The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-08 00:00:00

MURDER.

On-Tuesday an Inquest was taken by Mr.
Lowucaorr, ut North Stoneham, on view of the body of Mary
Page, who, on the preceding Thursday, died in the parish
of St. Peter's Cheesehill,. near Winchester, and on Sunday
was conveyed to Stoneham for interment. At the time ap-
pointed for the' interment, a mob of females gathered round
the. hoUse and protested against the removal of the body,
declaring ,that the death of the woman was occasioned by
the 111-treatment of James Page, her husband. As soon,
therefore, as the necessary evidence could be collected, a Jury
was summoned to investigate the circumstances. It ap-
peared that
_the deceased had been married about eight
menthe, prevpus to which lime she had been a domestic in
the house of John Fleming, Esq., M.P., of Stoneham-park,
and had there established a most unexceptionable character.—
The principal witnesses produced on the inquest were the nurse
and companions of the deceased during her illness, a person
who had .witnessed her bad treatment, and the surgeon who
had attended her. Numerous instances of extreme want of feel-
ing were related by the witnesses in the caurse of the examine-
dohs ; but that on which the Jury founded their verdict was a
complaint by the deceased, in the month of August last, that
her husband had been cruelly beating her, when she produced
a large stick, with which he had given her a violent blow on
the back of the head. The deceased frequently, especially
during her last illness, complained of pains in the head,but never
stated to the Burgeon any probable cause ; and that gentleman,
not having reason to suspect any thing improper, of course at.
tributed them to the effect of her illness. On the llth of Oct.
the poor woman was seized with convulsions, within two days
she was prematurely delivered of a still-born child, and on the
29th death terminated her sufferings. Upon a more minute ex-
amination of the body during the Inquest, the surgeon dis-
covered a mark on the external surface of the back part of the
skyll, corresponding with the plaCe alluded to by a former witness,
evidently produced by a violent, but not a recent blow. Under
that bruise lie found a formation or deposit of bone, which must
have been increasing for some time, and which would produce
cenvitleion tits; and he had no doubt that those convulsions
were tee, immediate cause both of the premature confinement,
and of the death of the unfortunate object of inquiry. The
Coroner explained to the Jury such points of law as were neces-
sary for their consideration : and they, after a very short deli-
beration, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against James
Page, her husband ; who was immediately committed by the
Coroner to the county gaol for trial at the next Assizes.—
(Portsmouth Paper.)
In addition to the foregoing particulars, we learn from in-
quiries made on the spot, that the body was brought on Sun-
day, the 31st ult., in a cart from Winchester, to be buried in
North Stoneham Church, when the Rev. Mr. leadon, the rec.
tor of that parish, having previously been made acquainted by
the Rev. Mr. Richards, the Vicar of South Stoneham, who re-
sides at Winchester, with the suspicions and rumours which
were afloat, very properly refused it interment until a Coroner's
inquest had been held;--the body in the mean time was depo.
sited in the aisle of the church.—We learn further, that the
Rev. Gentleman immediately wrote to Mr. Fleming on the sub-
ject, who stated his determination that the case should be par-
ticularly
investigated, and that strict justice should be done.—
The deceased had been taken by him when a child *om the
poor-house, and had been bred up and provided for as an under-
servant in the family.—(Southampton herald.)

SUDDEN DEATu.—Saturday morning, a middle-
a ed man, named Foley, who resided on Safflvri-hill, was in
his apartment conversing in the most cheerful manner with his
wire, and shortly after he quitted the room, bidding her " good
Y. He had not been absent more than a minute, when she
Was alarmed by the intelligence that he was found dead in the
Passage, where, on proceeding thither, she found him a corpse,
baying been seized with an apoplectic fit.
DBATD BY FIGHTING.—A pitched bottle, for
live sovereigns a-side, was fought on Saturday at Miekleham
Common Bucks and Oxon, which proved fatal to Jem Barret,
a man who has exhibited in the Fives-court. His adversary,
Bill Probart, a man also from Oxfordshire, had much the worst
of the battle, which was fought in an inclosed ring. After
lighting twenty-four rounds, Barret was run down with she
side of his head against one of the rough huge stakes. He
was taken up and carried off ,the ground in a senseles state to
the nearest public-house, but he died before medical aid could
be procured. •