The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1884-01-19 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1884.  been inflicted with a sharp instrument, but was rather the effect of a blow. None of these wounds, in his opinion, hail anything to do with the cause of death. The wound on the ear might have been caused prior to death. The head of the Imo bone, next to the shoulder,hed been separated frem the shaft. From the nature of the injury it might have been canoed after death, because there was no appearance of inflammation about the fracture or break. The injury might have been caused in the dragging operation. Dr. Douglass here made a complaint that the mortuary in which he hail to conduct hie examination was very badly lighted, as he had to use two lamps in broad daylight and the place was also very small.—By a Jury' man : The wounds on the forehead might have been caused in the act of jumping taco the water. —Mrs. Hornsby, the mother of the deceased, wait then i:ailed, and in answer to the Coroner, whether she had any complaint to make against Mrs. Hawkes, or her treatment of the girl, said she had no complaint whatever to make. Her daughter had been with Mrs. Hawkes for three months, and she often used to visit her. Her girl came home at noon, and spent the last Sunday of the year with her parents. The only remark ever made respecting wages was that elie toll Mrs. Hawkes she thought Is. a week was very little for the amount of work she done.—ln summing up the Coroner said that the state of the case was that some kind of accusation was made against the deceased by her mistress, which was no doubt true to a great extent, and her mistress threatened to send for tier mother, who, if she was the kind of woman she appeared to be, would have been very grieved to learn of her daughter's conduct. In these circumstanees it was quite possible that she should resolve to do away with herself. There was, however, no evidence that the deceased had committed suicide, and therefore it was not for the jury to say so. From the moment site left her mistress's house no clue of her was known, and nobody knew where she went. Probably she went straight to the canal, and, under the impulse of the disgrace of such acharge, threw herself into the water. They must take the most charitable view of the case and consider that ttie suicide was not proved. Assuming, then, that such was the case, notiiiiig remained, arid she was only found in the cabal, bearing some injuries a hid,, accenting to the concise and clear evidence of the Doctor, might have been inflicted in the course of dragging. Referring now to another branch of the case, that was the rumours that Mr.Hawkes had been unkind, there was not a scintilla of evidence of its truth. All therefore they could do was to bring in a ventiet to the effect that the deceased was found in the canal. The jury retired for about fifteen minutes and returned with a verdict that deceased was found in the canal on the 14th inst. ; that no blame could be attached to Mrs. Hawkes, and that she was last;seen alive on the let inst. There was again a very large crowd assembled outside the Court and their excitement was even greater than the previous night. On Monday night Mrs. Hawkes had considerable difficulty in getting home and had to be accompanied by policemen.  A