The Cotton Factory Times. — 1888-01-13 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

THE INQUEST. The inquest was held at half-past nine. The jury minutely inspected the body and the se9.ia'old. The usual evidence was taken, and it soon transpired that some angry feeling existed owing to the exclusion of the press. _ _ _ .  Mr. Oxford, the deputy governor, deposed that he witnessed the execution, the governor being sick. The Coroner: Do you consider, Mr. Deputy. Governor, that it is part of your duty to be in,ielnt to the representatives of the press when they are admitted?  Witness: No, I was not insolent this morning. He denied that he took the sheriff away from the reporters with the view to suppress informatiro. He had no special object in calling away the sheriff except for business. A juryman, with the consent of the coroner, asked if the culprit had left any confession or cora• munication behind him.  Witness said he was not aware, but the deceased made no confession of guilt on the scaffold or on the way to it. .  In reply to further questions, the witness admitted that neither the doctor nor the sheriff could afterwards be found by the reporters. There was no rule prohibiting these gentlemen from seeing reporters. Witness had not given instructions to responsible officers to refuse all information. Be directed that the reporters should be admitted the moment the flag was hoisted, but they were not admitted exactly then. Witness admitted he did not give the reporers any information, and excused himself by saying he bad none to give. Witness wished with the coroner that executions in Cork where open to reporters the same as in England, and then this bother would not arise. _ . _ .  Dr. Moriarty, the prison surgeon, deposed that the convict walked with the greatest bravery to the scaffold. Witness hoped he would never see the Like again.  One of the jurymen expressed a wish that the jury should see the hangman, bat was told it wag not usual to take his evidenze.  Another juror said he would like to hear the hangman's evidence. The Deputy-Governor said the hangman had left the prison. The Coroner said if they insisted on the hang. man's presence he would adjourn the inquiry for his attendance. The hangman had been produced at inquests in England, and the request of the jury must be satisfied.  The Deputy-Governor said Berry told him he was going away. The Coroner said he would adjourn for an hour, and perhaps Berry would be found. The Deputy-Governor said he had no idea where to find him.  A juror said the hangman had no right to leave the prison. The Coroner quite agreed with this remark, au& said it was shirking inquiry. The Coroner then adjourned the inquest till thie (Wednesday) morning. The adjournment of the inquest and the char? of suppressing information against the prison ofh• mats caused great excitement at Cork.  Dr. Moriarty, the prison doctor, says he ha 3. seeo many executions, but never such bravery as exhibited by Dr. Cross at the last moment. Previous to the holt being drawn the criminal, when the rope was ttdpisted, turned round and faced the clergyman, who was reading the burial service. At ten minutes after eight o'clock the reporters were admitted. The culprit's bead was hanging to the right, and big neck had been broken. The convict wore a brown jersey and no collar or tie. A large crowd of people conga' gated outside the gaol. After Dr. Cross's execution Berry left Cork gaol with two detectives and drove to Blarney, where he joined the train for Dublin.  A young woman named Louisa Ostler, wife of a chemist's assistant at East Greenwich, on Wedues• day murdered one of her children, a little boy aged two years and five months, by cutting off his head with a table knife. %f had had for some time been suffering from religious mania, and when charged with the murder, merely replied that Giod had said she must do it.