The Commonwealth. — 1866-10-06 (London, England)

SUSPECTED MURDER IN MANCHESTER. An inquiry was held on Saturday before the Manchester coroner tou3hing the death of Samuel Jackson, brass-moulder, aged 48, who lived in Owen.street, City. road.  From the testimony of several witnesses it appeared that shortly before six o'clock on Thursday morning a party of workmen found deceased lying in a passage leading from Liverpool-road to Worsley-street. He appeared to be insensible, and a policeman was fetched immediately. This officer (Sergeant Maude) said he supposed the deceased to be drunk, and he had him conveyed on a stretcher to the Knott•hill police, station, where he remained until two o'clock in the afternoon. He put deceased into a cell which he thought was very warm, and left him in charge of another (racer. He continued insensible, and at eleven o'clock a doat.,r was brought in, who said he did not think the deceased was in immediate danger; bat he recommended his removal to some place whore he could be better attended to. Dr, George Pettinger stated that the deceased died on Friday abont half-past twelve o'clock. On making a post-mortem examination he found several -bruises on the crown of the head, and a fracture at the base of the skull, which could not have been produced by a fall. It must have been caused by 9 heavy blow, and accounted for the state of insensibility in which the deceased was found. No medical aid at any time could have saved him. A witness wns examin,-..d who saw the deceased at midnight on Wecinesdar, and police-constable Paynter said be was in the passage several times during the night but saw nothing of tne deceased. It transpired, however, that the passage was of peculiar constrm tion, having a very sudden curve, and the policeman, thinking it a rut dc sac, had not gone quite to the end of it. A eon of the deceased, who had not lived at home for some time, stated that his father MO in the haoit of getting intoxicated. The jary returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, adding that the policeman had been guilty of neglect of duty in not examining the passage. Superintendent, Maybury explained that this was the first time the officer had been on this r articular beat.  Destruction of i'wo Villages by ire.—Tbe village of Vinare' St. Chri,t The (Isere) was a few days back totally destroyed by a conflagrat'or, in which three persons lost their lives. Ahotat the same time a fire broke out in the hamlet of La Itiviere, when 53 houses were reduced to ashes. At the former place the origin was attributed to acdent, hat at. the latter two individuals have been arrested us izwenditsries.  Frightful Death .of a Horsebreaker.—A horsebreaker, named Pdgrim, died at his house 10 Hawkridge-street, Nottingham, on Friday, from the effects of a kick from a horse a few days previously. The deceased was breaking in a youtg horse, the property of a farmer named Ellinor, at Colwick, near Nottingham, and whilst driving it in girths, he gilve it a sharp cut with the whip, wten the animal (which was a spirited one) struck out with its hind legs, one of its hoofs striking the eye and forehead of Pilgrim. The blow was so violent that the bone was forced in and a portion of the brain protruded. The poor fellow was immediately conveyed hope and medical assistance procured, bat without avail, as he died on Friday, after having endured intense agony.