Star. — 1824-03-01 (London, England)

CORONEA.F.NQUEST.  Satardey an Inquisitionawarstaken before J. treser.4 Esct. (me of the taiddkriiiThier the county of Nli,l. ht&ak;;st.Theaalea.etti-deens, Bethnal-green, a the body of James llackmottli. ":111*41,1ey; i‘ftjehOingsteetii, proceeded to take a view fif tip body, and afterwards of the spot where it was rithemrhi thAltEttittiA he foltowing evidence as given: •Itotinison,7lkioktnaker, deposed, that on the ekt:rtiiig of Tgarsdry till nightfall be was employed its limmpiag water into the ickciAroir connected with the let isChere thehticly *as teunff. ' At that time the body was illot there.' O'n'the following morning he went to the !pit to resume his Work, When he perceived the body tx la mail, droved, lying about ten feet from the bal( of 'the marl pit, with-his •heat towards the centre; the: ;head was above the clay, and did not apt-ea, to have been ever under it, as thereyasoely s; dashes of rhe..ae,t,Obiervaltle on his lace, which was otherwise qaiteckr:,.. Witnesi'went for his fellow-workman, James C, le, elx ;assisted in removing the body from tae pit to the We:11, vers' Anus, anckcorrobot aced tare evidence above g; vele Jane Neale examined—l live at No. 14, ',rote,- tat,. street, Spitalfields, where also the deceased lodge,l, Whonfli have known for some time past, and hove alwaysleund him to be a sober industrious man; lie had a wife, with whom he was no the best of terms. Ti:e last time I saw him was on Thursday, about &nix: tine:. For-the fortnight lasi•past he had been in a de. spending and dejected state. • 'nn CO'pland•exa-rnined—l also lodge at the ho .se, No. 14.*Lower. Kate- street ; I washed for the deceased, whom I last saw nu 'Thursday, about mid=day; I was present while he was dining; after he had fini-hei that meal, he went to a chest_oi-drawers, [red thence took a razor, which was wrapped up in paper, and milk!) he said he would take to hate it ground and set; he then west oat, and I never KW tii.nLaftenvards till now. Samuel Uppingtori,essaakned-4 was a fellow-workman with the &ceased., who was at work on Thursday till dinner time, when he left, and aia•uot again return he was a very altered man within 'the last foitni....ht, during which time he bad become extremely mslanchole; I did not think him a map that would commit suicide; Richard James Parker, ef Qlobsy-Place, depesed, that on the night cf Thursday he distioctly heard a cis, of " Murder!" in the di:ecti ;n of the marl pit, from which his house is distant about three hundred yards. Witress said to his wife, g, Ann, there is a cry of murder." His ' wife, replied, -" Nonsense, you are always heat c;ies of murder." \Thiess got out of bed and opened the window, and found that the lamp opposite to Jim was out, and that the watchman was not on the spot; 'he did not therefote go out, being fearful to go alone; he had, the following morning, found a stone in Devonshire-street, on winch he observed a slight stain rescm, Wing blood: this stone lie now produced. The stone was examined by the Coroner and by the parish surgeon, Mr. Ager. •Both 'were of opinion that the colour• was not deep ei-bugh for that of blood. Mr. Ager was then ca:led and examined—l reside in Whitechapel; I saw the body of the dece.ass.d about four o'clock yesterday; there was one principal wound on the throat, of about four or five inches in length ; it had not penettated the windpipe or any of the principal blood vessels; there were six smaller wounds in the same ditection; I do mit think that death would ensue from loss of blood; the wounds, in my opinion, were not mortal; there was a flesh wound across the top of the 'forehead, 'also two flesh. Wounds on the thumb; I think lie died ficina suff. cation; it is not impassible that the wounds were inflicted by himself; the wounds are inflitted by a razor or knife. relative of the' deceased—There is a wound under the ear, havirlg the appearance of a stab; you think that wound could have been inflicted with a razor? 'ii--It k. hin it might haye been. Cotildlte have died from suffocation, unless his rIOS2 and mouth were at some onetime beneath the sutfaceof ' the marl ?—tertainly he could not. Was there clay in his mouth or nostrils?—l cannot say ; I have not examined. It was here suggested by the Coroner, that it would be advisable that the surgeon' should take a fresh view of the body. In the inesintii#e the following witness • , • was examined. . . Samuel Wolkiao,o%! examined—l saw the body when brought to this potilic-houke; it was covered all Qver st nth clay ; the .deceased hid on a great coat and an under coat; dire forpier was open? the latter was lAittoned ip cue hole; the waistcoat was bueteeed close all the way up. It appeared from the general state of the body-, that he had snuggled a great deal ; the, clothes were not torn. On searglisig him,' witness fouriel 4'1.61 in silY.Fr in his ttosysers pocket. and Sid. in copper in Ns ecattpocket ; also a pocket-handketchief and two thimbles. There was a, ciutp as if from a slurp instrument, on the collar of the shirt. The clothes aof the decefsed wgre scarcely at all stained with blood. The wife of the deceased was here called in, on account of some doubt existing as to whether the shirt .was cut or torn. The poor woman appeared to he in a most agonised state of trairsd. She examined the shirt, and gave it as her opinion' that it was torn; it was not so when he left home. Jr. Ager, the surgeon, 'returned and stated that he had again examined the body, and that he found some clay ha the mouth, and an api.eArance of a slight blaw eel the under lip. A relative of the deceased here suggested that the body having been first found with the face almost wholly free from clay, it was probable that the clay afterwards _observed on the face was occasioned lay the act of removing the body. . 'the Coroner was of opinion that further evidence was unnecessary. The point for the Jury would he, did vie than perpetrate the deed himself, or bad 0,614110 a victim to others? As a .doubt might exist in the of some, he should order the *gots to be cleared. • la about a quarter of an hour afterwards, the Jury returned a verdict of " Wiful Meirder against ionic person or persons unknown: