New York Dispatch

Another Death From Destitution in Bethnal Green.

Mr. Coroner Humphreys held an inquiry at the Windsor Castle Tavern, Charles street, Victoria-park, London, respecting the death of Mary Ann Poole, aged 24.

Edmund Poole said that he was a wax doll maker, and that deceased was his daughter, and had followed the same business until she was 21 years of age. She then left home, and became everything that was bad, and he had not seen her for eighteen months. A juror said that it was stated that the deceased had been turned out of her home by witness, who treated her very badly. The witness denied having done so, and said that he had not refused her an interview, lately. She had refused to come back, saying, "Sooner than go back I will drown myself." She had no quarrel with her stepmother, and had not left home in consequence.

Mary Dresden said that on the previous Monday morning she saw the deceased passing her house and become very faint and unable to go on further. Witness brought her out a chair into the street, and got her some water. She was completely destitute and was miserably clad. She said that she had not slept in a bed for three weeks, but had passed the nights sleeping in courts and under archways. She spat blood while outside witness's house.

Police-constable Hawkins said that he was called to deceased, and found her so exhausted that she had to be carried in a chair to the workhouse. Although she was within 500 yards of it she could not walk to it. She could hardly speak, but she said she had slept in the streets the previous night. It was stated she had slept in the Victoria-park on the grass three nights last week.

Dr. Smart, surgeon to Bethnal-green Workhouse, said that deceased was admitted to the workhouse in a very low state. She died from enlargement of the heart and congestion of the lungs, accelerated by exposure, privation, and want of medical attendance. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.