The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-12 00:00:00

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THE MURDER IN PARLIAMENT.

STREET.

INQUEST THIS DAY.-VERDICT OF WILFUL
MURDER.

This afternoon Mr. Bedford, the Coroner for West
minster, and a highly respectable jury, commenced an
inquiry, at the Westminster Hospital, into the death oi
Richard Cope, shopman to Mr. Berry, watchmakei,
of Parliament-street, whose death was occaeirne
by injuries inflicted on him by a man Earned Marley.
reputed ticket-of-leave man and a deserter. Marley, it
will be recollected, is in custody, and has undergone out

or two examinations.
The jury having been sworn, the Coroner briefly nar-
rated the circumstances under which they had been
summoned, and pointed out to them their duties, viz.,
to ascertain how, when, and by what means the de-
ceased came by his death, after which the jury proceeded
to view the body.
On the return of the jury,
John Allen, hackney carriage attendant, residing at
51, Tothill-street, brother-in-law of Richard Cope,
identified the body of the deceased, who was 311 years of
age, and a jeweller by trade. About half-past 9 o'clock
on the evening of the 20th October last, witness was on
duty in New Palace-yard, and heard a cry of "Stop
him," and saw a crowd of persons running after a mar
(Robert Marley). He ran after the man and stoppet
him. He -am running in the direction of Canning',
statue from Paynter's Magpie and Horse-shoe-passage,
leading :rout Bridge-street to Palace-yard. Wher,
caught, hold of Marley, he said, "Leave go ;
what have I dom." Witness replied, "I don't know,
but I shan't let you go id! Ido know." A man narne•l
carne up a;ine,,t immediately after, and said.
" For Goci*,, sake, don't let go of hini, for he has neari:,.
reurtiorqd a man." WiLukt:.• s;:161, " Where's the man
The Tau made no observation to it, but put a cigar he
had in his hacd in his mouth. Witness called, " Where',
the murdered man ?" Lerigo said, "Como with we,
and I'll chow you." Witness went with Marley an-
Lerigo down Parliament•street, to Berry's shop. Th,
shop was shut up, and he saw a man outside the shop,
supported by two men. He was bleeding.
Witness did not then know the bleedinp
man was his brother-in-13,w. Witness said to Marley,
" I shall take you to the station." Marley asked to
be conveyed there in a cab ; but witness objected, a,.
the police-station was 80 near, and he ultimately
walked there. After Marley was at the station he
saw spattered marks of blood on his right hand.
Marley was afterwards searched and locked up. He
gave the name of Jenkins, but no residence.

Mr. Alfred Marshall, house surgeon of the hospital,
deposed Deceased was brought to the hoqpitat
between 9 and 10 o'clock on the evening of the
20th October. I first saw him in bed a few minutes
afterwards. His shirt was very much covereo
with blood. He was suffering from a fracture of the
skull and depression of the side bone. He was sensible,
but could not speak. Some medicine was given to him,
and he was left quiet. An operation was performed on
the following day by elevating the depressed portion of
the bone ;it was performed by Mr. Holt. It gave de-
ceased relief, and the case went on favourably till the
Ist of November, when unfavourable symptoms showed
themselves, but passed off, and he went on
favourably till the 6th November, when a change
took place, and the symptoms became aggravated till he
died on Sunday last about two o'clock p.m. On 28 ti.
Oct. a man was brought to the hospital, and taken to
deceased's room. Deceased was then able to speak,
and he appeared to be perfectly calm. He identified the
prisoner as the man who struck him. Deceased was a
little worse after his confronting the prisoner, but within
24 hours he was in the same state as before. He made
a post mortem examination of the head. There were two
fractures on the left side of the head. One piece of bone
had been driven in, and one elevated, and could be-
moved freely up and down. One piece was removed
during the progress of the case. There were fissures in
the skull branching from the fracture. There was a
second fracture, the skull being very slightly depre-sed.
There were two or three scalp wounds without fracture
The injuries might have been inflicted by such an instru
ment as that produced (a life preserver). The injury on
the head was not the direct cause of death, but the disease
arising from the fracture of the skull.

Mr. Holt, senior surgeon of the hospital, deposed--
When I saw deceased he was paralysed on one side 01
the body produced by a depressed fracture of the lef I

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side of the skull. I immediately performed the opera
tion of trephining or elevating the lrme, which ga.vt,
immediate relief. Deceased gradually recovered the uso
of the right leg, the paralysis of the face subsided, lq•
was enabled to put out his tongue, and subsequently `i
'peak. He also gracivaily recovered in a measure tht-

ti.P of the right arm. He progressed favourably until
Friday (with one exception) when unfavourable symptom .
are and continue:' until his death uu Th
poet mortem examination was conducted u,der ii
superintendance. An extensive scalp wound exisced uu
the left side of the head corresponding to the depressed
side of the skull, which was fissured in different direc-
tions radiating from the depression. Witness then pro-
ceeded to describe the other appearances of the head,
lunge, spleen, &c., and gave it as his opinion that the

cause of death resulted from the fracture of the skull

The wound very much corresponded in shape with the
life-preserver that had been produced. I don't think the

deceased was injured by his examination by the magis-
trate. I was not present.
By the Coroner—That examination, I suppose, was
approved of by some medical man.

Mr. Holt—l believe it was. Witness continued—l
did not observe bruises about deceased's shoulders.

George Lerigo, of Chapton-street, Oxford-street, de.
posed—l was passing Mr. Berry's shop about a quarter
past 9 o'clock on the 20th October. I heard a slight

groan proceeding from the shop. Two or three men
were outside of the shop door looking in. I said,
" What's that ?" The men said, " It's only a man and

wife quarrelling." I went on about half-a-dozen yards

and returned to the shop, and pushed the door open. I

saw a man standing up in the shop striking a man be-
hind the counter, who was bent down almost on his
knees, with his hands np warding off the blows.
I called out to the passers by, " For God's
for there's a man
sake, come in,being
murdered." Whilst I was appealing to the public the
assailant took a parcel from off the counter, and also
his lighted cigar, and pushed past me into the street.
I said to the crowd, "There he goes, won't nose of you
secure him." He went up Parliament-street and turned
round Derby-street to the left. I followed him.
When a little way up Cannon-street he turned round,
and seeing that I way pursuing him, be commenced
running. He had no parcel with him then. I don't
know what became of it, but he had it up to the time
he commenced running. I then called " stop him," and a
number of persons followed him. He went up Cannon-row
across Bridge-street, through Painter's-passage into Pa-
lace-yard. When I got there I found he had been
stopped by a waterman.
By the Coroner—The man was striking deceased with
a life preserver. The strap was hanging down. The
life-preserver produced resembles that used by Marley.
The man left the shop with a life-preserver in his hand,
but it was not found on him when he Was stopped- I
afterwards went back to deceased, who was covered

with blood on the lea bide. I have since ascer-

tained that the man who murdered Cope is called
/141.1eY. I never saw him before the above