The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-12 00:00:00

ANOTHER SUSPICIOUS DEATH AT LEEDS.

At the Leeds Town-hall on Monday Mr. Black-
burn, borough coroner, concluded an inquiry into the cause
of the death of Wiliam Haigh. Demised, who was • car-
rier in the employ of the Mews. Carver, of Leeds, was SS
years of age, and resided with his wife and her father,
Fountain-street, New-road End. Family differences existed
in the household, and there were frequent quarrels between
the deceased sad his wife's relatives. On Friday week, •
neighbour named Helen Singleton heard • noise in the
street, and on opening the door saw the deceased run by.
This was nearly ten o'clock at niot, but the deceased was
without hat, coat, and waistcoat ; ids face and hands were
bloody, and blood was also running down his hair. He
pears to have Mae his way down to the river side, for
nothing monies. heard of him except by au acquaintance,
to whom he said he should not go home aoy more, until
last Wonky morning, when his body was found m the
Aire, immediately behind Bohner', saw-mills, in Aire- I
street. The coroner opened his inquest on the body the
same afternoon, and issued his order for the interment,
which accordingly took place on Sunday. As the corpse
was being removed from the house the widow and her
relatives were mobbed by an excited crowd, numbering seve-
ral hundreds., who bud evidently cane to the conclusion
that the deceased had Leen violently used, and it required
all the efforts of the pollee to preserve order, not only in
the streets, but at Woodhouse Cemetery, where the tunersl
took lilacs. On Monday, when the inquest was re-opened,
Sarah Anne Haigh, the widow of deceased, was examined.
She said her father and sisters were in the house on Friday
night week, when the deceased mine home. !She asked him
if he would have some supper, but be did not speak to her,
and would not acinowle a her services when she even
poured out his tea for him. He subsequently mennieneed
quarrelling with her father, and the two scuffled and fall
together severe' times in the house before they could he
separated. Deceased then left the house, and was not
main seen until discovered in the river on last Saturday.
From the evidence of Mr. Nunneley, surgeon, who had
made a post-mortem examination, it appeared that death
bad resulted from drowning, and not from violence'; sad
the jury, under the instructions of the coroner, returned em
open verdict to that effect.

Eincimitmam CAxr.—The 16th Regiment Colonel
G. J. Peacocks, °assisting of 60 offioera and non•oanaia-
eiated odious and 805 privates, and the 2nd battalion of
18th Royal Irish, have arrived from Alderohott, and Mx
eompames of the latter corps have loft for garrison duty at
Deal and Wollner.

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