Star.
London, England, 1824-04-22 00:00:00

Collo.‘Ell'S l.\ QUEST:

Monday seennight an Inquest was held at Birtle*
near Chester-le-Street, by Mr. Hall, Coroner, on the
body of Henry Curry, pitman, who was killed early the
preceding morning at that place, by another pitman,
named Thomas Atkinson. The following is a report
of the evidence adduced :

Ralph Watson, constable of Birtley, deposed, that on
Saturday night he was sent for to keep the peace at
George Hepple's public-house—he found several per-
sons there drinking, amongst them I len:y Curry and
Thomas Atkinson. The deceased and Atkinson quar-
relled about the reckoning—Atkinson shoved the de-
ceased, who got hold of a poker, when the witness and
others interfered, and the poker was laid down, and they
became quiet. The landlord wished Atkinson to leave
the house, who refused, and he was put out by force.
All the people then left the house. As Atkinson was
being forced out, he swore he would have murder, and
as soon as he was at the door, struck the landlord.—
Witness interfered, and Atkinson strdck him many times,
saying he would murder him (witness). The landlord
and witness then escaped inter the house, and bolted the
door ; Atkinson tried to get in, but finding he could not,
he broke the windows, and witness heard him swear he
would murder the before he left the spot. Wit-
ness heard Atkinson run round the house to the back
door, when witness went to secure it. Atkinson struck
the door, and witness heard him say—" Harry, you got
the poker up to me ;" the deceased (H. Curry) answered,
the witness cook] not tell what. Witness then heard a
blow; and a person fall. Witness heard Atkinson again
in the front of the house, and went out with the land-
lord to take him ; the landlord seized him, and, after a-'
short struggle, both fell. Witness separated them, and
Atkinson swore he would rip witness up; witness fear-
ing he had something in his hand, stepped back, and
Bed to the back of the house, where he saw a person
lying on the ground, who proved to be Harry Curry,
the deceased. Witness desired the door to be opened,
as a man was lyinidying at the door. He called upon
Thomas Fenwick, a person in the house, to assist in
taking Curry into the house; he was bleeding at the
nose and mouth, and appeared ill. Witness held de-
ceased upon his knee until four o'clock, when he cried,
which was about three-quarters of air hour from the
time he was found. Atkinson got in at the window be-
fore Curry died, and witness heard him say he did not
know whether he struck the dZ.ceaed with a deal boird
or a hedge-stick.
George Hepple, of Birtley, publican, confirmed the
evidence of the preceding witness ; he st:tted that At-
kinson did not appear to witness to be in liquor when
he came to the house, but he and the two Currys had
ten or eleven pints of ale while they stopped.
John Wolfe andjames Nelson, surgeons, of Chester-
le-Street, said they had examined the body of Henry
Curry—found no external wounds of any consequence
—on opening the head, found a-fracture on the right
side, extending inches along the temporal bone, and
within the covering of the brain some ounces of con-
gealed blood. The fracture could be occasioned either
by the blow of a blunt instrument or by a fall; they
had no doubt the fracture and congealed blood t‘ere
the cause of his death. Upon the two pieces of wood
being shewat to them, they said either of them would
cause such a fracture.
Richard Curry, brother of the deceased, said that he
was sent for to ilepple's house, in consequence of the
death of his brother Henry—when at Birtley he saw
Atkinson, and asked him whether it was with the deal
or the post be had killed his brother Henry; Atkinson
said he could not tell.

Andrew Carr, of Birtley, pitman, corroborated the
former evidence, and said he heard Atkinson say, after
he got in by the wimlow, " that he was the man who
had murdered Curry." SJme other witnesses gave
similar testimony. After the evidence had been sum-
med up, the Jury immedia'ely returned a verdict of
Wilful Murder against Thomas Atkinson, who has
been committed to Durham jail, to take his tiial.

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