The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-20 00:00:00

THE MURDER AT ELTHAM.

On Saturday Edmund Walter Pooh, aged 20, was
brought up for re•examination at the Greenwich police-
court, on the charge of having wilfully murdered
Jane Maria Clousen, near Eltham, on the night of the
25th ult.

From an early hour iu the morning, a large crowd
had collected in front of the court, and when opened it
became densely thronged, some thousands of persons
remaining outside during the proceedings, which Listed
nearly six hours.
Mr. Poland attended, on the part of the Treasury,
to prosecute ; Mr. Pook, solicitcr, attended for the
defence • and Mr. Moore, of the Associate Institute
for the Protection of Women and Children, attended
to watch the case.

Mr. Poland, addressing the magistrate, raid that
since the la.st examination the police had been actively
engaged in making inquiriee into the circumstances
attending the murder which the prisoner was charged
with having committed. The cloth( e worn by the pri-
eoner on the night of the murder, and which had been
given op to the police, had been sent to Dr. Letheby
for ana'ytical examination, and be might state that he
intended to call Dr. Letheby, who would state in bin
evidence that there were several soots of hi i 'he
left leg of the h0e..., but one spot of blood on
that of the right leg. He would observe that whoever
committed the murder, etriking with the right hand,
would stand with the left leg Lrwari and rcore near
hie victim than the right leg, and that this would go to
account for there being more blood on the left than the
right leg of the trousers. Another matter he might
also mention was that a hair of a human being, Breen
Inches and a half in lergth, was fdund upon the
trousers, and which would be proved to correspond
with a portion of hair taken from the head of the
deceased by the hospital surgeon after the post-mortem
examination. . .

Mr. l'ook here rose, and said that the prisoners
clothes had been in the possession of the police several
days and publically exposed and opened in a room
adjoining that in which charges were taken at the
station and through which the police were in the habit of
passing to reach the magistrate's court. If that was
all the evidence the learned counsel could produce he
(Mr. rook) might say that the case against the
prisoner was hanging by a single hair.
Mr. Poland th.id Mr. Pook had no right whatever
to interfere in any remarks be thought it his duty to
state to the Court. With regard to the shirt worn by
the prisoner, marks of blood had also been found on
the right wristband, and which it would be remem.
bored, the prisoner had aceminted for by a scratch he
had received under the left wrist.

Mr. Pook said the evidence given by the police as to
the account given by the prisoner arose from the
prisoner being improperly questioned, in proof of
which he referred to the remarks of the Lord Chief
Justice last week in the Court of Queen's Bench, and
asked that this evidence, which bad been taken at the
first examination of the imieoner, might be struck out
of the depositions.
Mr. Poland said the question as to what was stated
in evidence by the police was not at that moment for
consideration. The prisoner bad accounted for the
marks of blood on the right wristband in the manner
he had already stated. With respect to the hat worn
by the prisoner—a wideawake—there had been found
spots of blood on the rim. On the coat given up to the
police, but which was not known as that worn by the
prisoner on the night of the murder, there Lad been no
spots of blood discovered, nor were there any spots of
blood found upon the prisoner's boob], which were taken
from him the morning after he was taken into custody.
The hammer heel also spots el lfood and pieces of hair,
and he should go as far as he could that day with the
examination of the witnesses he had to call, and at the
conclusion he should have to ark his Worship to grant
another remand, important inquiries still going on by
the police in reference to the outrage which had been
committed.

Mr. Pook said that before any evidence was taken
he wished to ask the magistrate if he thonght the
police had used that diligence in the case they might
have dory.
The Magistrate said he could not answer the question,
which might ultimately be considered, and the case was
then ordered to be proceeded with.
Mr. Michael Harris, surgeon of Guy's Hospital, said
he cut from the head of deceased a lot of hair and
lodred it up until he handed it to Inspector Mulvauy
or Superintendent Griffin,—he could not say which,—
In a piece of brown paper. He also placed the uterus
of the deceased in a white vowel, covering it with
paper, and sealing it, whih be also handed to the
police.
In reply to Mr. Pook witness said that the hair was
cut off after the post-nurtim examination, and after he
had attended and given evidence at the Coroner's
Inquiry. It was cut off in lengths el five or six inches.
He had neither asked the Coroner nor sent any peron
to wk him whether he should eat off some of the hair,
but had received a meesage by some one from the
Coroner to do so.

Inspector Mulvany repeated his former evidence as
to taking the prisoner into custody, end said he tode
poesession of a pair of troupers belonging to the pri-
Muer at the police-station, and of a cog, hat, and
shirt, also worn by the Risoner, at the house of his
father. The hat and .hirt were brought to him by the
prieoner at his father's house, witness having asked
him to produce them. The boots belonging to the pris
goner witness 1w k possession of the next morning from
Superintendent Griffin. These things he afterwards
took to Dr. Letheby, at his renidenco, Siissee.place,
Regent's-park, and saw him personally. He also at the
same tune gave Dr. Letheby a small brown paper
packet containing hair, and which was opened by the
doctor in his presence. When the packet was opened
he believed the clothes were then unpacked. The
small packet containing hair he received from Mr.
Harris, at Gny's Hospital, on Tuesday night, the 2nd
of May, and delivered it to Dr. Letheby, with the
article, of clothing, on the 4th of May. He also took
something he received sealed up from Mr. Harris to
Dr. Letheby.

In reply to Mr. Pook, witnele mid when the prisoner
wan brought to the police-elation he wan placed in a
room, and, after being charged with the murder, the
trousera he woe wearing were tAken from him, and he
wan placed in a cell. Witneen did not know that the
room in which the prisoner was tient placed ia used by
poffite officers to take refreshments in, nor did he know
that the room was made elle of by police officers to
reach the c irt. When he went to Dr. Lotheby's the
bundle of clothe,' was opened by the doctor. The
bundle of clothes wail not left open for days in the room
in which the prisoner sem first placed at the Sittlon,
but left tied up.
Mr.
himself.Pook remarked that he saw them lying open

Cross-examination continued: Witness-Id not know
that policesoilicere generally might have seen the ,
clothes. A sergeant on duty did see them, as also did
the father of the prisoner, and also himself (Mr. Pools).
The Coroner did not tell with. Si to get the hair from
Mr. Ilarris, but the latter told him he had r,ceived
message from the Coroner to cut off a portion of it.
It was a little after two o'clock on the afternoon of
Mouthy, the let 4,f May, that witness and Mr.
Superintendent Griffin went to the house of the pri-
soner'', father. They remained there from half to
thre: -quarters of an hour. They were not examining
the prisoner all the time they were at the home. When
before the Coroner he had stated that he asked the
prisoner questions b-fore taking him into custody,
and when asked whether lie had read the remark.
of the Lord Chief Justice as to the police putting
questions to prisoners, his reply was that there was
a difference in the two C9l3tlf!, that to which the
Lord Chief Justics referred being the questioning
of prisoners after they were in custody and the charge
entered against them, but in the present case the ques-
tions were put to the prisoner before he was taken into
custody. Witness did not go to the house of the
prisoner's father intending to take the prisoner into cus-
tody, nor did he tell anyone at ten o'clock in the
morning that he intended to apprehend him. Witness
did not go with an officer from Scotland-yard to watch
the house of the prisoner', father, but he and Supt-riu-
, tendent Griffin and others residing in Greenwich went
Into an opposite house to have some beer. The
hammer or hatchet produced was brought to him at
Scotland-yard by Inspector Wilson, stationed at Lee.
It was tied up in paper. The clothes were received
from Dr. Lethi,y yesterday (Friday) week, at night,
before the last examination at the police-court.

Mr. Pook said, at that examination Mr. Poland
stated to the magietrate that Dr. Letheby had not con.
cluded big °lamination. . _

Mr. Poland : The clothes were returned by Dr.
Letheby after cutting pieces from them, and at that
time Dr. Letheby informed the police he had not com-
pleted bis examination, and required time to do no. It
wan for that reason he dal not call Dr. Letheby on the
lent occasion, but he propoeed to call him that day.
Cross•exainination reeumed The hat, after being
sent back, was again returned to Dr. Letheby. Hair
could be seen, indeed was very perceptible, on the
hammer when he received It from Inspector Wilson.
By Mr. Poland : Witness had the clothes at the court
at the last examination in the event of their being
wanted.

Dr. Henry Letheby wee next called—
lie said he was a physician, residing at 17, Sussex piece.
Regent's-port, ant fuser of Chemistry at the Loudon
Hospital. Ile had • very large experience in medical aud
legal Inquiries relating to lohood cases, and had written upon
the mode of discovering blond stab • by means of the micro-
scope fie received from Inspector alubrany a parcel con-
taining a pair of black cloth trousers, nude man's wii'eawake
hat rod shirt, which were now produced. Thee were re-
ceived by bins on the 3rd of May, and on the day following
Inspector aluivany called on him again, bringing a small
Parcel containing a lock of hair In brown paper, a patrol
man's boots, •plasterer's hammer wrapped to brown paper,
and in a white vessel and sealed the uterus of a woman who had
been eight or nine weeks advanced in pregnancy. 011 Friday
night, the 6th of May, he returned all these, with the exception ,
of the lock of hair and the uterus, to I iispector Mulvany. Ile
had cut out six or seven pieces from the trouser., and also
some pieces from the sh:rt and the upper surface of the :
hat. The hat wu again brought to him yesterday at his re- ;
quest, and he returned it to the inspecPir that morning. Ile
thought he opened the parcel containing the lock of half on
the evening it was brought to him by Inspector Mulvany,
lout the clothes were then locked up in his cupboard. On
Friday morning, the sth of May, he began his examina-
tion of the trousers, and he was hot prepared last Satur-
day to give his evidenee. Ile had made • c ireful ustninso
don of the trousers, and on the under side of the left leg, a
little above the knee, he saw a human flair, which he re-
moved, and which is 7i inches in length Ile placed It be-
tween two pieces of glass, and now produced H. It was of
a brown colour, and on comparing It with the lock of hair
taken from the deceased he found itto be of precisely thesame
appearance and colour. ills ordinary brown hair and could
not have got from the paper parcel on to the trousers, lie
had not measured the length of the lock of hair cut oft Ou
examining the trousers he found several spots Oaths left
leg, mostly towards the lower part. These he cut out and
examined them under the microscope. Ile obtained a a:dation
et them by digestion with water, and then submitted them
to the moat cautious and delicate test there is for blood,
the spectroscope, and he found there were unquestionably
blood. Ile cut six or seven pieces of the cloth which had
these spots, and there were several others left. There
was a conthinatton of cne of the spot. sufficient for chy-
mlcal examination if necessary. lie could not say it was
human blood; no one could say so; but It bore all the
characteristics of human blood. They were certainly not
, old stains, as it was a property of old blood to become In-
soluble In water, new blood being soluble. Ile should not
like too much importance to be attached to Ma, as it was a
mere opinion, but founded on experience. The acidity of
1 the atmosphere in London had • tendency to change blood
to the insoluble form. On the right leg of the trous,rs there
was one spot, but he was not quite satisfied that this w, a a
blood spot, and he should wish to examine it further. Ile
found the shirt hod been worn, with a eeal of perspiration
under the right arm, and on the upper port, towards
to edge of the right cuff, there were six spots of
a red colour, which had the appearance of blood.
One of the stains had gone through the cuff. Ile
removed one of the spots, and submitted it to micro-
scopic examination and found it was • hood spot.
He could sit say It was human blood; it hail all he charac-
teristics of human iloot or the blood of 411 animal 0 tin
upper part of the rim of the hat, a little to the loft, there
was a spot which looked like a blood spot; towards
the back on the right hand side of the rim there was a
blood spot, and there was another towards the back
of the rim. Ali these were blood spots, lie could not find
anything on the boots. He examined the hammer, and
found on it a this layer of rust, He examined first round
; the part where it was notched. It was covered with mud,
and protruding through the mud were three hairs very per-
ceptible to the eye, particularly when a lens was sued. lie
I removed the mud and found five pieces of hall altogether,
they varied fr en a quarter to half an inch in 'areas. lie
: had compared them with the hair of the lock, and found they
were of the same structure and colour. Ile then directed
his Inquiry to the under part if the blade of the hammer,
red there found two clots of blood. One he had examined,
end tho other he produced. The one he had exam.ned
was blood. On • !mining tho handle of the ht miner, near
the end where it enters the Iron head, he also found spote of
blood. There were no spots of blood on the coat.

Mr. Pooh is mullioned Dr. Letheby as to the tests for bland,
producing Dr. Taylor's work on" Medical Jurisprudence,"
from whom he differed in many respects, believing that some
portion of the a sok was written before the use of the spec.
troscope was discovered.
By lir. Poland—l uoubt oat the spcts I have
snose of the blood of a insminaL I cannot
say It is human blood.
By Mr. Foot—Such spots of blond would have been the
same in quality as those produced from the biting of the
tongue in an epileptic fit.

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Mr. Pook aelccd the witness whether, It a hammer had
been used, and the brain struck, there might only have been
bttle blood, and whether II there had been many blows of
a violent kind struck, he would not have expected there
would be a large quantity, and that the blcol would hove
Walled about I

Dr Letheby sald It was quite pLisible that the hammer
might have ponetrated and that there might not have been a
large quantity of biro&
In reply to Mr. Pack, witness adiltd that he Culi not tell
the distinction between the heir of a man and that of •
woman.

Sir. Pools asked If he would not have expected, from the
fact of there befog no fewer than 13 wounds about the head
and face of the deemed, that the blood would bave spurted
out, and that the clothes of the person atrlklrg the blows
would have been c ?vered or saturated to blood?

Dr. Letheby It might be the CUB that the blood spurted
out, but es I did not see the body of the deceased I would
rather thh question wan answered by the medical man who
did see it.

By Mr. Poland—Witness could not say how the blood
tn,aht hove splashed, but it was probable the far, might
bare neen arm* and there was no splashing. The blood
spots he Lund were those of a mammal. If the baots taken
from the prisoner had been blacked that would destroy any
traces of the marks of blood.

The remainder of the witnesqes called were those
examined previously and also at the coroner's inquiry,
one witness, a young gentleman named Bendickson,
fixing emir-Arty the time he saw the pri.oner in the
shop of Mrs. Plane, confectioner, Royal-bill, Greenwich,
as being twenty minutes after nine on the night of the
murder, and not from a quarter to half.past eight, as
spoken to by the witness, Miss Billington.
Mr. Poland then asked that the prisoner might be
again remanded.

Mr. Pook opposed the application, on the ground,
as he contended, that there was no evidence as yet
whatever against the prisoner ; that every information
and the line of defence to be set up had been given by
the father of the prisoner to the police ; and that the
police, he said, had been groping about in the dark after
the actual murderer.

The Magiatrate said he did not wieh to give an
opinion either utam one aide or the other. He desired that
the inquiry, rarticularly p.inftil, as it must be, to the
relatives of the prieoner, should be conducted calmly
and quietly, and after the evidence that had been
adduced, he felt boned to remand the prisoner, again
without bail until Friday next.

. .
The prisoner, who had been provided with a seat
during a part of the examination, was then removed,
and subsequently conveyed to Maidstone Gaol.

On Tueeday, the twice•adjourned Coroner'e inquiry
In this remarkable case was resumed before the Coroner
for the City and Southwark at Guy's Hospital, London,
and for nearly tir hours the jury were engaged in
endeavouring to unravel the mysteries surrounding
this moat brutal crime.
On this occaeion Mr. Poland, on behalf of the Tres-
enry, attended for the prorectu ion; and Mr. Pooh, of
the Temple and Greenwich, attended for the defence
of the young printer who is charged with committing
the crime.

At the rru nest of Mr. rook, the Detective Mulvany was
recalled on nuesday nod asked what he told the father of
the prisoner respecting the prisoner's alleged Intimacy.
He denied having said to the father that there was a
letter showing that the 101 l had COY respouded with the girl,
but he said he stated that he heard there was much a letter.
An a fact he did not say he ha slick 11 letter, noel he had
not soou uric. when young Pock was told he ,aa accused
of corresponding with the girl he at once said he had never
written to her.

ortoo, the coachman, we, rec dled, and he stated that
niece the teat Inquiry he had been taken t) Identify the
'Magner, end he could not Identify the man In custody as
the man he maw running In the lane on the Might of the
Murder

Dulles Rittman, the ompant el of the lest witnets, said
she bad taro been taken to see the prisoner, hut she could
not hisnlify him

At this time Mulveny, the dticer, was seen to court by Mr.
Poole, who at once requested that he should he order.' to
lease.

Mr. Poland thneght the er art was the proper place for the
officer.

Mr. Pook sald his %low wu thAt ont•dde wet the piece.
he liior retired on befog reqtwited Co do .3 by the
Coroner

Mr. Samuel Thomas, of its, Iligitetreet, Deptford, a tool
and cutlery warehouseman, was next examined, and his
examinstion was Ilatemei to with great Interest. lie woo
sharply treated, bat the manner In which be gave his evi-
dence wee more that ol a careful man than of one willingly
catualing a•-y matter. Ile said. My wife and occanional
my eldest boy help me to serve In the shop. In the 15th
of April I had sin hammers like this. (Ike lath-hammsr,
found near the place where the murder was committed,
was here handed In ) Ti is is like those I reit I had three
of No. 2And three ol No. 3, here which show the lieu
This in a No, 2 I have them of Turner and to eller, of Shel-
tie' I, all complete as this re—that is, handles and all I sold
the first No. 2 on the 22nd of April, and think It was about
nine o'clock at night. My wife wee with me In the shop, and
she served. A plutereee boy was the purchaser; his name
I. tWull.m Elliott. The price of It was Is 40. I sold the
scv^od on Monday. the 21111, but whether I sold it myself
or at what time. I react ray. There Is one sold entered In
the book on that date, but I cannot remember stellicg it. II
I knew I would toll son directly. The polico canoe to me on
the Satnrday followlng the warder, hut my wile could not
find the entry übtil lest I. &lay, when I %arched became I
thought I should have to go El the Court. I went to the
Treasury to be examined, and !said nothing stout this being
sold on the Monday because I did not know that it wee im-
portant. The pollee al not get from me that a hammer

was sold on the Saturday, the 22ect •, they saw It themselves
In the book. The one sold on the Monday was Identical with
that sold on the S durday, and I cannot accouut for the
second being entered at Is, 61., for I have but one price for
my goods.
These answers will indicate the character of the questions
asked In the examination In chief, and the witness handed
In S rough book of sales, Iron which it was apparent that •
lath hammer was sat on the bill. the • utry, he said, was
made by his wife, who made nearly all the entries, and the
pollee, Who on drst coming to Ids ahop were handed the
book, fell into the palpable erns oI setting down the hammer
sold on the 22tal as the one sold to the murderer, while How
It seemed to be Indicated that the one sold on the bith, the
day before the merder, was the one so used. Of coune the
whole fabric the pollee have built up on the theory that the
purchase vision the 22nd fell to the ground.
The wife of the w!tness was then sent for.

The whores then resumed,—l know Mr. Vaunter. lle Wa
In my shop on the 15th of Apra when a No. 3 hammer was
sold. I don't remember saying It wu on the 22nd, and If I
said so It was a mistake. I can trace by my book that
Vearsley was WORnt on the 15th (The youth Conway Wita
brought in) I know him, but he was not present on Satur-
day, the 22ad of April when I sold the first No. 2 hammer. I
sold Conway a chalk line, but I don't pat such things as that
down In the book. I sold a No. 3 hammer the pwchaser's
name and address were given) on the 15th of April, and It Is
entered at la 31. It Is a larger sins than No 2, mei It was
sold at a less price than It should have been because the
man had boon out of stork along time, and so I let him have
It Ira little less.

The witnf se was sharply mumbled by Mr. Poland as to the
reason why he had kept this Information back respecting the
sale of the hammer the day &fore the murder. He said
he did not keep It back, f"r he went down to the police-
court on the morning after he found it out (last Sas urday ),
but he was not called. He saw Superintendent Griffin on
the Monday scorning and told him of it, but he did not tell
anybody else this. lie wag sure he told no concise.
Mr. Pook : He did not tell me, or any one connected with
me. If that is what you want to know. i have heard of this
now for the first time.

The witness, further questioned by Mr. Poland, sald,-1
can solemnly swear that I did not know before last Friday
that this hammer was sold on the Monday (the 24* I
swear I don't remember anything of one of these hammers
being bought for a theatrical yerformance. I never heard
of such a thing. I think my wife sold the hammer on Mon-
day, the 24. h, hut I cannot say.

On being pressed by the Coroner, who said that the witness
surely must remember something about the sale of this
hammer, when he coal remember about others, the witness
replied that he had found out about the others because the
people called upon his.. and told him of circumstances, and
perhaps he should kuow of this if they gave him more time.
It was pointed out to him that he had entered other persons'
addresses and names, and his explanation was that these
pertone had come t him after the murder to give him in-
formation, and he had taken the addresses for the poll..

The book of the witness recording his daily sales eras sub-
jected to a mlunteesanduatlon I.y the jtuy, the Coroner, and
Ur Poland.

By the direction of the Coroner the witness was kept in
the court so that he should hold no communication with his
wife ad boy, who had been aent for, kis wife from DepthAd
and the boy from Cierkenwell green.

Meanwhile, the youth Conway %vas recalled, and he swore
to seeing a man in Mr. Thomas's shop on the 22 id of April,
as If baying a hammer like that before the Gillet. Ile never
saw the nian before, and only saw his back, but he had
picked out the prisoner since at Greenwich aa the man he
saw on the Saturday, the 220 d. lie was sure It was that day,
but since he picked hie man out at Greenwich he fancied he
was not quite the same In the shoulders.
In answer to Mr. Pook, the witness allowed that rime he
hod been examined before this Court he had called Oil the
brother of the prisoner, and he said he did so to tell him he
was present when the hammer wits bought. Ile dented that
he had I tiered to go to the " North " if he could get some
money and not " lune up" In the affair again Ile said he
was out of work, and his detailed account of himself showed
that this was often the ca, with him, and he acknowledged
that he was being paid so much a day by the police.
Mn. Thomas then came, and was sworn. She was sub-
jected to • very stringent examination of all the facts con-
nected with her business, the sale of goods, and 4pestlous
regarding the mitgoing or Incoming of her husband and her
boy on the Monday three weeks ago. She was told she ought
to answer offhand She gene an account which differed inns
material degree from the statements of her husband, and
said she positively could not till at what time, or to whom,
on the 24th of April she had sold the lath.hammer entered 111
the book. She was told that she must remember it. as she
had charged 21. more, and she was asked by the Coroner If
the 21. extra was not charged because the purchaser had •
black coat. The witness said the mistake of giving a No. 2
' for a No. 3 might have been made, tut no difference of price
was charged because of the person.
Mr. Poch protested against the style of examination, and
said it was not right to try and force the woman to answer
in any other Sr iy than she wee disposed.
In reply to Sir. Pooh she sold, on Monday, May I when ohs
young mon was In custody , she was taken to see the young
man, with others, but she could not detect any one whom the
had seen before.
Mr. Pooh asked that the husband should be asked the um*
queaMon, for Mr. ihonime hod been taken tb identify the
young man, and as le had failed to identity the man the
police had not mentioued
The question wee not, however, put.
The son of the Thontases, a boy 13 years of age, was then
called. Ile war untitled, without having had any commu-
nication w ithhia parents. rope: t'ng the pr ices of thedifferiAt
etz, and he sal 14. 4il. fir the No. 2 and Is. GI. fir the
No 3, and El esa sr ould be lltoprices to any one—plasterers
or otticrs. A second rot, aged tell, was abo examined; but
nothing was elicited from him.

Dr. Lethely then gave the evidence which was given before
the magistrates at Greenwich. rerpecting the things brouglrt
to him by the pult:e on the 3,1 of May—. amely, the thin
and clothes of the iontrg man, a bunch of hair cut from
the murdered tins head, and (what be bad not men:l.nd
before, a clothes-brash. rho dont,er gave the evtth.nce of tie
spot. or 'marks" bolus blood, as stated before the ni.,gls-
trate.

.ona ci the jury
.called attention. to the iCz 3 of thenalte. ot

telWri ontheVirl.rt7r-ea-d.hoWUnri;lred Th-ai.
be called spots at ad, they were in slight, they looked like
touches of a rusty Iron.
Respecting the girl, the doctor said she was eight or nine
weeks advanced In preansney. There WM nothing on the
clJtheabrueh. There was no telling bow long the blood
stains had born on the clothes and shirt of the prisorer.
Tile hair found on the trousers was thoroughly embedded in
the cloth, nod it might have been brushed in there for some
time.

Mr. Poe k questioned the doctor, and the witness allowed
that the explanation given Imq:teeing the biting of the
tongue in an eV's:4Jc at wax quite in keeping with the op.
pearatce ni the blood on the Mart and Er t uterie. The heir
!mind on the troller.,too, he. said, presented no difference

,ti. in thonu.mts of heedi of tistr tu-Vndon. The haft might
have been a long time In the cloth.
In answer to the jury, the doctor said the hairs found on
1 ere igruir.an' 7srrlic‘tnurti."rine"C.AV.Clh nn"oihsw( swear trinPlata
hairs were from one head.

Laren waa recalled, and he sald he had tdenttded the W-
enner as the man he had seen at ten minutes to seven at the

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litriifield a Kidbrooke on the 25th of April. He add be left
home at Kidbcooke at twen,y minutes to Coven tha% night
&Il reached Greenwich at eight

The C ironer said he should !cave It to the Crown to bring
forward more evidence, for he thought the jury were bound
to clear up Ibis matter, and, therefore, it would be more
satisfactory to adjourn again.
Mr. Poole said he had important witnesses present who
woal prove facts which would show at once that the young
man could not have comn.itted this abominable crime.

The Coroner said that he was not sure that he was bound
to hear such evidence: bot, at all events, he should not hear
it before the Crown had finished the CIRO

The Court was then adjourned till Thursday week