The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer. Ripperology - Página xxipor Robin Odell - 2006 - 272 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Dickens - 1850 - 294 páginas
...mutilations. No arsenic was detected by analysis. A coroner's jury JDNK.J LAW COURTS AND CEIME. 131 has returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. At tue Surrey sessions, on the 1st instant, Lucy Fore, tile wife of a respectable tradesman in good... | |
| T. C. Tuberville - 1852 - 354 páginas
...horsepond and drowned in it. Suspicion fell on a young man by whom she was pregnant, but the coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." The murderer was never discovered. released by subscriptions, and with the aid of the High Sheriff and... | |
| George Payne Rainsford James - 1853 - 878 páginas
...somewhat more, Dan," was the priest's reply. "You see, if suspicion fixes to no one, and the jury bring in a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, the magistrates will never leave inquiring into the matter till they fix it upon your poor master. What... | |
| William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt - 1853 - 558 páginas
...the floor to the bed. demonstrated that there had been violence used by some other party. The inquest returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown," and agreed so far in the force of circumstantial evidence with the police and surgeon, that the two... | |
| 1854 - 310 páginas
...Spiller : VERDICT OF THE JURY. The Jury, after a consultation of nearly three quarters of au hour, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against some person or persons unknown. The Coroner expressed his entire concurrence with the verdict. The funeral of the deceased was a private... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1852 - 298 páginas
...either side ; and, being guided by traces of blood, he soon discovered the mangled corpse. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." On the following day two men, named Hacke tt and Norman, were arrested on suspicion. There were spots... | |
| William Fordyce - 1857 - 848 páginas
...procure eggs and butter ; and the plate and money were found on the edge of the cliff. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." On September 3, 1847, at Seaham Harbour, Robert Brown, Esq., mayor of Sundcrland, and a considerable... | |
| Joseph Whitaker Stapleton - 1861 - 418 páginas
...Bennett's affidavit; but, on the contrary, they seemed to concur with him in opinion and unanimously returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and that such concurrence was especially noticed in Bennett's report as published in the ' Bath Chronicle.'... | |
| William Russell (miscellaneous writer.) - 1863 - 332 páginas
...On the tail of the shirt the initial letters HFG were worked in yellow silk. The inquest resulted in a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. The affair might not have caused much stir, had it not happened that Mr. Sidney Herbert (Lord Herbert —... | |
| Isaac Butt - 1863 - 374 páginas
...his testimony could throw no light on the mysterious transaction. An inquest which sat upon the body returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." Wallis had been among the number of those who crowded the chamber of death ; but he dare not come near... | |
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