be much affected by the imprisonment of her husband. She was never the same sines she visited him a few weeks ago. She was sober and very hard working. On Tuesday List she was in bed from illness. On the previous night she had been in an almost frantic state, and during that uorming' also made use of such bad language that witness believed she was delirious. In the forenoon witness noticed that she was trying to conceal something in the waistlamil of her petticoat. At about 2 o'clock witness went into the room and saw some blood on her night-dress as she lay on her back in the bed. Witness milted her where the blood came from, and she shook her head. Witness then saw that her throat was cut, and looking over the bed she saw a white-handled razor near her band, and the child Hannah lying on its side, with its throat cut. Witness ran out and fell on the Lording from terror. On Thursday last the deceased woman said to a policeconstable, in witness's presence, " I have done the foul act." The parish doctor had been attending the deceased woman, and he gave a certificate that she was suffering from pleurisy, and witness gave him a message from Mr. Andrews, the relieving officer, suggesting that it was a ease of fever, and requesting him to certify to that effect ; but he, or rather his assistant, refused to do so. The murder would never have taken place but for that refusal  Mr. Chas. Bewley, surgeon, said that he had seen the deceased woman prior to the murder, and also since. She died on Friday last from mania, and also from the knowledge that she committed the crime. The incisions in her throat were very superficial, and only accelerated her death.  ----The following was the statement made by the deceased woman to Police-constable Darker, 134 N, " I did the rash art of cutting Cho AIM'. tlarn.t myself. I did the foul act. I murdered it. Ido not know what I did it for. I tried to do something to myself also. I could not take care of the child Hannah, and I thought God would." It appeared that the pariah allowed the mother and four children 2a. lid. a week and two loaves of bread. There was no want, for the mother worked very hard until she laid herself up, one witness said, by her over exertion. On the Saturday before the murder, Dr. Wallis's assistant visited her, and certified that she was suffering from pleurisy. (hi Monday, Mr. Andrews, the relieving-officer, saw her, and thinking it was a case of fever, ordered wine, &c., and asked Dr. WOW' assistaut to certify that it was a case of fever, but that gentleman refused to do so. Mr. W. C. Brand, the assistant to the parish surgeon, was sent for at the request of the jury, and said that the deceased woman had come to the surgery on the Thursday before the crime, on a parish order. She complained of a pain in her side, and them was no indication of fever. He visited her on Saturday, and found her suffering from pleurisy. On the Monday she was worse. On that day be was asked to give a certificate that she was suffering from fever, in order that she might be sent to the hospital, but he was certain that there was no contagious fever or any fever other than that concomitant with pleurisy, and of course .he could not send such a case to the hospital. On the Monday when he saw her she was perfectly rational. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict "That the child Hannah M`Carthy was wilfully murdered by her mother Jane M'Carthy while she was of unsound mind; and that the said Jane M'Carthy died from mania accelerated by an incision in the throat, and that she inflicted the said incision with her own hand while of unsound mind."