 | Characters and characteristics - 1805 - 596 pages
...George Hodgson, Esq. the coroner for Middle-ex, when the jury, after viewing the body, unanimously returned a verdict of wilful murder, against some person or persons unknown. A bill of indictment was consequently preferred against Mr. Best and the seconds, but it was thrown... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1809 - 890 pages
...kno\yn. Lord F. had been appointed to a 74-gun ship, which is to convey Lord Amhenrt to Sicily. The .iury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown. — Charles John Cary, Viscount Falkland and Buron Cary, was born in November 1768, and Succeeded his... | |
 | 1810 - 1214 pages
...melancholy scene. Consequently, after mature deliberation on tiie scanty evidence before them, the, jurv returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown. 11. A singular instance of the instability of human jrnr.i .leur, was stated in a speech by Mr. Whithread.... | |
 | English poetry - 1811 - 1054 pages
...but of 1810. the circumstances of which no evidence whatever could be produced to the jury. The jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, supposed to be by a pistol-shot. JKFFEKV, THE SEAMAN. • Plymouth, Stpt. 17Having been requested by... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 542 pages
...were removed to the Swan public house, and a coroner's inquest sat on them on Thursday evening, and returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. ADMIRALTY SESSIONS — We give the following trial at nearly full length, on account of the novelty... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - London (England) - 1815 - 862 pages
...a wooden mallet about four inches square, with a handle about eighteen inches. A Coroner's Inquest returned a Verdict of " wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."— But But this was nol all; only eleven days after, December 19, the neighbourhood of New Gravel-Lane,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1815 - 860 pages
...a wooden mallet about four inches sqnare, with a handle about eighteen inches. A Coroner's Inqnest returned a Verdict of " wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." — But But this was not all; ouly eleven days after, December 19, tin' neighbourhood of New Gravel-Lane,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1822 - 950 pages
...to gain such particulars as might enable them to go in pursuit of the offenders. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. ROME — M. Settele, Professor of the University della Sapienzas, had composed a course of astronomy... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1823 - 926 pages
...appear tohave been theobjectof the assassin, not a single drawer having been ransacked. The Comer's Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. 7. THAMES TUNNEL. — [See page 121]- — The efforts made to overcome the accident which occurred... | |
 | John Gordon Smith - Asphyxia - 1824 - 620 pages
...found, in a sand-pit, by some workmen. The jury, after viewing the skeleton, and hearing some witnesses, returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. A surgeon gave it as his opinion that it was a male skeleton ; and a person was taken up on suspicion.... | |
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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. 
