The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

THE NURDER NEAR MOTTRAIII.

0; Aloncia—yaninquest was held at the Stamford
Arms, Hattersley, Cheshire, before Mr. Hudson, one
of the coroners for the county, on the body of an old
lady named Kinder, who had resided for several years
in the neighbourhood, and who was brutally mur-
dered in her own house on Friday last.
Eliza Kinder, a daughter of the deceased, stated
that her mother wes in her 78th year, and was the
widow of George Kinder, a farmer at Matley, who
died eight years ago. The deceased soon afterwards
came to reside at Hattersley with her family. The
land attached to the house was some time ago let to
'William Jackson (son-in-law of the deceased), but
for the last four years the deceased had farmed it her-
self. The family residing in the house consisted of
the deceased, the witness, and her sister, and two ser-
vants, Josiah Fox and Sarah Fox. The servants were
trusty and confidential, and took their meals with the
family. On Thursday last witness and her sister left
home together about half-past nine o'clock in the
morning, to spend the day with a sister at Armfield,.
which is about five or six miles from the farm, leav-
ing Sarah Fox with her mother, and Josiah Fox, as
she believed, had gone out with the milk. Oa their
way home in the evening they were met by a neigh-
bour named Williamson, who told them their mother
had been badly hurt, and on arriving at the house they
found she was dead. All they had missed, after a
careful search, were two purses, but whether they
contained money or not witness was unable to say.
The deceased, witness, and her sister, and the woman
servant, all slept in the same room.
Sarah Fox, the servant, then gave the following evi-
dence :—I am 23 years of age, and unmarried. I have
lived in Mrs. Kinder's house for the last five years
and a half. Oa Thursday last the two Misses Kin-
der went to Armfield. My brother, I, and. Mrs.
Kinder were left at home. In the early part of the
day I was sewing in the kitchen with Mrs. Kinder.
My brother was about the farm-buildings until a
little before noon, and then he went to Marple-mills.
He came back before it was dark. He did not dine
with us. We had tea together about dusk. After
tea I sat with Mrs. Kinder in the kitchen sewing'
until the time fur milking. We usually milk tbe
cows between six and seven o'clock in the erlinseg :
After sewing I did some odd jobs about the
For n u
I put
For one thing, I brought in some coal, .1
fromk
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kitchen
upon the fire. I took some clothes
where the deceased was to the other 1_
came back into the front kitchen. .A.B
rny brother near the
to go to the " shippon " I found ,
hail taken three can
brotherwent out of the backdoors
pigcote, opposite. My
from the slop-kitchen.
site side of the road. I
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Kinder front door, and
kitchen.
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I cannot say
thatwas they was
whether she was smoking or not. I
cannot say what time it was when I went to the
shippon. When I got to the shippon my brother was
there. MY brother had a lantern with him and a
lighted candle in it. There were three cows to be
milked. I milked two, and my brother milked one.
lie had finished before me. After be had done he
did not go out of the shippon till I had done. When
we had doze milking I went up to the house with the
milk, leaving my brother in the shippon. I carried
the milk to the bench-stone in the kitchen. I went
into the house by the hack door. I went into the
front kitchen or house-place for a light. That was
the place where I had left Mrs. Kinder. I got a
light from the fire. I had not left Mrs. Kinder with
a candle burning. Mrs. Kinder was not then in the
room. The rocking-chair was in its place. The front-
door was shut. The door leading into the front par-
lour was partially shut. I went and sieved the milk,
and-then locked up the dairy. I then returned to
' the house by the back-door. I put the milk-ears in
1 the little kitchen' or house-place. ''As .t. did not see
Mrs. Kinder there, I went into the parlour to look for
her. I had a candle in my hand. The parlour-door was

a little bit open. I pusbedit openand saw Mn. Kinder
lying on the floor. She was lying on her face with
her feet towards the door. I thou:el-it she had fallen
in a fit. She had done 40 before. I put the
candle down on the table against the wall and tried
to help her up. Her face was all over blood, and on
the floor where her face lay there was a large quantity
of blood. She was dead, but ber body was warm. I
put the body down again, ran to the shippon, and
called for my brother. I found my brother in the
shippon. My brother followed me to the house, and
afterwards brought the next neighbour, Mrs. Wither-
son. When she came Mrs. Andrew, another neigh-
bour, was there. While 2.:Les. Andrew was there
Mrs. Williamson and I lifted up the deceased. Airs.
Andrew said the deceased had not done it herself.
She wanted me to go upstairs and look if there had
i
been snyboey n the bou::e. I told her I durst not
go by myself. She said she would go with me, and
did so. We went to the top of the stairs and found
the door of the room where the women slept open.
The drawers stood opposite the door, and they were
open. Clothes and other articles were pulled out of
the drawers. We then went down again. Mr. An-
drew came, and then went home for his gun. My
brother was at the house at the same time. I believe
it was Mr. Andrew who sent for the constables. Mr.
Williamson fetched the Misses Kinder home. About
twenty minutes elapsed between my milking the
cows and sieving the milk. I heard no cries while I
was milking. It was a very windy night. When I
began to milk the cows my brother went out and said
that he was going to put the horses in the stable. I
cannot say that I heard him putting them in the
stable. I should think be was not above two minutes
out of the shippon when be returned, and commenced
milking a cow. There was a dog at the house, but I
did not hear it bark that night.
Mrs. Betty Williamson, who lives about fifty yards
from the house of the deceased, was next examined,
but her evidence was wholly in corroboration of that
of the last witness.

Miss Maria Kinder, another daughter of the de-
ceased, was also examined in corroboration, and spoke
to the loss of a purse. When she left her on Thurs-
day morning there were 131. in a box behind a bed,
which were not taken away.
Lowe, a constable, was next examined, and gave
evidence as to the drawers having been ransacked.
Mr. Samuel Sidebottom, and Mr. R. Sidebottom,
surgeons, of Mottram, described the wound which
caused the death. It was a fracture on the left side
of the head, five inches long by three broad. The
wound must have been caused by an instrument
having a broad surface. The wound was a lacerated
one. After such a blow death would be instan-
taneous.

Mr. Joseph Little, special high constable for the
Hyde division, produced the cap and other articles
worn by the deceased. They were saturated with
blood.

Robert Booth and Josiah Fox having been briefly
examined in confirmation of the foregoing evidence,
The CORONER briefly summed up, and the jury
found " That the deceased had been wilfully mur-
dered by some person or persons unknown."
The inquiry lasted from about ten o'clock in the
morning till half-past five o'clock in the evening.
The police, under the superintendence of Mr.
Little, chief constable, are making : diligent search
with the view of bringing to light the perpetrator of
this brutal murder.

THE APOLLONICON.—This grand and eloquent .
instrument, completed at a cost of nearly'2s,oool., has been
erected in the Royal Music Hall, Adelaide-street, Strand, in
which spacious and elegant building it has prsved a great at-
traction, to the musical world especially. We attended last
night the first evening. concert or the season, and were much
gratified with the admirable selections from the great masters
and favourite composers. The varied powers of the noble in-
strument were very skilfully expressed by Messrs. Coward,
Rockstro. Rea, Brain, Higgs, Chitty, and Madame Austin,
five of which artistes performed at one time; the conductor
is Mr. Grattan Cooke. The programme announces morning
performances every Tuesday, Thursday, and S,.turday, at two
o'clock, and on the evenings of those days at eight, affording
a high and classical musical treat to the public.
A MIRACLE OF GOOD FORTUNB.—For several
years back, one of the most miserably poor of the poor of
Skibbereen was James Kane, who contrived to eke out
existence by disposing of a few bones and old rags, and,
now and then, a handful of grass plucked from the road-
side. On one occasion, his precarious means of liveli-
hood utterly failed him, and he was driven to the shelter
of the workhouse. This same James Kane is now on his
way to London, in company with an eminent solicitor, to
receive a legacy of 10,0001., and property to the amount of
5001. a year. It appears that an uncle of his made this
large fortune in business, in London ; and that James is his
next of kin and heir. Curiously enough, on the very day
that the important communication reached Skibbereen,
Kane was on his way to Rosacarbery with a load ea his
back, for which he was to earn a couple of pence—a matter
of great moment to him at the time. The whole west is in-
terested in this extraordinary instance of good fortune; for
an honeeter or better disposed creature does not exist than
James Kane.—Cork Examiner.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A SOLDIER.-
Yesterday at an early hour a report was generally spread in
the vicinity of Westminster, that a soldier belonging to the
2nd battalion of the Grenadier Guards had been murdered in
Orchard-street, by being thrown out of a window. Upon
making inquiries, the rumour was found to be greatly exag-
gerated, and the following- appears to have been the fact. The
soldier's name was Isaac Cummings, and he was one of the
above battalion, On Monday night he was out from the
barracks, in Portman-street, and got into the company of
sonic women in Orchard-street, when he became excessively
inebriated. From some cause which cannot be clearly as-
certained, he suddenly threw up the window of the second
floor and leaped out. He was much hurt in the head, and
was lying in a pool of blood when found by the police, and
in an insensible state. Ile was taken to the Westminster
Hospital, and seen by the surgeon, who did what was ne-
cessary, and he-was then conveyed to the Military llospital,
in Rochester-row, where he remains, but not, it is believed,
in a dangerous state.

MADRID AND VALENCIA RAlLWAY.—Yesterday
Master Blunt proceeded with the further investigation of
this case. The examination of the directors was resumed.
Mr. Waley deposed that after the meeting of theshareholders
in November, 1846, he had formed a clear opinion that the
objects and purposes of the company had become imprac-
ticable. He believed that some plan had been proposed by
Mr. Chadwick for executing one of the sections of the line,
in order that a ratio:of the caution money should be returned
as each separate section was completed. After the meeting
in 1846 he began his applications to the directors to pro-
matt
onho
and
I es
morewh i e hduce their accounts, but the former had wholly failed,
and in the early part of 1843 he contemplated law pro-
ceedings, but was deterred by the expense. When he
said yesterday that the directors were not under the control
of the directors, he meant that the functions of the trustees
were for the purposes of investment and re•investment, and
those of the finance committee to make disbursements.
Neither of them wee independent bodies. It was, how-
ever, understood that all the vouchers and property placed
at the bank, and accessible only to the three trustees, Count
Eyre, Mr. Nicholas M'Cann, the Hon. Mr. Villiers, Mr.
Kinloch, and Captain Charity, directors; Sir. Powell, the
secretary, and 2Alr. Keddell, the soliciior of the company,
were examined, after which the proceedings were adjourned
to Monday next.
ELY TACTICS OF THE PUSEYITES.—A morning
contemporary of yesterday, who has for some months past
been the recognised organ of the Tractarians, affects, through
the medium of a correspondent, to be mightily alarmed at the
idea, that Lord Ashley and the other noble :lords and dis-
tinguished layman, who took part in the proceedings at the
meeting e
ao nmlle Lcocrme bt eo r b e 5,
broughta t the freemasons'into
Parliament,
ap-
proaching session, .for the purpose of revising the Prayer
Book of the Church of England. In private, the Puseyites
say, that the measure is not only cut and dry, but that the
Duke of Bedford, Lord John Russell's brother, has engaged
to bring it into the House of Lords the very first week of the
session. We are enabled to state that there is no truth
whatever in the report. We can say this most positively, on
behalf of the Noble Lord, who pres:cled at the meeting, and,
we believe, we are equally justified in saying it for the other
noblemen, Members of Parliament, and private gentlemen,
under whose auspices the meeting took place. But. we have
much pleasure in adding, that the noblemen and gentlemen
alluded to have eetermined on using every means in their
power to obtain immediately, on the re .assembling of the
fr Legislature,
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principlesinjunction
andpractising
tri
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within
are wholly unsanctioned by boards of
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wrong
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the Anglican Church, by or 1.6.1
what thev f
the Tractarian clergy.
the attempt to put the Po
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tending that the objectnoblemen and gentlemen
Neu° a revisal of the Prayer Book.—
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Advertiser.
We are glee] to hear that Lord Panmure is bettor.
right lion. Mr. Fox :Mule has been absent from the
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CHURCH NOMINATION.—The Rev. J. W. Mark-
-62U. per annum.
re-
cently with the Dean of Bristol, has been appointed to the
incumbency of St. James, Curtain-road, Finsbury, value

They have suspended a clergyman at Lowen for
being engaged to two girls at the same time. He should
have been permitted to marry them, then he would have
suspended himself.—Granville Journal.

TI3II LATH DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT HUNGER.'
FORD PIER.—A correspondent of the Herald confirms the
statement that appeared in The Sun of last night, and adds-
that he never witnessed such cool indifference to the fate of a
human being as was exhibited on this occasion. The unfor-
tunate young man floated on his back for at least three mi-
nutes from the " dummy," through Hungerford-
bridge, and
several times cried out " Help I" but no help was afforded—
not a rope, life-buoy, oar, boat-hook, or plank was thrown
°line itinato the poor struggling victim.
A grave-digger, who eftwerecili,sebdut
the business? lie
replied town, was asked how he liked „
like it
• it pretty
replied that he liked
bet-
ter if he could have steady employment.
1 MOUSE MILLS.—A gentleman in Kirk aldy, Scot-
land, has trained a couple of mice, and invented machinery,
enabling them to spin cotton yarn. The work is so con-
structed that the common house mouse is enabled to make
atonement to aocietv for past offences by twisting twine and
reeling from 100 to 126 threads per day. To complete this,
the little pedestrians have to run 1011 miles. A halfpenny
worth of oatine.:l, at ls. 31. per peck, serves one of these
treadwheel culprits for the long period of five weeks. In
that time it makes 110 threads per day. At this rate a
mouse earns 7s. Ed. per annum. Take off sd. for board and
Is. for machinery, there will arise 6s. clear for every mouse
annually. The mouse employer was going to make applica-
ti,ai for the lease of an old empty house, which would held
10,0'0 mouse mills, sufficient room being left for keepers and
some hundreds of spectators.—East Counties Herald.
UMBRELLAS.-1 have talked with an old lady wbo
remembered the first umbrella used in Oxford, and with
another who described the surprise elicited by the first in
Birmingham. An aunt of mine, born 1754, could not re-
member when the house was without one, though in her
youth they were little used. May not the word umbrella
have been applied to various sorts of implutial—Notes an
1 Queria!