The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1876-02-02 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT CHESTER.  Mrs. Thompson died on Saturday morning at seven o'clock. In the afternoon Mr. Tatlock, the city coroner, opened an inquest at the Infirmary, when the body was identified and the surgeon's evidence was taken as to the condition of the deceased. The inquest was adjourned till Monday, in order that a postmortem examination may be made. Thompson, who is at the Castle, is not aware at present of his wife's death, and, from a note he has written, he is apparently still suffering from the effects of drink.  The adjourned inquest on the body of Ellen Thompson, of Grosvenor-square, Chester, whose death occurred under suspicious circumstances, was resumed on Monday. Ebor Chambers, house surgeon at the Chester Infirmary, who made a post-mortem examination of the body of the deceased, stated that he attributed death to an effusion of blood from a wound on the head, but he could not say how the wound was caused. There were other bruises on the body, but they were not sufficient to account for death.—From the evidence of the witnesses, including that of Police-sergeant Lindsay, it appeared that in the house in which the decen sed and her husband resided a quantity of what appeared to be human hair had been found on the hall table and in the drawing room. 'There were also marks of blood about the staircase; and on a coat and waistcoat found iii a box in the bedroom in which Thompson was discovered when the police entered the house there were also stains of blood.—The chief constable produced a statement which, he said, Thompson made when apprehended, to the effect that he tried to get the deceased upstairs several times during the night, but failed, and then he got a pillow and placed it underneath her head and the quilt over her body.—The inquest was again adjourned for a week.  Mr. J. W. CARMICHAEL, Surgeon Dentist, has removed to 18, Harrison-street, near Dalton-road. _  On Monday, at Elkington, Derby, a collier, named Whitland, was committed to prison for two months for biting off the nose of a man with whom he had quarrelled in a public house. William Fawcett, chief clerk at the Low Moor station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, was sentenced at Dewsbury to six months' imprisonment for assaulting a young lady in a railway carriage at Reckmondwike. At the Tharsis Works, Widnes, a shunter named Elsby was kicked .by a horse, and falling under the wheels of a waggon in motion received such injuries that death resulted shortly afterwards. _ _  At Midhurst Police-court on Monday, Thomas Woodfred was committed for trial charged with the wilful murder of George Marshall, at Cocking, Sussex. During a quarrel he struck Marshall, and, having knocked him down, knelt upon his throat, causing strangulation. In the Queen's Bench Division, on Monday. the ease against the printer of the Daily Telegraph for publishing a libel on the Hastings justices, in commenting on the cabbage-stealing case, was dismissed, the defendant apologising and paying the costs.  Thomas Stewart, captain of the ship Lifeboat, of South Shields, was picked up dro ranee-1 in Shields harbour on Monday morning. He had not been long in the water, as his watch was going. The supposition is that, after leaving his vessel, he had fallen over one of the quays. Last Sunday were held the final services of the only Welsh congregation worshipping in Cardiff in connection with the Established Church ; and thus the chief town of Wales, with a population of 80,000, is left entirely destitute of episcopal services in the native language. Lady Llanover (formerly Lady Benjamin Hall) writes a lengthy letter to a contemporary, in which she strongly coodemns the neglect of the Welsh people by the establishment, and points out that there are eleven flourishing Welsh NonconTormist chapels in Cardiff with large congregations.