Star.
London, England, 1824-03-01 00:00:00

CORONEA.F.NQUEST.

Satardey an Inquisitionawarstaken before J. treser.4
Esct. (me of the taiddkriiiThier the county of Nli,l.
ht&ak;;st.Theaalea.etti-deens, Bethnal-green,
a the body of James llackmottli.
":111*41,1ey; i‘ftjehOingsteetii, proceeded to take a view
fif tip body, and afterwards of the spot where it was
rithemrhi thAltEttittiA he foltowing evidence as given:
•Itotinison,7lkioktnaker, deposed, that on the
ekt:rtiiig of Tgarsdry till nightfall be was employed its
limmpiag water into the ickciAroir connected with the let
isChere thehticly *as teunff. ' At that time the body was
illot there.' O'n'the following morning he went to the
!pit to resume his Work, When he perceived the body tx
la mail, droved, lying about ten feet from the bal( of
'the marl pit, with-his •heat towards the centre; the:
;head was above the clay, and did not apt-ea, to have
been ever under it, as thereyasoely s; dashes of rhe..ae,t-
,Obiervaltle on his lace, which was otherwise qaiteckr:,..
Witnesi'went for his fellow-workman, James C, le, elx
;assisted in removing the body from tae pit to the We:11,
vers' Anus, anckcorrobot aced tare evidence above g; vele
Jane Neale examined—l live at No. 14, ',rote,- tat,.
street, Spitalfields, where also the deceased lodge,l,
Whonfli have known for some time past, and hove
alwaysleund him to be a sober industrious man; lie
had a wife, with whom he was no the best of terms. Ti:e
last time I saw him was on Thursday, about &nix:
tine:. For-the fortnight lasi•past he had been in a de.
spending and dejected state. •
'nn CO'pland•exa-rnined—l also lodge at the ho .se,
No. 14.*Lower. Kate- street ; I washed for the deceased,
whom I last saw nu 'Thursday, about mid=day; I was
present while he was dining; after he had fini-hei that
meal, he went to a chest_oi-drawers, [red thence took a
razor, which was wrapped up in paper, and milk!) he
said he would take to hate it ground and set; he then
west oat, and I never KW tii.nLaftenvards till now.
Samuel Uppingtori,essaakned-4 was a fellow-work-
man with the &ceased., who was at work on Thursday
till dinner time, when he left, and aia•uot again return
he was a very altered man within 'the last foitni....ht,
during which time he bad become extremely mslanchole;
I did not think him a map that would commit suicide;
Richard James Parker, ef Qlobsy-Place, depesed, that
on the night cf Thursday he distioctly heard a cis, of
" Murder!" in the di:ecti ;n of the marl pit, from which
his house is distant about three hundred yards. Witress
said to his wife, g, Ann, there is a cry of murder." His
' wife, replied, -" Nonsense, you are always heat c;ies
of murder." \Thiess got out of bed and opened the
window, and found that the lamp opposite to Jim
was out, and that the watchman was not on the spot;
'he did not therefote go out, being fearful to go alone;
he had, the following morning, found a stone in Devon-
shire-street, on winch he observed a slight stain rescm-
, Wing blood: this stone lie now produced.
The stone was examined by the Coroner and by the
parish surgeon, Mr. Ager. •Both 'were of opinion that
the colour• was not deep ei-bugh for that of blood.
Mr. Ager was then ca:led and examined—l reside in
Whitechapel; I saw the body of the dece.ass.d about
four o'clock yesterday; there was one principal wound
on the throat, of about four or five inches in length ; it
had not penettated the windpipe or any of the principal
blood vessels; there were six smaller wounds in the same
ditection; I do mit think that death would ensue from
loss of blood; the wounds, in my opinion, were not
mortal; there was a flesh wound across the top of the
'forehead, 'also two flesh. Wounds on the thumb; I think
lie died ficina suff. cation; it is not impassible that the
wounds were inflicted by himself; the wounds are
in-
flitted by a razor or knife.
relative of the' deceased—There is a wound
under the ear, havirlg the appearance of a stab; you
think that wound could have been inflicted with a razor?
'ii--It
k.
hin it might haye been.
Cotildlte have died from suffocation, unless his rIOS2
and mouth were at some onetime beneath the sutfaceof
' the marl ?—tertainly he could not.
Was there clay in his mouth or nostrils?—l cannot
say ; I have not examined.
It was here suggested by the Coroner, that it would
be advisable that the surgeon' should take a fresh view
of the body. In the inesintii#e the following witness
• , •
was examined.
. .
Samuel Wolkiao,o%! examined—l saw the body when
brought to this potilic-houke; it was covered all Qver
st nth clay ; the
.deceased hid on a great coat and an
under coat; dire forpier was open? the latter was lAittoned
ip cue hole; the waistcoat was bueteeed close all the
way up. It appeared from the general state of the body-,
that he had snuggled a great deal ; the, clothes were not
torn. On searglisig him,' witness fouriel 4'1.61 in silY.Fr
in his ttosysers pocket. and Sid. in copper in Ns ecatt-
pocket ; also a pocket-handketchief and two thimbles.
There was a, ciutp as if from a slurp instrument, on the
collar of the shirt. The clothes aof the decefsed wgre
scarcely at all stained with blood.
The wife of the deceased was here called in, on ac-
count of some doubt existing as to whether the shirt
.was cut or torn. The poor woman appeared to he in
a most agonised state of trairsd. She examined the shirt,
and gave it as her opinion' that it was torn; it was not
so when he left home.
Jr. Ager, the surgeon, 'returned and stated that he
had again examined the body, and that he found some
clay ha the mouth, and an api.eArance of a slight blaw
eel the under lip.
A relative of the deceased here suggested that the
body having been first found with the face almost wholly
free from clay, it was probable that the clay afterwards
_observed on the face was occasioned lay the act of re-
moving the body.
. 'the Coroner was of opinion that further evidence was
unnecessary. The point for the Jury would he, did vie
than perpetrate the deed himself, or bad 0,614110 a
victim to others? As a .doubt might exist in the
of some, he should order the *gots to be cleared. •
la about a quarter of an hour afterwards, the Jury
returned a verdict of " Wiful Meirder against ionic
person or persons unknown:

BIRTH.
February 28, at Clapham, :Mrs. Nlven Kerr, of a daughter.

I)IED.
Yesterday, February 29, Sir Thomas 1414, Bart. aged 6l Jeers.
.‘1.41.1.5.—T111S DAY.

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