The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-04 00:00:00

THE MURDER AT KIRKHAM.

On Thursday a young man named Patrick Cain
was charged before the Kirkham magistrates with
having murdered Henry Rawcliffe, landlord of the
Swan Inn, Kirkham. The murder, it will be re-
collected,was effected by a poker, which was thrown
at Rawcliffe while he was looking through the
window of his house, and which penetrated his
brain through the right eye.
Police-constable Fletcher stated that on Sunday
night there was a disturbance at the Swan Inn,
and that whilst he was endeavouring to apprehend
some persons, the prisoner got hold of him, evi-
dently with the view of preventing him from dis-
charging his duty.
Eliza Fullerton said—After the crowd had dis-
persed I saw the prisoner with a female named
Smith. He had a poker in one hand, similar to
one produced, and I heard him say, " By the holy
jabers I will put the contents of what I have in my
hand through Sergeant Lofthouse, or I will have
the prisoner rescued." Afterwards I saw the pri-
soner standing in a corner in the front of the Swan
Inn. He had then a poker in his hand, and was
alone. I soon afterwards heard a scream, as if from
the Swan, and on going there I found that Raw-
cliffe had been struck with a poker, which was
protruding from his right eye. Witness stated
that the prisoner had no coat on; and
Several ether persons deposed that they saw a
man without a coat in the neighbourhood of the
Swan on Sunday night. Two witnesses, indeed,
saw the person in question hurl something at one
of the windows of the Swan.
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A FEMALE IN THE
SERPENTINE.—Yesterday evening Mr. Bedford held an
inquest at St. George's Vestry Room, Mount-street,
Grosvenor-square, touching the death of a female unknown,
whose body was found in the Serpentine on Wednesday
morning last. David Keef, a labourer, residing at Ken-
sington, deposed that on Wednesday morning last he was
going round the Serpentine, in Hyde Park, near Knights-
bridge end, when he saw something floating on the water.
He got it on shore and found it to be the body of a woman
quite dead. He went to the receiving-houso and obtained
assistance. John Parsons, chief boatman to the Royal
Humane Society, said he was called by the last witness on
Wednesday morning last, about half-past five, to t_ht
brought
charge of the body of a female which had been
ashore. He took it to the receiving house. T
J. Tones,
the body and found a handkerchief marked C.
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some
No. 2, two pawnbrokers' duplicates, a thimble,narne'of Ann
tshseofisrew-street,
other trifling articles. Both tickets had
Ann Butt on them, and one had the address
Manners-street, Chelsea.
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Mr. James Stanly Christian, M.D., 0
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South Kensington, said he had mi.
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