Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1876-05-18 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

COM- the post-mortem examination. He quite agreed with plained of her back. She then get up, put off her Dr Watson as to the post-mortem examination and clothes, laid down on the sofa, and said she wanted to the cause of death. He agreed with him that the sleep. Next morning when I got up at eight o'clock bruises on the nose and forehead mid hip might have I found her lying on the floor nearly dead. I sent been caused by a fall. for the doctor, but she died just as be got to her." I Selina Sarah Trotter was the next witness, and then went upstairs, and looked at the body of the her evidence was einsilar to that given before the deceased. I saw there were some marks on the nose ccroner. and forehead. I came down and asked Pattison how Cross-examined by Mr Fawcett: Both the father he thought she had got the marks. He said, "She and stepmother of the deceased seemed mach dieroust have fallen off the sofa during the night. Yes- tressed on Sunday re Jrning. Prisoner is a steady and terday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, I saw respectable man. Dr Watson open deceased's head, and when I saw Walter McNeil, engineers' apprentice, then gave where the head was injured I took I attison into cue- evidence, but no new feature transpired. His evitody and brought him to the Police Station. When deuce was simply a repetition of that given at the at the station I told him that I was going to lock coroner's inquiry. him up on suspicion of causing the death of. his In cross-examination by Mr Fawcett, witness daughter. He made no reply. I then locked laii . up. said : About 10 minutes elapsed between the deI made further inquiries, came baek aboutthree ours ceased and Mrs Trotter coming into the house, but later, went into the cell to Pattison, and chanced him I won't speak positively. We were in the yard about with wilfully murdering his daughter on Saturday four or five minutes before the prisoner came. When night. He shook his head, and said, "Oh, no, no, he came in I was amusing myself on an iron bar. I no." __ _ can't say what the others were doing. I did not see . _ _ . .. .... .. . .. .. .. . . ....  Sergeant He.slop said: On Monday morning, the 15th hit., I went in company with Inspector Bell to 6, Hardwieke-terrace, where I saw Mr Pattison. We inquired who was dead, and got the particulars which Inspector Bell has given in his evidence. About five o'clock last night I went hack to the house, and found the brush (now produced) in the pantry leading out of the kitchen. I took it up stairs where Fenwicke Trotter was, and said to him, " Is this the brush that Pattison held in his hand ?" He replied. "Yes, that is the brush he had in his hand when I got off the seat." I have since measured the kitchen window, and found the measurement to he 4f I. 10in. by 21t. 6in. From the bottom of the blind to the bottom of the window I :found the blind to be 2iin. short, leaving a space so as people could see into the kitchen from the street. I also measured the distance from :the window to the street, and found it 9f 1. 7in. I measured the rails on the yard wall, and they are 2ft. 6in. :in width, leaving sufficient room for two persons to stand side by side and look together. The kitchen is 121 t. 10in, each way. The sofa was on the opposite side of the room to the window.  Pollard with his arm on the deceased. They were soparently in friendly conversation. I have known the prisoner about two months. At the conclusion of the case the magistrates committed the prisoner for trial at the as2izas for