The Express. — 1858-09-11 (London, England)

THE DISTRIMING FATALITY AT WOLVERHAMPTON.  Yeateriay Mr. W. H. Phillips, deputy coroner, epeend tairreallost the lighting Cocks Inn, at Blakenall. ea the lady at the yoga( rri Emma Oriffiths, who, ender distresslag elreenrstaacee already recorded, threw heron!! dean aa ski coal-pit shaft near the above-named inn on Wedheredig het. The following erkleace was given Soplda Harper wife of Joseph Harper, collier, had berm*, Esteemed four month.; she was about ekes years el elm sad had been !Wag ae Blake of all-work at the beee-houm of William Timmer, atnall. Tranntsr wee she a eV*. Decemrd always approved In her right Wed. Whores saw de, .-ost d lest on Tuesday iporaiog, wins bet mother art for her and eskrd If her daughter bad ban pimping la her (anneal's) house. Witness replied that as bed not. Dememd was this ming, and appeared web dietramed. Witness west with the jury and Idetied the body, which the jury meericcd appeared that of a "mere  Wilder Cartwright, a lad fernaceinan, deposed that at about Arra o'er& ea Wedaesday months. he saw the desamed teasba sp the reed leading from Penn to Itilaton. Her ham was flea 20 yards behind her. When she came to DAS withoutn speaking a word, she tuned shag • real ti the CocliAut engine, ma up the bra the pit, which la about elm fret from the pdk sal 90 rake from the terspike-read. She dew to =vase Mid, red rolled over the modes ;town= Mr daserod did le pit an bar side. Witness was trite sate that the wiltsily. (Hem the Corner sad pity proceeded to the pit in question. Therm& wee preseserd with some Mont oak plasking, meshing sp aboutthree het trees the rowed. It was Maud that the suicide seer haw be.. the result of much dehberrics.] Exam:dotter continued—Wirer beard the deemed 611 upon the scaffolding, wtdeh wee 09 yards from the month of the shaft. Joseph "Weil, enema= in Maws. Poole's fleld, deposal that sem we Noe to him sad rid that a girl had thrown hind' dews a pt. He want to the spot and was let dews the int by • reps. He went down three times, and ibr her tbrergh the 90 feet of foul air; at bat he gdrelgr=. whisk obeyed the shaft to within nine yards of the that he went down to the scaffold, where he bead 1121=kliseerkt her up. He considered that the pit wee parry tilKilt Jells (MEd's, -collier, *dog In Taunter's-pad, Dudleyreed, deposed that be was ties father of the dammed, who was 16 yule sad 4 months old. She had been living at *melee at the house of William Traunter, who lived by him (the father), and had bets there about month.. She came hems ca Sunday rearsdag ; mad when he got home the girl wee in bed. Ho mind her what herald -her home ? She and that her ruder bed bees " pauleg bershest." Witness replied, " Them, my was* male ea sample of him." She wag then vary mach tided, and them, and on Monday sad Tuesday the eight of a era sewed to frighten her. Oa Tuesday, she wont to bow art at Willetthall, and told her bow bar learn had hem Malin her. He instructed bee he awn Mai st the regirrsee's clerk's office. dhelsfild to de* sad what he wan hew at sight he found bra is bud. Ha asked bas she did net oast him ? She seta " Falba, I was • I am easy bad." /ha had out Wan el kr *doe sines ;he bed beam be... He sald, " My wen* ids se we Ise yea tedeothe me, kw nomarrow I ell tan yea to a sereas'a, and I will cpsald warned kr Mau" On Walataday ninthly, arirref bend, opts inane up Met she wee pas oat hose brie* H. sew bat user the Para reapflte, and, accompanied by his lithe boy sheet gam yaw eld, &Sowed her at about thirty se forty robe Ablear. Whoa she got neer the Fighting Cora she ram lowa* a pit; witness then shoottd out to " Oh, ley wash, Irbil in yea going to do P • sod she tolled hermit ewer. He did sot believe that she knew what she was ebeek tee ta the Sunday whoa Trannter came into the yard the desseecd beaus. dreadfully agitated rind an to go out at re best window. Her mother, who was sow agar her eaalarmat, and who wee unable to attend free perestate Masse brought on by this occurrence, add, " My pow was* what is the matter f" Deceased had not ass told her .ether ell that she afterwards revealed. The Cormier inotiqed whether on any previous coosslos the decreed had come home end complained of illtreatment ?  Witness mid she had not, but when be put the question to her respecting Trannta's previous condom she said that he had "pullet her about bekre," but had never " served bee so bad as os Sunday socraing." Be (witness) was able to say a great deal more about that, but he supposed that it wee sot neorassay there. Ile, however, hoped that he should be able to ptmlata Traunter. The Coroner mid he had no power to interim* with that, but he should recommend hint to go to a solicitor and take his advice; and he (the Coroner) sincerely hoped that he (the father) might snowed fa prosecuting Truant= If all was true that the father had Meted, he (Trauma) tioldy deserved to be severely petalled. The father said that be wee a poor man, sad had no matey, but he would pat biaxial( to the mamma inecenisdane is him. He could sot bameriet, SA how he skald be able to find the meow of doing se. Police-constable James Hooky sad =other Aker, on the instruction of the Cormier, examined the body, and seturniasj said that the leg was cat through the bone at the lame. The right shoulder was dreadfully broken, the left wrist was be,ken, sad there were other injuries. The Coroner then said, that although It was not neeewouy to the es it appeared bet= the jury, yet as the father expressed unable. through poverty, to call in profserional help, be thought that the jury would concede with him that it would be well to have the body examined by • sa sad adjourn the inquest for that purpose. lCajetry warmly approved of the suggestion, and =premed themselves in strong terms upon the supposed cosduct of Tmonter, who, they maul, was known as " Traria: the fighter." The *east was then adjourned till Wednesday next, to =tad Um he limpet( merlon examination. The Conner told the haw that if he could do anything wee he hi. Is bring*: Tremor to justice he should be glad to do so.