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--
THE MURDER AT BRISTOL.
The inquiry into the causes of the death of the unfor-
tunate woman, Sarah Skinner, took place on Thursday
evening betore Mr. Grindon, the city tester.
James Irwin, the brother of the deceased, deposed
that the deceased, together with her husband and two
children, occupied an upper room in the house, No. 4,
Limekiln-lane, which was the only apartment they had,
the accused being a mechanic. At about half-past seven
o'clock on the evening of Tuesday deponent called in
upon them to see his sister, who was at home; her hus-
band)fotbwbaseibg well The witness recommendedlyingdownundressedinbed, andcomplained
t' not being well The witness recommended him tohim
take some castor-oil, and the wife set herself about pre-
paring some tea for her husband. They were both of
them perfectly sober. While witness was sitting down
he noticed that the handle of a small sweeping or hearth-
brush was broken, and asked how it came so, and the
prisoner replied, " I broke it on Silly (meaning his
rife) yesterday beating her," and she then complained
of bruises. Witness replied hat it was a shame for a hus-
uand and wite to be quarrelling and disagreeing, and that
if he were married, rather than he would be beating his
wite, he would separate from her, if he went to
the furthest part of the earth. The husband replied
that was what she wanted, and the deceased said, " No,
indeed, it is not," and that she had no wish to leave him
after having been for several years married. Witness
then said, he was sorry that he had beaten- her, for it
never belonged to one of her family to be ill-conducted.
l'he husband replied, that witness knew nothing about
it, and ordered him out of the room. Witness said he
would go, and got up to do so, but his sister caught hold
of him, and would not let him go, exclaiming, that if he
left, her husband would murder her. The prisoner then
jumped out of bed, undressed as he was, and struck at
her ; a sort of scuffle ensued, in which they all three fell
on the bed, and he (witness) endeavoured to hold the
husband, to prevent his beating her. He, however, got
away, and ran to a shelf, aad seized au ivory-handled
table knife, with which he rats at either witness or the
deceased, he could not say which, and drove witness out
of the room down two or three of the stairs. The pri-
soner then returned to the room, and almost immediately
witness heard a crash, but supposed it to be the break-
age of some cups and saucers, and went down stairs,
when the first thing that met his view was his sister
lying on the pavement of the street in a dying state.
Malin witness left the room the window was closed.
W. Watkins, a coach painter, was the next witness
called, and stated, that having left his work at about a
quarter before eight o'clock, on Tuesday evening, he was
passing down Limekiln-lane, when on coming near the
house No. 4, he noticed the body of a woman falling,
and looking up to see whence she fell, he saw the third
window up from the street in the act of being closed,
although he could not see who it was that was closing it.
He ran to the unfortunate woman, who was covered with
blood, and lifted her up. She was in a dying state, and
was carried into the house, where she very shortly died.
A police-constable deposed that he was not on duty at
the time of the occurrence, but was standing at the door
of the house in which he resided, and which was not
more than thirty yards from the house in question.
.0 rim' a crash. lie ran _into the eas,,t, and saw the
assistance; -out.nse ennui ariasess.---s—ss- hate
dead. She was perfectly insensime,
than two minutes, went up-stairs into the roam occupied
.
en returned
gotto his
hs staff,house,
n
and the two little children; he was lying on the
Csalidt brines away
thebe roe hisWi
tunneisfsortmhe
undressed. Witness asked him if he knew what
d
andsaid he did t Witness then
had occurred, be ne •
by the deceased and her husband. The prisoner was in
had
window, to which the prisoner replied that she
her hair
thrown herself out, and that he had just seen
He then asked
asked him if he knew his wife had fallen out of the
outside the window as she was falling.
an-
swered that she was lying dead in the kitchen,. he looked
up in the policeman's face and smiled, but said nothing.
te
witness what had become of her? and upon being
Witness then examined the room, and on
at
The
window found it shut and buttoned on the inside. _
bottom of the window was about a foot from the floor off
the room. The window itself contained nine panes of
glass, and was about a yard square; it shut with hinges
n
on the one side like a door, and there was a wooden
button to fasten it. Thia button was fa lookingh
of-glass was broken, which appeared to have been
broken from the inside, as there was no broken glass
• to custody.
about the room. He then took the prisoner in
Mr. Hetling, surgeon, deposed that he had made an
examination of the body; the viscera were healthy, there
were no signs of recent intoxication. There were someh
bruises ou the left arm and one on the leg. The fourth
fastened- One peen:
left rib was broken, and the skull was most extensively
fractured from the front to the base, extendingd down
through the eye and the nose. The injury to brainthe
caused by these fractures was no doubt the cause of
death.
The Coroner then summed up, and the
jury delibe-
rated for a lengthened period, when it was
understood
that 12 were for a verdict of wilful murder, and three
day,-
against. The inquiry was then adjourned
till to
when two additional witnesses were produced, one of
whom, a woman, deposed to her
having -
seen a man's
the woman
arm in his shirt sleeves closing the window as
was falling.
The jury then returned a verdict of " Wilful
accordingly.
Mur-
der," and the prisoner was committed