The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-31 00:00:00

HORRIBLE MURDER.

FRISTOL, Friday. - Mr. Bruges Fry, coroner for the
eastern division of the county of Somerset, held an in-
quest last night at the Batchers'Arms Tavern, Neilsen,
on the body of a little boy, named James Curr, who was
murdered by his mother under circumstances of an un-
usually painful character, The unhappy woman by
whom the fatal deed was perpetrated, and who very
nearly succeeded in depriving herself of life immediately
afar be committal, is Mize Curr, and she is the wife of
George Curr, a collier employed at one of the pits in the
Naileea Mrs, Curr, who at the time the fatal
crime was committed bad s x children living, resided
with her bu,band-in a cottage in the village. It is stated
that they bad lived latterly very unhappily, although no
one suspected for a moment that her state of mind was
so desperate as to lead her to contemplate, as beyond
doubt she did, the sacrifice of btr own life and at least
three of her children. It appeared from the evidere-r
of her little girl, six years old, Melinda Cure, and the
other witnesses, that en the day in question, after her
husband bad gone out, the unhappy woman sent her three
eldest chi;dren out of the house, and then took the witness,
her deceased brother James Corr, who was four years old,
and a younger child up into the bedroom. She then Eelz
hold of the little fellow, James, who resisted and cried not
pAeoady, "Oh, don'tee, mother, don'tee !" and with a
razor cut his throat with such despera ion as to nearly
sever the heel from the body. She was about to perpe-
trate a simi:ar crime on the other children, but happily
their cries caused an alarm, and, fearing that she would
be interrupted, the desperate woman hurriedly cut her
own throat w ith the seine instrument with which she
had murdered her little boy. The eali which she in
flitt,d upon herself was a wry deep ono, but happily
the large blood-vessels were not divided, so that the
medical gentleman who was ca led in seems to have con-
siderable hope that she will uliimately recover. Id or-
matron of the dreadful tragedy was given with all
promptitude to the police, and police-c netable Pigeon
of the Semersetshire constabulary was quickly in a ten-
dance at the cottage. The sight which met Iris eye was
a truly horrifying one. The body of the poor little
chili, with his throat shockingly mangled, and with his
clothes saturated with blood, lay in oce spot, while in
another was the mother, in an almost eget:oly lifeless
state, and with the evidences of the double c: ins of which
she toad been gnil y all around her. After the several
witnesses had been examined and had deposed to the
forrgoiog facts, the coroner summed up the evidence at
considerable length. He charged the jury to dismiss
from their minds everything which they might have
heard out ( f doors, and to be guided by the evidence
clone ; and with reference to the state of mind of the
accused at the time when she committed the fatal act,
that was a matter which they bad better leave to be in-
vestigated by another court. The jury returned a ver-
dict of wilful murder against the mother (Eliza Cure),
and, as soon as she has sufficiently recovered to admit
f her removal, she will be committed to await her trial
for that crime.