The Sun. — 1841-12-24 (London, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER NEAR SEVERN STOKE.  Early on Sunday morning last, a man named Richard Kinton, was found lying dead on the turnpike road about five or six miles from Worcester, on the way; Tewkesbury. On his shoulder were marks as though a waggon had passed over him; but, from other appearances on his body, suspicions were raised that something else had a share in his death, upon which a labouring man, named Tippin, who resides, with his wife and three children, in a garret at Severn Stoke, was apprehended. On Tuesday an inquest was held by Mr. Hughes, at the Boar's Head Inn, Severn Stoke; and the following facts elicited:—  ----____ John Chivers, van driver from Cheltenham to Worcester, deposed that he met with the deceased at the Bear, Tewkesbury, on Saturday last, and, as he said he was going to Worcester, witness agreed to take him there, although he said that he had no money. They walked along the road by the side of the van until they reached the seventh milestone frym Worcester, when Chivers got into the waggon, and left deceased in care of the horses. Chivers shortly afterwards fell asleep, and awoke about the fifth milestone from Worcester, when he missed the deceased, and hallooed after him ; they went on till he had reached the gate about a mile out on that road, and acquainted the gatekeeper and, subsequently, two policemen with the circumstances. Superintendent Manton, who apprehended the prisoner, found on him a knife which was clearly identified by the landlord of the Blue Bell as that which he had seen in the possession of the deceased, and he also found a whip, which was identified and owned by the vandriver. _ _ _  Superintendent Craig also searched the prisoner's lodgings, and found a smock-frock with marks of blood on it; and in reply to his inquiries, the prisoner said he found the knife on the turnpike-road ; and yesterday morning he discovered a small quantity of tobacco in the prisoner's room, wrapped in a piece of the Worcester Journal, a very singular coincidence, if it be accidental, for Mr. Wagstaff, the landlord of the Blue Bell, gave the deceased a small quantity of tobacco, on Saturday evening, screwed up in a piece of the Worcester Journal The prisoner, in his Aefence, accounted for the possession of the tobacco by saying that he had purchased it at the Barley Mow, the landlord of which is in the habit of wrapping his tobacco in old newspapers ;as to the knife he had picked it up on Sunday morning, between Hill Croome and Severn Stoke, as he was taking a (log to the former place. He confessed that he was at the Albion, in Worcester, on Saturday night, with three other men, two of whom are named Powell and Stanton ; and he said that on his way home he met a man at Smallbrook, with some one sitting on the shafts. The whip, which was produced, he stated he had never seen before. The smock-frock he said was marked with blood from a sheep's head which he had bought from Mr. Green, of Kinnersley, on the Bth instant. The inquest was then adjourned till to-morrow (Thursday).— Worcester Journal.  Lord Rolle has given 2,000/. to build a new bridge across the rive Torridge in connection with the proposed new road to Little Torrington.— Western Luminary. A