The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-25 00:00:00

THE ISLEWORTH MURDER.

Some excitement was caused at Breutford on Satur-
day morning by the intelligence that Robert Cooper, alias
Barnham, who, u alleged, had murdered his wife in
Twickenharodans on the evening of Thursday, the ith
was in custody. On Monday week the prisoner entered the
shop of a Mr. Manton, a grocer, in Cribitt's.town, Isle of
Dogs, sod apparently in a most pitiable condition. It we.
about one o'clock in the day, and Mr. Renton said, " Well,
my man, what do you want!" and he answered he was
hungry hungryend poor, and said, " Can you give me a pion of
bred. Mr. Heaton, commiserating his evidently fork's
condition, gave him some bread and butter, and the man
then burst into tears. After some conversation Mr. Seaton

recommeoded him to some work at • Mr. King's, •
builder. Shortly After tee o'clock in the morning
the prisoner was conveyed to the Town hall,
escorted by a strong polity of police, under the
direction of Mr. Superioteodent Riga Lloyd, but the excite-
ment of the populace rendered nugatory to very great extent
the efforts of the constables.
Upon being placed at the bar the prisoner was identified
by Mn.s Bambara, the mother of the deceased woman, who
repeated the evidence she gave at the inquest as to the
circurestames preceding the murder, and which has already
been reported.
The medical endear* having been taken,
Charlie Brown, • City detective, said—From information
I received, I wart, is company with another constable
(Hawke') and another person mimed Joseph Hantoe, to
Ne. 7, Cubitt's.town, Poplar. We waited • little distance
from the shop, and saw a man go in. It was liactou's
shop. Some few minutes afterwards I went into the shop
ea prisoner was leaving. I said to him, "Just let me look
at year mouth." He did so, and I looked for the
rurpose of seeing if he bad a miming tooth in
the lower jaw. 1 could not discover it. I took
him into the parlour, sod eked him if be bad been is
the 7th Noma, and he mid, " No." I asked him if he had
been in the 52nd Foot, or the Marines. He maid " No." He
also denied having the letter" D" as a brand, which I found
order his left arm. I saw his hand drop. and wised it and
his pocket, and felt • pistol. I called for Haarlem, and he
immediately took the pistol oat. Prisoner said it was
loaded with a bullet. He said, " I'll be quiet—l'll not bars
either of you." (Pistol produced with the ball in the barrel,
whir* was unscrewed from the stock.) I found in the same
pocket a box of permission caps In the left band waistcoat
pocket I found this bullet loose. In the white jacket
under hie coat I found a packet of letters. On the out-
side of oae was the following : "My deer Annie,—May
the Lord have mercy upon me! " I showed the
prisoner these letters, and asked him if that meant
Annie Bentham, and he said " Yes." I told him I was
a police-officer after I found the letter " D." I showed him
the photograph of a female, and asked him if that was
Annie Bambara, and be said, " Yes." I then told him
that I should apprehend him on the charge of reordering
her on the 7th inst. at Isleworth. He made no answer. I
found a shirt at his lodgings, also • pair of stockings, appe.-
rattily having the marks of blood upon them. We then
conveyed him to Bishopegateetreet police-station, and
charged him. The inspector read over the charge to him,
when he said, " I know Annie Bambara." He bad no
money. On bringing him to Brantford, he said, " I hope
you do not think I intended to harm either of you, for,
believe me, I did not. If you had not caught
my hand I should have put an end to my ex-
insane. I prayed for three night' with the pistol
in my band, but when I attempted to shoot myself
I saw something, and I said ' No, no.' If you had been
two or three hours later I should have been • dead man."
He asked very earnestly to be allowed tow his child.
Mrs. Bentham was recalled, and identified the photo-
graphic portrait as that of her daughter. It had been in
the pomemion of the prisoner.
The bench here intimated to the prisoner that he then
had the opportunity of asking anything he felt inclined with
reference to his ease, as the court was about to remand him,
but that there was no necessity for his doing so. Had he
anything to say why he should not be remanded
Prisoner—l have nothing to say. I have no objection to
being remanded.
lie was then removed from the dock.

ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A ROMAN CATHOLIC
PRIEST.

The Rev. John Roden (a Roman catholic priest)
was charged at the Limerick Petty Sessions on FridaLlt
steeling a gold watch, the property of the late Mr.
who died ratter suddenly at Moore's Hotel on the previous
firmalay. The seemed is of exceedingly low stature. He
was well dressed in clerical attire. Mr. !Shaw, of Galway,
brother-in-law of the deceased, proved that owing to too
dangerous state is which the deceased was be came
to Limerick on Saturday night about ten o'clock ; after
seeing him, witness proceeded downstairs to the coffee-
room, where the prisoner was seated at a table drinking a
glass of grog or punch. His (witness's) object in going into
the coffee-room was to watch the prisoner, and not to let
him out. Prisoner asked the waiter how many persors
were upstairs with Mr. Roche, and be replied tee. Mr.
Roche (a brother of the deceased) came into the coffee-
room subsequently, with the Rev. Mr. Mulqueen, • clergy-
man of Limerick, the Rev. Mr. Coleman, of Lisloonvarna,
and it young man, s relative of deceased. Father Mulqueen
inquired of the prisoner whether be bad any property be-
loagiug to the dying man. He replied not, and proceeded
to search all his pockets ; and in doing so be pulled out thin
(producing a mixed green silk handkerchief). Witness at
once reooptised it as the property of Mr. Patrick Roche,
arid said, 'Try if you have got a pair of small scissors." Pri-
mmer said, " No, no!" and again marching his pockets, he
took out the scissors and laid them on the table. He was then
itsidto leave the room, but Father Mulqueen said he
not ge, that there was • gold watch miming. Be
said he hadn't it, and told them they might try bias.
Father 31 ulqueen said (pointing to Mr. Roche, deceased's
brother), " I will undertake, on behalf of this gentleman,
that if you give up or get the watch you will be let go." He
then walked over toe place where there was a coat bang-
lag befogging to a commercial traveller, and gliding his
hand into the pocket of it, pulled up the gold watch. After
that be was allowed to walk out. The defence was
drunkenness, sad that inasmuch as a promise of forgive.
uses was held out to induce the prisoner to admit hie guilt,
the prosecution could not stand. After much discussion on
the point, the bench again adjourned the further bearing of
the case ustil Wednesday next, in order to procure the
attendance of the deceased's brother, wbo lives near Tuaro,
so as to have him o:Unload as to the manner in which the
promise of forewomen was made. The prisoner (who is a
suapended
N clergyme) was thep remanded.—Dublim
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