The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-11-13 00:00:00

ANOTHER MURDER, IN DURHAM.

I,lllWCAsnn-ON-TTNE. Nov. 6.

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A considerable snout of excitement hay been canted
in tills town aml nerthlsnisthood to-day by the intel-
ligence that alsolher murder had been perpeLrated in
the asusty of Durham. Thi ttttt about ti set lock,
the body of John sty, a daler, belowenv to Illaydon,
was found on the mad between tisat village and
Winlatoo. ttaty h .4i b. en at Winlaton yesterday at a
shoo. mat..ll. :slid Ital regaled himself in a public-
boom in Ilse vJiies:rtersranls. Ife Id.. the pnblichouse
before °Mini:lit 1., tenni home, and he appears to
have been intercepted be 4osne villians and murdered
alsortly after he I. ft Winlaton, s here ix a mark on his
forehead as if he hot been : snick with a heavy blunt
in: trument. A quantity of blood lay near where the
boar usta toms& The lwviy of the deceased nay
removed to the !slewlull, Winlaton, and is in charge of
the county ems .tabulary. flay was flannel''y a matter
slater at Wickham, but he has recently been enlyloyed
as a journeyman.
WEDXI7IIIAT.

The following more detailed particular.; of the
loonier of John Baty between Winlaton and Blayston
yes'orday 1111 l rang came to hand. gay on Msinday
evesiin; went to Mayslon Beirn to see some pigeon
sliontitr; that wee to take place there, sod when he
Lift 'ionic he W. 13 dre.sed in a nearly new snit of clothes',
eon .i,ding of a checked coat and waistcoat and cord
trowiers. He had mune money in 1114 possr...;aion, from
1,2 to £3 it icsepposel. awl I.e war seen with come ,
silver in hi: hand during tics lime the shootist: was
;coin on. Between itand 9 o'clock in the eventng he
went into the Crown and Cannon Inn. Winleton, kept
by Mr. Jane l'arker, and remained there.long with a
number of other people until a quarter-palt 12 o'clock,
when the bowie we* Hu ed. The unfortunate man at
that time way r ;titer tipay, and the parties who left
the howc with Il i 11l , being the lost who we: c.e An in his
eson:siosy, will no doubt iv, examined .st the coroner's
noisiest. which it i xpeeti.di will take place to.
;lay. Hiss leaviw: the Crown and Cannon way the
last aceassint of leis leciug seen alive. At a quarter
to 3 o'sdock on Tue.:it:ly 1111 l raw:. Mr. George
Nixon, a respectable maussfaetsirer, of W-11,11d.011,
retemiiii: I lr tle.when lie found the
holy of the dere...al h wlirre we have ilecribell,appa-
waly ils• al, and with no elotlics upon him hiit a red
shirt c,,1 neelctir. body 11. -dirt. awl drawers and
Mr. Nixon icc,,cccliul.ely went and brought
the %Viol:Awl poliecaus awl Mr. Callatislar. surgeon.
rpm, en ;mill it way found that Baty was quite
deal. and hal been -.1 for :owe time. There were no
loarks of violate', about him except a pined wound
alma. an ii'. It nod a 11•11 low:. and or a triangular shape.
over the le:t half of the fninial hone, andextending right
down to Ilse h mug, the appeal slice of a hole on
the I-ft side of the :orelicad. 'lle skull slid not appear
to be fractured. The heir was 'netted with blood, but
there were few abrestsw, about the head or face, except
the wowed mentioned. which can about the size of a
halipesisiy, sand hum it appeariliCe V.U.lled to have been
made by some narrow Witt instrument. cud, as a stow-
breaker's Isantiocr. .1 cart was lincural from the resi-
dence of Mr. Alderman Laycork, and the body lof the
deceased conveyed to the Commercial Inn, %Valeta',
a here it now await. tics, coroner's inquest. 'Hie clothes
of the decesseil have tout yet been found, although Mr.
Superintendent Ssinirea, of the Durham Constabulary,
was upon the spot in the early part of the clay with
several of his into. The examination of the clothes
shows that robbery was ;oblides', MO we arc informed
that the; stalling :Ades of the deceased were ;mite dry
and clean just a they would have been left. Wills boots
been taken off after he bail been dead. However, the
post moetent examination which i• to be niasle will soon
remove all doubts a, to the manner in which the unfor-
tianale man was deprival of life. The marks Uroo
the wall just oppo•ite where the body was fosses.'
teed to the sup?. ition that some persons had climbed
over into the add in great haste, and we are in-
clined to think that Baty had been struck from

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behind, and immediately upon receiving the blow had
fallen heavily alaimt the wall, leaving the bloody marks
that wer.• plainly visible when we visited the place.
Should the medical evidence bear out the supposition,
the blow must have been struck by a Krum in the habit
of using his left hand. The elect time at which the
deeeased met with hia death cannot be at present pre-
cisely fi::ed ; but there ii evidence that he was alive at a
unarter.pcii. 1.! o'cloel. and that he waa dead at a quarter
before three wh.m found by Mr. Ni:.,in. It is a singular
coinciiictioe that this murder was committed on the very
day of the mouth of November that the body of young
Sterling, tks Iturnopfield surgeon, who was cruelly
murdered within a few ini:es from Witaaton five
years ago, was dirtovercd. The Newcastle Chronicle of
the u,,nn. coy—
W. may state AA a curious feet, that when ex-
milining the place where the body had been found, a
gentleman near Ili found a niece of paper close to the
visit, which appeared to have been worn he- a consider-
able period in some lemon's pocket, as i:. was dirty and
crease I. Upon it wan written, hi eel ink, a copy of a
local song, celled, • Cappy, or the Pitman's Dog,' the
concluding verse being as follows
He ha Mont at farther than the foot a' the Klde
11;efore he fell Ina ith the thrgilUluug trThe,
When a highwayneui fellow .11ped round in • creek,
And a thump .mm the laid! him flat on Whack.
Doan emit Cam.'

"Ttere was no possibility of this basin:: been manu-
factured end hid down after the news of the supposed
murder had been spread. as. from the appearance of the
ink. it had heen written for some month:. and the paper
Kul been well thumb, d, leaditi: to the inference that its
ow.ter had been cominittinz the Iles to memory. It
will he handed over to the police, and may possibly he
the mean, of lead in: to some clue to this my*terionik und
shocking affair."