The Sun. — 1847-01-18 (London, England)

SHOCKING APPAIR.--MURDER AND SUICIDE.-STLCKPORT, JAN. 14.—Yesterday a carom isinquiry was held at Heaton .":orris, a parish a short distance from this town. concerning the death of Amy Coke!) and her infant daughter, aged eight months As will be seen by the following facts, the unfortunate parent committed suicide by throwing herself into the river Mersey, with the infant in her arms, which perished with the mother. The unhappy woman cohabited with a man named Barlow, and lived in Sheppa,""buildings. They were heard frequently to quarrel, and in c,iacquence of some violent bruises being found on her bogy when taken out of the water, it was generally suppod in the neighbourhood that her death had really resulted • from the ill-treatment she had received from him. Such, however, , however, was set at rest by the evidence of a young girl,ii of the name of Garner, and the medical tesimotely. h course female stated that she saw the deceased of last Saturday afternoon. She seerne,d:etxcee omy God!diwrly depressed in her spirits, and remarked, I wish I was outa:of this world; for there is nothing but trouble in it." Late in the day et'nued until she' app more troubled in her mind, and she son lefto her home, last seen a. On evenin taking withlive S unday g her the child. A few hosuhre eafrtievrewr, on theards she was seen near a precipice leading to th s Heaton Norris side, and adjacent to the Cotton Tree bodies Were dispublic-house. On the same night covered in some shallow water neittrithhee place previously described. The corpse of the nv thne,r Was considerably depos.-d that the bruised. Mr. Cheetham. a surgeo deeply gorged with blood, eyes of the parent which might be produ'C'eedrehy drowning, or a blow nen Of exposure to the cold might eenssesseen illthe head, or; by a fall ; Several witnesses cause those appearances. . . were of them were able vtoerftta, examined, who spoke to Barlow having i thendeceasedg using the deceased, but none late date. The jury return.detelneethoof ftohlleo with divers there being no conclusive evidence That having thrown herself in the wounds were deceased were found drowned in the River Mersey, injuries upon their bodies, but how those occasioned there was no satisfactory evidence to show:, The Coroner severely censured Barlow for his conduct to the deceased. LUCILE GRARN AND TislaEV:_ENENTolAti7iSn.—A letter Nothing is talked from Venice of January 3, 3.5 of here but the sudden departure of the celeebnrgaageld fortetdansense, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, who had been the three months of the carnival, at the sum of 40,000 livres, and who, on quittingdlleh.e t Venice Theatre, has given up that amount. M Lucile Grahn, having wished to overthrow the old system of Italian panto. mimes, in order to introduce the kind of Frenclt ballets, the artistes employed in the choregraphic department united together to defeat this project. A cabal, similar to that of which Marie Taglioni was last year,tah:drvivcitiM is nrstth timelen l' at Milan, was organised against Lucile Gratin 1 that charming artiste came soniht,hzeenstiangdeivfiodruathise in the ballet of the Gipsy, and then with received her with shouts and threats. The, young lady pit remained a moment as if thunderstruck, couldb lady to be Venice e done a gesture full of calmness, ordered the curtain dropped, and, in spite of everything which to retain her, quitted the city immediately. long buffer from this event, for what fareiat: artiste"iolfi a similar celebrity would come and expose herself cabal ?" According to an account given in a Venice journal the disturbance was partly caused by the prices of admission having been unexpectedly raised.