The Sun. — 1858-07-31 (London, England)

HORRIBLE MURDER.  FRISTOL, Friday. - Mr. Bruges Fry, coroner for the eastern division of the county of Somerset, held an inquest last night at the Batchers'Arms Tavern, Neilsen, on the body of a little boy, named James Curr, who was murdered by his mother under circumstances of an unusually painful character, The unhappy woman by whom the fatal deed was perpetrated, and who very nearly succeeded in depriving herself of life immediately afar be committal, is Mize Curr, and she is the wife of George Curr, a collier employed at one of the pits in the Naileea Mrs, Curr, who at the time the fatal crime was committed bad s x children living, resided with her bu,band-in a cottage in the village. It is stated that they bad lived latterly very unhappily, although no one suspected for a moment that her state of mind was so desperate as to lead her to contemplate, as beyond doubt she did, the sacrifice of btr own life and at least three of her children. It appeared from the evidere-r of her little girl, six years old, Melinda Cure, and the other witnesses, that en the day in question, after her husband bad gone out, the unhappy woman sent her three eldest chi;dren out of the house, and then took the witness, her deceased brother James Corr, who was four years old, and a younger child up into the bedroom. She then Eelz hold of the little fellow, James, who resisted and cried not pAeoady, "Oh, don'tee, mother, don'tee !" and with a razor cut his throat with such despera ion as to nearly sever the heel from the body. She was about to perpetrate a simi:ar crime on the other children, but happily their cries caused an alarm, and, fearing that she would be interrupted, the desperate woman hurriedly cut her own throat w ith the seine instrument with which she had murdered her little boy. The eali which she in flitt,d upon herself was a wry deep ono, but happily the large blood-vessels were not divided, so that the medical gentleman who was ca led in seems to have considerable hope that she will uliimately recover. Id ormatron of the dreadful tragedy was given with all promptitude to the police, and police-c netable Pigeon of the Semersetshire constabulary was quickly in a tendance at the cottage. The sight which met Iris eye was a truly horrifying one. The body of the poor little chili, with his throat shockingly mangled, and with his clothes saturated with blood, lay in oce spot, while in another was the mother, in an almost eget:oly lifeless state, and with the evidences of the double c: ins of which she toad been gnil y all around her. After the several witnesses had been examined and had deposed to the forrgoiog facts, the coroner summed up the evidence at considerable length. He charged the jury to dismiss from their minds everything which they might have heard out ( f doors, and to be guided by the evidence clone ; and with reference to the state of mind of the accused at the time when she committed the fatal act, that was a matter which they bad better leave to be investigated by another court. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against the mother (Eliza Cure), and, as soon as she has sufficiently recovered to admit f her removal, she will be committed to await her trial for that crime.