The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-19 00:00:00

BIBICLE, NEAR. BURY.

irt
A circumstance has occurred in. this neigh-
bourhood,
e7i rolni o o
wherever
‘‘h
dcuirarts havehingand' indig-
nation become
b
. ic4 has ex
the particulars
known. A young mart, about 26 years of age,
of the name of Richard Fletcher, a libourer,
with his wife, has resided in the cottage where
Benjamin Cass, and his aged partner, were mur-•
dered by Diggle, about two years since.—
Fletcher s conduct towards his wife has been
knewn' to 'be extremely outrageous. He was
married to her almost by compulsion, she having
previously borne to him two children, which were
becoming burdensome to the township. Since •
the marriage, the poor woman has frequently
complained of her husband's conduct; at one
time she caused him to be taken under a war-
rant, but afterwards consented, on receiving a
promise of kinder treatment, to return and-live
with him. About five weeks since she suffered a
premature delivery; being only seven months
gone with child. No one was near -to assist
her, her husband being away at his work, and
the house being lonely ; she was discovered in a
helpless state by one of her relations, -who.acci-
dentally called to see her. Since then, the con-
duct of her husband is described as being most
brutal; such as language can scarcely describe,
and certainly such as ought not to . appear. in
print. According to facts which she disclosed
on her death-bed, a particular outrage was -com-
mitted upon her on the 29th of November,
Since which time' she has teen ill, and died • on
the morning of the 11th, at three o'clock.
The body was examined on Wednesday, by
four respectable surgeons, and an inquest was
yesterday held at the Bircbin-Hand, Birkle, by
Mr. Farrand, arnta Jury of sixteen. As usual,
Mr. Farrand objected to the presence of a Re-
porter, who attended not even an outline of the
proceedings can, therefore, be given ; nor, indeed,
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was the evidence, so far as has.transpired,,i fit for
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on a bed, exactly in that part of the chamber
where old Cass and his wife lay after their fearful
murder by Diggle. The countenance appeared
distorted, one eye was par :open, the other closed,
and the lips were sufficiently separated to show
the teeth, as .if at. the :Moment it was suffering
under a pang of acute pain, There was no
furniture in the chamber, save the bed ; the little
slide of the window, was propped up by are ,old
fork, and the wind blew a chill and stiffening air
into the room, and the premises altogether bore
an -appearance of desertion. Below stalls a small
fire was mouldering in
sthe grate, as if. many
hours had elapsed since any person was
there. Opposite the. door was a couch-chair,
probably, the identical one on which Diggle
placed Mrs.. Cass, after having cloven her head,
and where she was found-lining . with her arm
resting en the shoulder. 'Of her aged partner,
whose blood covered the floor, and whose grey
hairs adhered to the instrument •of murder. Aw-
ful recollections
,seemed to occur to every one
present, and_:the person who. writes this
.could
not dismiss from his mind the circumstance, that
having lost his way iii crossing the moors?from
Edenfield, came by chance to this very house,
where the whole of Cass's tragedy was narrated
and described by her-who now lay a corpse in the
chamber. _

At the Inquest, four or five witnesses were
examined, amongst • whom was Di. Parker, of
Bury, who stated that he. was sent for to visit the
deceased, who complained that she had been in-
jured by her husband, described the injuries, and
imputed to them her illness. On Tuesday. the
body was opened by three surgeons, who, from
what she had stated, were led to examine the
parts alluded to, and found them free from in-
jury, or morbid appearance. The head, and the
membranes of the brain,. had suffered from re-
cent inflammation, which sufficiently accounted
for the symptoms under which the deceased had
laboured, and had been the certain cause of her
death. The Jury brought in a verdict of—
" Died by the visitation of God, through natural
causes."

SINGULAR CASE.-A. communication
.has
just been made to the Geological Society by one ofits mem-
bers, of a singular cave, nearly a mile in length, which
has recently been discovered in the chalk strata, at Heigh-
ton Hill, near. Norwich. The cave appears to have been
excavated at some former period with the scle view of pro-
curing flints, for the purpose of building the churches and
other ancient buildings of that city, which are almost
wholly constructed of that durable material. The entrance
to the cave having been blocked up with rieobish, its exist-
ence would perhaps have for ever remained unknown, but
from sinking a well which intersected the Fine of the cave.

On Tuesday morning it was discovered that
the burial-ground of Christ-church, Blaskfriars, had been
visited during the night by a party of resurrection-men, one
of the graves being open, and two coffin-lids lying on the
edge of it. On proceeding to examine the grave, a most
frightful spectacle presented itself ; for, exposed to view in
the coffin, • lay the body of a female, who appeared to have
been interred for some time, the shroud being much dis-
coloured, and the mouth wide open : in short, it was truly
appalling. It is evident the' man mistoolc the grave for an
adjoining one, in which a corpse had been deposited on
Sunday last. In giving publicity to the name on the coffin,
which was ELIZA WII3IOT, the feelings of her friends may
he distressed, but it will ease the suspense and anxiety whkle
would have been felt by many individuals whose friends have
been recently interred in this ground.
THROWING THE' IiAMMER.-4 match at
throwing the hammer will be derided within three weeks
from this date, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, under circum-
stances which will render the result rather interesting to
the amateurs of that species ofamusement. Three men be-
longing to different quarters of Scotland, who•have never
met their superiors, or, as it is stated,
their equals, bare
agreed to have a friendly meeting, and the parties are at
present in training. The hammer is to be 19A-lbs. weight.
Some time since one of them threw a iianuner, the
above weight, 65 feet, and the average of eight throws,
backwards and forwards, ran 63 feet. In the trials whiLli
took place during the summer, on Inchkeith,
in question. threw tilt,
the sportsm;:n
Who gained threW a 191 be. hammer 45 feet; and last
month one of the three candidates
same hammer, on the same ground, 51 feet at the first
throw. Unfortunately the eheft went to fragments, which
precluded another trial of his strength and dexterity.
.The victor in this ease will, have pretty good grounds to
rank himself " champion bammer-thrower for Scotland."
—Scotsman.

PROCEEDINGS AGA MST EMPIRICS 'IN
EDWARD THIC SIXTH'S REIGN..-.-In this King's reign
several practisers of physick were examined by the College,
and found so unfit for the practice of that art, that they
were rejected ; others were punished according to public
statutgs, and others fined. In the fourth year of this King's
reign, in the month of September, one Gatd, a poulterer,
on the Bth Sept. set on a pillory
of Surrey, taken among the people for a prophet, in curing
of divers diseases,• by words and 'prayers, and saying he
4 his deceitful and hypocritical
would take no money, &c., was, by command of the Earl
of W.tawrcx, and others of the Council, set on a scaffold
in the town of Croidon, in Surrey, with a paper on his
dealings breast, ;
an
whereindafwteur writtentha
in Southwark, being then our Lady Fair there kept,Y
and the Mayor of London, with his brethren, the Aldei
men, riding through the fair, the said Gain asked them...
and all the citizens forgiveness. Of the like • counterfeitphy-
siiian, with Srow, have (I noted in the summary of
Chronicle., Anno 1392), to be set on horseback, y th my
to the'horse-tan, the same tail in his hand.seback, his face
corder of jordans about his neck,
a his boot'
and so led through
the Cityof Whetstone. on .
of
London with .ogulg
bailor% and banished." Nve
offer
ri
• ~ to the
college of Physicians, a i. er this as a suggeoma~...e.
—London Meclicaz G PP lolthle to the present' i
qZette.