The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-12 00:00:00

M sTELUOUS ATti.

(From the Boston Gazette, October 10.)
On Monday the 2d instant, an inquest wits held before
Mr.; Mastin, coroner, at Horncastle, on view of the body of
Sarah Plant, then lying dead in Toynton Church.
George Al!bones deposed, that on Sunday the 24th
ult. he saw the deceased willking, with a man who was
• dressed in a long white smock frock, near an enclosure
which divides the parishes of Scrivelsby and Horneastle.
Witness observed the deceased Shake her head at her com-
panion when they parted. and she then proceeded towards
Horncastle; the man in the smock frock taking the oppo-
site direction. After site had walked about 60 yards,
witness saw her fall down, apparently iliry
Robt. Osgaby,sen.. of Thornton le Fen, said on Saturday
the 16th ult. his son Robert attended at Horneastle, under
a magistrate's warrant, to make provision for the mainte-
nance of an illegitimate child, which had been sworn to
him by the deceased, Sarah Plant, who hid lived nearly a
*dye month in the service of witness. Deceased had
used herself to taking laudation), yet witness neither knew
who fetched it, nor where it was procured.
Mary Moody, on Monday, the 25th of September, found
deemed fiting in a ditch by the side of the road leading to
Tedford. slie was taken to the house occupied by the
husband of witness, and on the following Thursday she ex-
pired. Deceased Vild the witness that young Osgaby
went with her to Toyn:on; and that he gave her plenty of
ale on the road. Witness told the deceased that she was
afraid Osgaby had put sons; thing into the ale, and de-
ceased said she doubted he " t)ied from
the effects of a deadly opiate, but how or by whom admi-
nistered no evidence was adduced."
The Coroner's Court, on the above inquest, opened at
Toynton at eleven o'clock on Monday morning, viewed the
body in the parish 'church of that village, and then ad-
journed to Horncastle, where the Coroner and Jury conti-
nued their labours until about seven o'clOck, when the
above verdict was returned, At six o'clock the witnesses
were dismissed, and returned home, the elder Osgaby
on
horseback, and his son travelled on foot. We haVe been
thus minute in detail, in order that our readers may per-
reedy, understand the following particulars of a very violen
attack upon the Coroner, which, but for, providential cir-
t
-cismitances, there icopears every reason to suppose would
Lyre cost hint his lite, On turning a earner at the bottom
of iictivelsby-park4ane, Mr. Mastin observed an object in
the middle of the road, and on approaching nearer he dis-
cerned that it was a very 11.411 man dressed in a long
white smack-frock, who, on ,Mr. Maqiu's reaching the spot.
where he stood, immediately levelled three or four tre-
mendous blows at the horses's head, 'th a very thick
hedge-stake, Without demanding money7lor using any in-
terugations, accompanying his blows by some imprecations
in an evidently feigned _voice, One of the blows grated
the coroner's left thigh, a
14n-• t4O. villain Wen ittteinplied to
seize hold of the bridle; but ou perceiving his intention
Wir..lVlastin forced his spurs into the horses side, the ani:
trttl 211prang forward, and swot,left the distardlV assailant
follow-
behind. Mr- Mesthi made dueintlttiry-early tiw
log itorriing in the neighbourhood, but could obtain no
4ecisive due either as to th e purpose or the ers„„ who
committed the outrage. If the v'ilehl's design p
ally was
murder, which there is too much reason to suspect it was,
the time and place was every wayand the s fitted for the bloody
purpode. The night was very dark, pot seleetell
throw a still "teener gloom.
around. so shaded by trees as to
The Ow, too, is some distance from any babi.
where the
rtstrugglingre
nation or village, on a lonely road,
cries of the vietno would have produced I'm helpi
and his last groans died away unheeded upon the midnight
air.
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A wyur, DEATit.—While the Rev, Mr, Ovindon
was preaching on Sunday last, in Finnar Church, nearet
Bundoran, am!. just as be had uttered the words, "
him that standcti, take heed lest he full," he was observed
to sink down it, the pulpit, and in au instant he WO
&Ha! It is said that he had been ill for some time
previous to this awful visitation.—Duldin *Evening
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