MARTON.
This day. In the enquiry re Charles Williams, who was found recently lying dead, and who was suspected of paving swallowed poison, held to-day at the E.M. Court before Mr Hard, fresh evidence was produced to show that the deceased could write a little, and that he had borrowed a pencil in Mar ton, and was seen writing something on a piece of paper before leaving the township. There was the pencil writing discovered attached to a letter to Mrs Shaw, showing that deceased intended to commit suicide. The proof was wanting to show that deceased was the writer, and the police were unable to trace the poison to the deceased's possession. The Magistrate decidrd to leave the enquiry open in case any further evidence should be forth* coming.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3562, 27 May 1880, Page 2
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130MARTON. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3562, 27 May 1880, Page 2
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