The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-03 00:00:00

THE ROAD CHILD MURDER. TROWBRIDGE, OCT. 2. Elizabeth Gough, late nursemaid in the service of Mr. Kent, Roadhill-house, was this morning again placed at the bar, charged with the murder of Francis Saville Kent, on the night of Friday the 29th, or the morning of Saturday the 30th of June • last. The same magistrates took their seats on the bench as yesterday. Sir John W. Awdry,,Chair man of the Quarter Sessions, presided, Mr. Saunders, instructed by Mr. Slack of Bath, appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Ribton, instructed by Messrs. Farrell and,Briggs of Isleworth, for the prisoner ; and Mr. Edlin, instructed by Mr. Dunn of Frome, watched the proceedings for Mr. Kent and family.: • The court room was again crowded by the public. A few ladies occupied seats on the bench.. The prisoner was dressed in mourning. She is about 23 years of age and is rather slightly made. Her features are delicate, and wear an expression -.Of great firmness and intelligence. Throughout the _proceedings her demeanour was marked by the ut most composure. She paid the closest attention to the evidence, and frequently communicated with her solicitor in writing. Her complete self-posses sion never for a moment deserted her. The Chairman stated that he and his brother ma gistrates were of opinion that copies of the deposi tions taken on former occasions should be furnished to Mr. Ribton. Mr. Saunders said that was a matter entirely in the hands of the magistrates ; he could exercise no discretion in it. Mr. Ribton requested that he should be fur nished with the minutes of the evidence taken by Mr. Slack, as well as with those taken before the magistrates. Mr. Slack said the minutes in his possession were the private property of the magistrates, for whose information they were taken. The Chairman said it was the opinion of the bench that Mr: Ribton should have an o pportunity Of seeing, not only the depositions taken before the Magistrates on previous occasions, but also the mi nutes of the evidence taken by Mr. Slack. Mr. Slack—Very well, sir, I shall be happy to furnish copies to the learned counsel. Sarah Kerslake, cook in the service of Mr. Kent, was the first witness called. She said, in reply to questions from Mr. Saunders—l saw Francis Sa ville Kent about half-past 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Friday the 29th of June. That was the last time sa w him alive. It was my duty to shut up the back part of the house at night. The housemaid closed the front part. On the evening of the 29th I fastened up the back part of the house. I went to bed at a quarter before 11 o'clock. I slept with the housemaid in a room on the second floor. The housemaid went to bed at the same time as I did. I believe Mr. Kent was up when I went to bed, but I am not sure. It might be half an hour before I fell asleep. I awoke at sin the morning. Nothing occurred to disturb me during the night. I went to sleep again, and awoke at a quarter before 6. As far as I know the housemaid was in bed with me the whole night. When I awoke at a quarter before 6 o'clock I got up and dressed myself. The housemaid rose at the same time, but I went down stairs a few minutes before her. I found the fast enings at the back of the house as I left them the night before—quite safe. I undid them myself. My , attention was not called to the state of the drawing room. I was told of the little boy at a quarter or hall-past 7. Cross-examined -by Mr.. Ribton—l was not ex amined when Miss Constance Kent was charged. I was examined before the magistrates at the Tempe rance-hall, when I gave the same statement as I have done to-day. It was my duty to faeten up the back part of the house. I slept soundly the whole night. I think I should have missed the housemaid had she left the bed during the night. When she came down stairs in the morning she went into the draw ing-room, and I went to the back part of the house. She did not tell me what she saw in the drawing room. I first heard of the drawing-room window being open when I was told the child was missing. I heard about the child at a quarter or half-past 7, and in a few minutes afterwards I heard the house maid telling someboety—l don't know-who—that she had found the drawing-room window open. I did not go into the drawing-room to see it. Sub sequently I tried the window to ascertain if any body could open it from the outside. I found it could be done quite easily. I stood in the drawing room, and the housemaid went out of the window. While outside she, without any difficulty, put the window in the state in which she had found it. The prisoner was not with us, nor did she know anything about it. I told Mr. Kent this morning what we did. I never mentioned it before to any body. It was the housemaid suggested that we should try the window in the way I have stated. I do not think she has mentioned it to any one. The reason why I did not mention it before this morn ing was that I did not think it worth while. The housemaid gave me no reason for the suggestion to try the window. She simply told me that some person had said that it was impassible to open the window from the outside. We had not tried the experiment when I was examined before the ma gistrates. 1 was examined by Mr. Slack. Did you mention it to him ?—No. Why ?—Because we had not tried the window then. When did you try it ?—This morning. (A laugh.) Witness examined—l was examined by Mr. Slack for about two and a-half hours, at Roadhill house. Mr. Dunn was present, but he did not in terfere. The first time I saw the prisoner on the morning of the murder was some time after the body of the child was brought in. Re-examined—When the drawing-room windows are, fastened with the shutter and bar no one could get in - from the outside. There were sweeps in the house on the morning before the murder. Their name is Wittens, and they belong to Trowbridge. They came at 6 in the morning, and swept the kitchen and nursery chimneys. They left about half-past 8. They were a man and a boy. By the Chairman—The shutters were not closed when we tried the window this morning. We simply raised the sash and partially closed the shutter, leaving the window in the same state in which the housemaid found it on the morning of the murder. James Haleombe—l am a gardener and groom in the employment of Mr. Kent. I remember the 29th of June. Ido not sleep on the premises, nor did I do so then. I live on the opposite side of the turn pike road. My house is about 30 yards from the outside of Mr. Kent's premises. My hours of work were uncertain. I went to Road-hill-house as I was required. On the 29th of June I left it a little be fore seven in the evening. Alloway, a lad employed by Mr. Kent, left at the same time, and went in the direction of his house et Bekington, about a mile and a quarter from Road. I returned to Mr. Kent's next morning about five o'clock. When I left the evening before I locked the garden door. When I returned in the morning I went round the house and into the garden. I found the door locked as I left ft the evening before. There was a Newfound landriotturned loose in the yard at night. He is not 'tl6 8 hrp as he used to be, but he occasionally malcas..a eonaideralge noise. I hare been awakened by his barking. I did not hear him on the night of the 29th of June. I tied up the dog on the morning after the murder. Alloway came about 6 o'clock. He cleans the knives and shoes, and works in the garden. I went about my work as usual. In the couise of the morning —shortly before eight--I heard of the boy. Mr. Saunders—Did Mr. Kent tell you to get his carriage ready ? Mr. Ribton objected to the question as a leading one. Mr. Saunders said the objection was nonsensical. Mr. Ribton hoped his learned friend would be more moderate in his language. The Chairman suggested that the evidence might be obtained by putting the question in another shape. Witness continued—Master William came out and told me his papa wanted me to get the car riage ready. Cress -examined by Mr. Ribton—Before the son told met° get the carrier I saw Mr. Kent, who told mathat Franci s Saville was lost, and some one had stolen and carried him away. 'that was all he said. He went off as hard as he could run. I do not remember whether he gave me any directions to search for the child. He hurried off. I found the garden door locked as usual. No one could have got into the garden. I was not examined .when Miss Constance was charged. This lathe first time! have been examined on oath. I gave evidence before the magistrates at the Temper ance-hall, and was examined by M r . Slack in his of fice at Bath about three weeks ago. d Foley were present. Superintendents Wolfe and The water-cleset where the child w as f ound is at the end of the house. I can't say whether th ere i s a ]ma y to the door. I when I was in thethu body was yard Y brought there. It was fou nd , b e lieve, by Benger he house about half-past 6 and Nutt. I went into t I saw the co o k o'clock. The back door was open. _. me anyt hing and housemaid. They did not tell about the state of the drawing room window. Ido not know whether Alloway had gone into the house before me or not. lam not sure whet he r it was Mr e child. Kent or the nurse told me first about th They came one a ft er th e o th er . The dog is not so sharp as he used to bo ; he is getting old. By the Chairman—Besides Alloway and myself there was a man named Oliver about the garden. He came a little after 6 o'clock. Emily Doel—l for time • tant nurse was some assis tant in Mr. Kent's family. I was such on the 29th June. j I did not sleep these. I went in the morning about 7 o'clock, and left at 7 in the evening. That was my usual custom. I returned on Saturday morning 10 minutes before 7. I went into the nursery. That was before any alarm was given of the missing of the child. I went into the nursery several times that morning beforethe alarm we.s given. I saw thenurse. She said nothing to me about the child being gone. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—l cannot state the precise time when I went into the nursery, but it was before 8 o'clock. The nurse was making her own bed. I did not speak to her, but she looked round and saw me. I carried in the bath and came out directly. I don't know where Mrs. Kent was at that time. I know now that the nurse had knocked at Mrs. Kent's bedroom door. 'Sher had done so before I went into the nursery. Mr.Ribton—Thenyourevidencecomestonothing. Mary Ann Harris Kent—l am the eldest daugh ter of Mr. Kent. The murdered boy was my half brother. I saw him last alive at 7 o , elock on the evening of Friday, June 29. I retired to my bed room about half-past 10. I slept with my sister Elizabeth in a room on the second floor. We went up together. I went into the bedroom and Eliza beth went to see that Miss Constance and Master William's candles were put out. She returned soon afterwards. It was half-past 11 when I got into bed, and soon afterwards I fell asleep. I awoke about 6 o'clock in the morning. My attention was not attracted to anything during the night. I got up about 7 o'clock. To the best of my belief Eliza beth was in bed with me all night. I fastened my bedroom door, and found it so in the morning. About half-past 7 the nurse came to the door to inquire whether Saville was with us. She said she could not find him. Mr. Ribton--I shall not trouble Miss Kent with a question. Elizabeth Kent, the second daughter of Mr. Kent, corroborated her sister's evidence. On the night of the murder, before going to bed, she went into Miss Constance's room, and saw that the candle was out, and also looked under the door of her brother William's room, and saw there was no light. She then proceeded to her own room, went to bed with her elder sister, and fell asleep, She heard nothing during the night. Constance Kent—l am daughter of Mr. Kent, of Road-hill-house. I was at home on the 29th of June, and had been so a fortnight. I had previ ously been at school at Beckington as a boarder. I saw Saville last when he went to bed on the even ing of June 29. He was a merry, good-tempered boy, fond of romping. I played with him often, and had done so that day. He appeared to be fond of me, and I was fond of him. I went to bed about half-past 10. I slept on the second floor in a room between my two sisters and the maidservants. I remember my sister Elizabeth coming into my room that night after I was in bed. I was nearly asleep then, and remember nothing more. I awoke about half-past 6in the morning. I heard nothing during the night. I got up immediately after I awoke, and soon after heard of my brother being missing. On the Friday night I slept in a night dress. I had slept in the same dress from the Sun day or Monday before. I usually wore the same nightdress a week, changing it on Sunday or Mon day. When I got up on Saturday morning I rolled up my night-dress and put it on the bed. My bed is made by the cook and housemaid. My night dress was before them when they made the bed that morning. On Saturday night, the 30th, I slept with my sister Mary Ann. Elizabeth slept with ' my mamma. Papa stayed up. I slept with Mary Ann for company. I don't know whether any body slept in my room that night. I wore the same night-dress on Saturday that I had worn the night before. When I got up on Sunday morning I believe I put my night-dress in my own room. On the Sunday night I slept in my own room. I am not certain whether -I put on a clean night dress that night or on the Monday. One of my night-dresses goes to the wash every week. I was in the habit of putting out my clean night-dress to be aired. I did so on the Saturday. The dirty linen for the wash was collected on the Monday morning. It was the duty of the housemaid to col lect it. One of my night dresses is missing. Ido not know what has become of it. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton —I had been away half a year at school. I was the only girl of the family who slept alone. The prisoner was ex amined when I was charged with the murder. Mr. Ribton presumed that the statement made by the prisoner on the occasion in question would be put in evidence on the part of the prosecution. Mr. Slack—Certainly. Witness continued—The nurse told the of a miss ing blanket before the child was found. Are you sure it was not after the child was found ? I am not certain which it was. Witness continued—l heard the prisoner go to my sister's door to ask whether she had the child with them. I heard her knock and came to the door to listen. James Morgan—l am parish constable of Road. On Saturday morning, the 30th June last, Master Wm. Kent called at my house to ask where the policeman lived. I directed him to the house of Urch, the Somersetshire policeman, and he went there. Urch called upon me, and requested me to go to Road-hill-house with him. I did so; on our way to Road-hill house we met Mr. Kent. I said to him, " What do you want with us ?" He replied, " I have had my little boy stolen." I said, " You need not go further than Southwick. There is a policeman there to whom yon can give the information, and he will forward it to the station and come en up hero." Mr. Kent said he should go to Trowbridge. He was in his carriage and was going to Trowbridge. He wished us to go on to his house and we did so. Mr. Ribton —A conversation between the witness and Mr. Kent in the absence of the prisoner cannot be evidence against her. Witness continued—l went into the kitchen and i inquired of the housemaid how the child had been taken away. She took me to the drawing room and showed me the window. The shutters were a little open, and the window was up 5 or 6 inches. I then went to the nursery with Urch. As we went up I saw the nurse at the top of the stairs at the nursery door. This was about half-past 7. I asked her to show us the child's crib, and she did so. The clothes were quite smooth—smoother than I should have expected. I said, "Do you mean to say that this is where the child was taken from ?" She re plied " Yes." The clothes were turned down, and I saw the mark of the little fellow's head on the pillow. I said to the nurse, " Have you lost any thing out of the nursery except the child ?" She re plied there was a blanket taken or drawn, I forget which word she used, from the cot; but there was nothing else missing. Urch and I then went down stairs, leaving the prisoner in the nursery. We went into the drawing room and out at the window to search for any footmarks. We also examined the outside of the drawing room window, to see whether there were any marks of violence. There were none. Nor did we find any footmarks about the grounds. Shortly afterwards I met Benger coming into the house with the body of the child wrapped . up in a blanket. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—Mr. Kent could have found a policeman at Southwick, nearetathan Trowbridge. I did not see him return. I saw some un di e d m n b o e t sprsoefatk to he any fa mily fgtobeniing abo i ut the house, but I t s h la e e ' k. inqu m es r. t Slackb before the o magistrat w es a , s and damibnd by Mr. orit examined mightbe me for about an hour and a half, Alfred Urch—l am one of the Somerset R ou d, C h nl Wilts iv l a am Master stationedter and William partly at xi eon S. Constabulary, and Iviwllaagseapisplpieadrttlyo binyotmowegrosieetto. his father's premises on Saturday morning the 30th of June. I had been on duty there the - previous night. I passed Mr. Kent's premises about 10 minutes before one o'clock that night. On being applied to I went towards Mr. Kent's house; I went to the house of Morgan, the parish constable, and we went together. 'On t he road we met Mr. Kent in his carriage going towards Trowbridge. I was in uniform. [Witness having confirmed Morgan's statement as to the examination of the drawing room and nursery on the morning of the 30th of June, continued.] I asked the nurse what time she missed the child, and she said at five o'clock, but she did not make any inquiries for it till seven. I asked her how it was she did not make any in quiries before seven, and she said she thought that Mrs. Kent had heard the child cry, and had come and taken it away. I asked her whether she had ever known Mrs. Kent take the child away before, and she said not since she had been in her service, but she had heard she had when another nurse was there. I asked her whether there was anything else missing besides the child, and she said nothing but a small blanket that was between the sheet and the quilt. She said it might have been drawn out with out removing the quilt. That is all that passed. [Witness then went on to describe the subsequent search of the premises by himself and Morgan, add hgraered..] with that the ground outside the house was dry and I th could not make any impression on the my foot. I tried to. There was no dew on the grass. I afterwards saw Benger with the body of the child coming in a direction from the privy. I went to the house on Saturday night in company with Heritage, another officer. We went there by We e ection of Mr. Foley at 11 kitchen, and we found ourselv e swrerie. b lockedot l placed in the o'clock at night. Ribton—l don't know Crois-examined b when Heritage tried to get tit and dwfaosotzoheo'ecolouclkd how low , we were locked in . in . e h mr ad e so w m e e re al k e We did not go t out twenty n g o . i e v k 9e i n p g us i or minutes before we were let out .^" ' her itage dc in till the leave at two, and I was tor.r'enitiiirti4gse. w as. to morning. I did not know -$* - *erk:s Heritage said it was time lo! litin 0 goy and he e t if! • '. : , „, -r 4 frct ai I.b knocked at the door, I said to him, " You are making noise enough to wako all the people in the house," and he said, " I am locked in and I must get out." When Mr. Kent came to the door Heri tage said he did net know that ha was to be locked in in that kind of kivay, and Kent said he had been walking about; that was all. We did as Mr. Kent oedired ; I can't say whether we were of any use in the house. After Heritage left I re mained in the kitchen till near six o'clock. Mr. Kent came and looked in twice. I don't know that I was locked in by myself, or that Mr. Kent has said that he locked me in. When he came in the. morning he said the servants were getting up, and it was time for me to go. I don't know whether the blanket has been compared with the sheet and blanket to see whether it was shorter. William Nutt—l am a shoemaker living at, Road, and have been clerk of the district church there for 17 years. lam married, and have a family of five children. On the morning of Saturday the 30th of June I was made acquainted with the fact of the little boy being missed about eight o'clock. I went down to make inquiries about it, and met with Benger. We talked a few words and then went on Mr. Kent's premises and searched. We searched about the out premises, and having, gone through the lawn on the left side of the drive, we went right to the bottom and then came back direct to the closet where the body was deposited. When we got to the closet a pool of blood on the floor was the first thing that attracted our attention. Benger looked down the closet, and in consequence of what he said I went into the house for a candle. I got one and returned to the privy with it. Benger said, "It is here." He took a blanket up through the hole of the seat, and then he put his hand down again and brought up the body of a child, which I believe to be the body of Francis Saville Kent. I had known the child in its lifetime. Its throat was cut, and the head nearly severed from the body ; the head fell sideway back as he raised the body through the seat. I spread the blanket and he laid the body on it, and covered it up and took it into the kitchen, where he laid it on the table. I saw the prisoner while the body was there, and remarked to her that she must have slept very sound for any one to have taken the child from her room. She answered me I thought rather harshly. She told me I knew nothing of the matter. Cross-examined—l proposed that we should go to the water-closet, and we went straight to it after searching the shrubs for two or three minutes. You predicted that you would find the body there, I did you not !—No, I did not predict that we should find it there. Well, what did you predict ?—That if the child was taken from the house it was taken for some unfair play. Is that all you predicted ?—Yes. Are you sure of that ?—Yes. You refused to go at first, did you not ?—Yes. Why ?—Because I am one of those who don't like to trespass on other people's premises ; that was my reason for refusine , to go at first. I predicted that if we did not find 'a living child in the house we should find a dead child out of the house, because I did not think that any one could take the child out of the house. I denied my signature when I was examined at Miss Constance Kent's examination, or rather I did not know my own handwriting. The signature to the depositions now produced is in my handwriting. Mr. Ribton—Are not these your words in the deposition, " I doubt if that is my signature." Mr. Saunders here objected that this question could not be put unless Mr. Ribton intended to put it in the depositions, and some discussion ensued upon the point. The Chairman inquired whether 11r. Ribton de sired that the depositions already taken should be sent up annexed to those taken on the present occasion. Mr. Ribton hoped and believed that no deposi tions would be sent up on the present inquiry, but he wished to know if the magistrates would take cognisance of the evidence already taken, in which case it would not be necessary for him to press the question which was objected to, or put some others in reference to the same points. The Chairman intimated that it seemed to be a struggle for reply on the part of counsel. All he could say was, that the magistrates would look at the former depositions, but would not take them as evidence unless they were regularly put in. Witness's cross-examination—l said I doubted it was my signature to my deposition. I was never before a magistrate till then. I said so, I suppose, on account of Mr. Edlin's bantering. Did you not, while you were on the lawn, and before you got to the watercloset, predict that you would find a dead child ?—Yes, I believe I did. You used the words, " dead child."—Yes, I believe I did. And when the child was found dead, did you say, " It is as 1 predicted ?"----I made use of those words as soon as I saw the pool of blood on the floor. I was not desired by any one except Ben ger to search. I stated to Mr. Slack that I thcught the nurse spoke rather harshly to me. I had been examined twice before on oath, and on neither of those occa sions did I mention the circumstance. It was three weeks ago I was examined at Mr. Sllck's. I was under examination about three-quarters of an hour. I had mentioned the matter to my neighbours before I told Mr. Slack. He did not tell me it was very important. The policeman and Morgan were search ing about at the same time as Benger and myself. Re-examined—l went to bed about 10 o'clock on Friday night, and got up about G the next morning. I did not leave my bed till I got up the next morning. Thomas Benger—l am a small farmer, living at Road, in this county. On Saturday morning, the 30th of June, I was at Road, and I heard of the missing of Mr. Kent's child ; I saw his boy running very fast, and afterwards saw Mr. Kent cominc , along. He did not speak to me, but Urch, the policeman, came by and told me the child was lost. I ar.d Nutt went and searched the streets. Nutt struck off in the direction of the closet, and I went after him. I had before seen Morgan and Urch search ing about the premises. I heard Mr. Kent tell them he would not begrudge £lO if the child could be found. When I and Nutt went into the closet we saw a pool of blood on the floor. We thought there must be something wrong there. I looked in and saw some thing, but could not make out what. I sent Nutt fora light to the house and he came back. I went for him before he did come back. When I got back I looked down the privy again, and put my arm down and took a blanket up. The body of the child was underneath the blanket. I spread the blanket on the floor, and then took up the body of the child, wrapped it in the blanket, and carried it into the kitchen. The throat was cut from side to side. When I got the child up from the privy I observed a dark mark round its mouth; its little eyes were shut and it looked quite pleasant. There was some blood on the blanket. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—l am not sure whether Nutt or I went into the closet first. We went there both together. Nutt made one or two observations about going to the closet before we went; he suggeStsid that we should go there after searehing the shrubs. I did not hear Nutt say we should find a dead child in the closet. I did not hear him predict anything. Do you know what a prediction is ?—No ; I have been at work ever since I was seven years old. John Foley—l am superintendent of the Wilts constabulary, stationed at Trowbridge. On Satur day morning, the 30th of June, Mr> Kent applied to me on the subject of the loss of this little boy. I went to the house. The child had then been found. I inquired for the nurse and saw her. The drawing-room window was shown me by the house maid. When I saw the nurse she was in the nursery. I made inquiries respecting the loss of the child ; this was between nine and ten o'clock in the morning. The nurse pointed out the cot the child was taken from. The clothes were folded back on the foot of the bed ; the blanket was taken out. She said she never missed the blanket till the child was found. She told me how she had left the child the night before, tucking him up on both sides, so that the blanket was invisible. If I mis take not she said the child was taken away in the blanket and she never missed the blanket till the child was brought in wrapped up in it. I can't say whether she could have seen that the blanket was gone as the clothes were placed when I saw them. If the blanket h a d been placed between the quilt and the sheet it could not have been seen very well. The prisoner showed me where she and the other child slept. She said she woke about five o'clock and missed the child; but thinking its mother had taken it into her room, she afterwards t laid down again and slept till six. I searched the premises and went to th e p r i vy. I first examined the knives , but found they had all been cleaned that morning. On going to oh e p rivy I found a piece of flannel lying on the surface of the water and soil at the place from which the body had been taken. Mr. Ribton submitted that this piece of flannel to which Mr. Saunders in his opening had attached great importance, could not be received in evidence. The Chairman could not doubt that it might be received in evidence, because it was part of the facts. Mr. Ribton contended, on the contrary, that it formed no part of the facts of the case. There was no proof at what time it was thrown into the water closet. It might have bten there for a month before. The Chairman was not prepared to say what weight should be attached to the discovery of the piece of flannel, but he was clearly of opinion that the article might be produced in evidence. Mr. Ribton maintained that the prosecution might as well produce the whole contents of the privy. (A laugh.) Suppose a great variety of other things had been found, did the magistrates think they could have been brought forward in evi dence, unless they could have been proved to be in some way connected with the body of the child ? The blanket was evidence, because the body was found wrapped up, ,in it; but -ib qotinection had been proved between the body and the piece of flannel which formed a portion of the contents of the water-closet. From anything that appeared at present it might have been placed where it was found a month before this melancholy evsnt occurred. The Chairman said the remarks of the learned gentleman might lessen the weight of the evidence but they formed no objection to its admissibility. The piece of flannel was found lying on the sur face of the soil, and was seen shortly atter the body was taken out. It was impossible, there fore to exclude it from the evidence. At the same time, in order that there might be no pre judice about the matter, he might state that he could not tell what weight should be attached to the simple fact that a piece of flannel, even though it could be proved to belong to the prisoner, was found in the waterclost underneath the body of the child ; it went only a little way to connect her with a crime which was committed in her bedroom. Mr. Saunders said it might show at all events that the crime was really perpetrated in her bed room. Witness continued—l believe the flannel to be a woman's chest flannel. There were marks of recent blood on it. The blood was in a congealed state. The principal part was in the centre, as if it had dropped on it. I saw the construction of the privy. Below the top seat there was a splash-board, on which I think the body of the child must have rested. If the body had been lying on the soil it could not have been reached by a man's arm. I got up the flannel by a hook attached to a stick from underneath the splash-board. There was no soil on the flannel. It appeared to have been only recently there. The blood did not penetrate the flannel, but it appeared to have dropped so gently on it that it had congealed drop by drop. I have the flannel here, but it has been washed, as it be came so offensive. I heard the nurse say she did not miss the blanket till the body was brought in more than once the same morning. I saw her on the 27th of August, when she left to go borne, I believe. By my directions the wife of one of the police, named Dollimore, went to the house with the piece of flannel and made searches. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—This is the first time I have been examined before the magistrates. When I saw the prisoner on the morning the mur der was discovered the prisoner appeared willing to give every information in her power. lam aware that one of the constables has stated that before the body was found she told him that a blanket had been taken away ; I did not hear her say so. The blan ket was narrower and shorter than the sheet and counterpane, so that it could be easily with drawn without disturbing the position of the clothes; at least, it is possible. At the time I saw the pri soner the child and the blanket had been found ; I think what she said was that the blanket was not missed till the child was found, and not that the missing blanket was found on the child. My me mory is not so good as some persons'. Mr. Kent told me that he did not know the blanket was gone till he returned from Trowbridge ; he said so in presence of Mr. Superintendent Wolfe. I put the question to Mr. Kent twice. I asked him if he was aware that any, blanket was taken away with the child before he left, for Trowbridge, and he said, "Certainly not." I did not hear Mr. Kent give his evidence, but I have heard that he has stated that he knew the blanket was missing before he came to Trowbridge. That does not alter my evidence. The distance of the splash-board from the place where the flannel was found was about two or three feet, more or less. The prisoner left Mr. Kent's about two months after the murder ; her father came for her. During those two months I never found her backward in telling me anything. I never found any inconsistencies in her statements ; they were always substantially the same. When she got home she wrote stating that she had arrived safely, and that if she was required at any future time she would come forward, if I would drop her a line. She also stated that she would not leave home without letting me know. The warrant wa,s issued on the information of Capt. Meredith, chief constable of Wilts ; he was present when Miss Con stance Kent was apprehended. The warrant was delivered to me and Superintendent Wolfe. I sent the police to Mr. Kent's house. I did not desire him to lock them up. I was very much surprised when I heard of it. The men nearly got discharged for allowing themselves to be locked up. I have never been able to find out Mr. Kent's reason for locking the men up. I must be excused from say ing whether I have any suspicious as to the reason for locking the men up. They reported to me that they hal been locked up. Neither of them told me he had been asleep. When I saw Mr. Kent on the Saturday he seemed very agitated. Re-examined—The prisoner never gave me any information that was of service to me. She often stated that if she knew anything about it tha.4 she would willingly tell me. I had some conversation with her on the 27th of August, in which she said she was sure it was not Miss Constance. I said, " If you are so sure about Miss Constance you must know who it was. Was it yourself ?" She said, "No." I said, "Was it Mr. Kent?" I think she said "No; it must have been some one concealed in the house." I said, "That story won't do, nurse, I can't believe that for a moment." Mr. Saunders here stated that the evidence he had to offer would be. concluded in another sitting. It was now half-past 4 o'clock, and he hoped the magistrates would adjourn for the present. Mr. Ribton thought the magistrates might now fairly ask his learned friend what additional evi dence be had to produce. According to his opening statement the only particle of evidence, in addition to what had beer, adduced on former occasions, was the piece of flannel of which so much had been said. The magistrates, he supposed, might take that as having been proved, and he could not see why they should proceed any further, except it were for the sake of exculpating some member of the Kent family. Mr. Saunders said that when he had concluded his evidence the magistrates would form their opinion upon it. Mr. Ribton submitted that nevertheless the ma gistrates would be doing no more than their duty if they asked his learned friend whether he had any additional evidence affecting the prisoner. If he had not they could not require a single word to in duce them to discharge the prisoner. The Chairman—ln a frightful case of this kind we must go patiently through the whole evidence. Let the next witness be called. William Nutt, recalled, stated the body of the child when found must have been resting on the splashboard of the privy, as it could not pass down. Cross-examined—l don't wear a chest flannel. I wore a hareskin once. I wear some flannel all round me. Thomas Benger was also recalled to prove the , same fact. Henry Heritage, one of the Wilts constabulary— , I went with Mr. Foley to the privy on Saturday morning and saw the piece of flannel found. I went the same evening to Mr. Kent's house with Urch, and we found ourselves locked up in the kitchen. Cross-examined--That was the first time I was ever locked up in that way. I knocked at the door with a stick for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour before Mr. Kent came. I told him I did not know we were going to have the door fastened on us. He said he had been walking about. And he locked you up to prevent you from walking about, I suppose P—l suppose he did. Francis Wolfe—l am one of the superintendents of the Wilts Constabulary, and am stationed at De vizes. I was at Road-hill-house on Monday, July 2, and went over the greater portion of the house with Mr. Kent, for the purpose of seeing if there was any place where a person might secrete himself. Mr. Kent took me to a room on the first floor, and said, " Here is one here which is not frequently oc cupied." I looked in and saw it was furnished, and said, "It was not likely a person would go there. There was no hiding-place in that room." The next room we went to was on the same floor, and was called the lumber-room. I said " No one would surely be here, because they might not know that one of the servants would not be coming at any time for some of the children's playthings that are in it." We went on through the other rooms, and the only place I could find where a person would be likely to be secreted was in the roof at the top of the house, over all the other monis. • The access to this was rather difficult from the house, but there was another mode of access by coming over the leads through a window. -I saw nothing to indicate that any person had been there. This was not a room • it was a place where the watertank is which supplies the lower part of the house. I went to Road-hill house on the Ist Aug- with Mr. Foley and Captain Meredith. There was a conversation With the nurse. Captain Meredith put the questions to her. She i said it was about half-past 10 or 25 minutes to 11 when she last saw Mrs. Kent on the night- of the murder. She was speaking at the same time about the comet, and said how nicely Saville was sleeping. In reply to a question about the blanket, she said, " The first time I missed the blanket was after the child was found. I went up and looked at the crib before I went to dress Mrs. Kent's hair." By Mr. Ribton—l did not caution the prisoner at this time, or any of the other servants of whom we made inquiry. Examination in chief continued—The prisoner has frequently said to me that the first time she knew the blanket was missing was when she saw it brought in on the little thing. By the Chairman —There was conEiderable dust in the place under the roof. If a person had been there recently I think I must have seen traces of it : . . A model Of the cot in which the murdered child slept was here produc r efkapd the witness explained the position,ht which the clothes were described to be found on the morning of the murder. The quilt and sheet were smoothly folded back towards the foot of the cot; displaying - the impression made by the head of the child on the pillow, and by the body on the mattress. _ _ _ Witnesticontinued—The prisoner stated that she awoke about 5 o'clock in the morning, and knelt up in bed, looked across towards the cot, and missed the child. Fancying that Mrs. Kent might have taken it away, she lay down again and slept till 6. T have tried the experiment by kneeling on the bed and looking towards the cot; a garment of a dark colour was put in the cot in the position the child was ly i ng, but I could not see it: By the Chairman—The sides of the cot were o thick canework; looking over the cot, you could only see about four inches into the cot ; looking sideways you could not see through the canework. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—From the posi tion the prisoner described she would have looked cornerways at the cot ; if she had stood up she could have looked into it. The prisoner was interrog ated in my presence on several occasions, after whic she left. Mr. Foley told me where she was gone, and I went there and found her. The warrant was issued on the 27th of September ; the prisoner left Road hill-house on the 27th of August. I don't know when Mr. Slack undertook the management of the case. All the other intuit - es of the house except the prisoner have been examined by Mr. Slack. She never mani fested any disinclination to answer questions put to her. On the 4th of August I find I have a memoran dum that she said to me " I only wish I knew about the murder, I would soon tell you. Do you suppose I could have kept it for five weeks ?" On the 7th of August she said to Capt. Meredith" I know nothing about it ; who came into my room, or who went out that night, I can't say. I did believe, and do now, that some one must have been secreted in the house, or that they got in. How is it that we hear very often of people secreting themselves in houses, some times for robbery ? " Towards the end of the same conversation she said " The night-lamp was burnt out in the ordinary way. It does not burn quite six hours. It was lighted rather before 11, and was quite out when I awoke at 5. If I had known any thing I should have told Mr. Foley on the Saturday morning." There were chairs, sofas, and tables in the room Mr. Kent pointed out to me as a spare room. I think it a thousand chances to one that a person could have been under the sofa in that room without being seen by daytime. I will not swear that there was not a cupboard in that room. I think Mr. Kent did not show me any unoccupied bedroom. I did not see any person in the lumberroom. I think I can swear there was not one there; I will not swear there was not one there. It was some few days after the murder that the position of the clothes in the cot was shown to me. This is the first time I have been examined on oath. I apprehended the prisoner. She was sent for, and brought to me at her father's house. Re-examined—The clothes, as shown to me by the nurse, were folded down by an experienced hand. The prisoner said she thought it must have been done by a woman, because a man's hand could not have done it. The prisoner, on the 7th August, said, at the end of the conversation I have spoken of, " Mr. Kent has never alluded to the murder to me from first to last ; the young ladies have, and so has Miss Constance, but not Mr. Kent." . By the Chairman—All these questions were put to the prisoner with the view of getting general in formation for our own guidance, and not for the purpose of obtaining evidence against herself. By Mr. Ribton—l heard Mr. Kent deny to Mr. Foley that he knew of the blanket being missing before ho returned from Trowbridge on the Satur day morning. Mr. Saunders—We have disposed of 13 witnesses today. I now propose to adjourn. We shall have only 8 or 9 more Then, and most of them on small matters. The court broke up at 5 until 1.1 o'clock to-day. It was understood that it would then , close. The demeanour of the prisoner throughout the day was tranquil and composed. She evinced the liveliest interest in all that passed, though remain ing silent. Mr. Dunn solicitor, and Mr. Edlin, bar rister, have attended to watch the case for Mr. Kent, but have remained silent. When being re moved yesterday to Devizes Gaol prisoner said to Mr. Wolfe, " They may imprison me for life on this evidence, but they can't hang me." As Mr. Kent's carriage left Trowbridge, after the adjournment of the court, on Monday evening, the mob which had collected outside hooted vigorously ; but the presence of the police prevented this strong ebullition of popular prejudice from assuming any more violent form. ALLEGED MUR nER BY POISONING AT TVAK.EFI.ELD. AGGBRIG, TUESDAY On the reassembling of the jury, after the ad journment, the inquiry into ttie death of Miss Adamson was proceeded with as follows: Mary Link—l am a Roman Catholic, and attended the Roman Catholic chapel in consequence of con versations I had with the late Miss Adamson. I knew deceased very well, and was frequently at her house, but I have not gone there so much of late, in consequence of something Emma Stringer said about me, and we have n.tt been very friendly since. During the time I used to go to the house Miss Adamson was frequently unwell, and used to get better for a day or two. She complained of burning pains in her stomach and throat. From my fre quently going there I know that Emma always used to prepare Miss Adamson's food. At the re quest of Emma I fetched her sister Matilda to as sist her in the work of the house. On the morning of the deceased's death I was fetched by old Mrs. Bateson, - who told me that Miss Adamson was dead, and I went to the . house -Ind assisted in lay ing out the body. The face of the deceased looked very much puffed and swollen. When living she was of a very ruddy complexion, and bright red cheeks. Mr. David Heeld, stationer, of Wakefield, said he knew Emma Stringer well. On the day Miss Adamson died Emma Stringer called and registered it, and about a week after she called and ordered address cards for herself. He had a con- Hversation with her about the rumours afloat that ‘liQs Adamson came to her death by unfair means. He then told her that if the deceased lady had not been poisoned it would be better for her (Emma) that she should be taken up, wheu she said, in reply, that it was not she who was suspected, but her sister. Mrs. Denton, wife of a farmer at Walton, said she was present at the sale of Miss Adamson's household ftirniture and other property, and on that occasion went over to the house to look at the things. In Emma Stringer's bedroom she saw a pot with something white in it. She did not know what it was, but supposed it to be some mercurial preparation for beds, and she took no particular notice of it. Mr. Thomas Wood said—l resided with the de ceased fot many years. I have known her, perhaps, 40 or 50 years, and have been in the habit of taking my meals with her, but I never felt any ill effects after eating in the house. The deceased lady had English cholera before Emma Stringer came to live with her. William Illingworth said he was present at the sale of Miss Adamson's furniture, and upon a shelf in the kitchen he found a packet containing a white powder, arid which was labelled " Poison." He threw it in the fire. He did not know poison when he saw it. John Scott—l remember Miss Adamson's sale ou the 29th of August, and was in the kitchen when the last witness, Wm. Illingworth, found a packet of white powder. It was labelled " Arsenic, poison." I said, " This is dangerous stuff to be here, fling it in the fire ;" and he did so, and it was burnt. Some of it fell on a loose bar of the grate and was calcined. Joseph Priestley, another person who:was present at the same time when the paper packet was found, was next examined, and said that when the packet was thrown into the fire he made the remark, " They say that people have been poisoned here, and there is poison in that paper." He heard John Scott say it was to be thrown into the fire. He tried to get it out afterwards, but could not succeed. Afterwards he saw some women upstairs who had come to the sale, and he took the hot bar and showed it to them. The powder was white like flour. He should not have known it to be poison but for the J. Burrers, gardener, confirmed the testimony given, to the effect that the day after Miss Adamson was dead Emma Stringer and her brothers removed some things away from the house in trunks. Henry _Robinson, an undertaker, said that he was sent for to measure Miss Adamson for her coffin, and was several times at the house after her death. On one occasion he saw Emma Stringer with three or four rings on her finger, which she had never worn before. They were in the habit of conversing to gether, and on one occasion she asked him whether she could have anything that Miss Adamson bad left to her, and he said, "Certainly, if there vas a will, and it was properly witnessed." Mr. Taylor, of the firm of Taylor and Mountain, proved that, at Miss Adamson's request by letter, he had supplied an arsenical and mercurial prepa ration for the purpose of killing rats. He had never supplied Emma Stringer with any fusel= or other poison. This being all the evidence at present obtained, the inquest was again adjourned till Saturday next. To-morrow (Wednesday) the three prisoners will be brought before the magistrates at the courthouse, Wakefield. 2118 ClilLD MURDER AT BOW. Ann (otherwise Emma) Padfield, 23 years of age, was re-examined at the Worship-street, police court yesterday, on a charge of having wilfully murdered her child, Augusta Padfield. At the previous'examinition James and Maria Mead, the former a labourer,"at Lea-bridge, Bow, stated that the prisoner had lodged at their house for some time past, and had a child with her, a boy, about three Months old ; that about 12 o'clOck on Monday, August 27, the prisoner left the house, taking the child with her, which was then in a sound, healthy state, and did not return home till about the same time that night, after witnesses had gone to bed, when she was admitted by first wit ness, who saw that she was without the little boy, and to whom she accounted for the child's absence by stating that her sister had taken it with her into Somersetshire. On the following day prisoner left, asserting that she had got a situation, and was going to it. Nothing more occurred about her or the child till 11 o'clock on Wednesday, when Mrs. Mead happened to look into the cesspool of her house, and to her astonishment perceived the body of a child lying on its back, with the legs uppermost. She despatched a messenger for her husband, who procured a constable; and upon the body being extricated, it Ewas found to be nearly black, the left arm missing having apparently been chopped off near the shoulder. The infant was conveyed to the station, while the cesspool was emptied, but the limb mentioned could not be discovered. Mr. Shorter, clerk to Mr. Ellis, the vestry clerk of Hackney, appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Vann, for the defence; and Mr. G. Lewis, of Ely _ place for Mr. Bryant. The following additional evidence was now taken : Mary Padfield said—l am a married woman. My husband is a coal miner at Paulton, Somerset, near Bath. Prisoner is my sister-in-law, but I have seen her only once. I did not know she was in the family-way, or ever had a child. I never agreed to take charge of , any child for her. Have not had any, correspondence with her for years, and in fact did not know whether she was living. Frederick Bryant, residing at 6, Holloway place, Islington, said—l am eighteen years of age, and I live with my parents. lam clerk in a mer chant's office. I know the prisoner; she was ser vant at my father's house. I never undertook to take charge of a child for her, nor so far as I know did- my father or mother. Mr. Shorter—Did you ever promise her mar- nage ? Witness—Certainly not. Mr. LeWis—You are not obliged to answer tha question. Mr. Shorter— Are you married ? Witness—No. Mr. Vann—Are you the father of the prisoner's child ? Mr. Lewis—Yon cannot ask such a question. After some remarks from the magistrate the question was withdrawn ; and Mr. Shorter observed—l hold in ray•hand, sir, a certificate of register of birth of Augustus Frede rick Bryant, on 27th June, 1860 ; it is furnished by Mr. Jeffrey's, one of the registrars of the Hack ney district ; but of course I cannot ask witness anything about it. George Allen examined—l am a carpenter, and live at Retreat-cottages, Highhill-ferry, Clapton, situated about a quarter of a mile from Hammond's cottages. James Mead is my brother-in-law, and I have seen the Prisoner going there. I know that she had a child, but don't know when she took it away. I met her about half-past nine o'clock on the evening of the 26th of August last (a Monday) —(witness was corrected, that day falling on a Sunday)—it was at the corner of Dalston lane, she was going towards Clapton, and had a bundle with her; it was a good size, but I don't know what sort of a bundle or what it was wrapped in. She was carrying it in her arms as if it was a child. I did not speak to her. I kno wit was a Monday be cause I bad been with a friend to draw some money from the bank. Elizabeth Miller, the wife of a plasterer, living at Beaumont-street, Shepherd's-bush, made the fol lowing deposition—l know the prisoner from having seen her on occasions when I went back wards and forwards to Mr. Drake's (the prisoner's recent master) at Notting-hill. Last Saturday week she appeared very low spirited, and cried con tinually. She told me that she knew a young woman who had had a child between two and three months old, that she (the young woman) had a situation to go to, that she had kept the child as long as she could, and then took it to a field and gave it poison, that she took it home at night and put it down a closet. Witness continued—l asked the prisoner what sort of closet the young woman had put it in that the body did not stop it up, and she replied, " In the garden." ' She also said that the young woman's name was " Emma Padfield." I did not then know that that was the prisoner's name. She added, " There is something in my box that reminds me of that child." lam sure it was on Saturday week prisoner told me this. Mr. Shorter—There is another inaccuracy in date here, sir. The prisoner was then actually in custody. Witness—lt was the Saturday before she was apprehended. Mr. Shorter—This is all the evidence I propose now to offer sir. The mere finding of the child's clothes by the inspector, and now produced by him, can be deposed to on the occasion of completing the case. Mr. Vann and Mr. Lewis observed that there really as yet was an absence of proof that the body found was the prisoner's child. Mr. Knox directed a further remand, and the accused, who appeared very careworn, and who had sat during the three hours' hearing without making a single remark except on one occasion to her soli citor in private, was removed from the bar. THE STEPNEY MURDER. A portion of the following appeared in our impression of yesterday : James Mullins, aged 50, who stands charged with the wilful murder of Mrs. Mary Emsley, a widow lady at No. 9, Grove-road, Mile-end-road, was brought before Mr. Selfe, at the Thames Police Court, this afternoon, at ono o'clock, upon remand. Mr. Herbert Wood, solicitor, again attended for the pri soner, who, on being arraigned, appeared very collected, and in better health and spirits than he was on Wednesday last, upon his third examination at this court. Mr. Wontner, for the prosecution, said the course he in • tended to pursue was to complete the evidence against the prisoner on the charge of murdering Mrs. Emsley. The witnesses to be called to-day speak to the prisoner being in the neighbourhood of the Grove-road on the night of the murder, and the only gip in evidence was the time at which the murder was committed, which could not be ac eounted for, and that the prisoner would have satisfactorily to account for. In addition to that there would be one or two pieces of evidence of a miscellaneous description, such as the finding of the boot which had some human hair upon it, but he did not attach any very great importance to that circumstance, as the prisoner was a plasterer, and that being so the hair would easily be accounted for. In his opinion it would be too violent a thing to assume that the hair so found was that of the deceased Mrs. Emsley. He should also call witnesses to prove that Bums could not have been in the house when the murder was committed. In the evidence he should offer to-day he should ask for the committal of the prisoner for murder. The following witnesses were then examined : James Clark—l am 15 years of age. I live with my father at 10, Temple-terrace, Bethnal-green. I know the prisoner by sight. I last saw him on Monday, the 13th of August, at my father's house. He was at work there. He began at two and left off at four. The job was finished then. Cross••examined—l am a cooper. I work at home. I was not at work all that day—not in the afternoon. I was at home the whole of the time from two to four o'clock. Isaac Tyrrell—l live at 1, T e mple-terrace, and am a shoemaker. The prisoner Mullins worked at my house on Monday, the 13th (the day of the murder.) He left at about six o'clock. He was engaged in knocking down a portion of the ceiling. He used a chisel-pointed hamm er , such as plasterers used. Exactly like the one now pro duced. It seemed sharper on the edge then than it is now. He was using mortar. He went out to get some hair to mix with it. He did not finish the job that night. H e came again on Wednesday. I expected him to finish on the Tuesday, the next day, but he did not come. Mr. Wood declined to ask the witness any questions. J a mes Raymond —l live at 12, Hexton - square. l am a th August. a m I was certain a of u t b h l iact was e o nt op N' of ' the e e I r 3 o at of minutes to t h e toG eight Grove-road. ve in r p oa t a ilor by trade. I k now Gro ve - road, Stepney, and h o t here u se o atn d effveonwinengt. ro l nn sa d w th th e cooprrinseronnesr i t f h g e o r i e n , g l have not seen him since the 13th until this morning. There were several persons in the room. I picked him out from among them. J o hn Mitchell—l live at 3, Ed en-place, Ho/am, a sea man, but I occasionally work a t th e docks. I worked in the dock on the 14thand 15th of August. I had to pass through Stepney-green to go to my work. There can be no mistake about the prisoner being the man I saw in an agitated state at about 10 minutes past 5 on Taesday morning, the 14th. It was close to the Baptist Chapel, Garden-street, Stepney green. Mullins was going towards the Mile-end-road, when ho met me. His eye balls seemed to be coming out of his head .his whole frame trerabled and }are liA O O 5 k A °Q4cl 11114" him, and his lips quivered. His appearance excited my curiosity. As he got near me he crossed the road and passed close by me. I stepped cn one side and took my hands out of my pockets, and then he stag- gered , back. What I had seen induced me to commu nicate with the police at Robert-street, about 10 days before he was taken into custody. I afterwards went to the House of Detention, and on being shown the cells in which the prisoners were confined, one in each, I found the prisoner in one of them. lam certain he's the man I saw on the morning I have referred to. Mr. Wood said he did not wish to ask any questions. By Mr. Selfe—lt was on Stepney-green I saw It was at the end of Garden -street. I was going to the East India Dock. The prisoner was coming up the Mile end-road. The prisoner would have to come round by the Gas-house to get to the spot where I met him. Mullins would have to go out of the direct road from Grove-road to get to Where I met him. I have not been examined before the Coroner. Caroline Brimson—l live at 33, Barnsley-street, Bethnal green. I went to live there the day before Mrs. Emsley was supposed to have been murdered. The prisoner lodged in the same house. He occupied a back room on the ground floor. There was no proper fastening to the front door, and the lodgers came in and out as they liked. I saw him the first time on the Wednesday night. Sergeant Thomas,- 8 F, re-called—l entered the room spoken to by the last witness. . I produce a key which I saw in the honse of the deceased on the 18th of August. When. I took the prisoner into custody, he had no key of his lodg ing upon him. I had authority to break open the door of his room. I have tried the key I hold in my hand with. . the prisoner's room door. It both locks and unlocks it. I also produce a spoon whisk I found at the prisoner's lodg ings at Chelsea. It corresponds with one I found in the parcel found at Emms'. It bears the same stamp, and also is marked by the initial of the maker " W. P." By Mr. Selfe—l found the key I have spoken of in de ceased's bedroom. Elizabeth Fuke—l reside at 17f, James's-street, Com mercial-road East. lam tenant of a house, No. 14, in that street which belonged to Mrs. Emsley. The prisoner set a copper in that house some days before Mrs. Emsley's death. He told me deceased had sent him to do the work, but had not allowed him materials to do it with. I asked what he wanted, and he said, " about a peck of cement." I gave him the money to get it. The prisoner said Mrs. Emsley was a miserable old wretch, and would neither allow them materials to do the work or half pay them for what they had done. He said " I was at her house this morning, and I give you some idea what a miserable old wretch she is. She was sitting down to a breakfast that he would not sit down to himself. She would not even allow herself a farthing's worth of milk to put in her tea, so she drank it without. It's a great pity such a miserable old wretch should be allowed to live." Mullins told me I need not take any notice of it to Mrs. Emsley. Mr. Wood declined to put any questions. By Mr. Selfe—lt was not until Mullins was in custody that I told any person about the conversation I just related. Robert Went, K 160—On the 20th of August last I was sent to search the coal cellar of the house of the deceased, No. 9, Grove-road. I found an old handkerchief in a tin. It had a quantity of money in it, viz., £32 in gold, and £l6 2s. in silver. Dr. Gill—l examined a boot that was produced on the last examination. I found some human hairs projecting from between the welt and the sole. (The witness pro duced it, it consisted of three hairs only.) Walter Thomas Emms—l occupy a cottage at Emsley's Brickfield, Globe-town, Bethnal-green, and am a shoe maker. I collected some rents for the deceased. I last saw her about two o'clock on Monday, the 13th of August, at the end of Barnsley- street, just as she was leaving it. She made a communication to me that.induced me to go to her house on the Wednesday afternoon. It was her custom to go to Stratford with me on that day. I went to fetch her. I knocked at the door I think about three times. I did not get an answer, and I went away. I went again in the afternoon; then I went to Stratford, collected her rents, and returned to her house about half-past nine in the evening. I knocked at the door, but could not gain admittance. I did not go again myself until the evening of tho next day. I could not then get any answer. On. the following day (Friday) I communicated with Mr. Rose, Mrs. Emsley's solicitor. I was taken into custody on Sunday, the 9th of September, and I saw a parcel then in the possession of the officers. I had never seen that parcel before. I did not know such a parcel was in the shed adjoining my house. I was surprised when the officer showed it to me. On Saturday, the day previous, I was unwell ; I did not get up until half-past nine. I left the house for the first time that morning at half-past ten. I am certain it was not before that time. The place from which the parcel was taken is on the left hand side going out. I did not go near the ruined cottage at the back of my house that morning. I did not go into the ruin early that day, get a parcel, go back into my own house, and then return with it to the shed. I declare I did not, heti:go God and man. I was not near the place, and I had no parcel in my hand that day. Mr. Wood—l have no question to ask. Witness—Has Mullins any question to ask me ? Mullins (laughing)—l'll have, a gentleman to talk to you in another place. By Mr. Selfe—Mullins has visited me frequently. He has more than once had tea with me, and he knows it. If he wanted to borrow a shilling or two he knew where to come to, and he's had it. Mullins looked at the witness and smiled, but made no reply. Susannah Emms—l am the daughter of the last witness. I was at home on Saturday, the Bth of September last. My father had his breakfast in bed that day. He did not get up until about half-past nine, and then commenced work ing in the same re ,m as myself. He went out about half past 10, but he did not remain longer than 10 minutes. The window of the room in which we were working looked into the brick-field. Any one going into the shed must have passed the window, and I must have seen them, as I was working with my face towards it the whole day. My father did not pass the window that day. On the afternoon of that day I saw Mullins in the brickfield ; he was near the school wall. He was looking down on the ground, as if in search of something. Walter Thomas Emma, a little boy, the son of Emms, about 10 years of age, said—l recollect father being taken into custody on a Sunday. Before that I saw Mullins in the brickfield on Friday, about half-past two. He was lying down, with a handkerchief up to his eyes. It wa against the school wall. He stayed there about half an hour. I was minding my pigs. I saw him again on Sa turday, after dinner. He came towards a heap of sand, where they are putting in drain pipes. I saw him there for about 10 minutes, and then I went in and told my mother I had seen him. I was not at home when my father got up that morning. I was out with the pigs. Mr. Wontner—That, Sir, is the whole of the evidence for the prosecution.. The prisoner was then asked, in the usual manner, what he had to say to the charge, and he replied that he should reserve his defence. He was then fully committed for trial. TILE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. .. .. • • • • .. Oct. 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verde • • • • • • .. Oct. 5. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. .. .. Oct. 6. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. • . Sept. —. Canada, &c. (via G alwa y ) .. .. .. Oct. 5. (via Marseilles) Oct. 2. Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. China, Penang, and Singapore ..........Oct.va 'amn) Oct. I.' WesternCL Cuba Malta, sbba En dgCyllpplatef:t.(via Southampton) Oat. 2. Do. .. .. .• .. .. .. . Oct. ]• (via Marseilles) Overdue. India Gibraltar (cai c ( u v i i l)t a toaceyl Southampton ) Ceylon, & o . India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. Oct. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) .. .. Oct. 4. Aden (via Southampton);.. Oct. 2. andiocfo Africa,.A. (via Marseilles) .. Sept. —. Vigo, and Oporto .. Madeira, Teneriffe :. United States California, &C. Overdue. `Vest Q. .. .. Oct. 3. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Oct. 15. BIRTHS. BYASS.—On th e I s t inst., at Reigate, the wife of R. Nioholl CL o E f ß l li v E. ra Byass, Esq., of a son. 7li o e n ur th y e cie d rk in e s , t E ., s a ci t , 1 0 5 i a E s a o t n on . -place S., the wife KENT. --011 the Ist inst., at Bandon-lodge, Notting-hill, the wife of G. B. Kent, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. B OSTOCK—hirr.—On the 2d inst., at St. Mary's, New. ington, Sami. Rostock, Esq., of The Hermitage, 'Walton heath, Surrey, to Marian, only daughter of W. T. Iliff, Esq., M.D., of Canterbury-row, Islington. WHICHCOB,D—THomAs.—On the Ist inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, John Whichcord, Esq., F.S.A., of No. 3, Clarence-terrace, Regent's-park, to Marian Emma, the eldest daughter of Samuel Thomas, Esq., of Queen's- • road, New-cross. DEATHS. COBBOLD.—On the 27th ult., suddenly, at Hatchett's Hotel, the Rev. Edward Cobbold, M.A., rector of Long Melford, Suffolk, and Wallington, Norfolk. DUNN.—On the 10th ult., at Aden, en route to Australia, John Dunn, Esq., M.P. for Dartmouth, and formerly Member of the Legislative Council of Tasmania. FLETCHER.—On the 30th ult., at his residence, 4, Port land-place, Lower Clapton, the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, D.D., aged 74. _ FRAsEu.-LAt Hazareebaugh, East India, Lieut. S. W. Fraser, of the Bengal Army, aged 27. KENNETT.—On the 29th ult., at Alton, Hants, Richard Kennett, of the firm of Messrs. Jackson and Co., Dock head, ag,d 41. NixoN.—On the 29th ult., at Ramsgate,` Lydia Mary, the widow of the late Captain Nixon, R.N., aged 66. SmiTu.—On the 30th ult., , Lionel Danv ers , i nfant son of Major and Mrs. Lionel moth. LONDON : Printed and Published by Al URDO YOUNG of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Dffice, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county Atiddleseit WcalleaClah October 8, 1860. 1 4