The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-30 00:00:00

EL ARTHUR SHLTHARD.

The bankrapt was described u a eornmission agent for the
sale of wines, in Clargea.street, Piccadilly. Debts, 2131. ;
;....‘ets, nil.
r. Holt appeared for the assignees.
The order of discharge, which had been adjourned for
three months, was now granted.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Lord Chief Baroo.)
THE MURDER IN THE CITY.

Samuel Gardincr. 34, sweep, and Elimixth HundAler,were
jcsatly indicted for the wilful murder of Elisalueth(iardiner.

Mr. Poland and Mr. Besley prosecuted. The prisoners
were defended by Mr. itibton and Mr. Sleigh.
The circumstances of this case have appeared very re.
mutly in our Mansion house police report, and the charge
rested entirely upon circumstantial evidence. It appeared
that the prisoner Gardiner lived in Northumberland-alley,
Fenchurchatreet, and the other prisoner, who is a married
woman, there was no doubt had been carrying on
an improper intimacy with him, and this caused
quarrelling and ill-feeling between Gardiner, who was
also a married man, and his wife. The female prisoner had
lien liviug in the same house with Gardiner and his wife as
servant, but she hail left, but returned to reside there
shortly before the murder took place. In consequence,
however, of something that occurred she was to have left
the house on Monday, the 22nd of September. The prisoner
Cardiner was in the habit of going out very early in the •
morning to his work, and on the previous night he
chalked the time he wanted to be called on the
door post, and the policeman on the beat
called him at whatever time was marked. On the
ve of the occurrence the prisoner was called
by the policemen at a quarter-past 3, but he did not leave
the house until half-peat when the policeman who called
him met him as ho left the bowie, and apologised to him
for having called him so early, as he hail mistaken the j for
a awl did not find out his mistake until after lie had
calm him. At about 6 o'clock a young man who was
employed as watchmen in the warehouses of the tit.
Katharine l)acks was passing by Northumberland•alley,
and heard a peculiar sermon proceed from No. I, which was
the house occupied by the prisoner and his deceased wire.
lle passed the house, thinkiug the scream proceeded
from children romping, but thinking there was something
very peculiar about the noise he had heard, he turned hack
mei listened, but he bean! nothing more. After the prisoner
;:inliner was seen to leave the house at hell past 4 by the
policeman, he wax not seen until about 7 o'clock, when he
was wet in Ahleragateatreet by a witness, who spoke to
him. lie hail his live:blue and soot bag with him at the
time, and the memo alines.' saw him again in eerichurele
street shortly liter, sitting on a seat before a public...house.
He was seen a little later by a carpenter who was employed
in Nerthumberlaoileilley, and who was waiting at the top
of the alley to go to his work when the pri-
,otier passed him. The prisoner was seen after this
by another witness in dose proximity to Northumberland-
-Iles. At shoot $ o'clock the prisoner Humbler went to
le. Soilueira, who lives iu the neighbourhood, and who has
atteuiled Mrs. Gardiner fur some years, and told him to go
directly to her mistress, as she had cut her throat, awl
would be dead before lie got to the house. lie followed
her to the house, and weei up to the room on the tint their
which I tardiner and deceased occupied as their bed mom. and
there, on the floor, by the side of the beil, he saw the body
of the prisoner's wife, with her throat cut. She
was quite dead. When he told the prisoner Humbler
so, she said, " Oli my God, you don't say so !"
About a minute after Dr. sequeira went into the
Teem the prisoner Gardiner entered, and said " What's the
clatter and stopping down took a knife from the right hand
of the deceased, which was covered with blood. The prisoner
Cal-diner turned to the female prisoner, and said " You're
tie- cause of this:" Upon the first examination Dr.
is...vitae thought the ileccaerd had reallycommitted suicide,
lot upon a cheer examination he altered his opinion,
a!though whoever committed the act had evidently
iirvm,reil the body for the purpose of making it appear that
she had committal auici.le. The body was lying ou the floor,
Ce legs quite straight, with the left arm straight
the side, and the right hand across the chest,
Lelding the keife with the back towards the palm of the
Lod, aml from the nature of the wound he thought it
t raid not have been lime by herself. The hands were
severely cot, our of the lingers being cut right through to
the I.IIC, and appeared to have had blood wiped from them.
A rshce.constable was called in, Roil the place was searched
ee.otly, but nothing could be discovered to arouse any
eephii.e. The clothes of the female prisoner were
cOnutely examined, but no trace of blood could be found
teon them, end her hands were noticed by the doctor
to be grimed with dirt, and apparently not washed
since the previous day. At the coroner's inquest
the prisoner :ardiner Raid he left his wife
in boil when be left in the morning, and
am. female prisoner said she went into the deceased's room
to get a Inciter, when she saw the deceased lying on the
rooc with her throat cut. The male prisoner several times
e. 3.1 his " poor wife" bad been murdered, and when asked who
he thought had done it, helmet he believed it was the female
priemer. Alth iugh the police had repeatedly searched the
house and the room where the deceased was found, without
flailing any trace of blood, when they went to the house on
the Thursday after the occurrence the priaoner Gardiner
pointed out several spots of blood on the wall and upon the
bedstead, which the officers were sure where not there pre-
'tousle, The learned counsel, in concluding, said the eel- •