The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-23 00:00:00

THE STEPNEY MURDER.

On Tuesday last. the adjourned inquest respecting Ow
death of Mn.. Mary Ellld!ey Wad held at the Railway
Hotel, Globe•rowl, Mile-end, before Mr. Humphrey.,
the coroner. (i.e various parties who were precio4ls4
engaged in the ca, either for the prosecution of defence,
were in alt i !Ounce.
Elizabeth Guttz was the first witness examined. She
said -I am niece to Mrs. Emsley. I saw her fur the last
time on Montlay, the 13th of August. She dined with
me. Mullen, called. She gave hint a lock. lie asked
for some keys, and she gave him several. Ile was to
put up the lock in a house in Hartisley•street. Mullein
went with my aunt 4.11 that day to 33, Barnsley.street.
where Muliens then lodged.
William It...eland said he saw Mr-i. Emsley in Barnsley-
street in, Monday, the 13th. There was • man named
Fox, and two other pens,ns with her. Heard her say.
•• They want to rub sue of a I:50 note."
3liclia.4 Gaffney, cooler, esamined—l reside at No.
7. Queen's-road, ILkllinal-green. On the 13th of August
Mullen,, called to look at a job he was to do; he estwo
next morning aud began to wash the wall and ceiling.
He Was 411.111iddell on the Friday because he did net
know how to hang paper. There was some talk about
the murder. Mullen,. said, "It is quite true ; I bare
, had • drop of drink over it, sod will have some three
before 1 go to bed."
Philip Cornelius exa iii ill ed—l live in Ruwelleitreet.
Berne...hwy. I aui a labourer. I knew Mullen+. He
once lived in the rano- house as I did. I saw Mull..
Weilne day, the sth of August; 1 did not see h.
afterwards. I said get some of tny mates that I had
! withethina to di ink with him about the tone of tie
murder believed that to he true at the tune, but I
was mistaken.
John Illayinond, tailor. et:snared —I was at the Aber.
deen public-house in the llay of tho murder. I saws
ii an coining out of the urinal On 044 04:4:,1,401., Sal
g in ; in the direction of No. 9. Globe-road. I was
a.terwar Is in the premises to the rear of the hl
station. I recagnizer Ma 11... there sy the in iii w: ets
I Saw. It wrs nisito ti ii minutes More eight in the
evening that I saw Mullen&
John Mitchell, a 1.4.:41111!1, Hying at Eaton•placit. Hoy
ton, CIL: •,.ed—l wink at Hi...locks. About 5 o'clerit.
mi the morning of the 14th of August I was pawtul
through Stepney to my work. I saw 11 Man on that oe
...ion. He attracted icy atttent because 441.• of he
pockets wed very full and be wad very excited ;
balls pioteuded. I went afterwards to the
Detention and recognized the mail whom I saw on that
mottling. lie was called Mullens. On the menial; I
saw him lie looked ad if lie had been after couluottiny
a murder, and I took particular notice of the liour.
Ur.s-examineil by Mr. Wimil Two ileteetivo wear
with isse to the Iluuse of Detention. They ,lid we ars
company toe to the cell. There was Only oll.• 151 II
each cell.
Elizabeth Flake examined—l live in a house Idea
belongs to Mrs. Emsley. Marini came to settle the
copper. He said that Mrs., Emsley WA, a miseraltie
wretch, and gent iteople to work without giving thin
Illattf44B. He said it was it pity such it miserable we°
should be allowed to live.
Inspector Stephen Thornton examiued I haw
chat go of this Cade. I loUnd a boot in a house &deb
loot been occupied by the pfisoll4.f. I Aso emit"' a
piece of board which was cut (non the staircase 44 Illre
Elm:lvy's home:. The print 4.11 the board se, eis too,
respond with the boot which I found. There 11•4.1 i
of blood on the board. 1 also found a pencils,"
1110U4,4,
I 3lrd. Gottz.—T believe the pencilcase produced te
the one used by Mrs. Emsley.
Dr. Gill examined-1 found a mark of Wiwi oa l!e
pencilcase. I examined the boot and intittesswa ett
piece of hoard, and found them to corrrspowt
parts i I believe the mark to be the ill.t.flnt of ilobte:;
I 401111 d !Wine hair un the boot, and compared it sit'
hair of the deer:toted ; they corresponded iu coleu""
remarkable degree
This being the last witness,
The Coroner proceeded to read over the evidence...lL"
t said that the deceased was a peraon of lunar.. lt,ctir
living in a house by herself, and that it was her
I hot to adiiiit 1.1:1X0U.1 to II t. 1101/1.• willow' It 4:11
) out of the *hole, or up the area to see if she •
recognise them. She was out ataiat 5 o'clock in thrift;
noon of the murder, and two of •• neighbour+ tf°l4,o
at her window about 7 o'clock. It .. ,s also alloe!',:_r,
she w.ot in the habit of drawin,f doun the
but the blinds on Friday ni;ilit were t't e-
s down, which was conclusive evidence that awl,
. der was committed on the Monday es ening. sudeT,,,h,
was seen of her till the following Friday.
in consequence of Emma becoming alouej'.
t ess
house was entered. From these circuinstancrvi!
+ ts
clear that whoever was admitted to the house 1
tee T
er
o deceased On Monday night, and who conimittol
e der, was known to the deceased. They his. the f6e,l
Mullen,, was known to her, and that lie Itc"it say
e amiss to the house. There Was no e.n10w6,...-
tv, 11111 l ey belonging to the deceased being traced totonnfi
• neddiOn of Nolte., hut the pcncilcase which wc+i‘r-1i,4
o the powiesaion of his wife was pflafed tO hoe
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to Mrs. Emsley, and the parcel which Irce;._i toe
d the outbuilding attached to El 11111.1.• 11011 SC WO tot
a tape which COffellpOlldOti exactly withal 'eleerimige
! found in klullens's house. Then there uh, tbe
irma,
ad to the bouta found in the dusthole of the b
Ii oo! ,itt,
Mullein, occupied at Clo leen, the imprint iii hid ale'
of the stairs in the dereaseire home .
.• aud wow/
been prove+l that Mullen,'wax seen earlY the haw
morning in the neighbourhood of the dere.% oteder
in a state of excitement. It was dial. that. for
had been committed by 50100 one. and it who. they
jury to coneider the evidence. and say whet
thought it not comniitted by Mullen+. ow after
The jury then retired into another room.%viol
, being aheent 214 minute., returned a verdictur
I murder against James Mane. "

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Church-street. Dorchester. Took!, fictub"
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