Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-01-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE POPLAR MURDER.  INQUEST AND VERDICT.  The inquest on the body of Rao Milieu, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at Poplar last month, and with respect to whose death there is a conflict cf medical testimony, was resumed on Wednesday before Ur Wynne Baxter, the Coroner. Mr St. John Wontner again represented the police.—Benjamin Payne of 184, High-street, Poplar, grocer, said the house in which he lived adjoined.Clark'syard, where the body Was found./ He was at work until a quarter to four on the morning on which the body was . found, but he heard no cry of distress.—John ! Ashby, a letter carrier, residing at 186,114 th-street, Poplar, gave similar evidence.—Dr. Brownfield ireballeffi suited that, in addition to Drs. Bond and Elibberd, Dr. McKellar, the chief surgeon of the metropolitan police, saw the body, and Dr. McKellar agreed with witness's opinion as to the cause of death.—By Mr Wontner : Witness adhered to the opinion that 'death we. caused by homicidal violence. ! The mark on the neck was too straight land too even all along its course to have been caused by the collar of the jacket.— Jane Hill, widow, of IE2, High-street, Poplar, said she last saw deceased at a quarter-past twelve am. on Thursday, the 20th of December. She was not drunk, neither , was she sober. She was sick, and told wittiest' she Wag rafforing from bile.-Thomas Chivers, Coroner's officer and mortuary keeper, residing at High-street, Poplar, deposed that he saw the body on the , morning of December the 20th. There we. a mark about an eighth of an inch wide round deceased's neck. He saw the body at various ! intervals up to January 4th. and the mark became more apparent as time went on.—Alifm Graves, of 18, George-street, Spitafields, how said she was an unfortunate, deposed that she saw the body of deceased, whom she recognised !as " Drunken Lizzie." She last saw &ceased alive in Commercial-road about a quarter to two in the morning of the 20th December. She was , drunk, and in the company of two men. They , were going towards the City.—This being all the evidence, the Coroner, on stunmiug up, said there was the fact that when tho deceseed was found there was no dniarrangcmaut of her clothes or signs of a violent struggle at the time. The clothes of the last victim of the Whiteahapel murderer, on whom he had held an inquest, were in no way disarranged. Alluding to the fact of severed doctors having been sent down by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to see the body without his sanction, Mr Barter said he !did sot wish to make this a personal ' matter, hut certainly it had never happened !to him before. All the doctors agreed that the ' deceased died of strangulation, and tour out of five were of opinion that it was homicidal strangnlotion. With regard to the evidence of Br. Bond, who thought it woe not • murder, !because the mark was not sufficiently ; clear, he might point out that the Indian doctors ' had shown that in rases of murder by Thogs there was often utiitavek at alt.—After • brief cohsoltation the Inry returned a 'verdict of