The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-27 00:00:00

BRUTAL OUTRAGE AND MURDER.

On. Tuesday last an Inquest was taken at the
Bull public-house, at Birling, before J. N. DUDLOW, Esq.,
Coroner, on view of the body of Ellen M'Carthy, a poor
old woman, aged sixty-three, who was most cruelly and
inhumanly beat and abused by a set of young men, on the
evening of the Sunday preceding, and from which barbarous
treatment she survived but a few hours. Our confined
limits preclude us from giving a lengthened detail of this
atrocious transaction, the circumstances attending which
make us blush for our country, and but ill accord with that
mild and gentle spirit by which we conceive ourselves animated.
—From the evidence adduced on the Inquest, it appeared that
the deceased and her husband had been drinking at the Bull
public-house on Sunday afternoon, and on their return to Mr.
11ddison's (where they were hopping, and had been so em-
ployed for the last twenty years), a short distance from the
public-house, they observed fifteen or sixteen young men
standing by the stream. They had also been drinking at the
public-house, and had declared that they would have a row
with the deceased and her husband, who, when they approached
them, were seized by these fellows ; the former was knocked
down in the hedge and struck on her temples, they then kicked
her and hit her with their fists. While this was going 'on,
some of them took the old man up bodily, and carried him and
threw him into a ditch some distance off, saying—" We have
done for the old —, and we will now do as we like with the
old They continued to abuse the poor old woman,
and proceeded to acts too horrible and disgusting to name.
At this juncture a man named Flint, who also worked for
Mr. Addison, came along, and the fellows made off. He took
the old man out of the ditch ; the deceased he found lying
in the road quite senseless and speechless. The old man took
her up, and endeavoured to carry her home, but his strength
failed him ; he laid her in a hedge in a field adjoining, where
she expired a few hours afterwards. He knew one of the
men who was ring-leaders in the affair, his name he said was
Adds, but none of the rest he could recognize. The deceased,
it appeared, at ' the commencement of the transaction, was
somewhat in liquor, but able to proceed from the public:house
homeward without any assistance. Mr. G. Perfect, surgeon,
who examined the body of the deceased, deposed that she had
several-bruises about the body and head. He opened the head,
and-found that the scalp was detached from the bone in several
places, particularly on each temple, and over the left eye, from
the effects of external violence. On removing part of the skull,
he found nearly half a pound of coagulated blood upon the
.brain, from a rupture of the principal blood vessel, which was
the cause of deceased's death. She died from apoplexy, but
whether the rupture of the blood-vessel was occasioned from
intoxication, or from any violence or bruises which she re-
ceived, lie could not positively say. He thought the external
violence which caused the bruises was sufficient to rupture the
vessel. After the evidence had been gone through, the Coroner
proceeded to address the Jury, who, after some deliberation,
pronounced a verdict— Wilful Murder against Thomas Adds,
and other persons unknown. Adds has since been taken, and
committed to the county gaol, under the Coroner's warrant ;
the others have for the present eluded the hand of justice.—
( Maidstone Journal. )

DOMESTIC COFFEE.—(From an Americdn Pa-
per.)—l have learned, to my great concern, that the good peo-
ple in Boston, and some parts of its vicinity, have lately ac-
quired the practice of using what they call " Domestic Coffee,"
by way of economy ; and after making some inquiry about it,
I find some of it to be a compound of half rye and half import-
ed coffee ground together. When I made this discovery, I was
at no great loss to account for the vast number of persons, who,
of late, have suffered from weakness in their limbs, and debili-
tated systems. Rye is peculiarly calculated to produce that ef-
fect, in whatever way it may he used—more especially when
" it has been roasted and ground with coffee, where every par-
ticle of fluid is extracted and absorbed in the coffee. Let rye
be ground into meal, and bread made of the meal be eaten
without sifting,, and it will have an effect similar to opium.
Let the bran be given to pigs, and it will make them lie down
and swell with weakness ;, but a person may eat of the fine
meal without experiencing any ill effects. The reason of this
is, that the debilitating fluid is attached to the hull of the grain.
Let a horse eat as much rye as he will, and it will destroy him,
by taking away, first the strength of his limbs, and then that
of his whole body.