The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-29 00:00:00

DREADEUL MURDER A? MIDDLESBRO'.

A dreadful murder was committed here about
mideight on Saturday sight. A young man. named Frauds
Coates, • moulder, was stabbed by an Irishman. pseud
Henry Hubei, arid died soon after from the injuries be
had received. Some persons had been watching Hughes.
who was in company with a woman of loose character, near
Albert -bridge, Marton-road, and this had greatly WM.
rhim. As Coates was paring him he rushed upon
. and stabbed him in three different places with a dagger
knife. The prisoner and the woman are bosh in the custody
of the police. Coates was a native of Think, in the North
Riding, and was a young man of good character. His
It ringilleposition was taken haloes a magistrate, Mr.
poto, at the polies station. Several parents
witnessed she murder, but the attack made upon Coates by
the prisoner was so sudden that they were powerless to
render essistence. Coates in his deposition distinctly slis
VI to Hughes, with whom be was slightly acquainted, big
the mmdeter. He says he was passing slug the street
when Hughes, who was standing against the railway
statioa wall with the woman named Elisabeth Gault:Sall
rabid at him and stabbed him in the abdomen. saying,
" You're one of the b--• thee@ bees watching m•—take
that." The woman at the same time challenged the other
terms that were about " to come up to the scratch," say-
iog that " her man would serve the best of them as he
had done the other fellow" (meaning Coate.). Coates
died about 3 o'clock on Sunday more*, as he
was being removed to the Tofirmary in Newport road.
His wounds, three in number, were dressed at the police-
station by Dr. Fawoett, assistant to Mr. Dickesson. They
were (one) a superficial cut on the right side of the seek,
three inches long and • quarter of an inch in depth ; (two)
a deep wound in the abdomen, left side, penetrating, it is
thought, to the stomach. and through which the bowels
protruded ; and (three) • deep cut just above the right
thigh. The aloes who took the prisoners into custody
were Inspector Read and Folies-constable Peacock.
The male prisoner wu a-rested in *Meet on the north aide
of the railway, and wheel taken into custody had the knife
in his hand. The murder was of the most cold-blooded cha-
racter, and the °Mews steel that ooze of the parties ware
the worse for drink. The inquest on the body
of the dammed will be held today, at the Caere-
ration Hall. The malamitely affair bee mused the
'mutest excitement in the tows. A more revolting case of
deliberate murder it is impossible to imagine. The prisoner
does not seem to exhibit the slightest remorse at the part b•
Played in the transaction. He is • strong muscular fellow,
of dark oomplexioe, shoat 51t. Sin. in height. He bas bees
in the tows for • numbs" of years. He upraise., himself
as a single man, but it is howl, that he has • wife and
family in Ireland. Coates wee a young man, about years
of age, and tuamarried. —Lade Mercury.

TIM ACCIDENT AT THE LIVERPOOL-WEISE? RAID.
WAY Srerion.—On Saturday aflame= Mr. Payee, deputy-
wooer ter the city of Lomita, laid as bigotry at Bs.
Bartholomew's Hm*tal late the OMNI of the asss sod.
&at at the North Lauda' Exteasios wake la Liverpool-
skeet, by which Thomas Day was killed, sod the Ursa of
semral ahem were passel is jeopard The jury Marna
a vadat " That deceased &ed teem',jerks ONINd bi the
fait et a sustain prat:Spat at the lAwarisealwlrsat
satins, bet what eared the fail of the said pallariPsl
tare is so widest, to dhow."