Star. — 1830-02-02 (London, England)

RESUMED INQUEST ON THE BODY OF  RICHARD HEMMING.  An account has been given of the finding of the body of a man named Hemming, who was supposed to have murdered the Reverend George Parker, in 1808, at Oddingley, a village near Worcester. It was then stated that an inquest on the body had been summoned, and that it was adjourned till Friday. On that day the proceedings were resumed, when, after hearing several witnesses, the Coroner adjourned the inquest till Tuesday (this day). After the examination of five or six witnesses the Foreman of the Jury made a deposition to the effect that such evidence had been 'adduced as induced him to believe that Thomas Clewea, of Od- i dingley, farmer, had a guilty knowledge of such murder, and that the purposes of public justice. he verily believed. would be furthered by the commitment to prison of the said T. Cleves for further elimination. Mr. Bass having sworn to the above, Thos. Clewes was ordered to be brought Into the room, and he was made acquainted with the contents of the deposition and the purposes of it. He betrayed not the slightest agitation or alarm. He protested himself entirely innocent of having in the slightest degree been privy to Hemming's death ' • and when told that be was about to be sent to prison, he said he should go there without any fear as to the result. A warrant fur his committal was then placed In the hands of two constables, who immediately proceeded with him to the county gaol. Ibis is altogether a strange case. The Rev. G. Parker having obtained, for his electioneering services. front the late Duke of Norfolk, the Rectory of Oddingky, near Druitwich, took possession of his living about the year 1800; and, what is anything but unusual, quarrelled with his parishioners immediately respecting tithes. Being a Westmoreland man, therefore, probably, like all mountaineer., obstinate and determined, he resolutely fought the good fight tiU 1806, caring equally little for the lova or the enmity of the parishioners, and disregarding all warnings to take care of himself, when one afternoon he was shot at front behind a hedge, and afterwards despatched. The murderer, there is little doubt, was Richard Hemming. a jobbing carpenter, instigated, there is every reason to believe, by the stimulus of a purse ut fifty pounds subscribed by the farmers. But the singular part of the' business is that Hemming. who bad been seen about the place shortly after the murder, was hnm'eU murdered ; and his bones. with the foot rule hr used to carry with him, his shoes, &e. have been found in a barn. occupied at the time by Mr. Thomas Clewes, use of the farmers who was examined on Friday last, and has beta committed for further examinant:lo. It would seem that the intention to shoot the parson was no secret is the neighbourhood. Several witnesses depose to cinveranions to that effect; and, what is singular. Captain Evans, a Ms&rate of forty years standing, who died in May last at the advanced age of 84, appears to have been one of the loudest io his threats of rtU the tenanu. John Perkins, of Sale-green. Crowle, deposed, that about three quarters ut a year before Mr. Parker's death, be was in Capt. Evan's parlour at the Oddingky Church farm, when Capt. Evans, speaking of Mr. Parker wad the tithes of Oddingley, said Mr. Parker was a very bad man, and there was nobody in the parish, excepting the witness, that agreed with bias; land said, " Curse him, he is a very bad man. and there is no more berm in shouting him than a mad dog." At Later. 11108, after the Meeting, at which the Overseers aCCIMUIS were passed, there was a dinner, at 'which were present John and Thomas Clewes, Capt. Evans, George and Henry Rinke., Mr. Hereon, John and William Barnett Mr. Jones, Mr. Marshall, and witness; Captain Evans in the &air. Capt. Evans gave the health of Mr. Parker left-banded, and all drank it but Mr. Hereon and witness. who was called a .Jacobin for his refusal.  The Mercers' Company, with its usual liberality, has, 'during this inclement season, voted to the Mendicity Society, among other Institutions, fiftyguineas, in addition to their Annual Subscription of ten guineas. We trust that their example will be followed by other public bodies. We understand that the Mendicity Society distributed yesterday nearly 500 meals to the perishing poor—to many of whom clothing would have been given, but their stock was totally exhausted on Saturday last.  MR.