The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN ST. GEORGE'S-

IN-THE.EAST.

On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was commenced
before Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the Grave Maurice
public-house, Whitechapel road, on the body of Agnes
Macdonald, the wife of Gilbert Macdonald, a shipjoiner,
whale death is alleged to have been caused from the
effects of blows and kicks she received from her husband
on Saturday evening last. The woman died thirty-six
hours after the quarrel with her husband, who has been
remanded on a charge of wilful murder, by Mr. Yardley,
the Thames police magistrate. The particulars have
been fully detailed. The jury, after being sworn, pro-
ceeded to view the 6.41 v, which preserted a most fright-
ful appearance. The head was covered with bruises, and
the deceased hal evidently been must severely ill used.
The state of the body and the degree of violence used
will be best understood by the evidence of the surgeon,
who was examined for the first time.
Mr. Joseph Nash, the house-surgeon of the London
Hospital, stated that the deceased was admitted into the
institution on Saturdsy evening last, at seven o'clock.
She was brought in by four policemen on a stretcher.
He examined her body xternally. She had a wound or
cut down the nose, dividing the cartilage, two fractured
ribs on the left side, and a great many contusions on
different parts of her body, the most particular of which
were on the abdomen, chest, and head. Her hands, on
the wrist and parts above the knuckles, were also very
much bruised, which appeared more to have been in-
curred by warding off blows than by giving them, the
fingers not being much bruised, and the whole of the
injuries appeared to have been of recent date, within a.
few hours. She gradually sunk, and died a little after
seven o'clock. He had since opened the body, to ascer-
tain more minutely the cause of death. The vessels of
the brain on opening the head were found to be much
congested, caused by severe blows on the right side, and
immediately over the temporal muscle and the forehead.
Two of the ribs on the left side were fractured, and the
intestines were ruptured, and there was a great deal of
mischief in the chest and abdomen, as if caused by blows
or kicks. The lower part of the body appeared to have
been kicked, or the injuries might have been caused by
her being trampled upon. He had no doubt that the
rupture of the ietestines was the immediate cause of death.
The CORONER said the deceased has received injuries
sufficient to kill halt-a-dozen persons. The cause of
death was clearly described by the surgeon, and it would
now be the duty of the jury to ascertain how and by
whom the injuries were inflicted. He understood that a
boy of tender years, the son of the deceased, had been
already interrogated by the magistrate, but that he was
not qualified to give evidence.
The jury said they should like to hear what the boy
had to say, without inserting his statement on the
minutes of evidence.

The CORONER said, in order to make the child's
statement admissible, it was necessary it should be taken
down in writing. The magistrate had decided that the
boy was not a fit person to be examined as a witness,
and had directed that he should be taken to the work-
house and properly instructed, to qualify him to take
an oath.

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the boy, and with very great difficulty extracted from
him, in broken sentences, that on Saturday last his
father beat his mother and trampled upon her, and that
when she was lying on the floor he jumped on her with
his feet. His father was tipsy, but his mother was not.
He saw him kick his mother as she was leaning against:
the wall. The jury were nearly an hour extracting
these few words from the child.
Inspector Bilson, of the K division, said the boy told
exactly the same story in the presence of his father, at
the station house.
The inquest was then adjourned, after the jury had
heard some unimportant evidence.

-
BERLIN, MAY s.—Several cargoes of corn arrived
here to-day, and others are expected. The importation of
corn by land has also been considerable, so that the sales in
our market to-day might be called dull. Rye was sold at
102 to 110 dollars per wispel (24 bushels), and oats from
46 to 50 dollars. In consequence of the prohibition of the
distilleries, such a large supply of potatoes has come from the
wealthy landowners, that there is sufficient, not only for
planting and supporting the inhabitants, but also for feeding
the cattle, so that we may hope for a great reduction in the
price of this article.
The Roscommon Journal contains the following
horrifying statement :—" In the parish of Kilglass this week
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sof mortality, or to set any '
limit to the ravages of the
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commences on Saturday week, and the matter will be dis-
cussed after the first four days of the term.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS AND JENNY
LIND.---The season of 1847 will be characterised as producing
two of the greatest events of modern times—Jenny Lind and
the Siege of Gibraltar! Certainly nothing can excel the
one or the other. The managers have reason to congratulate
themselves and the public.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has forwarded,
through the Lord Bishop of London, the liberal donation of
1001. to the Rev. Quekett, in aid of the funds for
building additional schools and church in the poor and pope.
boas district of Christ Church, St. George-in-the-East.
The Portsmouth Theatre:was last Friday sold to Go-
vernment to make way for a contemplated extension of the
infantry barracks.
COLCRESTMr. D. W. Harvey visited this town
on Saturday last, and called upon a number of his elec-
tioneering friends. A report is prevalent that he has still
an itching to become one of the borough represented-fee
again ; and is willing to resign his office of Police
Commissioner provided his return to Parliament cap, be
ensured.