VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 172, 22 July 1874, Page 2

VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.

The inquiry into the circumstances attending the deaths- of CharloitV BoseUy, of the Bay View Hotel, Suburban North, was resumed yeßterday afternoon at the Court-house. Mr H. Adams watched the proceedings for the Crown, and Mr Fell on behalf of Newman Boseley and William Millyard, the latter of whom was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of being implicated in the affair. Great interest was evinced in the inquiry, the Court-house being crowded. Caroline Batchelor : At half-past four on Saturday morning I was called by Millyard. He asked mj to come to Boaeley's as Mrs Boseley was -dead. | When I got there Mr Boseley was sitting by the fire' in the kitchen. I asked him where Mrs Boseley was, and he said iv the parlor on ihe sofa. I took a tin candlestick and went in to look at her. She waa ; lying on her back with a blanket over her,-: covering face and all. I turned the blanket down and felt her face, which waa quite cold. I covered her face, and left the room. .Millyard went into town to inform the police. I asked Mr Boseley, while waiting for Millyard's return, how it happened. He said he did not know, but she was dead. I asked him how she was found, but could make nothing of his reply. When Millyard came back, I asked him when and where ehs was fouud, and he replied, "Boseley found her in the passage." He eaid that he and Boseley picked her up and carried her iuto the parlor. I saw three candlesticks in the room, two brass ones and one short plated one. I wiped the two brass candlesticks, which were dirty, but did not touch the plated one I wi»b upsfairs in the afternoon. I saw that Milliard's bed had been slept in. Tbe beds in Briseley's room and the spare room did not appear to have baen slept in, but they looked as though someone had Jain down on the side of them. By tbe foreman : Mr Boseley was not sober when I went there in the morning. I looked at Mrs Boselcy's face when I went in. bio greasa could have fallen from my candlestick on to her, Samupl Wadman : I am a gingerbeer maker. Oa Friday afternoon last I went Up to the Bay View Hotel. Boseley was behind the bar, and Jimmy in front of it. Boseley said, "Mr Wadman. my wife will drive me mad. I must leave this house, and you must find me a customer for it." He theo called me to go and see her. I followed him through tbe bar, and he opened the parlor door, and said, « There she is, that's just how she fell;" She waa lying face downwards, with the right arm, partly across the body underneath, and the other a little to the aide. I did not notice her move. He just opened the door and shut it again. I wanted him to help me to her up, but be refused, saying that if he did she would only go and get more drink. When we got into the bar, I asked him again, and be pointed to one brandy bottle that was full, and another that waa half empty and said, « Look here, she's better where she is." He then left the bar, and I asked Jimmy to come and help me raise her, but he Slid, No, he had seen her ten times worse than that. That was nothing. I tried to go into the parlor again, but Boseley followed me, and I 6aw it was no use. I was there ou Wednesday afternoon. Boseley and .Jimmy WBre then in (he garden. Boseley saw me coming, and came to meet me. I could then see her lying in a half drunken state leaning against the bar. He pointed her out to me, and said, " Isn't that enough to drive a man mad ?" He wa<j perfectly soher at the time. When I was there oa Friday, Millyard was not co very bad, but I don't think I ever did sea him sober. Boseley was also the worse for liquor. By the foreman : I have, known the Boseleys for t wen ty years. They lived happily together prior to their opening that house, but since then have been constantly quarrelling. I think it was a bad job for them opening a public house. Charles Edward Cotterell : I am a duly qualified medical practitioner. I made a post mortem examination of the body of Mm Boseley on Saturday. The face was much swollen and contused. There was discoloration all over the face, ears, and back of the head, which were covered with bruises. The left ear was flattened and distorted, and the entrance of the ear filled with sperm candle grease. The hair produced, clotted with the same grease and with blood, was cut off by me. Over the right ear there were several bruises and abrasions of the skin. The nose was flattened and swollen. The candlestick produced (a abort heavy plated candlestick, showing blood stains on the bottom of it) might have inflicted such wounds as I saw. Both arms were very much bruised, and on the right arm there were several abrasions of the skin. There was a bruise six or seven inches in diameter over the right hip, and both legs were bruised more or less. The latter appeared to be old bruises. Those on the face were recent. On removing the skull cap I noticed that the coverings of the brain and inside of the skull were discolored from extravasation of blood. I took the brain out and found a large clot of blood on the right side on the upper parf, almost corresponding with the braise on the right ear, but a little higher up. The substance of the brain was very mugh

congested, especially on the right aide. 1 opened the body and found the liver very much enlarged, but the heart and lungs -healthy. There were several spots of blood, era the under garments, winch must have been produced by wounds. -There were aoroe holes burnt i» the lower part of her chemise and the left leg of hir drawers, and her flannel petticoat had marks upon it which appeared to have come from the burns, which were quite recent. On the dress were spots and Gnger marks of blood. The cause of death was the rupture of a blood vessel inside the head, causing pressure on the brain. From the external nppearaoce of the head, I should gay the rupture was caused by violence. It is not at all likely ihat she could have received co many bruises about (be head, .and face by a fall. A fall might have caused ihe extravasation of "blood if she fell heavily enough. I don't think a fall by a drunken person on the floor of a room would h»vo caused it; I believe death was caused by external injuries which could not have 'been/ the result of an accident. The blow which. caused the bruise on the right si Jo of the head was such a one as would have produced the clot of blood on the brain. Caroline Godbaz (recalled) : I saw Boseley ou Friday evening between seven and eight, and he asked me to go and get a blanket. I brought it from upstairs, and he inefc me aod took it into the parlor. 1 don't know whether he went to bed that night. Jimmy locked the house op between nine and ten o'clock. He did not lock the bar door. There was no light iv the sitting room when wo went to bed. I think Boaeley took a light in during the evening. Jimmy did not go inlo ibe sitting room in the evening. He went in twice during the afternoon. Whau he was coming away from the Bay View Hotel on Sunday be whispered to me not to say anything. I understood him to mean about Mra Boseley's death. Jimmy and Mrs Boseley did not quarrel much. He had not quarrelled with her or her husband that day. I heard nothing during Friday night. The first thing I heard was Boseley going into Jimmy's room. I think he came (rom bis bedroom. He got a light from Jimmy, and then went down nnd said two or three times, "Mi99is, come up to bed." He then came up again and said, "Jimmy, I think the Missis is dead." Jimmj went down, aud I heard a little noise, which I thought was caused by their putting her on the sofa. Jimmy ihen came up and called me. I went down, aud caw her ou the sofa. Boseley told me to wash her face, but I wouldn't The plated candlestick was generally kept on the kitchen mantelpiece. I saw from the appearance of Boseley's bed on Saturday morning that he had not been in it, but some one had been lying on it. John Nash: lam police sergeant. I attended an inquest at the Bay View Hotel on Saturday. I found on the floor of the room in which the body lay, the aproa produced, in which was a quantityof hair corresponding with that of the deceased, also a left boot with what appeared to be a blood stain on it. The body had the right boot on. Mrs Batclielor showed me a plated and two brass candlesticks she had taken out of the parlor. I also produce a pair of

troasera lakeu ctf jjbeeley in gaol which are stained with .-what I believe to be • bfood, and his stockings, one of which liua a spot of blood and the other a epo6 ;ofcaqdJeg!jeas J?;; \fli8 coat was also .gained as welNft'one of his slippers. Ivalso produce a ahirt of Millyard's oa whwh there is a red slain and a quantify of hair very like Mis Boaeley's, and his trousers which are also stained On Newman Boseley, the husband ot the deceased, and William Millyard being called Air Fell eaid that as 16 w.as ey tvleutitom tha.co.ucfie.ih&eDqoiry had laken that suepiciou was directed against ihgifi; ihej 'Sc}i D g!, B p On hia advice 1 , decline to make any stite'l he jury then retired, aad alter deliberating an hour" and a half, returned with a verdict of « Wilful Murder^ against Boaeiey r aad^ a fao against Millyard as heiag feceessofy after the fact. :i , , , ._. , . . J>; ,-/

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