The Sun. — 1845-01-09 (London, England)

DEATI OF A FEMALE FROM ALLEGED VIOLENCE.— was to get out, for Charles Lamb said, ' I'd sooner be On Tuesday Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Star and taken for murder than come to prison."Murder?' I Garter, Great Peter-street, Westminster, on the body of said to him, ' what murder? Upon which Lamb said, Mary Cotton, aged thirty, who cohabited with Isaac ' I was in Churchill's Wood getting a bundle of wood, Harmon, at No. 22, in the above street, who died under when a boy named John Brill came up to me, and I the following circumstances :—Witnesses living in rooms knocked him down. I stood a few minutes, and took his cap and hung it up on a stem, and laid his glove and next to that of deceased, said that on Saturday night they billhook by the side of him, as if he had tumbled out of saw her alive and well, and that at about two o'clock a tree, and,' he says, 'nobody else knows on it but you, next (Sunday) morning, they heard Harmon come home and if you tell anybody I'll kill you.' Lamb said the intoxicated. On entering he accused deceased of tardiboy was walking round the wood. ness in opening the street door for him, and said to her, " Witness had heard of the murder some years ago, " 1.11 give it you for keeping me waiting." They then and that Lamb had been had up for it. Witness also heard what they termed a " sobbing and wheezing" said to Lamb, when he mentioned the murder, ' What noise, as if made by a person trying but unable --murder Charley ?' to which Lamb said, ' Yes.' to cry out, and shortly afterwards they heard the " Witness says he has always been on good terms with sound of a heavy fall upon the floor, which was sucLamb ever since he has known him. seeded by the coming out of Harmon on the landing of " Witness says, that his reason for making this statethe stairs asking for succour, as something, he said, was the matter with deceased. The witnesses, Eliza Dunmerit is because he has had such queer dreams, and could not sleep on account of his knowledge of the ham and Mary Carman, went into the room and found deceased lying on the floor on her side, with her head murder. Witness says, on being asked by Lamb whether he partly under the bed, her hair dishevelled, and her nightcould look him in the face, and say that he told him dress disordered. One eye was closed, and froth was such a thing, ' that you certainly did,' and he has told oozing from her mouth. The woman Durham was in nothing but the truth, and that it is true as that he the act of lifting the deceased up, when she groaned stands here. feebly and died. Mr. Hanley, surgeon, of the Horse" Witness says, that he voluntarily makes this state.. ferry-road, said he was called by Harmon to see dement, and that no person has held out any promise or ceased, and:that he found her on the floor quiteidead,:with favour to him to do so. no exterior marks of injury on the body. Their absence, " Witness first made the statement to Mr. Hoare, the however, was no proof that violence had not been used. chief warder of the House of Correction, having told Harmon had given him two different versions of the the wardsman he wished me to see Mr. Hoare. Mr. affair. The Coroner and jury said that, under these Hoare came and said, ' What's the matter?' Witness doubtful circumstances, the inquiry must be adjourned said, `Charles Lamb told me of a murder.' for a day, in order that it might be ascertained by a post "Witness is 25 years of age last August. mortsmexaminationlwhether volenco had been used or not. "The mark of Sid