The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-13 00:00:00

CHARGS OF MURDER.

Cotiostee's INauesr.—List night, at seven
o'clock, a Jury was sernmoned before Mr. UN•
tvlte, at the George public-house, in Old-street,
for the purpose of ascertaining how and by what
means John Levi came to:his death. The Jury
having been sworn, proceeded to the house of
Mr. IVigginton On undertaker), to take a view
of the body, it having been removed from St.
Bartholinnew's Hospital, in cousenuence'of the
deceased having expired in the Liberty of St.
Luke's.
The several witnesses deposed to the fight be-
tween the deceased and the prisoner, but no per-.
son. saw the fatal blow, or the instillment with
which it was accompanied. The'.most curious
feature is the case is the number and character.
of the wounds inflicted on the deceased, ail of
which seem to have been inflicted (as appears
by the following evidence) by a sharp instrument,
and yet no such instrument was seen or disco.
eered
Mr. \V. Taylor, surgeon, of Goswell-street,
suited, that the deceased was brotight into his
shop about halt-past 12 on Solidity morning, and
on an examination of the body. witness found a
transverse wountlacross the scalp of' the 'forehead,
which went to the skull: there was another
wound on the face in the shape of a cross, on the
left cheek, between-the,mouth and the ear, nei-
ther of which was, in witoess's opinion,' mortal.
At that time witness did not," front the contusion,
and finding hint dead, examine the hotly any fur-
titer. The body being removed to St. liartholo-
meet's Hospital, and witness understanding that
tit man was in custody for murder, lie made a
more minute examination ; and in addiskon to
what he, toil already discovered, he fond the
body several small wounds, but they were not of
any serious importance. On proceeding lower
down, he found a wound on the inside of the
right thigh about three quarters of an inch wide,
and an inch and a half in depth, which he found,
upon introducing his finger, to be across the fe-
moral artery ; and, on dissection, he found it to
be cut through. There was another wound on the
opposite. thigh, about the same -size, but" which
was merely-a muscular wound. He attributed his
death to the wound on the femoral artery. Wit-
ness discovered this day what he bad not noticed
before, a wound between the thOmb and fore,l
finger of the deceased's right band, which haddi-
'tided the flesh very deep, and which was probably
occasioned by a knife or some sharp. instrument.
having been drawn through his hand. The wound
might have been inflicted by a pocket7knife.
At this period of the investigation, the watch-
house keeper was called, tied he said, that after
the prisoner had been some time yin the watch-f
house he began to cry, "and said he was sorry at
having brought his parents into disgrace.
The clothes of the deceased- were then produc-.
ed, covered- with Mood, and exhibited a great
nuMber of cuts, which must have been inflicted
by a shArp instrument.
At half past ten o'clock last night, the Jury
feeling Satisfied with the evidence adduced, :the
Coroner observed, that it was impossible to int-.
pate the stabs which occasioned the death of the
deceased, to any. other person titan the prisoner,
as all the witnesses declared there wits no third
person present tinting the struggles, and the de-.
cease&was found at the end of the second round
covered with blood ; the. ground was also bloody.
The Jury consulted aloe minutes, and returned
a verdict of Wilful Marder-agaiast "Oder-
son, and the Coroner issued- his wirront ,for Lis
being lodged in Newgate,

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