Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1873-03-29 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN , U AT SANDBAOII. VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER. Yesterday, the coroner, Mr. Dunstan, contldea his inquiry into the death of Jam.Zreen, at Sandbach. Mr. Cooper watched Vac case on behalf of the man Buckley, 171-10 is now lying in Chester Castle, on a charge Of wilf murder, having been committed by th°l34l°4:;trates who heard the case. The case for the prosecution was closed, and in answer to the coroner, Mr. Cooper said he had not made an application to the Secretary of State for an order to exhume Green's body, as he could rebut the evidence for the Prosecution without. He then  called— Joseph Hill, a lock carpenter, who said he had worked for the canal company 62 years, and had helped to pull several bodies out of the canal during that time, his own son amongst them. He was only in half an hour, and was cut all to pieces. Most of the bodies witness had seen had been cut and crushed, and some had not been injured at all. The boats were plated at the bottom with iron, and when the nail heads were off the plates would hang down, and would out as clean as aknife. '— George Lewis said he saw Green on the 24th ult., in Tarnall's public house, talking to a lot of men and women at the top of the steps, from eight to nine o'clock. Joseph Turner said he lived about 20 yards from where the body was found. On the Monday or Tuesday night that Green was missing he heard a disturbance on the canal bank. Witness was in bed and thought it was midnight. The sounds were of men quarrelling. Saw Buckley on the Wednesday and did not observe any cuts on his face. Dodd t b saidef before thewo rdrkmeudaetr hecalled farm, and at Back. ley's house, and found him ki fb lling his pig in ....e pig. about afosrptnoi stye. The pig got off the bench, and he helped him to put it on again. The blood ran on the straw. He saw a piece cf sacking over the pigstye door. Asked him to come to work at Sutton's farm, and he came on the Thursday. On the Friday he perceived that his face was cut, and on asking him how he had done it, he said he had fallen own a crab tree which he was pruning: then summed The coroner up, and recapitulated the facts of the ease. He said it was impossible that Green could have suet his death accidentally, as had been suggested. From the evidence of Dr. Latham it was proved that the wounds on the deceased's head and face had been inflicted before death, and that he had received a kick or blow, which had caused rupture of the bladder. He wished the jury to dismiss everything they had heard outside, and only consider the i facts of the case as laid down n evidence. They must connect the facts brought forward against the man Buckley, already in custody, and if they thought there was any reasonable suspicion against him it would be their duty to return a verdict of wilful mut.. det• against him. If they thought that he had accounted for every suspicious circumstance satisfactorily, and cleared himself of any suspicion resting upon him, then it would be the duty of the jury to return a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. While complimenting the Police on the fairness with which they had given their evidence, he must say if they had commenced the search •• sooner than they did, the mystery would have been . cleared up with less difficulty. , pf: The room was then cleared, and after a quarter of au hour's consultation, the Jury returned a wianialem , gordiet of if Wiltal murder opiait bani Buckiv,,,