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'dr a y non irg the dee...teed came to 'Work at usual, and worked very
rircemataniss, the defendant contended that he was only liable for hard. Ile left, to go to dinner, at one o'clock. On the following
en average lost. In reply, it was rIbMTVCd, that the cirennotar tea morning his wife name to the shop and made anxious inquiries after
Got case filly jliglifjea a ea there was no possibility of re- him. Within the last fortnight the deceased has appeared to be
rate, and that a. to the directions given after the notice cat aban- afTected with an unusual dulneas ; he could not despatch his work
0"..",e',1% that was justified by the words of this and every other as quirk as before, and asked me to assist hint. Ile was about :14
F.,bcy by which the right of interference was Tescrved to the owner years of age. I know of no dispute he has had with any one. lie
until the mincers natlel have an opportunity of gentling, and by the was a ye'y meek, temperate, sober man, and I should have been
voraduct of the t'....fendant hinetelf, who, on the notice of abandon. surprised to have heard of his committing suicide. lie was the last
a lent being presented to him, said he should not accept it, and man I should have expected to commit such as act. I have
ottid give no directions en rite subject. I worked eleven years with hint.
The Jury returned a verdict ha' the plaintiff as for an averag,e glt—A fter the deceased left home on Thursday, till he
Pao or 41. per cent. on the injury at Copenhagen; and as for a total . was tound dead in the pit, did any person see him?
1 roo tin. the distraction of the voyage ; subject to a deduction fur dance, an officer—l alai my hmther officer,* have exerted our.
talvage selves to trace the donated from his home, but have failed.
,lump—lt has been reported, that the body was teen on the layer
near the pit. before the labourer: found it in the pit.
Mance—l have investigated into the truth of that circumstance,
and find it is uniimeticd.
Richard James Parker sworn—l reside in Globe-lane, Bethnal-
green, and am a bricklayer and builder; my house is in a direct
line with the marls-pit, where the body was found, and about three
hundred yards from the spot. 1 was in bed on Thursday night,
ntl heard the cry of " murder." The sound waked me, and
"tattled me very much ; I got out of bed, very much alarmed, and
peretl my bed-room window immediately; I said to my wife,
o' Mary, I have heard the cry of murder ;" she rebuked me. and
said I was always saying thail heard the cry of murder. On look-
ing through the window, I saw the lamp was out, and it was quite
dark ; I could not see the watchman, and am unable to say what
time it teas ; but I think it was about two, or half.past two o'clock.
Juror—l reside close by the witness. 1 was awake at two o'clock,
and heard no such cry.
l'ottoxEa—liaa the witness heard the cry of murder before?
i tness—Vet, iir, 1 did about two years ago, when it was be-
lieved a female WWI murdered in the sane neighbourhood.
Conox remember the inquiry into that case, which was
never clearly made out.
itness--On Friday morning, when the body was found, I I
went to are ir, and on my return I looked very particularly as the I
ground to see it I could trace blood, and in Devonshire-street East
found this stone, (witness produced a atone about the size of a
walnut, covered with blood,l and near the same spot some blood
and human hair has been found by the officers.
ale. Frederick Ager.-1 am the surgeon of the parish: I live in
Whitechapel. I saw the body of the deceased on Friday after-
noon, about four o'clock, in this house. It was placed on a table,
covered with a cloth. It had been stripped. I saw one principal
wound in the throat, between four and five inches in length, chiefly
on the right side. It had not penetrated the windpipe, nor any of
the principal vessels. There were five or six minor cuts In the
same direction; tete of them began clots at the ear. It seemed as
if it had been dug in, anal that the instrument had not been drawn
forwanl. It &es not appear to me that death would ensue from
I any of these wounds. 'There was likewise a wound on the fore-
head, and another on the top of the head, about three inches in
length; nn the right don't:), too, there were two small wounds.
If the man hail done it himself, and was a right-herded man, the
wound 'would probably have been in . opposite direction. (A
witness here said the theeeated was a ripe-handed man.) I am of
opinion the man died of suffixation. There was a fulness in the
vessels of the head anti neck, which led rate to this conclusion.
Qiitstiontal by one of the Jury.—You think the wound* were in-
flicted by a razor ?—1 think they night have been inflicted with a
rarer or knife.
Do you think the stab under the ear could have been given with
a razor? It might have been given with the point of a razor.
The value juryman observed, that if the man hued cut his own
throat at the edge of the pit, and then thrown himself in, marks of
bloat' would have been found on the aurfas of the water or clay.
The first witness was then recalled, and amid the face of the de-
ceased was above the water. The man could not have moved if he
had stepped into the pit; the clay was sa thick he must have re-
mained where he first stepped; his feet were full fourteen feet from
the bank.
A juryman row remarked, that if the man died by suffocation,
in all probability he would have taken some of the water or liquid
clay into his stomach.
The l'oeoner said it was a most mysterious case, and ought to be
thoroughly sifted.
it .ager was then requested to look at the body again.
James Cakehread deposed that lie lived in trreen-street. fte
waisted in cleaning the body of the deceased.; the head was all
over in a mask of clay. There was a little in the mouth, which
was open in a trifling degree. The clothes were so much covered
with clay, that the colour could not be ascertained till they were
scrape!. lle hail on two coats, a great-coat and an under-mat, and
a waistcoat. The waistcoat and under-coat were buttoned. The
great-coat was opened ; I considered from the wounds that vio-
lence had been used, and that there had been a good deal of
atrugglieg. I did not notice that the clothes had been torn. The
super money was found in the right hand creamers pocket; the
halfpence were in the waistcoat pocket.
The Co RONE a was of opinion that no robbery had been can.
mined.
The witreas could not see any marks of blood on the shirt or
clothes of the deceased. The shirt collar was cut near the gathers.
' 11r. Ager, the surgeon, now returned, and said there was clay in
the mouth of the daseased, and there was a entail graze upon. the
lip, apparently from a blow. The wounds might have been given
with a ruor or a pen-knife.
The shirt was produced; but the Jury were of opinion that that
which was describes! as go ewe in the osallar or the shirt was a rent or

(TORT OF Exciek: SATURDAY, Frs. !I

Jain.' (lee, a young man of respectable appearance, appeared
40 an information for having in his possession three gallons of
smuggled brandy, by which he incurred a penalty of 1001.
The officers of Excise proved their having met the defendant
and a porter, who carried a large bas, about eight o'clock on I
the evening of the 30th November. Tney examined the basket. I
which they found to contain a smuggled tub of brandy, eovicrd
'see with apples. The defendant stated thas at the time the
ari•ter... was made, he had just returned by the coach, an outside
vasseitger •an 311P:stone. As the coach was about setting off,
rrson. f *goes, I shad some little knowledge, brought the basket
Vi !he mesh as a basket of apples, paid the carriage, and was
ONL!Ig it in t harle to the guard, when seeing him (defends:lt) he
begc.ll :l, would have the kindness to see it delis _red to a perwsn
to *;:oni it was directed, in Fleet-market. which he accordingly
tiedottook to do, and was taking it front the coach.oflice to
that perso I, believing it to be a basket of apples, when it was
ore;.d.
Mr. Finith a solicitor, gave the defendant an excellent cha-
racter t he was not at all likely to be a party to any smuggling
trays:akin.
T7le CouiT, in consideration of the defendant's excellent cha-
racter, niiiigated the penalty to *2Ol.
• John Aro:car was called to appear to an informstlon for having
se unentered still, but did not answer.
The offer?, by whom the still was seized stated, that they found
the defendant at work at the time they made the seizure, and
brought him to Thames-stmt police-office ; and he not being able
le ply the penalty, was conunltted to the Penitentiary fur six
months.
The defendant was convicted by the for RT, and fined 1001.
Thomas Turvey was called upon to appear to an information for
manufacturing &Resin an nnentered place, but did pot attend.
The officers who proved the case stated that ti, found the
04t!nclant at work. lie was an old offender, and gave cis a reason
to, combining the practice, that he must eitner work in that way or
Starve.
The Cnrar convicted him in a penalty of 1001.

a tear.
The witt• of the deceased being recalled, looked at the shirt, and
said it was not torn when he put it on.
A Juryman said he understood the officers hail found some
clotted b/00l with hair in it.
The otfi •er remarked that the surgeon had examined that which
was believed to bo blood, but he could not ascertain what it was.
The evidence 573% here closed.
The Conn ,: r.ta 'now addressed the Jury, and said that the ease
throughout was involved in a good deal of mystery. There was no
direct evidence 'o lead them to a positive conclusion either one way
or the other. Ile thought, however, it would he the best way for
them to be left to themselves, in order that they might read the
evidence over again, and come to that conclusion which their own
cool and ilisp.issionate judgment might dictate.
The moot wan then cleared, and in about a quarter of an hour
die Jury announced their verdict to be " Wilful Murder again
some pixsons or persons unknown."

FATAL OCCURRENCE.

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