SUPREME COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue IX, 20 August 1874, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

[Before his Honor Mr. Justice Richmond.] CRIMINAL SITTINGS. YESTERDAY. WUfal Murder. Thomas Cummins : I am a butcher living in Nelson. I waa.with Plummer at Boseley's bouse on the afternoon of the 17th of July. I sawJp.ilyard l^iog on a form in thje bai*. - 4 dorit think he was sbber. He ServedTr^e with something to drink. Boseley; came into the bar after we had been there about ten minutes. We heard his voice previously in the parlor. He was swearing and I calling somebody names. I heard a woman's voice, which I took to be Mrs Boseley's. It was moaning and mumbling. When Boseley came in he was grumbling at his wife and said she was a drunken beast, and had been the ruination of him. There was a little blood on one of his hands. There was a slight graze on one of his fingers. I don't think he knew what he was doing. Samuel Wad man was nest called, but his evidence was much the same as that given at the inquest. John Nash, police sergeant, produced certain articles of clothing belonging to Boseley, Millyard, aod the deceased. Charles Edward Cotterell, medical practitioner, repeated the evidence given by him at the inquest. This Day. Dr Cotterell was this morning under cross-examination, the purport of which was to elicit from him that the clot of blood on tbe brain might have been caused by apoplexy, and that the blow behind the ear might have been occassioned by a fall. Re-examined: The external injuries were quite sufficient to cause the clot of blood. William Westbrooke Squires:—l am a doctor of medicine, and Coroner for the district. I went on the 18 th of July to the Bay View Hotel. I saw tbe body of Mrs Boseley lying on a sofa. I should say from the appearance of the body that she must have died when lying on her chest, and tbat rigor mortis set in, and was completed, when in that position. The face was very much bruised and swollen. From tbe appearance of the ear in which there was some sperm tinged with blood, I. formed the inference that there had been bleeding from the ear, and the heated sperm had been dropped in to stop it. This closed the case for the prosecution, and at this state of the proceedings the jury, acting under tbe Judge's instructions found William Millyard Not Guilty, and he wa_ consequently discharged at once. Mr Conolly having stated that he did not intend to call any witnesses for the defence, Mr Adams addressed the jury for the prosecution. Mr Conolly then made a most eloquent speech on behalf of the prisoner, alter which his Honor commenced to sum up, but had not concluded when we went to press.

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