 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.  Once a Week - Page 27edited by - 1870Full view - About this book
 | 1840 - 954 pages
...carman. We had not our «ли touch boxes. 1 have ammunition, but 1 had it not then. The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. — INQUEST. — An inquest was held at the Half-way-house on the Kensington-road, on the body of Lucy... | |
 | Camden Pelham - 1841 - 710 pages
...Upon this evidence the jury were unable to come to any conclusive decision upon the case, and they returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown ; " but expressed their strong belief, that the prisoners, Bishop. Williams, and May, had been concerned... | |
 | 1842 - 318 pages
...been at Koro Koro at the time specified; he said it was the day previous when he was there. The jury returned a verdict of" wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." —2V. ZC Jan. 1. BOAT ACCIDENT, AND LOSS OF LIFE. — Coglan's boat, heavily laden with timber, with... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 424 pages
...by a blow on the head, which he received from a bludgeon of one of the mob. A jury sat on the body, and returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. with Lord Farnham's friend Madame de la Marche, but I ran away, and used her as ill as he did. The... | |
 | Francis Towers Streeten, Ewen Henry Cameron - 1843 - 716 pages
...C. & P. 32. [Littledale and Coleridge] A coroner's jury, on the investigation of a case of homicide, returned a verdict of " wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." The coroner returned the depositions he had taken to the Central Criminal Court:—Held, on application... | |
 | 1895 - 862 pages
...inhabitants of the rural village of Kensington, for such it was when George III. was king, unanimously returned a verdict of " Wilful murder," against some person or persons unknown. It is evident from all I have said, that Lord Camelford had in him the elements of a good naval officer... | |
 | William Howitt - 1848 - 432 pages
...the servants said, was owing to their having lifted the body from the floor to the bed. 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... | |
 | 1849 - 424 pages
...president of the republic of Ashton. In the medley and scuffle, a policeman was shot. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. Of course the jury was a respectable one — composed, we mean, of manufacturers and others, gentlemen... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1850 - 294 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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