The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-06 00:00:00

CORGNEM'S INQUEST

Yesterday an Inquest was held before GEORGE
HODGSON, ESq. at the Bull and Last, the bottom
of Highgate-hill, on the body of Lhzabeth Dob-
bins, who was inhumanly murdered at her house
in.Millfield-lane, on Tnesday afternoon.
The firii witness called was James Dobbins, of
Kentish Toa n, husband to the de-
ceased, who deposed, that he was a labourer be-
longing to the Hamstead Water Company, ant:
the, deceased, his wife, was a washer-woman.—
On Tuesday; the 4th inst..the witness left the
&Ceased in his house in perfect health. About
half-past three o'clock in the afternoon witness was
at work wit h'Win. Clark, who complained of being
thirsty; the witness told him to go to his house,
and get sonic .water ; he however returned, say-
ing that the door was fast, and he heard a groan-
lug, and told the witness that be believed his
'wife was ill., Witness went home, and found the.
door wide''open, and on going into the kitchen
found the deceased lying upon the flodr, in an
expiring state. She had' a violent blow on the
right side of the head, and her brains were scat-
; there was a large poker in
had blood upon it, and was eroiikeliTh`Liclitess jit
to the witness that it was the instrument by which
the deceased was murdered. Witness finding; her
in that state, caned to • Cliirk, who also canto to
the deceased. Witness went for Mr. Sands,
Sorgeon,and his assistant, Geo. Qakley [lemmings,
came, lint the deceased expired befol'e be came.

Charles Bateman deposed that he lived at NO.
11, Caen-place, Kentish Town ; had known the
deceased noar ten years. On Tuesday, between
two and three o'clock in the afternoon, witness
was going past the house in Ali Wield-lane, where
the deceased and her husband lived. Witness
SittV a man, ,a stranger, at the gate leading to the
lictuse, he appeared like a sailor, and is the same
man witness saw in custody, and who said his
name was Thomas Sharp.
William Tyler, of Fitzroy-market, said he
knew the deceased about six or Seven weeks; .was
employed to dig .out a foundation on the west
side of Highgate road. About three o'clock on
Tuesday'afternohn, witness we,.t to the house of
the deceased to borrow a wheelbarrow; witness
saw a man standing at the gate with a large piece
of bread and biater in his hand ; witness took
the barrow, and left the man there; witness did
not see him after until nearly six o'clock the same
evening, when he was at the Vine publie-honse,
Kends!! Town. Witness was certain that the
man who was. eating the bread and butter, was
the same man ; witness did not, know his name.

Thomas Cambee, .of No. 4, Liatliam's-place,
Soiners Town., deposed, that on Tuesday, a little
past three o'clock, he was at work for Mr. Itay,
ncr, digging a foinidation at the corner of Mill-
held-lane, near the Boise where deceased lived.
Witness saw a man coming out at the end of the
lane into the Highgate-road, with a bundle under
his aria, which appeared to witness to be a bundle
of linen tied up in a sheet, Which was hanging
loosely dowa, and he seemed desironi to collect
it closer together ; he cros,sed the turnpike-road,
and-went through a hedge into a field an the east
side of the mac), and began to tie up the bundle.
Witness suspected something was, wrong. Wit-
ness conanunicated his suspicions to Thomas
Brimmer and James Seal; - who pursued him and
took hint into custody, with the bundle. Wittiess
believed l►is name was ThomaS Sharp.

•
James Seal, a bricklayer, residing at No. 1,
Kentish Town, deposed, .that he
had known ,the deceased ten or twelve years.
Between three and four 'o'clock on Tuesday, he
Wps .at work at the loot of Iligh,rbate Hill, on a
house building for Mr. 'Rayner ;he saw a man
come down by the hedge,, in the way stated by the
preceding witness he asked him what he, had
The man said he had, bought the bundles for 9s.
of a Gipsey, near Edgeware. The witness 'seized
him, and the prisoner said he would give up the
bundle if he would let him go. Witness took,
him into custody, and when at the Magistrate's
house, he examined the bundle's.

Thomas Bremer, a labourer, was present when
the inau Was taken. He heard him say he pia-
chased the bundle near 'Edgeware, of gipsies, and
that his name was Sharp.

Mrs". Elizabeth Jones, wife of a shoe-maker at
Kentish Town, deposed, that she bad known the
deceased tor fourteen years ; bad washed for her
twelve mouths ; had not seen her since Sunday
last. She was able to. identify the linen. Mrs.
Do6bins had to wash, having ironed a great part
of it. Here the bundles were produced. The
first contained the folio wiag articles of clean linen—
five shirts, one handkerchief, one half silk hand-
kerchief, one apron, two pairs of stockings; and
two pairs of socks.
Seal being again called, said, those were the
articles taken from the prisoner Sharp.
Mrs. Jones then looked at the dirty linen, con-
sisting of eight shirts and a pocket-handkerchief.
The clean linen'she had ironed.' Part of the pro-
perty belonged to a young lad lately, come from
sea, then, residing ,leading to
Highgate. The remaining part was the property
of Mr. Linglam, of Dean-street, Soho ; Mr. Th-
o Owen, of Charlotte-street, Raihhone-place ;
Mr. Blest, Collector, Hampstead-road ; U. Oli-
vet., keeper of the Bull and _Last, and the husband
of the dcceAsed. There was a bill Dialled to one
'of-the bundles for 4s. 9-71,-d. which witness said was
-the hand-writing of,the deceised.
S.orge.on and Apothecary; ofiligh-
gave the fullowing gate, evidence
.:—Having:exa
'
wined the body Of Elizabeth Dobbins,, l,er fOinui
that she had ;reeei‘...cd a wonnd on' the scalp of fotir
arches, extendfag from under the an4le of the orbit
of the right SJ-e•;,tipvv ords of tj., temple.'Thefrontal
bone was frixtured4lirongfr"the -Orbit-al prate,' and
upwards io direction of the wound, to the tem-
poral bone. 'There was a long wound in the (him
mater, which exposed the, brain : the brain was
not injured. The wound had the appearance of
a clean cut wound, but the bones were consder7
ablir fracotred, so as to shew the appearance of.
the wounds having been inflicted by a cutting and

bruisin!t- instrument, applied with foke sufficient
to produce death.,
G. 0. Hemmin,g deposed, that he ?Went tip ty
the house, aatl. discovered the deceoed Li the
Nation described by the prece(lini4
He sent fur Mr. xvilo the bode.
Alter -the aboVe ?Or. I..3opc;sox oh-
served, that there was 00 dot:bt. .tirt t the turfortu-,
nate woman had becti tairdered by Sharp, the
man in custody.
The Jury found a Verdict, that the deceased
had been moldered by the prisoner,* Thomas Sharp,
He stands committed by-the Coroner for iit tat
Murder; •