Northern Times. — 1857-10-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LATE TRAGEDY AT WARLEIGII.--.-SilaCC the inquiry loafers the coroner relative to_the mu -der of 411,11Tw Bonier and his wife, the v Fisor. ,er, Thomas Miller, his been gmdually e:Teriug from- the. wnueds he inflleted upon himself, and it wee expec:ed that in the c turse of a few days 11,1 woali be able to be remove ! and undergo an examinetion before the neigistrates. In order, however, to avoid the excitement of a pablic court, it was determined to conduct the ievestigation at the residence of the prisener; and, accordingly, on Tnetr7ay lane Mr. P: C. Sheppard, a c mute magistrate, price led to Warleigh, 'and. took the depositiens in the prisoner's bedroom, in which he was !since 4r. Skriee, of Warleigh-lionia accompanied by, Mr.THelps, his solicitnr, was present, but jock no part in the proceedings. Mi. - Slack,_ solicitor,. of Bath, was present on behalf. of the. prilener. All the witnesses wise 'gave evidence at the inqUest were again ex imined, 'in addition to the prisonerts mutter, who until ta-day was tort unwell to undergo an ex imination. She gave her evidence ie a coil, c ed manner, and without the least ilie,eision. Her, name is Eliz ibetta Miler, and, being sworn, she deposed—l am the wife of Nimes Miller. Tile prisoner is my son He is 27 -years of age. lie '-.as never be n al- to drinking, ner have I noticed anything wning abiut his sta,e of mind fur her 'than that after he has been reenuee I hove heard him rem itk that he 'Lit his head rather light oa the to?. On the ;ht of IriilaYpeeeeding the Murder, I hel tin rest ie c qa-rce of the state he was He appeared to think flora was sortie or.e fi shting with hiria all night. I thought he was going to have a fever. He sail 'the Philistines were (aiming t.) him, I sat by his silo all night, and whenever 'I went away for a monvnt, he celled me back. lie eget, up between 6 and 7 o'clock, and I gave him some tea. He seemed mach better afterwards. I then went to the Shepherd's farm, having business there daring the day ; before I went told Mrs. Hancock to send for me if she observed nay son 1) be worse Daniel Hancock came to me in the afterniton and said Thomas was very bid. Learns home at Ca'cl,ick and gave him ,some tea. I !tied made "preparations for him to pet his .feet in hot w tter, and while I was upstairs getting the water reedy, _ this circumstance, happened. was upstairs f heard- the door /pen and then a scream. I ran do.fli stairs as fist aspoSsible ; btatavlann I got down I feuod no one in the kitchen. The scream I heard appeared t, be that of a man. I rushed out of doors, anew Igett to the door I, farcy I tonehe3 some ode'S enat, It was qttite dark, and I c ;uld 'rut tell who it was. I think it. was Tom. The'door was wide ( pen. Whnn I got out of the door sa enthat some one had fallen down on the pathway; and I eil!e•I to Daniel Hancrek to c me out to see who it was. It was the body f Mrs. Border. She was lying about three perils fr no the door. Mrs Ilieceek brought a light, and said, "Why, here it Mrs, Border lying en the grouni', Itt M's. Border nentier Spoke nor moved. I went into Brads fiell's house, and remained there until my son was found After my sort was got intik bed I returned home. My huebend remained is bed all night, anti a•ked me on the following nnrain,?. what' the noise was about. I said that Tom had been ill. The knife produced belongs to my son,' aid was ti'aially kept in the kitchen Window. see the knife that eveniiig. "never knew- my son to speak in anyiangry way in regard to the B trders, I had not heard him mention their Lames' for sore' time. 'My son was a very sayinasloing'inaneand bad some mosey in the sae:irro-benk. The money' fouhdin th ) box belongs to me. I think there Was £9l in the: bx. Ha was always a, amid and dutilul son to Me.' By 'Mr. Slack.—He was as harmless as a chill ; he acted sometimes more like a child than a man. My husband was not capable of taking care of the motley, as he has not been right in his tultddurieg the last nine Tears. He is now in the lunatic ward of the workhouse ; he was removed there a few days since. By Mr. Willi urns, inagistretes' clerk. I don't know what raised my husband to become insane ; he lost some money kiwi: 2') years agog llehas told me three:tr four times that he had attempted to ceminit suicide; on one occasion he tried t ) drosin himself at Dundas. Thedepesitices haring been read over to the prisoner, who was c tni din the tumid way, he made no reply, Mr. Slack advising him to say no hing. The prisoner Ras then fu ly coxmitted for trial. The magistrate (Mr. Sheppard) declined to make any order at present respecting the money standing to the prisoner's credit in the Bath Savings Bank (£47 3e. 81) or the £92 found in the house. Mn, Edwards, surgeon, stated that he could not give a emaciate for the removal of t' e prisoner until the following day, ,  At LEWIS & OMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street, BOYS are CLOTHED from the Agee of Six to Twenty Years.