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bleman*s mind, after the clear, cir- 

 cumstantial, and concurrent testi- 

 mony which had been given by 

 so many respectable witnesses. 



The jury, after a few minutes' 

 deliberation, brought in the follow- 

 ing verdict : " We find that the late 

 Lord Ffrench came by his death by 

 discharging a pistol loaded with 

 ball through his head, being at the 

 same time in a state of insanity." 



On Saturday', an inquest was 

 held at the Kettle and Grid- 

 iron, Harrow Road, on the bodies 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Eaton, who kept 

 a shop there for twenty years, and 

 were found murdered in their shop. 

 Mr. Eaton was suspended from a 

 scale beam with his throat cut, and 

 Mrs. Eaton on her bed, with her 

 throat cut from ear to ear. Some 

 sand was found on the soles of 

 Eaton's shoes, and it is supposed 

 he went backwards after murder- 

 ing Mrs. Eaton. They were mar- 

 ried fifty-two years, and were above 

 seventy years old. They had lived 

 happy, but his behaviour of late was 

 rather insane. — Verdict, Insanity. 



11. This evening about seven 

 o'clock, as Mr. Nathaniel Cross- 

 land, Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, 

 was coming down Highgate-hill, 

 he heard most distressing cries. It 

 was a very dark and rainy night. 

 He followed the cries to a lane lead- 

 ing to a farm, up which he went 

 about twenty yards, where he 

 found a man lying on the ground, 

 apparently in a very distressed 

 state ; he asked him several ques- 

 tions as to the cause of his lying 

 there, and of his cries. It was 

 some time before he could obtain 

 an answer th.at he could under- 

 stand, but at length learned, that 

 he had been robbed iind wounded, 

 End leit in tlutt lielplcss state; 



when just as he was about to raistf 

 the man up, and give him assist- 

 ance, a man rushed out from be- 

 hind the hedge, knocked him 

 down with a bludgeon upon the 

 man on the ground, who instantly 

 got up, aud no doubt had been 

 lying there voluntarily, and mak- 

 ing a noise to excite the attention 

 of passengers. They stopped his 

 mouth with a woolen cloth, and 

 held him down while they robbed 

 him of bank-notes to the amount 

 of 13/. a watch, and other pro- 

 pert}'. They then endeavoured to 

 murder him by cutting his throat 

 with a knife; but Mr. Ciossland 

 struggled hard, and having a very 

 thick neckcloth, they were pre- 

 vented from effecting their bloody 

 purpose. He tried to wrest the 

 knile from the robbers, and eventu- 

 ally succeeded, but not without 

 cutting his right hand dreadfully : 

 the villains then escaped. 31r. 

 Crosslaud returned to the public 

 road, and found the patrole within 

 about thirty yards from the spot 

 where the daring act had taken 

 place, who denied having heard 

 him call patrole or murder, and he 

 made no attempt to pursue the 

 robbers. BIr. Crossland procured 

 assistance, and was conducted back 

 to Highgate, when he was sup- 

 posed to be in a dying state, from 

 his throat having been cut, and the 

 profusion of blcod that had flowed ; 

 but on Mr. Wetherell, a surgeon, 

 being called in, he found it unne- 

 cessary to sew up the wound, as the 

 wind-pipe had not been completely 

 separated. Mr. Crossland is now 

 in a fair way of doing well. 



12. Twelve cattle, belonging 

 to Richard Owen, tenant of a farm 

 belonging to Mr. C. W. Wynn, 

 at Mj'fod, Montgomeryshire, broke 



