Hi
You may have already seen this but just in case you havent its the inquest
FATAL AFFRAY.
Between nine and ten o’clock on Monday night last, a quarrel took place in a beer house, at Woodchester, in this county, between ANTHONY HALLIDAY and DAVID BISHOP, two labouring men of the neighbourhood. Some reference was made by them to a former dispute, and, after several blows had been given, Halliday exclaimed that he was stabbed, and almost instantly fell; he never spoke or moved afterwards; and in a few minutes breathed his last. Upon a post mortem examination, it appeared that a wound had been inflicted in the lower part of the abdomen by some sharp instrument, which had passed through the intestines and the right iliac artery and vein. JG Ball, Esq. the coroner, attended on the following morning, and the subject underwent the fullest investigation before him and a highly respectable jury, who were engaged in it during the whole of Tuesday and Wednesday. At a late hour on Wednesday evening, a verdict of Wilful Murder was returned against David Bishop, who was committed by the coroner to our county gaol to take his trial at the next Assizes, and upwards of 20 persons were bound to appear and give evidence. From the statements of the constable and others, it appeared that scenes of the most disgraceful kind had been witnessed in the village during the Sunday and Monday, at the celebration of what is called Woodchester feast or wake, and the attention of the jurors and other persons present was particularly directed to the consideration of means for preventing the occurrence of such violations of peace and good order, in which we understand other influential inhabitants of Woodchester have expressed their readiness to join.
Shelagh