SHOCKING MURDER.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 658, 7 April 1870, Page 4

SHOCKING MURDER.

A shocking case of murder was invests gated by Mr Coroner Oldman, at Eastoft, near Orowle, North Lincolnshire, on Monday, Jan. 17. The victim was a fine young man, twenty-one years of age, named Charles Brown, a married man, with two children, and the man impli- , ca.ted in the murder is an Irishman, naaied Patrick Welch, about twenty^five years of age, unmarried, Deceased and some of his friends went; to the River Dun Hotel, late on Saturday night. Welch and other Irishmen were there. Most of them had been drinking 'at' a beer-house in the village previously, and were more or less under the influence of liquor. . Welch was asleep in a chair when Brown and his friends entered. An Irishman named Connolly told them to awake him, Brown proceeded to do so, and pulled his nose in a playful manner. Welch was annoyed at having his nose pulled, and said, "Thou had better give over, or I will into thee." Brown replied that he had been told by his mates to awake him. Some of the Irish denied this, but Connolly admitted he had done so. The landlord interfered, a,nd told Brownand his friends to let the man alone and leave the house. ' They went out, and presently Welch and his mates followed. Brown then addressing Welch outside, said, " Wilt ta into me now ?" Welch replied, (t I will if you don't keep off." The two then began to scuffle. Brown staggered away to the wall of the public : house, and while Welch was walking off he was seen by one of the witnesses, named Robinson, with a knife in his hand. Some stone-throwing took place after this between the Irish and English. Brown was seen leaning against the wall in a helpless state, and on being spoken to said, "Oh, take me home, I shall die." He was carried home, and it was then discovered that he had been stabbed in three places. The man died before a magistrate could take the depositions.. The police apprehended Welch at his lodgings, and he made an attack upon them with a poker. He was taken to the dying man's house, and confronted with him before death t,ook"place. He burst out laughing on deceased's body being bared before" him. Somebody asked' deceased if Welch was the man. Deceased said he. was. Blood was found upon Welch's hands and upon his coat. Two knives wore also found upon him, one an open and the other a clasp knife. The jury returned a verdict of vu f Wilful murder" against Welch, who was fully committed for trial.