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
S wan 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 beard 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 beard a scream, as if from
the Swan, and on going there I found that Raw-
cliffo had been struck with a poker, which was
protruding from his right eye. Witness stated
thlt 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.
The prisoner was remanded.
Another man, named Kilbain, is in custody.

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-house 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 take
t
charge of the body of a female which had been brought
ashore. He took it to the receiving-house. He sea;enhesd,
the body and found a handkerchief marked C. J._ Jones,
No. 2, two pawnbrokers' duplicates, a thimble, and soma
other trifling articles. Both tickets had the name of
street,
Ann
Ann Butt on them, and one had the address Chelsea.
Grosvenor-square, and the other Manners-street,Thurotce'
Mr. James Stanly Christian, M.D., body of the
°f
I the
60 years of
South Kensington, said he had examinedo
and
female. She appeared to be between
age.
she died from
ocomatiaelni tbil)re•
appearances with water
There
hwee were no ono marks
doubto violence,
s w ere ianledstddi
drowning, as the stomach and lungs
some hours. The
He thought she had been in the water
jury returned a verdict
Coroner having summed up, t
of "Found Drowned."
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rightin himself
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by some great stroke of foreign
to s whether a clue to the entangled
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skein of the Roman
himself and the great arbiter of Italian
a journey to Paris,
in-
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deatiies‘ qu-eesetion might