Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-08-29 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

VERT BAD TEMPER. Witness went to bed, and got up about 230 on Saturday morning to get his sister Ellen a drink of water. He went into the room, and saw his mother in bed, wrapped up in the ordinary way. She appeared to be asleep, and he noticed that she had one hand on her breast. The bed appeared not to have been slept in by his father. He spoke twice to his mother but got no answer, and he went and put his ear to her month to ascertain if she was breathing, but found she was not. Her face looked much as usual, but she was very white. He heard a noise in the cellar and thought it was his father, and be went hack to bed wail'. He got up again about eight o'clock, but as be thought his mother was dead he did not go to his work. He went downstairs wit lqi his sister Esther, but did not go into the room becaufie he was frightened. His sister went and informed Mrs. Lee of what had taken place.—Esther Sutcliffe (10), daughter of the deceased stated that she last saw her father and mother at 11-30 on Friday evening. She was waiting up for them, and when they came in they were qaurrelling. The last witness told her that her mother was dead, and she went for Mrs Lee.—Dr. Richard Alexander Sioith Eden said be was a surgeon practising at Wilsden. He had made a post-mortem examination of the body of Jane Sutcliffe. Be found that she waa a fairly nourished female. On the left side of the neck, about one and • half inches below the globule of the ear there was a distinct abrasion of the skin about half an inch in diameter. There was a similar abrasion half an inch lower, with small scratches around. It indicated the impression of a forefinger and the second forefinger. There were also similar marks on the right side of the neck. These appearances indicated that the neck had been grasped by the hand in sulh a way am to injure the muscles There were no other marks on the body. I Internally there was a considerable quantity of blood between the spaces of the muscles of the neck, and a small quantity of frothy mucus, tinged with blood, in the larynx. Under the scalp there were • number of discoloration* caused by the rupture of the small wa vessels, and the brain s congested. In his opinion  TWZ CAUSIC OP DCA= WAS WPWANGOLAIION from the compression of the throat. From the condition of the heart and lungs, he was of opinion that death would have been easily caused, and resistance would be slight.—The inquest was then held upon the body of Esekiel Sutcliffe, who was found drowned in a mill dam at Birks Head, Wilsden. —Robert Hornby, of Wilsdro, weaver, said that he found the deceased on Saturday morni, a little before eight o'clock, in the dam of Birks Head Mill, which is in the district of the Wileden Local Board. He found that deceased's coat tails were Boating on the water, and he went for assistance and got deceased out. He was quite dead. The dam was properly fenced round, and there were DO marks to indicate where the deceased entered the water.— Ann Hudson. of Lingbob, gave evidence as to laying out the body, and there were no marks of violence upon it. The coroner read the evidence and summed up briefly, and alter about ten minutes' deliberation the jury returned the following verdict :—"That the deceased Jane Sutcliffe was murdered by Ezekiel Sutcliffe, her husband, throttling her, and that the said Ezekiel Sutcliffe drowned himself while in an unsound state of mind."  TEI VOIRRAL of the two deceased took place at Great Horton on Wednesday afternoon. The interment was made in the burial-ground behind the Wesleyan Methodist chapel, High-street, where Mrs. Elio owns • grave. Hundreds of people, mostly women and children, assembled to witness the ceremony. The principal mourners were Mrs. Ellis and the children of the deceased couple. The Rev. James Cooke, superintendent minister of the Great Horton circuit, conducted service in the chapel and at the graveside.