The Express. — 1847-12-25 (London, England)

INQUESTS, YESTERDAT.—SUDDEN DEATH AT A RAILWAY STATION.—Before Mr. Wakley, at 1110 Royal George, Drurasnonctstreet, Eustousquare, on the body of J. B. Storiker, aged 55, • retired captelk in the merchant service.--W. BuOseridge, hank rider at the North London Railway, deposed that, on Thursday last, the deceased was seen to stagger suddenly on the arrival platform, andfall immediately. Witness ran to the place and found the deceased foaming at the mouth. He was quite insensible, and witness left him in charge of policeman King while he went for a surgeon, upon whose arrival the deceased was found to be dead.—This evidence was corrobersted by King ; and it was proved by Mr. Edward Pascall, the eonin-law of the deceased, that he had been for years subject to disease of the heart.—Verdict, " Natural death."— Suspicious DRATll.—Before Mr. W. Carter, at the Lord Nelson, Nelson-square, Bleckfriareroad, on the body of Jane Phillips, aged 30.—Mr. A. Crawcour, of Nelson-square, said that the deceased had been in his employment for five or six years. On Tuesday afternoon witness and his wife, whilst sitting in the parlour, heard the deceased and the cook talking very loud, and Mrs. Crawcour went down to the kitchen, when the conversation ended, and she returned to the parlour. About ten minutes afterwards witness called to the deceased, but received no:answer. Mrs. Crawcour said she would go up stairs and see whether she was in the bedroom, and said to witness ; " I wish you would come with me, for my heart fails me." He did as requested, and as soon as he got to the first flight of stairs he beard a crash, when Mrs, Crawcour, in her fright, ran down stairs and into the street. —The beadle of the square was called in, and in the back yard the deceased was found lying upon her face in a pool of blood. The house was five stories high; every window at the back was fastened down, and there was no outlet to the roof. Witness was unable to tell how the deceased met with the injuries, unless she had entered one of the adjoining houses, and having got upon the roof, had passed along and thrown herself off. There was a ladder found against the yard-wall. —Leoai Weil said that she was in the service of Mr. Crawcour. On Tuesday last the deceased had few words with her mistress about a silver keile which had been missed. Mrs. Crawcour on that afternoon gave the deceased warning. Shortly afterwards she told witness that her mistress had threateuned to give her into custody unleas she produced the knife by twelve o'clock the next day. She then told witness that she would snake the place as clean as the could, for she did not think she should live much longer. About four o'clock the deceased came into the kitchen and &aid, "Cook, I won't live many minutes longer." Oa witness remonstrating with her, she replied, "It is no good speaking ; " and witness went up stairs. In about ten minutes she returned to the kitchen, and found that deceased had left, and about four minutes after witness heard • noise like glass breaking. She bad on one occasiou said that she would commit suicide. She used to have a man come to see her in the kitchen, during the absence of Mr. Crawcour. He was a potman at a neighbouring public.house. She told witness that she had been secretly married. E. Pool stated that he was potman at Mr. Phillips's public house. He had known the deceased for some time past. He was not married to the deceased, and she had no ground fur supposing that he ever intended to marry her.—Mr. J. Hutchinem, surgeon, said he was called in to see the deceased on Tuesday night last. He found her lying on the stone flags, in a pool of blood. There was an extensive fracture of the skull, which had caused her death. His impression was that she had got upon one of the adjoining houses, and thrown herself off the roof. There was a broken fiowerpotlying on the ground, and one of the squares of glass inan window was broken, leaving the inference that in coming from the roof she hod turned over, and her feet or head had come in contact with the glass.—The servants in the adjoining houses were sent for, but none of them bad seen the deceased on the afternoon in question.—The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased's death was caused by a fracture of the skull, but how that fracture was occasioned there was not sufficient evidence to prove."