Coroner's Inquest.
IOxroRD, June 19.-Yesterdav an inquisition ws taken by W. Macey, Esq., coroner, at South-lawn Lodge, in the Forestof Wych. wood, in this county, on the body of James Millin, assistant keeper to Lord Chutchill, the Ranger of the Forest, who was found shot, andi in a dying state, on Tuesday eveRing last, between 9 and 10 Wciock, in a copse called Hensgrove. lIr. Young, a farmer of the neighbourhood, deposed, that at the time above mentioned, be hear(i the report of a gun, and that immediately afterwatds a person calle4 for assistance. He hastened to the spot, and found the decease4, 2ying on thc ground, and bleeding profusely from a wound is the lcft thigb. Ile immediately went to Astall for assistance. Wben he returned, he fotsnd illin in the same situation, withi his brother- and two other persons bv him. He then appeared sensible, calkd for water, and said that be had been shot by poachers, although be did not see them. Joseph Alillin, the brother of the deceased, ford Churchill's keeper, deposed, that on the same evening he was going his rounds when he heard the report of a gou, which appeared to come fronm Hensgrove-copse. in going, towards the spot he met with Henrv Pittaway and W. James, % ho were going the samne way, in conse, quen-c li having heard the report of the gun. They assked Joseph illillin if he had shot? he said he had not, but some one else had. Tbey said they heard a shot, and the cry of murder, and from the voice the' thought it was James Alillin. They proceeded onwards, and found thedeceased as beforedescribed. They car. ried him to Soutb-house Lodee, the residence of Joseph his bra.. ther, where lie expired about 11 the same evening. Since the deadb of James, his brother JvsepB, th' deonent, ex- amined the spot where the deceased had been shot, and'plainly dis_ covered the place whence the gun had been dlischarged, by the markh of powder on the leaves ard branches of the trees, about ten yazds, froro thie place where the deceased fell. In a direct line was folind a leaden bollet, which had ploughed up the ground, and was found in, the presence of deponent, buried therein. James coulA give nq account of the person or persons who shot him. llr. Batte surgeon, of WFitney, proved that the wound 'rws f&one a gun-shot in the inner part of tho left thigh, whichl divided the femoral arterv, anid praduced hemorrhage, which caused his death. Verdict_" Wgilfitl marderagaiost someperson or persons unkoown.'" Two persons suspected oftteinurder weretaken up and examined ,ut, no evidence being adduced against them, they were discharged. It is conjecttired, that James was shot by mfstakc, as he had been -uphl a short title in the service of Lord C hurchill, and that the enurdecers imagined it was his brother, who has been very active in the detec- tion of poachers. The deceased lies left a wife and one cihild. ana was a remarkably sober and steady man. CORO,VER'.V I.ArQUEBS.