The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-08 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Saturday afterneiOn an Inquisition was held before T. STIR-
,
LING,' Esq., at the Crown Tavern, Museum-street, Blot)Ms.
bury, on the btxty of Lieut.-Colonel Henry Wm. Radcliffe.
Mr. Charles Ireland, of 41, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, sur-
geon, Stated that be did not know the deceased previous to his
death; he was called upon to attend him on Thursday after-
noon .about .five o'clock, and found him in a front,roorn on the
second floor, cold, and partly dressed. Witness,could discover
no marks of violence, and, after-duly examining the body, and
opening a vein, he was of opinion the deceased died of apoplexy,
and that he bad been dead three quarters of an hour.
Mr. John Cribb, of No. 113, High Holbern, surgeon, attend-
ed the deceased for some 'years, who was always of an infirm
habit, partly produced by his irregular mode of life. He per-
fectly agreed with hl r. Ireland that apoplexy. was the immediate
cause of the deceased's death.
Ann Clark, servant to the deceased; stated, that her master
on the morning of Thursday last seemed very well in health.
About eight o'clock he insisted upon having some brandy ; a
quartern and a halt, being what he usually took at that time,
was brought him, which he drank off; the day before the deceas.
ed had drank eight quarterns ; he remained in bed till about two,
When he threw himself out on the floor, and witness with her
mistress were unable to get him. in again, during which time
he used the most shocking language, and threatened to Murdh
them ; they therefore let him remsin on the floor till half-past
fourt during which time they were busily engaged in removing
the furniture to other apartments, intending to carry deceased
away in a coach. On witness's return into the room about five,
they found deceased dead,: but slid not cull assistance, as they
supposed he still laboured. under intoxication. Witness, had
been in the deceased's service only three.months, during which
time she had seldom seen him sober ; sometimes he had laid
on the:ground until three o'clock in the morning, and witness
' and her mistress were unable to get him up if they attempted
to move him, he would threaten to murder them. Deceased
would
,insist upon having the liqtior if refused, he would
threaten. to cut his throat, and once took up a knife for the-pur.
pose,. 'Witness further stated that her mistress was always
soUr, and treated the ilecea.sed with the greatest kindness ; he
once struck her while she was attempting to lift Lis head up.
Mr. Wm. Morris, of No. 111, Museum-street, stated, that he
had lodged in the same house as the deceased since July last ;
deceased's general conduct had been very violent in consequence
of drinking; he was desired to quit the apartments by Christmas,
if posSible, and they had partly moved when he was found dead.
Deceased was.alWays at home; witness had not seen him out
for 4 months past. Verdict...." Died by the visitation n: God :"
But the Jury expressed an opinion that Lis death was greatly
accelerated by drinking.

E K ETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. O.

The arrivals of all kinds of ,Cirain since Monday are very
small. There is but little doing in the Wheat trade this morn.
ing at illonday's rates. , Barley sells very heavily, and middling
qualities are rather cheaper. Beans and Peas have no altera-
tion. Oats maintain the last quotations. . • • .

HOP
So tT THWAIIK, 6.--Our trade is very quiet, the demand
trilling, and no alteration in prices, except for Sussex pockets,
these we think are. offering Is. or :/s. per cwt. lower than they
were a little time back.

E LATE Fll OST.—The frost continued, steady
during Tuesday and' Irednesday, and enabled the. amateurs
Of skating to indulge themselves without interiiiiision. The
weather has been uncommonly fine,' and the wind generally in
the south. Skating and Curling Clubs assembled at fludding-
sten each morning, and were visited by more, ladies than we
ever recollect to have seen on the ice. We regret to hear that
u woman fell , during . the course of Wednesday' forenoon on
the loch, and bad' her arm broken. A military bend was
present. The therniorneter has 'neVeibeen lower than 24 de-
grees. The frost has.shut up the communication by the Union
Canal. •On Tuesday an ustempt was made to clear the passage
by means of an ice-boat,, with ten horses, but it was relinquished
after proceeding the. length of the second bridge, the ice prov-
ing too thick, and threatening, in breaking it, to damage the
banks.—(P.:dinturgl4 Star Pr;d4li.)

MURDER 'Tx IVA r.;Es-;----An inquest tins been held
on view of the body Of the unfortunate woman so cruelly niur-
tiered at Llanbcdr, of which we gave an account in :Our lad.—
CV/drew:bray (. itrtmicic.)----lier name is Jane Owens, aged 79.
The'evidenee. heti* the Coronet was its folloWs
grans seated, that on 'Tuesday morning, about ten o'clock, he
went to the house of the deceased ;.there was nn person in the
house but June Jones, aged seven years, who is granddaughter
to the deceased witness found the deceased behind the coun-
ter in.the shop, lying with her face towards the ground, quite
dead, with both her hands closely shut, and applied, to. her
'chin and mouth, as if to dcleral hcrNt.lf from a fall or blow.
Deceased bad not been inure than three monthS a widow, and
.since the death of her husband: no one slept its the same
house with her, except her little granddaughter.
,Robert Jones,
brother-in-law of decea , id, searched the house after the mur-
der: The different cupboards and drawers where the money
was usually kept v,ere locked ; there was in one box about
1.591. in notes and gold ; in the drawers of one of the tables
about ;:a. in silver, and a considerable sum of copper in the till,
where the shop TIMMY is kept.-Jane Jones (7 years old) stated,
that she went to bed earlier than her grandmother; that she
heard a noise as if some people were knocking at the door,
and she als6 heard the voice of Some men in the house ; de-
ceased cried out more than once, " Murder ! oh, that my
little girl was here to save me." She then heard some noise,
as if people were searching the drawers ; and they shortly
after left the house. 31r. Davies, surgeon, said he exa-
mined the body of the deceased, and that he found the inte-
rior' maxillary bone of the right side of the face fritemred,
and also an extensive fracture of the superior maxillary ant
temporal bones of the left Side of the head, with considerable
depression, causing pressure of the. brain. The face was. dis-
coloured from extravasation of the blood, and there were three
marks on each Kick of the neck, as if by finger nails. Depo-
nent is of opinion that the fracture caused the death of the
deceased. Verdict—That the deceased came to her death
from the fracture of the skull and face, committed by some
person or persons unknown. Suspicion, however, having
attached to a labouring man named flarry Jones, anti 'Mar-
garet hie wife, residing at Itallt-gwillt, near Lianbedr, a war-
all ; to account for the possession of which, lie de-
rant was granted, and after a diligent search, they food 311/.
Glared, that he entered the house the night iifter the murder,
and finding this sum he took it, and carried it home. It may
be necessary here to State, that the wife is the illegitimate
daughter of the deceased's late husband, and the greed-
daughter alluded to in the inquest is the child of, this suspected
couple. They are fully committed, and lodged in the county
gaol.

• MURDER lx Khrisn,6 Doss, fl'or.
penter, residing at Ilenyapookur of ' in,khe eastern sub-
urbs of Calcutta, suspected his wife, a very beautiful young
woman, to have fallen in love with one of her neighbours.
On the evening of the 2fith of April, while the woman and her
paramour were passing, their happiest moments in her own
chatnber, the carpenter returned ; anti 'go muCh'preased was he
with hunger, that without paying the least attention to any thing
that was going on before Ins eyes, he, as usual,- cried out from
the very door, " Bow, kolah geli bhat de ; that is, " Come,
wife, set my dinner before me." The voice of her 'husband
filled her mind with terror, and she came out to give him a pot
of water to wash his feet, and then went to light up the lamp.
The carpenter took his seat upon the lower beam of the door, and
the gallant seeing no other Means left of making his escape but
breaking through the outside wall, he in that manner effected
his retreat. The noise made upon this occasion escaped not the
attention of the carpenter, who, thus knowing the'treachery of
his wife, discovered not the least symptoms of anger; botwith the
seine tone as before told her " Nagaami our bid n khabo (tuft ;
ainar bOro matha dhoriacce ; chola gye sooya thaki ;" errs " I
won't dine now ; I have got
,k severe head-ache ; let us go to
rest." They then went to beds and entered into a long conver-
sation; and about midnight, seeing his wires wrapped in pro-
found sleep, the carpenter rose up, and to -satisfy the violent
passion which he had hitherto suppressed, he critelly thrust
}mire into her throat, and thus at once put an end to her &vs. The
perpetration ofthis criminal act gave rise to a variety of reflections
in his mind, and he at last came to the conclusion that his own
life must pay for the murder which he had committed. Very
early next morning he locked the door of his. house, anti went
to Callee Ghent, where having offered a grand. Paloo to the
goddess Calloe, he came back to the Kutcherry, at. Allipoor,
with a gorland of Jove (a red flower) on his neck, and a spot of
vermillion on the forehead, after; they had been offered to
the goddess. Upon his return, and finding the house to be
a scene of great noise and tumult, he cried out, " What's
all this clamour about:" "low came your wife," rejoined the
Thenadar, j`to be murdered':" At this Krislino Doss can-
' ditilY confessed his- crime, saying, "It I who have killed
''her; no one else; therefore hhid me." Moreover he -boldly
related every particular attending thelnurder of his Wirewhich
induced the 'rhanadar to-secure hint and take, him bit9o.3lte
Damen; the- Judge of AlliptiorThe'reiukwill aftelvards
;published:—(Songoautl Coteniutici.y.)