Star.
London, England, 1826-10-11 00:00:00

ADJOURNED INQUEST AT MANCHE.STERt

Monday morning an Inquest was held, at the Lamb
public-house, in Toad Lane, Manchester, on the body
of Alice Attlebury, a woman of the town, who died
early on Sunday morning, in consequence of having
been most brutally ill-treated by six men in the street.
The first witness, Mary Whit iker, stated, that she was
the wife of the man who keeps the tap room attached
to the Ordnance Arms public-house, in Hanging-ditch;
that the deceased on Saturday night was in the tap room
in company with six boatmen, who appeared to be
using her roughly. They all seemed to be a little
in liquor, but were not drunk ; they left the tap room
about half-past eleven o'clock. The men then went into
the Ordnance Arms and had some beer, but the de-
ceased went into the street, and witness did not see her
again until after she was dead. Witness thought she
should know the men again if she saw them.
Mr. Lavender said, there were six boatmen in custody,
and she would have an opportunity of seeing them. In
a short time they were brought into an adjoining room,
and the witness instantly identified them as the men wbo
were in company with the deceased on Saturday night.
Several other witnesses were examined, among whom
was Elizabeth Clarke, who deposed that her mother
keeps the Durham Ox, where the boatmen had been
drinking. That about half an hour after they went
away, she opened the door and looked out, when she
heard a woman scream faintly under a hovel opposite
the Lamb, which is about thirty yards from the Dur-
ham Oz; immediately afterwards six men came out of
the hovel, two of them dragging a woonxt by the feet, and
dragged her down the street some distance, and, as she
thought,was striking and kicking her as she lay upon the
ground ; four of them appeared to strike her with their
fists, and two to kick her ; after they left her lying in die
street, then came past her whilst she was standing
at the door ; she asked them what they had been doing
to that woman? when they all ran away. At first the
witness durst not leave the door, but in a moment or
two, a soldier, and Mr. Williams, landlord of the Lamb,
went to the place what the woman lay, arid they carried
her away.

Henri Mapleson, a private in the Grenadier Guards,
deposed, that be was going to bed at the Lamb, where
he was quartered, a few minutes past one o'clock on
Sunday morning, when he heard a noise in the street,
which attracted his notice ; and on opening the window
he saw four or five men dragging a woman along the
street by the legs; he called out from the window, but
they made no reply ; he saw them leave her in the
street, and run away. He went down stairs to the
landlord, and told him what be had seen, and begged
of him to go with him; at first the landlord refused,
observing that it was, he supposed, only a drunken
frolic. At last the landlord accompanied him to
the spot, when they found the deceased with her
clothes over her head ; she did not speak, and there was
a rattling noise in her throat, as if she was choking.
They raised her up, and curled her into the shed oppo-
site, thinking she was dead drunk. A surgeon was
sent for, but she was kept in the shed for some time be-
fore he came, she was then carried into the house and
died in a few minutes afterwards.

Mr. Williams, the landlord, corroborated the evi-
dence of the last witness, so far as he had an opportu-
nity of seeing.
Mr. Lavender said, that he thought Mr. Williams had
shewn very little humanity in having the deceased for
two hours in a cold shed, instead of taking her into
his house.

Mr. Williams said he certainly should have taken her
into his house immediately if he had known the condi-
tion she was in, but he thought her only drunk. He
did all he could to procure a surgeon.
Mr. Henry Oilier, surgeon, said that he examined the
body of the deceased, and found a braised wound on
the right temple, and another on the right side of her
neck. Under the bruise on the temple there was
an extravasation of blood beneath the scalp ; and, on
opening the head, he found a very copious effusion of
blood on the substance of the brain, and bad no doubt
'but these appearances bad been produced by some ex-

I.ernal violence, either a blow or a fall, and that violence',
had caused her death.

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This being all the evidence adduced, the room was
cleared for a few minutes, when it was announced that
the Inquest was adjourned to Thursday next, in the
hope that some further evidence might be obtained.—
The prisoners in the mean time remain in custody.