Daily Evening Star

Inquest.—On Saturday last, Coroner Woodward summoned a jury, to inquire into the cause of the death of Mrs. Emmeline Lackey. After examining all the witnesses that could be obtained, the jury returned the following as their verdict: "That the deceased had been, for several months past, a woman of very dissipated habits: that she lived with Mena Utternuhle, and that said Uttermuhle had been in the habit of ill treating her; that about two months since, he cut her head with an axe, and subsequently struck her over the head with a pair of tongs; that the deceased and said Uttermuhle had been in the habit of fighting, and that the neighbors had often heard blows and the cry of murder in the house occupied by them; and, in the absence of a physician to make a post mortem examination, (notwithstanding every effort was made by the Coroner to obtain one,) the jury believe, from the evidence, that the deceased came to her death from intemperance, ill treatment and cruelty at the hands of said Uttermuhle." The evidence before Justice Smith, at the examination of Mena Uttermuhle, who was suspected of being connected with the murder of this woman, elicited nothing very positive concerning the case. The Justice, however, did not feel at liberty to release the prisoner upon such evidence, and committed him to jail, to await the action of the grand jury. It will be noticed, in the verdict of the Coroner's jury, that a physician could not be obtained to make a post mortem examination. No one need wonder at this, as it is an unpleasant job, for which the surgeon receives no pay.