Star.
London, England, 1817-01-07 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

An Inquest was held last night in the Steward's
Room of St. Bsrtholomew's Hospital, betore Mr.
SHELTON, the City Coroner, upon the body of Carsten
Heucke, a German, who died on Friday lest, in con-
sequence of contusio:is inflicted on his bead, by Thd-
rithßutt, with a poker.

Christian Neuman stated (throogli the assistance!
of a German interpreter) tn.e. Le was sere ea to
Messrs. H. and S. Frit acke, e.ho are sugar bakers,
at 205, Upper Thames-street. D,•diich Butt and tl:e
deceased were also servants to Messrs. Flieitcke. On
Saturday, the 28th of December, about nine o'clock,
deceased and Butt were in a room attached to the
premises. The deceased came home first, and shortly
afterwards Dedrich Butt came home, and they eat
together. Other persons came into the room, but went
up stairs ro bed. -Wlien Cul had eaten aild drank
together, coffee and steaks, Dedrich Butt bent a
Icandlestick with a poker, and afterwards attempted
to straighten it with the same poker ; witness did not
know for what he did it, but he could not etra4 t;:eu
the candlestick. He attempted to do it. by putting it
on the tebie and striking it with the poker. The de-'
ceased was sitting at the other end of the table, and
told Butt to go away, as he should not du i:. De.
ceased had not quite finished his supper. He still
continued to beat the caneilestick, but the deceased
told him to go away, and nut snake the table so;
notwithstanding which he continued to strike it
more violently. The deceased then got up and went
to Butt, and pushed him from the corner Of the
table with his bands; he did not push him down.—
Butt then returned to the table immediately, and at•
tempted to commence beating the candlestick again,
but the deceased tried to lay hold
.of the poker, and
to take it from him, but he would not let it go, and
they pulled each other round the table and the room,
both holding the poker; and after having pulled
each other about for some time, they each let go one
hand and beat each other .with the other hand, and
they then got hold of the poker with loth hands,
and shortly afterwards Dedrich Batt got the poker
to himself, and began to beat the deceased about the
head. The deceased stooped, and Butt snuck him
several times over the bead, and the deceased fell
down. Butt arid the deceased were, as far as wit-
ness knew, good friends, and had worked together
four months. They appeared to be both in liquor
on the evening of the occurrence, but were not very
drunk.. Witness did nlt iuteilige for fear he should
be hurt himself. The affray lasted a very shirt time.
IMary Rigby, a servant at the Rummer public.
!house, remembered seeing the deceased and Butt
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together in a room drinking beer. They appealed
good friends, but were both in liquor. Batt, how-
ever, was mote intoxicated than the deceased.

Henry Worthing, one of the.snrgelis of St. Bar
tholomew's Hospital, had no doubt that the deem of
the man was occa&ooed by the fracture of the skull;
and he was of opinion that it might nave been done
by a blow from a poker.
The Coroner, Mr. SHELTON, lamented that them
was no other evidence of the unfortunate circum;
stance in question beyond that of Christian Iskunian,
and having recapitulated the evidence very minutely
left it to the Jury to say, whether the blows given
by Butt to the deceased were not the effect of heated
passion, arising from the scuffle which had previously
taken place between the parties.
The Jury, having consulted a few minutes, re-
turned a verdict of—Manslaughter.
Butt is already in custody in Ciltspur-street Comp-
ter, and has undergone an examination before the
Magistrate at Guildhall.
Friday an Inquest was held at Nottingham on the
body of C. Hall, a workman in the employ of Mr.
Jackson, twist lace manufacturer, in Parliament.
street, who lost his We the same evening by playing
with fire-arms. Mr. Jackson had received repeated
threatening letters, and in consequence had provided
a quantity of fire-arms, which were constantly kept
loaded. The deceased, who was employed as a
smith, was in the habit of an evening of assisting the
servants in closing the shutters, &c. and remaining
until the watchman came. Oa the above evening
be-at by the fire in the kitchen ; prior to which a
servant girl had taken three brace of pistols fiorn the
cupboard, and placed them on the table. Mrs. Jack-
ion being confined to her room, the nurse came down
stairs for the tea kettle, when she observed the de-
ceased take up one of the pistols, and the girl
another, and appeared to be jocular with each other
for some minutes ; at letgth, she heard the deceased
say to the girl-0 Pull, pull hard !" and instantly
the pistol went off, and the deceased, C. H.tll, fell
from his chair upon the Boer. Tha girl ran up to
the work shop, at the top of the house, exclaiming-1
'4 He's shot, he's shot !" when two of the workmen,
came dowo, and found hilts lying on the Moor, with
a wound in his chest ; a loaded pistol at his feet, and
anotherlwhich appeared to have been recently dis-
charged) lay near his head. They lifted him up,
when lie gasped once, and expired. The whole con-
i tents of the pistol, viz. two balls besides slugs, passed
into the unfortunate man's longs. The deceased
was a single man, had been a soldier, and knew the
pistols were loaded, and had a few days b:fore been
instructing the girl how to tire them. Verdict—Ac-
' cidental Death.
The dead body of a man unknown, haiing been
found in an untvtiurnted hut, within a field adjoin-
ing the Tadcaster-road, in the Ainsty, an Itap.4:
was taken on Sunday se'imight, at Bilbrough. The
poor man had no money, nor any papers about him
which could lead to a discovery of his connexions.—
He was dressed in regimentals, and looked like an
old soldier ; his shirt was m irked 1). Ostle, Ist C 4r-
rison Comp. and the buttons on his coat S. G. C.
He bad the appearance of having been in great dis-
tress, and it is supposed fatigue er the inclemency of
the weather had caused hifit to take shelter is the hut.
There were no marks uf violence upon his body, and
the Jury returned a verdict—Found Dead.

MUJIDERS—Sarah li'idrea, of Cheadle, Staffordshire,
has been committed for trial, charged with murder-
ing her husband, by fracturing his skull with a tire-
shovel- I)l4'Aeolic** was the precursor of the horrid
deed. •
An Irishman has been oommitte.l to take hii trial
at tlis Northumberland Assizes for the murder of his
comrade, a few days ago, at a pottery, in Stepney.
1 641Mareo 4411' Ne.Cithile•

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