Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-06-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDEI 'GU.  lAlblf4 b le2C % Ea*  AO did . not but I heard the man 'who wore a whit* m Newport. Vian - the street ' to'  a MAlfeet, as yet nnexi i walking 'le of the ~,I frt name of the mnrIn the mine of  -witl struck that ha ' the WMI man had t,(‘Ya and I ' to 100  10W1:1 _ walked to the Street, . this roan. I have known Flannighan two or three mel4l. I did Apt luvw passed Pt d the dec dwAestrucirtd, but gm etbk. see .ten* until IV the Foxeman : I did not know the deceased or Patton before. I dii not observe the white muffler  _ spots on anybody near. - At the request of the coroner, Sergeant Bellamy , told ttreali on Sunday morning he saw be pitiless% Wittl'in reply to a question from. liinf, he said that when he turned round, he saw Flannighan give 'the ttfa pteser/er to-Patton. I3P the *roper : I;did net say to Sergeant Belialy on Sunday. moThing that Flannighan handed the life preserver to Patton. I don't remember whether I did tell the police that I did see it. I did [ not observe any person pass me htmOedly, as if  _ • • escaping. By the Jury: Patton had a black coat and muffler on. I beard Flaunighan say that the man wha • struck deceased also had. Wm. Betchen deposed: I am a doctor of medicine I saw the deceased on Sunday mpruing, aboutkeven o'clock. He appeared to havp beeu dead *veva hours. I'made an external-ex:lmitation of the body. There was a wound two inches behind and above the left ear. It was a contused wound. There were no other marks of violence upon the boly. It was such a wound as might have been caused by the life preserve-. produced. I don't think a fall would have produced such wound. I made a post ntortens examination of the body yesterday. I opened the head, and Lund the skull underneath the wound fractured. I found a clot of blood between three and four ounces in weight underneath the fractured part of the skull pressing upon the brain. The pressure on the brain was the cause of death. The brain substance was also injured. The other organs of the body were healthy. From the position of the wound I am satisfied that the blow was inflicted from the front—by a person in the act of meeting the deceased. It must, have been given with great force. The wound I have . described was the cause of death. This concluded the list of witnesses. The Coroner said that one thing was perfectly certain. Although there were only four figures on the model before them, there , was a great number of people there at the time the blow was struck. The evidence wait very unsatisfactory and he shculd suggest that the enquiry should be adjourned for some time in order that the police might institute further enqiuries. A juryman commented strongly upon the part which Patton had apparently taken in the affair, and said that the fact of his keeping the life preserver in his possession until after the death of deceased was very suspipipus. In accoidaecoveith thesuggestion of Mr Saggerson, the jury recommended that the Magistrates Clerk should write to the Home Secretary, requesting him , to offer a reward for information which would lead to the conviction of the murderer. , The inquest was then adjourned for fourteen days.  FATAL EXPLOSION ON BOARD A STEAMER A terrible accident occurred on Tnnrslay, .t Cork, on board the Gain steamer, which had called there front Liverpool, for the purpose f embarking passengers. A boiler which was used for steaming potatoes basin with a loud crash, killing Henry Steaves, passergers' cook, and severdy scalding Stephen Thompson, ship's cook, both of whom were standing close by at the time. Steaves was precipitated forward with great violence, and his head coming in contiot with an iroiS ledge was frightfully inj,red. He lived but a short time. His body was removed , ashore, where an inquest was opened and adjourned for the production of the engineer.  V.