The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1884-05-30 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE ALLEORD MURDER AT BECKINGTON. On Monday the in-meet on the body of Thomas Phillips, who died under mysterious circum itances at Beckington, was resumed before Mr. W. Muller, at the Woo'pack Inn, Beckington. Dr. EVATIR said that in consequence of a letter received from the coroner he had, in company with Dr. Persons, ma le a further examination of the body of the deceased. Ile found a fracture of bath nasal bones, which would, in his opinion, have been caused by a fall or blow. It would sot be improbable for snob a fracture to have been  caused by a fall, but he would expect then that there would be brufeal Oa the tip of the nom.. There wis a rom.tit.bl.• ab•et.o: of inj•triee ti the ski . Toe more •.e hit tl °ugh.. of the, use b • more bo we+Ci vice I rh.r toe mjdrie.i were tt..t eaus...l by II‘• [I di oot think t• •.1 w tollow d hv a fat w 0•1,1 nave pr  eel the i joi i a He did hot th nk LO • .hiti ies would be exptained by blo and th bra t strtiti g kgaitet a w dl. The reason he aid so Was th .t, fr m the nature of tne fracture, the force must have he .n rausinated from the spine either by the body fellit.g on the head, or else the head tieing driven fun ibly on the spit.° His conve Batton with the deceased rel..tive to the fall from a la tiler to ik place on a Sunday at 12.30 p.m. It Was pacibla that at that time ffuoon might have commenced, but he te .nsidered deceased was quite capable of Riving expression to his own thoughts. The bleeding from the right notril with none from the left, blood effused on the right ei In of the head amid none on the left, and when he turned the body over in the post mortem a quantit y of hloxi running from the right no trill, was to his mind et( ong evidence that the blood cacao from the brain and not from the fr acture of the nose, and the theory he would drew from that war, that supposing the dec,ased met with toe accident before he went t.• the publie.huuse the stimulant he had, cold air, and waiki g exercise would bring on a reaction in excess, and bleeding would occur on the brain. The blood pouring out on the brain would very probably cause giddiuess and account for his felling ; the blood then would find vent through the nose and relieve the brain, enabling him to ket home. When witness was called in decemed was quite conscious, and inede no complaint of being assaulted. Mr. J. Frelk. Parsons M.H.C.S.E.,'eaid en Tuesday, in consequence of a communication received from Dr. Evans, he made wtih him a further examination of deceased's body. He described the appearauce of the body, and it was his opinion that the fracture of the bridge of the nose was caused by a vi dent blow delivered Iron directly in front by an intrumeut th it Was fairly soft—pessibly from a fist, Ic w iild be difficult to explain such an injury by a fall. Dr. Evan's evidence was real over, and nearly the whole theory of the tall Mr. Parsons said he could n.it follow, and did uet agree wi.h it. Several other witnesses having been called the jthy returned the fotiowing ye, dint :—" That the deceased died from an effusion of blood on the Inaba produeed by a fracture in the hese of the skull, but there is no evidence to show how the friaeure occurred." Tuey also added a rider thanking the police for their careful investigation in the case. Mr. Busgood said that on behalf of the police he c mid net look upon the case as settled, but if anything further came out in the uourse of the inveecigations which they would continue to make they had another court to which they could , apply. .