The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-05-13 00:00:00

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

The description given of the Man who purchased the
weapon (hall hammer, half hatchet; with which this hor-
rible deed was committed Is that of a labourer, between 27
and 34 years of age, having full black whiskers and the
geaeral appearance of a jobbing gardener. The prisoner is
only 20 p are of age and has no whiskers, but hole of the
height given in the description, and the theory of the
prosecution Is that he might have disguised himself for the
purpose. The man asked for a No. 2 lath hammer, and
remarked that he could not see the steel edge on the
hatchet, but it was pointed out to him by another ens
tosser. The prisoner's brother, who will be called for the
defence, says that on the Saturday night when the hammer
was boucht they were walking about Greenwich together all
the ever.ing, except for a quarter of an hour, when his
brother went to the Literary Institution, and that it
would have been impossible for him to go to the shop
of Mr. Thomas In Deptfosel and back in that Interval.
The brother adds that on the night of the murder the
prisoner left him at 20 minutes past seven, and came in to
supper again at nine, it being the Invariable habit of the
family to have supper served at that hour. Toe brother is a
marriedanan, but, his wife being in the country, he slept
with the prisoner for three or four weeks prior to his appre-
hension, In consequence of Edmund having had an epileptic
tit on the GM of April, on which occasion he bit his tongue,
and, according to the brother's account, covered his clothes
with bleo I. the night of the murder this witness says
the prisoner had supper and went to bed Just as mu tl,
and slept well all night. Among the other witnesses
who will be called for the defence wlll be .me composisors
with whom the pH. flee worked In the printing.oilice,
and a young woman who assists in his father's shop.
They will show how his time was occupied until a quarter
past leaven on the night of the murder, and say that they
never observed any familiarity between the prisoner
and the deceased, it being remarked that the former always
treated her with reserve. She has been spoken of as "a
dirty girl," hut the printers descrthe her as a good looking
girl, with a very happy disposition and agreeable manners.
A librarian from the Greenwich Literary Inalltution, Mr.
U- title, acceurits for the prisoner's time five minutes later
on the night of the murder, saying that he came to the In
'Mutt. at 25 minutes past seven' and sold he was going
to I ewisham. 'I he etreumst :nee Is fixed on the witness's
memory try tha fact that Sir Olaishor, the ructcorut-gb.r,
came in a; the time time, and he flees the date by the cir-
cumstance of some 'cadre,i being given the same night In
the Leetnre-hall by Mr. Warner Sleigh the banish,. One
whims., a Teraon named Sheuton, says he met the prisoner
'ln Greenwich about half-past night that sight; but taking
the general testimony that he Was hme at nine, there
Is only left h'm an hear and thirty-five minutes to
, account for. Theground has been mer.ured by Mr. Roberts,
' surveyor, of Greenw:ch, who finds that the d stance from
the Insa ration to the area wine's the murdered girl was
found Is two mttes, 1 011 yards. If those witnesses beg dsrect
the goes:ion will arise whether the psiseuer could have
travelled mare than five miles Mall toe distv.nco will a
worn.) and ummitted the murder In an hour d a half.
Ilia own statement is that on the eight In question, after
leaving the lostitution, he went to Lewisham to keep watch
upon another young man whom he suspected of deshms upon
a young woman to whom hewn! paying his mistresses at that
place. ile says that he returned by way of Rai re-hill amass
the margin of Blackheath, and that having sapped down in
the gutter at &nth-street, Greenwich, he went into Mrs.
Plane's shop to brush the mud elf his Woofers, fearing that •
he might emse his mother anxiety by leading her to suppose
that he had had another fit. tie writes cheerfully to his
friends from his ctll at Maidstone Gaol, his only anxiety
apparently arising from the dry quality of the p, iron
literature, and the want of hit watch, Which he thinks the
police took from him needlessly.
The body of the deceased was buried on Monday afternoon
drab g the thunder storm at Brockley.laue Cemetery, In the
grave provided by the 10c..1 authorities of Deptford. After
the opening of the Uaroner's Inquiry at Guy's Hospital, on
Thursday last, the body was brought from London to the
house of ehe uncle and aunt of the deceased, Mr. and Mti.
Trott, of Deptfdrd, and from this place the funeral cort,go.,
correlating of a hearse and two mourning coschis and several
carriages, coutainlng the relatives and friends of the dc.
desired, started tor the cemetery, and a few urinates after-
wards the Mt rm commenced and continuel throughont the
whole of the mournful ceremony. Sme thousands of
persons assembled Meng the line of procession. After the
interment an affecting address was derivered at the grave.
Upwards of 20,000 persons visited the scene of the murder
on Sunday, the maturity gaming from Linden.

The following is the copy of a letter which has been
received by the parents of the prisoner, written from
Maidstone Gaol on Monday. It will show that be
has been subjected to painful annoyance, which cannot
be too strongly reprobated in a case of mere suspicion
of bit having committed a horrible offence
Cell 53, South Mahlon, Maidstone Gaol, 8-5-71.
"My dear Father,—We bad anticipated reaching bore
without much bother, hut at ev.ry station on the Poe, as
far as Dartford, the re was a crowd of people, not pe a-
sengers by the train, who came to pass remarks upon mo,
sad at Crayford I had to endure the same ordeal as I had
In the trip In the morning' (referring to hi. journcy from
Maidst.ne on Saturday, prior to his re-examination at the
Greenwich Police-courth "although it was a train earlier
than prisoners generally travel by. At Crayford the people
seemed to be persons engaged at some tactory close by, and
the man who so kindly ramie bed lathe morning, All, now
bell off CO Oilman,' commenced hissing me, making re.
marks of alike nature, and the statlonmutere and porters
seem as bad. Now, I appeal to your sense of bulge, lilt