The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-21 00:00:00

TEE LATE HOMICIDE AT BRISTOL.

BRISTOL, Thuraday..—The adjourned inquest on the
body of the sailor, Juhn Hale, was resumed this morning,
at the Old Duke Tavern, before the coroner, J. B.
Grindon, Esq.
The Couroeci taefutr4d 'whether Newman, who was
alleged to have inflicted the fatal violence, was present,
and was infOrmed that he was still in the infirmary, and
unable to be brought from that institution.
Mr. Crosby Leonard, surgeon, deposed to having made
a post mortcm examination of the body. There was a
fracture of the skull on the left side six inches in length,
commencing at the left parietal bone, passing through
the temporal and sphermid bones to the middle fossa of
the base of the skull. Between the bone and membranes
of the brain were two wineglassfulls of extravasated
blood. The brain itself was congested, and there was
blood effused on it, and a bloody serum at the base of
the skull. The death had resulted from pressure of the
brain caused by the fracture and consequent effusion.
The fracture must have been the result of violence--of a
fall or a blow. A man's own weie,ht fa!ling down in
the street would not have been sufficient to have caused
such a fracture, but a fall from a height, or over a stair,
might do so.
The widow of the deceased was recalled, and per-
sisted that, although in the room all the tune, she did
not see her husband use any poker.
Jones, of the Land Transport Corps, was recalled,
and asked if he was certain that Newman only raised
the deceased's head once. He replied that he had been
drinking a good deal at the time, and could not say.
Sophia Duffey deposed that she lived at 47, King-
street. At half-past 11 on Tuesday night, when in her
bed-room, she beard a noise in the street, and raised her
window to see what it was. She saw a man on the
ground, and then saw another man lift up his head with
his two hands, and beat it forcibly against the stones.
The man who did it said " You —, now you've got
it." Witness then ran to call her husband.
Ann .Worgan also deposed to having been aroused
from her bed by the tumult. She looked from her win-
dow and saw several persons, and among them three of
the Land Transport Corps. Some one said, "Kill him,"
and then one of the Land Transport Corps kicked a man
who was on the ground about the body.
The Coroner, in summing up the evidence, said he
confessed for himself that he should have been better
satisfied if the man Newman, against whom, if against
any one, the evidence pointed, had been present, An
order that he might, if so pleased, have had an oppor-
tunity of giving any explanation which it might be in
his power to offer ; and even now he should be ready,
if the jury pleased, to adjourn to the infirmary for that
purpose.
The Foreman of the jury said himself and brethren
considered that such a course would be very desirable ;
and the coroner and jury then repaired to the infirmary,
and entered the ward in which the accused lay.
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The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against
George Newman.

ST. MARTIN'S CEAIETERY.

At a meeting of the committee last evening Mr. laTa-
PEN read the following letter from Sir G. Grey, in reply
to a representation made to the Home-office, calling for
an immediate interference to put an end to the disgrace-
ful proceedings complatoionfeeedyrotof :
" *Whitehall Sept. 19.
sir,—l am directed by the Secreta , Sir G. Grey, to
den Town Cemetery., and toua
jancaktu,o
calling
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attentiont he receipt
the Nuisances Act, and that a legal opinion aware that the Secretary of State has any authority to inter-
fere in such a case, and that the remedy is probably under
;lei von 8 tehiant thehe iCs antno t-
etaokmepnlaaisnetdo had better be
the course
&boa, pursued to remedy the evil
"W MASSEY.
"E. Ingpet, Esq.'' 7 . ^
M. A. GARVEY, Ea q , read a letter trom Mr. Danger-
field, solicitor to the anthorities of St. Martin's, pleading
ignotance on the part of the trustees, of bodies being
interred in the ground let out for building, and stating
that in entering, into a contract with the lessees they ba't
stipulated that, should the excavators meet with any
remains placed there accidentally, they should immedi-
ately stop proceedings.
- r. Giaxora could bring undoubted evidence that
iuthorities of St. Martin's were well aware that
is had been buried in the identical ground who re
'xcavations were going on. They had received the
or the funerals, and therefore they could not igno re
ct that bodies were interred there.
,was stated that the Vestry of St. Pancras had (.le-
ffed to proceed energetically against the parish of
at tin's.
'eral gentlemen having spoken, the meeting bro lie

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