After drinking their second glasses, they walked out of the room into the back-yard, arm in arm, in the most friendly way, and whilst there Atkinson by accident tripped himself up against the stable threshhold, and fell into the stable on some straw, pulling Depledge down upon him, and when he arose, charged Depledge with purposely throwing him down, and said Depledge should not go into his house again. He then walked to his back door, Depledge following him, and when be had got to the second, top step, Depledge was upon the first, he pushed Depledge off the step, went and fastened the door.

Depledge then became angry, and going round the front of the house where his waggon stood, he said he comes out again I’ll give him a d-d good milling.” Atkinson happening to have got to his front door, overheard him, and directly walked out towards him, and said What does thou say thou’ll do at me,” when Depledge went up to him and struck him a severe blow on the face, and Atkinson fell with his head heavily upon the flags, from whence he was carried into the house in a state of insensibility, in which state he remained until six o’clock next morning, when be died.

It was only about four hours before his death that his family became aware his danger, supposing the snoring comatose he was in, arose from the liquor had drunk. An inquest was held on the body, by Mr. Jewison, on Saturday, when it was found that his skull had been fractured very severely upon the temporal bone, by the fall, producing extravasion of blood, and pressure on the brain, of which be died. The injury was too great to admit of any relief.

The jury returned a verdict of “Manslaughter against John Depiedge,” who was in custody, and who was committed to York Castle, under the coroner’s warrant.

Note: He was sentenced to be imprisoned for ten days to solitary confinement.