The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-25 00:00:00

THE WALBROOK MLIRDEIt.

Yesterday Mr. W. H. Phillips, deputy coroner
for the Wolverhampton district, held an inquest
at the Wallbrook Tavern, Wallbrook, near to the
Princess End station of the West Midland
Rail-
way, on the body of Elizabeth Lewis, a married
woman, aged 30, whose throat was cut on the
21st of November last by John Stephenson, a
lodger. Stephenson made improper advances to
the deceased, who resented them, and he cut her
throat with a razor. Having left her for dead, he
drew the razor across his own throat, and almost
immediately fell a corpse by the side of the unof-
fending woman. In his case the jury returned a
verdict of.felo de se, and his body was interred with
the customary indignities accompanying the burial
of a self-murderer. Not the faintest hope was en-
tertained of the woman's recovery during at least
a fortnight after she had received her injuries. By
that time, however, she had begun to mend, and
continued to improve till she could talk audibly
and with ease, and meat and wine formed part of
her diet. On the 16th inst., however, she left her
room without the
,knowledge of her surgeon (Mr.
Smith), and taking cold, was compelled to return
to her bed. In two days she was suffering from
bronchitis, and, on the 21st inst., just two lunar
months from the day on which she received her
wound, she died of asphyxia produced by an attack
of bronchitis supervening on the wound in the
windpipe. Her case was a remarkable instance of
successful surgical treatment. A post morteta
examination of the throat made yesterday by Mr.
Smith showed that the windpipe had been. quite
divided, excepting the small membranouj portion
behind, in the position just below the tarynx, yet
the several parts had been brought into perfect ap-
position, and the wound had thoroughly healed.
Before her relapse, occasioned by the most repre-
hensible incaution, Mr. Smith, had entertained con-
fident expectation of her recovery being complete
enough with due caution to enable her to resume
her usual duties. It was shown that the deceased
and her relatives were prone to cancerous diseases,
which, added to the very dangerous'position of The
wound and the poverty of the patient, cause', the
progress that she made towards a complete r(..covery
the more remarkable. It being the surgeon's
opinion that the wound in the throat 'was the pri-
mary cause of death, and the evidence as adduced
on the inquest of her murderer be'ig again related
by the several witnesses, the,irary returned a verdict
of wilful murder against J, Olin Stephenson.

C ° (7:; TR Y MARKETS.

BIRMINGHAM-JAN. 24.

'WM a large supply to-day, English fine and dry wheat
must be quoted at is decline on late rates for good sorts,
and damp and inferior qualities declined 2s per qr. Oats
fully as dear. Barley at a decline of Is. Beans and peas
only taken in retail.

MANCHESTER—JAN. 24.
A moderate attendance to-day, and business limited in
extent. Best English wheats brought last week's prices ;
seconds held for is to 2s less money. Flour declined 2e
per sack. Oats were ld per 451bs, and oatmeal 6d per load
cheaper. Beans firm. Indian corn the turn lower.

MELTON MOWBRAY—JAN. 23. • -
There was an average show of wheat to-day, which sold
at rather lower rates for all descriptions ; condition bad.
Barley little inquired for, at is under late rates. For oats t
our quotations were sustained Prices :—White wheat, 66s
Od to 638 Od ; red, 50s Od to 608- per 36 stone ; barley
was steady, at 32s to 42s for malting, and 28s to 34s per
qr. for grinding ; oats, 29s to 38s Od per 24 stone ; beans,
50s to 55s for old ; new, 50s per 38 st.