The Sun. — 1824-11-08 (London, England)

MURDER.  On-Tuesday an Inquest was taken by Mr. Lowucaorr, ut North Stoneham, on view of the body of Mary Page, who, on the preceding Thursday, died in the parish of St. Peter's Cheesehill,. near Winchester, and on Sunday was conveyed to Stoneham for interment. At the time appointed for the' interment, a mob of females gathered round the. hoUse and protested against the removal of the body, declaring ,that the death of the woman was occasioned by the 111-treatment of James Page, her husband. As soon, therefore, as the necessary evidence could be collected, a Jury was summoned to investigate the circumstances. It appeared that _the deceased had been married about eight menthe, prevpus to which lime she had been a domestic in the house of John Fleming, Esq., M.P., of Stoneham-park, and had there established a most unexceptionable character.— The principal witnesses produced on the inquest were the nurse and companions of the deceased during her illness, a person who had .witnessed her bad treatment, and the surgeon who had attended her. Numerous instances of extreme want of feeling were related by the witnesses in the caurse of the examinedohs ; but that on which the Jury founded their verdict was a complaint by the deceased, in the month of August last, that her husband had been cruelly beating her, when she produced a large stick, with which he had given her a violent blow on the back of the head. The deceased frequently, especially during her last illness, complained of pains in the head,but never stated to the Burgeon any probable cause ; and that gentleman, not having reason to suspect any thing improper, of course at. tributed them to the effect of her illness. On the llth of Oct. the poor woman was seized with convulsions, within two days she was prematurely delivered of a still-born child, and on the 29th death terminated her sufferings. Upon a more minute examination of the body during the Inquest, the surgeon discovered a mark on the external surface of the back part of the skyll, corresponding with the plaCe alluded to by a former witness, evidently produced by a violent, but not a recent blow. Under that bruise lie found a formation or deposit of bone, which must have been increasing for some time, and which would produce cenvitleion tits; and he had no doubt that those convulsions were tee, immediate cause both of the premature confinement, and of the death of the unfortunate object of inquiry. The Coroner explained to the Jury such points of law as were necessary for their consideration : and they, after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against James Page, her husband ; who was immediately committed by the Coroner to the county gaol for trial at the next Assizes.— (Portsmouth Paper.) In addition to the foregoing particulars, we learn from inquiries made on the spot, that the body was brought on Sunday, the 31st ult., in a cart from Winchester, to be buried in North Stoneham Church, when the Rev. Mr. leadon, the rec. tor of that parish, having previously been made acquainted by the Rev. Mr. Richards, the Vicar of South Stoneham, who resides at Winchester, with the suspicions and rumours which were afloat, very properly refused it interment until a Coroner's inquest had been held;--the body in the mean time was depo. sited in the aisle of the church.—We learn further, that the Rev. Gentleman immediately wrote to Mr. Fleming on the subject, who stated his determination that the case should be particularly investigated, and that strict justice should be done.— The deceased had been taken by him when a child *om the poor-house, and had been bred up and provided for as an underservant in the family.—(Southampton herald.)  SUDDEN DEATu.—Saturday morning, a middlea ed man, named Foley, who resided on Safflvri-hill, was in his apartment conversing in the most cheerful manner with his wire, and shortly after he quitted the room, bidding her " good Y. He had not been absent more than a minute, when she Was alarmed by the intelligence that he was found dead in the Passage, where, on proceeding thither, she found him a corpse, baying been seized with an apoplectic fit.