The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-01 00:00:00

SHOCKIBiI MURDIR NEAR OHESTER.

An inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at 4
o'clock, at the Vfleatshaaf lan, Dunham-on-the-Hill, near
Chester, by Mr. Churton, au the body of Isaac Newport, • ,
labouring man, residing at Long Green, Barrow (about
four miles from Dunham), who was found on Monday last In
• ditch near to the first-mentinnel village, under cir,mm-
stances which leave no doubt that he was foully murdered,
his head being frightfully cut and bruised by some blunt in.
etrument. The examinations were not thoroughly gone Into,
nor was Samuel Griffiths, the person suspected of commit-
ting the murder, present. The atttementa sod depositions
lain before the coroner contained the following details. The
deceased received 151. 7s. on Monday last, from a farmer,
named Lightfoot, for some pigs. The money was paid in
the presence of prisoner, who also partook of some drink at
the expense of deceased. Prisoner was seen following the ,
dammed over a stile across some fields, and soon after was
seen returning to the village behind • hedge. This hap.
wed between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. About
5 o'clock the body was discovered by • min named
Johnson, and soon after the police officer arrested Griffith.,
in a state of intoxication. Oa searching hint 131. 7s. was
found upon him, as well as the parse of deceased. Prisoner
gave two different accounts of the meaner in which be
became possessed of the money, one being that it bad been
paid him by hie employer—who denied doing so—and the
other that be had found it in a distant part of the town. ,
ship. A piece of fencing rail was found near the place !
where the body was found, and the end of the rail meal,
fitted • cut in the deceased man's hat. A foot-slip on
the bank shows the mark of heel-nails exactly cone.
spending to those in the heels of the prisoner's right
foot. The bat of the deceased showed marks of • cut
from some instrument, and indentations as if from kicks.
The prisoner Griffiths, or, as he is more generally
" Malpas," seems to have borne anything but a good
character, having been several times committed to the gaols
of ChesterCattleand Kant/ford, and being often suspected
, of various trifling thefts by the police, to whom he has long
L been an object of anxiety. the inquest was further adjourned
until Friday.

NOTTINGHAM.-(THIS DAY.)

(11T ILDIMIIO TILIOLLPEL.).

•
Roes are set to oommence at 2 o'olook. No definite
order is fixed.
It is doubtful about their coming off, u the jockeys say
they will rot rids.
1 Freezing hard.

The Cattle Plague Commissioners met yesterday,
at 2, Victoria-street. Present—Bari Spencer, Lord ("ran-
borne, Mr. Lowe, Dr. Quoin, Mr. Oeely, sad the Secretary.
THE HELLER or THE MAME or TERME.—
CAIIBIHOGE, WEDNESDAY Evasneo.—The master vaned a
very tootles' night. At the present writing (Oa o'clock) his
medical attendants are in lapse that he has recovered from
the immediate effects of the accident, but they are still in
a state of the greatest anxiety as to the ultimate came-

gamma.
A LADY KILLED ON THE NORTH EASTERN RAIL-
RAT, NMI SCARBOROUGH.—A fetal occurrence took place
au Monday eveoing, at the Clayton station of the BO
and Scarborough Railway. M. Jackson. of Folkton,
near Scarborough, having been visiting her sonar-law
(Mr. Jackson, jeweller, Westborough. Searbareath). was
returning home by the 6.10 p.m. train. Having reached
Clayton, where she left the train, she was in the
act of craning the down line to enter the Folktosi-read,
when the strew from Hull was in eight. Before she
amid, leave the mils, the engine came up and struck her,
and killed hers on the spot. The blow was so severe that
the unfortunate woman was seen to fly, as it were, for
several yards. She was immediately picked up, but wee
nail* dead. thosased was 72 years of E. A verdict a
a Accidental death" was returned onTuesday by a oocom'a
jury.—Leeds Mercury.