The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1880-07-24 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER AT RUGBY.  On Friday Joseph VOSP, of Pai!ton, near Rugby, shoemaker and drover, was remanded till Tuesday next upon the charge of feloniously killing his wife, Annie Voss. It is aILI that the prisoner was in the bahit of iil-treatmg his wife, 41d that on Tuesday last, being di from the effects of his brutal conduct, she left home and went to her .=ister living at Rugby. She h,:canio much worte, expectorated blood, and late on Thursday cream, her dying depositions were takfm before Mr. IL H Wood. 6he stated that on some day before Tuesday—she could not recollect which—her husband went to her while she was in bed, struck her, awl pressed violently on her chest. She begged for water, and then got up and went downstairs to lie on the sofa. Her husband followed her, continued his brutality for two hours, drag. ing her about the floor, awl finally kicking her up. stairs. Time neighbour then k Loeked the wall and he desisted. Size- also added that he had been doily, all he could to get rid of her, awl had illomed he; perpetually during the last ten years. After making this statement the poor woman continued to sink, awl died at 5.i4 on Friday morning from internal injuries. Prison,r denied generally tlle allegations. —An inquest was :et.uneneed on F 6 lay evening by Mr. Poole (Coroner, when the nurse who attended deceased stated that the lower tart of her body was much bruised. —The inquest vrai then adjourned for a poAf.-,o,:cia examination tu be made.  On Tuesday Mr. Pool t, coroner, resumed the enquiry at the Town Hall Rugby.—Severd neighbours spoke to the accused having ill-treated his wife, and hearing screaming and groaning,— Deceased's son, aged fifteen, said he had nelN:r seen his father beat the deceased, nor did he kecp them short of food. Mr. G. M. Seabroke, solicitor, and clerk to the Magistrates, said he took deceased's depositions, but she was in such a state as to be unable to sign the declaration. It ta,k halt an hour or more, and de.ceased at times WU wandering.--The •stioned witness as to whether deceit- _ wits approach. iJig death, when aiz - :at she told Mr. Wood, the magistrc •. - ,• • might die before the morning or she init The Coroner held that unless the person had given up all;hopes of living the declaration could not be received, and he refused to accept it.—The medical evidence of Mr. Simla and Mr. Waller tended to show that when the former gentleman was called in deceased was suffering from a severe at!ack 05 indainmation of the right lung, hove been the result of a cold. -At the poet mor••-ni he found o mark on the frontal bone, and some bruises on the thigh. The right lung was mach congested and the lungs were in 3 high state of inilannnation. He could not see any conner.:tfon with violence and the disease, and the journey in a carrier's cart might have aggravated the disease. Deceased was a thin woman, but she b.l not have tire apparance of being ill-fed. '.re case of death was pleuro-pneumonia.—The Coroner said the jury 1:0111.1 not ac-:ept the dying declarations of the deceased under the circuinrimees. If they could, they might have shown that d•.atii was accelerated by ill-treatment. If he was uot right in his ruling as to the receipt of them in evidence it would be put right at the Assizes, if the case was carried thete.—A -verdict of Death from pleuro-pneumonia was then returned.  The prisoner was brought before the magistrates On Wednesday, when Superintendent Palmer stated that the jury hat returned a verdict of death i from natural causes, and he asked that the charges of murder and manslaughter might be dismissed, and that prisoner be remanded on a charge of assaulting his wife. Mr. IA ratislaw (who appeared for prisoner) asked if there was any precedent for preferring a charge of assault on a person who was dead. There was no one to complain of it. —Superintendent Palmer said he could produce evidence that there was an assault, and pointed out that the police c)tild vt hi the case of a husband assaulting awife.--Aftersomediscussion prisoner vrtis remanded tiii next Petty Sessions, bail being allowed.