The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-26 00:00:00

MURDER AND INQUEST.

An inquest was held on Wednesday last, at Lattera, by
James Carroll, Esq., on the body of Ellen Murphy, who
came by her death as follows :—The first witness examined
was Judy Hayes, who stated that on Sunday, the 3d of July
last, she went to the house of John Murphy, the husband of
deceased ; John Murphy was also sitting on a stool in the
corner. Mrs. Murphy, the deciased, then came in from the
yard, and passed into the inner room, and brought out some
boiled potatoes for the fowl in the yard. Denis Murphy fol-
lowed deceased out to the yard, and Mrs. Murphy returned
almost immediately to the kitchen, and sat down by the fire;
she was followed by Denis, who kissed both his bands, and
went to the dresser and kissed it also. Mr. Murphy called
out to him, " You omedhaun iraun, you are more rogue
than fool." " Say that again," he said, and she repeated the
expression. Denis then walked into the room inside the
kitchen, and Mrs. Murphy followed him, calling out,
" What are you doing there ?" He answered, " What
need you care." Witness then called to John, the
husband of the deceased, and the father of Denis, by
a f--- •
; former marriage, to go into the room for fear he (mean
dig .pens) should say or do anything to her. John, as-
cii:de
the far possible, got up and followed them into.the room ;
De-
nis, ander remonstrated with deceased for arguing with De-
don't y desired her to leave him trusting to himself. " Why
could bZleorrect him ? " she said. John answered, there
Deceased too° satisfaction got of him, whatever he was to do.
he pushed leath looking-glass from Denis in the room, and
pushed it agtinoor after her as she was coming out, and she
kitchen, and ,„; She then brought the looking-glass to the
Denis with the went to the dresser, and appeared to threaten
came back to t:mit:glass, but did not strike him. She
still advising her to CT. of the floor, and her husband was
self the father, aiirnalTn alone, and to be trusting to him-
aware of it, Denis " t mind him. Before they were
got hold of
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the a spade, and knocked the de-
ceased down by a blow
shoulder, and broke the spade
on her ; he then ran out of the
en lot up, and took up the
spade in his hand. Dace,ased tii'is_e, with the handle of the
iron of the spade from the floor
I koilled me." Witness
strong woman, that blow would 1:,:e said, " If I was not a
11.}, but she followed
then called to deceased not to
ancitersowwitness heard
Denis into the yard. • Immediately
and uenis Murphy
the sound of blows she ran out,
the ground bleeding from the head, „„, deceased on
had raised a
Passing the
window
towards the potato field. Previous to this, in the
that morn-
ing, witness was talking to deceased, who said
Denis
going on with his tantrums, and he
stool
as
over her head and killed a pullet on her; witness also visited
deceased several times since she was struck, and found her
up about the house, and also saw Denis one day sitting by
the fire in the kitchen. Mary Madden, daughter of '
de-
ceased by a former marriage, was also examined, and said
that her mother told her that Denis Murphy struck her and
was the cause of her death. The evidence of the medical
gentleman in attendance was, that there was a longitudinal
wound of three inches on the right side of the head, on the
parietal bone ; another at an angle from that near the crown
of the head, the scalp much thickened, and frontal bone
fractured ; there was inflammation and suppuration on the
brain, which caused death ; the right shoulder was dis-
coloured from the effects of a blow. The following verdict
was found :—" Deceased came by her death in consequence
of one mortal wound on the forehead, inflicted by Denis
Murphy, on the 3d day of July last, with a spade handle, of
which she languished till Tuesday, the 16th day of August
instant, and then died at Lattera." The coroner's warrant
was issued on Thursday morning, and in the course of the
same day Denis Murphy was arrested and lodged in the
county gaol of the North Riding.--Nenagla Guardian.

A flying fish was seen in the river Fal, near Falmouth, a
short time ago. This fish is a very rare visitant of our
shored.