The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-29 00:00:00

REVOLTING MURDER AT NEWCASTLE.

THE INQUEST.
In th• .E.rpress of Monday a report was quoted
from the seme.d edition of the Newark Guardians of al
frightful murder which took pima is that town on Friday
Light An investigation las since been held, which has re.
suited in the committal fur trial of Patrick Forbes, the
husband of the unfortunate woman, chatged with her wilful
murder. The flowing is a brief digest of the evidence :
Toe prisoner Forbes as an Irish labourer, about 40 years of
age. His unfortusate wile was a hawker of wares. They
were both confirmed drunkard*. They bad four ohildnn
lining—a young girl; a boy 15 years of age, employed in
t‘llow.ceandler's shop; and two *Mall children, under seven
years of age. On Fnday last, the man and woman had been
drinking together, and returned home drank, between five
and sit o'clock in the evening. They lived at the top of
✓un fiats, in a place called the Clone r's Entry, opposite
St. Nicholas Church; and, no the woman reaching the first
flat, she fell down dead drunk, and was carried up speechless
by her hit•band and two other women to their room, and
was leid upon the bed. The eldest girl, who had been
driven from the house by her lather on the previous Tues-
day, having returned home sent, time previous to her father
and mother coming home. Si, iog them in a drunken condi-
tion, ran into a neighbour's house, and remained there. But
when she thought they had lain down, and gone to sleep,
she crept up to the room, and found that her father was
asleep in the bed with his clothes off, and that her mother
was lying u: on the bed with hers on. The elder ma same
home at ten o'clock. and lid himself on a form before the
fire and slept until about one o'clock on Saturday morning.
He awoke, and as he wee palling tee fire down his father
ordered him to go into the inner room and go to bed. He
went to bed, bet alleges he Llt the door between the apart.
moots open. He sta•ed that he had not been in bed more
then a quarter of en bent, when his falter called out from
the oth. r room " Tom, run down and cell up Mrs.Dees, your
mother is dying or dead." He did so, and Mn. Due, his
eldest sister Bridget, and another woman that was staying
in the house, ran up in their night dreues, and
ow their getting into the room they found that
deemed was dead. The daughter then ran down
stairs crying end gave the alarm to dm polite. When
the polies arrived, they went up stain, and met the woman
Dees amine oat of the room, who, se soon as Me saw them,
exclaimed to some one in the room, " Yon have done it at
last ; I thought It would come to this." They found
ceased on the bed, dead, with a considerable quatity of
blood on her dress, and upon the lower parts of her person.
The bed things ;were Generated with blood, and it had ran
down open the mattress and upon the floor.
The pohoe, oa making further search, found the
marks of a bloody bend upon the fl mt., and
upon the inside of the room door. On Forbes putting on his
trousers they found they were wet with blood, and that the
braces of them, end his shoes, also had blood on them. The
shin that he had worn on the previous day was also found,
with blued noes it. Two clasp knives were taken from his
rockets And a sharp p inted poker wee taken gut of the
fire. Various sharp-edgea tools were found about the house.
Immediately uron the police entering the premises, and
seeing the condition of the woman, they seat for
a surgeon, who ex 'mimed the body, but could
not discover any 'sternal masks of violence upon
her person. Oa a more minute examination, however,
in the forenoon, two small j*gssed wounds were found, and
upon a poll marten examination of the body it was found
that wounds of the most deadly character had been inflicted
with a large knife in the abdominal region. Toe surgeons
awed thee the woman could not have lived more then 20
minute. after readying then injuries, and that she would
not be able to venire more than once or twice before death
took place. Deceased's daughter said she heard one serum,
and a waists in • neishhouriare house, who was siting tap
with a rick daughter, heard two violent streams about one
o'clock on Saturday morning.
These were the Impel:teat rintsof the evidence ; ar.d the
jory,after listening toe patient summing nee of the evidence.
returned a verdict of tt Wilful Murder" against Pat irk
Forbes. He was committed to the borates gaol to wait his
trial at the mime.

ibIOCKING ACClDlST.—Yesterday, shortly atter
12 o'sinek, a serious accident happened is Aldennesbney to
two precise, a Etas end a boy, who wen employed in ►epair-
iag a !tidos is Alderreeobury. There le setuirild is front of
the building, and It b log dinnertime, they were both
leaving their work. The boy had got about beltway doers
the nefro,d, when be put hie not upon n pleas of timber
which wee HMO, sad ease sway. the efloot of welch wee that
he came to the grease'. The oloca cu timber streek the matt
ea his ►rad, whoa he was immediately precipitated below.
Tully were instantly Assisted up, and being found to be
seriously iolured, were placed up-in shutters and conveyed
by the workmen to St Botholostew's Hospital.
A FATAL Flan has occurred at Osborne Newton,
ne,r kinoebeicr, whin t mule d in the destruction of the
faro-house of air. Moyeey, and the death at lour of the
imams, who wars dog trom the ruins the seat morning.