The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-25 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

alias Smith, employed at I,
the Equitable Gas Works, Thames-bank, was charged with
the wilful murder of Mary Elisabeth Reynolds, a child.
Elisabeth Reynolds sworn-1 reside at No. 6, Douglas-
street, Vauxhall-bridge-road. 1 hare been living with the
prisoner at the bar a, his wife for the last three months. I
had a child, a girl, 17 months old, but it was not by the '
prisoner. I lett it at eight o'clock last night List asleep
is bed in our room in Douglas-street, and went out. While
away from home I met some friends and took some drink,
which*, overcame me that I was taken by the police to
the station-house, where I was kept. I was discharged this
morning, and when I got home, between 10 and 11,1 found
my child dead in bed. It was covered with bruises and
marks of violence. I was going for • police-constable
when I met one coming, and he returned with me to the
house, and saw my child.
Mr. Broderip (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask the
want.* any question.?
Prisoner—l don't know that I have got any to ask her.
James Henry AValker sworn—l live in the same house
as the prisoner and the last witness. About half-past seven
last night the prisoner came home, and went up stairs. I
was in my room, the back parlour, which is directly under
the apartment he occupies. I heard him take the child out
of bed, and I heard it fall on the fluor. It screamed
most alarmingly. At about 12 at night I heard the same
thing repeated.
Mr. Broderip—A fall on the floor and screams ?
Witness—Yes, sir; so heavy a fall that it shook MC in:my
bed. The child screamed very much.
Mr. Broderip—Was it immediately after the heavy fall
that you heard the child scream again?
Witness—lt was.
Witness continued—The fall and the screaming were
againrepeated this morning between five and six o'clock.
They were exactly. the same as before, and shortly after
that I heard the prisoner go out to his employment. At
half-past ten or eleven I spoke to the lodger in the next
room to the prisoner's, and she said there was something
the matter. About half-past ten or a punter to eleven the
' last witness came home, and I called to her when she got
into her room, and she told roc the child was dead.
Mr. Broderip—Where was the child ?
Witness—On the bed in their room.
Mr. Broderip—Was that the room from which you beard
the heavy falls and the scream' ?
Witness—lt was.
Mr. Bruderip—Did you bear the prisoner say anything ?
Witness—About half.past 7 last night, when he came
home, I heard him say something. The person in the next
room put her door open at the time be entered the house.
and desired her little girl to shut it, when I heard the
prisoner say " Ile would well serve anybody out who
interfered with him." After the mother called out and
told me her child was dead, I went to the landlady and
infermed her of what had occurred, and told her that I
should fetch the police. She advised MC to apply immedi-
ately to the inspector on duty at this station, which 1 im-
mediately did.
Mr. 13roikrip—Do you know anything about the general
usage of the child?
Witness--It has been moot shamefully ill-treated during
the time they have had it in the house, which is about
; three weeks. It has been smacked and beaten with that
degree of violence that you might have heard the blows
frum one end of the court to the other, or a considerable
distance off. You might also plainly hear its being thrown
on the ground. I gave information to the landlady about
' this ill-treatment.

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William Milleman, police constable 90 B, sworn—From
information I received I went to a bark room on the
find floor, at 6, Douglas-street, this morning. I found the
mother iu the room crying and the child lying on the bed,
which was on the fluor covered with a piece of sack. 1
lifted up its frock and saw it had a great many bruises on
it. Seeing it bud no little shirt on, such as children usually
wear, I searched and found one saturated with blood. I
also found the prisoner's shirt near it partly tucked under
the lied, covered with blood in parts. 1 bound large places
of blood upon the fluor, as though something had been
dashed dowu upon it, and there is also blood upon the
clothes the prisoner has on. 1 took the prisoner at the
Equitable lieu Works as he was about leaving at one
o'clock to-day. The child's mother went with me end
pointed him out as he lett the works. I told him I
should charge bun with the wilful murder of a
child at 6, Douglas-street, when he observed what he had
to say would be said at the station-house. When he arrived
there he stated that he left work last night at half-past five,
and went and had some beer with some of the rest of the
men, and when he went home he was drunk, and fell over
the child, and did'ut know any more about it. There were
a dozen places wet with blood when I saw the bed-tick at
prisoner's room to-day.
Mr. 0. Peruse, of ltegent-street, Westminster, surgeon,
sworn—l was called by the police at half-past two this day
to 6, Douglas-street, and the officer, Millman, showed me
a female child lying on the bed, which I examined.
Mr. 13ruderip—What was the result, sir, of your exa-
mination ?
Mr. Pearse—l found the child's left arm and right leg
broken ; there were fifteen or sixteen severe contusions on
the body and extremities, an incised wound under the right
eye, and nearly the whole of the head and face on the right
side particularly was one mass of severe bruises. The face
appeared to have been recently washed. There was blood
in the mouth and nostrils. The bruises on the body ap-
peared to have been inflicted many days previously.
Mr. Druderip—Were the injuries ou the head and features
recent ?
Mr. Pearse—They were.
Mr. Broderip-11 hat in your opinion was the cause of
death ?
Mr. Pcarse—The severe contusions on the right side of
the head would be sufficient to cause the sleuth of a young
infant.
Mr. Broderip—ls it your opinion that the child met its
death Irons violence ?
Mr. Pearse—lt is.
Mr. Pearse added that he had not yet had the opportu-
nity of making tut interior examination of the child. There
was a great quau'ity of blood effused from the mouth and
noetrilv, probably caused by the rupture of some vessels.
Mr. Broderip (te the prisoner)—lf you wish to say any-
thing in answer to the charge, I am quite ready to hear you.
You need not say anything unless you like. Have you any-
thing. to say ?
Prisoner, who appeared throughout to treat the matter
with the most perfect indifference, and never exhibited the
least emotion at either the details or production
of the_ clothes covered with blood, nor attempted
to cross-examine the witnesses, although invited to du so,
replied, " All I've got to say is, after I got home I don't
recollect anything as I done. I recollect only picking the
child up, and falling down on it two or three times. I had
been out a drinking with the other men all the evening."
Mr. Broderip—ls that all you have to say ?
Prisoner—l don't recollect what I said or done.
Mr. Broderip—lt is my duty to remand you upon this
charge of wilful murder until Thursday next.

W ANDSWORT 0,

Ania aged ii 74y clerk in the Admiralty-
office in Somerset House, whose father is highly respectably
connected, also holding a situation under government, was
brought before Mr. Paynter for final examination, on the
charge of intermarrying with Mrs. Temperance Caroline
Bather, a widow, his first wife, Caroline Scott, being still
alive. The particulars of the charge have already appeared.
Mr. Paynter fully committed the prisoner (or trial.

FATAL FRACAS AT MAlDSTONE.—Yesterday after-
noon an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hos-
pital, on the body of Christian George Ford, aged 42, the
captain of a Verge, whose death occurred under the follow-
ing circumstances: Deceased and several others were in a
booth belonging to the Gibraltar Tavern, at Maidrtone fair,
on the 18th of August last, and they remained there drink-
ing till about three o'clock the next morning, when a quar-
rel took place between one of the party, named George
Trice' and an old man, named John Copestake, relative to
some beer, and the former struck the latter two or three
times. Deceased, who was sitting on one of the benches,
said Trice ought to be ashamed of himself to strike an old
man, old enough to be his father, on which Trice immedi-
ately assailed him, and after striking at him two or three
time, sea& him round the legs and threw him head &re-
ined MN the counter into the bar. Deceased could not get
up. lest yea removed to the Gibraltar Tavern, where e sur-
geon astadled lint and in the afternoon he was take* to
fiss MaiiMena Inilreaary. He could not bear to have his
seek, had, shosklen, or arms touched, and complained of
his legs Wag numbed. After a few days, at his friends'
desire, be was removed to Guy's Hospital, where paralysis
increased sad diarrhoea came on, he lingered till the
21st last, when death pat a periodi to his sufferings. A
post mortent examination of the body was made, and it woo
found that the fourth vertebra of the neck had been dis-
placed,
which was the muse of death. Several witnesses
ving corroborated the abote, the jar, returned a verdict
of " Manslaughter against George Trioll.',