The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-05-31 00:00:00

THE KURD= Of A MOLY.

The inquiry into the murder of the unfortunate
Marshall family was oommeneed on Tuesday at the Swan
Inn, Uxbridge, before Kr. Charsley, the coroner for
South Bucks. The jury proceeded to view the bertha,
and ibis was the most painful end even terrible part of ,
their dirty. They lay just as they had fallen under the
with
miirderer e bad, eh the exception of the father,
Marshall. He had been found on his face in the little
forge, but the body had been turned over for the pur•
pole of formal identification. The others had remained
untouched, with merely &sheet thrown over them. Few '
it the jury or even the spectators could restrain their I'
ware at the horrid eight before thorn, especially irks° I
the three young children were uncovered, and the
frightful wounds on their little heads were seen. The
name of the victims were Emmanuel Marshall. thirty.ll
five; Charlotte, his wife, thirty-three; MU] ADDS
Marshall, hie sister, twenty-nine (she was to have beset
married yesterday); Mary Marshall, the grandmother, !!
aged mventy-fies ; end the three children, Gartrada,ll
four, Theresa, six, and Mary, eight.
It was shown conclusively that only one man did the I
deed, and that be did it early on Sunday morning, , !
certainly between four and five o'clock ; that he first , J
murdered Martian in the forge, and what hie cried and i
struggle* aroused the homily in the house he turned is
and slaughtered all he met, some with • hemmer,
some with an ate. Evidence was given that Jobs,
Jones, apprehended at Reading, was seen coming out i 1
of the loom of the Mershalls, leaving the family ' ,
murdered, leaving his own clothes covered with blood,
then wearing the clothes of the murdered man AM
pawning the watch that was stolen from tho hones. !
The inquest was adjourned till Friday. !
Prisoner. on Wednesday, asked gretfiy for " more ,
grub," and said if it was not given to him, he would I :
refuse to take food at all. He is handcuffed in his .all, I
with a policeman with ithn.
On Wednesday morning he was brought up before 1
Sir Robert B. Harvey, Captain Farrar, and Mr. Cole.
man, at Slough. The prisoner is apparently • man of
42 or 43 years of age, short, thick set, with black,
bushy beard and moustaches *lovely cut round. His
face was ghastly pale, and he looked Hite a man who
had not sfept for several days..
Supt. Denham spoke to apprehending prisoner in a
lodging-house at Reading, and charging him with the
murders, when he said "I've never murdered any one,
but I know who did." He was remanded till to-day
(Tuesday). He was taken to Slough station en route for
Aylesbury poL A great crowd had assembled, among
them some hundreds of navvies and men employed on
the line. Cries were raised of "Tear the —to
pieces r and "Lynch him I lynch him " He was got
off by a rum.
Throughout the journey to Aylesbury the prisoner
behaved in a cool, audacious manner, and at various
places, while changing trains or on taking his seat in
the cab, threatened what he would do if be were only
free, At one place he said, "Well, I'm watched pretty
well, but I may give you the slip yet, as I don't mean
to donee in the air if I oan kelp it,
The key of the murdered man's premises has been
pinked up in the lodging-house at Reading where the
murderer was captured. On that be he offered the key
teeny one that would accept of it, hut all declined.
' He then pushed the key through • hole in • cupboard.
The inqu.st was remained at Denham on Friday,
before Mr. Chanley.
Mr. John S. Ferris, surgeon, said: On Monday night
I was milled in to see the bodies at Marshall's cottage.
I saw lars, Marshall lying on the floor with her face
towards the wall, which was smeared with blood. Mary
Ann Marshall was lying with her feet on her mother
and her face the other way. In the beak kitchen I
sew the body of the grandmother, lying with her arm
round the youngest child, with was dead by her side.
Both their heads were covered with blood. In the fire-
place were the bodies of Mary and Theresa, one upon
the top of the other. I went out into the foundry, and
by the side of the forge I found the body of Emanuel
Marshall, covered with • seek. He was lying on his
face with his hands stretched out in front, one leg over
the other, and no shoes on. Cu removing the mak. I
saw two large wounds at the back of his bead, and
turning him over I found his face smashed in. On
Tuesday I made a post-mortem examination of the
bodies. On Marshall there were four wounds on the
face. The upper and lower jaws were broken. The
hair was matted twith blood and ashes. There were
five wounds on the scalp. The ham of the skull was
fractured in such • oomplete manner that it might be
divided in two halves. The scalp wounds were probably
made with the poker, and the face and skull smashed
with the the or sledge hammer. Upon Theron Mar,
shall, aged six the whole right side of the skull was
smashed down to the spine, The injuries were probably
predated by one blow of the sledge-hammer. On Mary
Marshall, aged eight, on the hoed there was • semi-
circular wound five inches long, which almost com•
pistol, cut of the right ear. There was • small wound
on the right side of the bead and others on the beak.
Three of times wounds were made with the poker, but
• "starred" out on the beck of the head could not have
been made with any instrument yet found. There was
• wound on the right side of the tam and both jaws
were broken. The base of the skull was (restored, and
the brain visible. On Gertrude, aged four, all the
bones on the left side of the bead were "stove in," and
fractured in all direotioos, the temple bone alone being
Intact. The blows was probably given with the sledge
hammer. Mary Marshall, gen., aged seventy-maven,
had • triangular wound on the right temple. On the
right aide there was • wound three inches long, boiling
it another of the Name length, and a third behind the
ear. Her skull was fractured right throes the base.
Mary Ann Marshall, aged thirty-two, had a wound an
Inch end • half in length over the left eye, and the
teeth from her upper jaw were knocked into her month.
A wound an loth and a quarter long down the parting
of the hair and • wound three inches long on the right
side of the bead were sharply cut, as if done with the
edam of an axe. There was • large starred fracture at
the right aide of the skull, which wet fractured in such
• complete Trimmer smogs the bass that, like the others,
it might have been pulled in half. Charlotte Marshall,
the wife, had a jagged wound over the right ear, •
wound three inches long at the back of the heed,
another of the same Imgth in the middle of the bead,
a fourth on the left side of the beck of the head, and
the bass of the skull was oompletely fractured. The
injuries were done with • sledge hammer or the back of
LB ale.
The other evidence was a repetition of 1844 before
stated.
At the conclusion of the inquiry • verdict' of
"Wilful warder" vu returned against John Jenkins.