The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-14 00:00:00

THE NORFOLK ASSASSINATIONS.

ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE.
Yesterday, at Wymondham, the coroner and jury
again assemble l to continue their inquiries relative to the
murders at Stanfield Had.
Robert Smith said : I am twelve years of ages, and reside
with my mother at Heald. I have lived with Mr. Rush
during the last two months. My occupation was to scare
crews, and I have littered some straw on the footpath lead-
ing from the dwelling of Petaah-farm as far as a turnip field
in the direction of Stanfield-hail—Coroner : Now, be care-
ful how you answer me. First tell me where you com-
menced to litter the straw, and where you left off I—Wit-
nem : I beg* at the turnip field gate.—Coroner : Not from
the door of the farm-house 2—Witnen : No, Sir.—Coroner :
Was it along a road or footpath through a field T—Witness :
Along a footpath. I commenced at the gate, and littered
the straw through the fifteen-acre field (turnip field) as
far as the turnips went. I finished at the bank of the
twenty-sere field called " The look," which leads to
Stanfield Hal—Canner: When did you do this ? —Witness :
On the Tuesday the murders were committed.—Coroner
Who told you I—Witneu ; Mr. Rush.—Coroner At what
time I—Witness : About twelve o'clock. There had been
straw laid down before, sad Mr. Rush said to me, Litter
the straw (fresh) where it is dirty ; the worst of the places."
—Coroner : Did you evi r lay any straw down before
Witness : No. While I was layieg it Bush earn to me and
maid, " Litter it thin ; don't lay it very thick." I com-
menced to scatter it about twelve, and lett off in the middle
of the afternoon. Mr. Rush pointed out the place where
I was to lay it.—Coroner: How long did Rush stay
with you when you were littering the straw ?
Witness : About half an hour. He came at one o'clock
and looked at what I was doing.—Coroner : Have you seen
Mr. Rush walk over this straw before T—Witness : I have,
but I don't know where he went. The field was not so dirty
where the straw was not littered. Young Mr. Rule was my
muter : he paid me my wages. lam certain that old Mr.
Ruth ordered me to lay the straw before. I have all
along been alluding to the old Mr. Rush, and not the
younger one. The fifteen-acre field was the last field on the
farm ; it adjoins Mr. Colman's.—A Juror : Was any stook
kept in the turnip field I—Witness: There wit not ; the
stock wit in a field nearer the farm. lem sure there was
rune in any field beyond the filteen-acre : it was the last on
the farm [lt may be well to eeplain that the straw along
**footpath was strewn to the length of about three fur-
kegs, and the commencement of it is between 200 or 300
yards from Potash farm.]
Solomon Savory, the lad in the service of the supposed
murderer, who has been detained in the town bridewell
due the last inquiry, was here brought into the inquest
room, in custody of the police. It may be recollected that
from the guarded evidence he gave before the coroner and
magistrates, it was conjectured that he was endeavouring to
1101.111 the accts. el, his testimony disagreeing, in many par-
tinders, with that adduced by the widow James ; and, in
ceder that he might nut be tampered with, it was deemed
pprruuddeennt to place him under the surveillance of the
: You tell us that you cleaned Mr. Rush's to on
the Tuesday afternoon I—&vory : I cleaned his boots be-
tween five and sir o'clock; both pairs were wet ,• the heavy
ones, however, not so much so. I only washed them, and
did not black them. I wiped both pairs. Do not re-
member if Tuesday was a wet or foggy day.—Coroner:
Did you always fasten the door you have previou.ly
mentioned I—Witness No.—[lt may be mentioned that the
witness bed before stated that Rush could not have got the
boots *the night without Savory hearing him, and that he
had fastened s door through which any one must have passed
to get the boots.] —Witness : Why I fastened it on this
night was because there was only Mr. Rash and Mrs. James
in the house. It was a door between the hack kitchen and
the kitchen, and I fastened it by putting a wooden peg at the
top of the *neck or latch. I have sines Been it, and I filet
it can he undone from Al kitchen side notwithstanding the
peg. I made the peg purposely to secure the dooe.—Co-
ranee : Had you any direction to make it.—l had not T I re-
ceived no order about the fastening the door. I did not do
it every night.—Wu Mr. Rush in the habit of going out
after dark? Witness: No. Coroner Did you
ever hear of him going out after poachers ?
Witmer : No, not to my knowledge .—Examination
in chief couth.ned : Never knew of the -boots being dirty
after they had been cleaned on the previous night.—
If the boots bad been used they must have been wash t 4 and
put in the same peeition. Before I time down on Widnes.
day morning I had not spoken to Mr. Rush until after I was
aided up by the police. When Rash came down, after I
bad caked him, he asked me what was the matter. I said I
did not know. Nothing was said about the boots. I looked
into the kitchen sad saw the boots as I had left them on the
previous night. I never saw any pistol in the house. I
have guns.—Coroner: What reason had you for making a
peg for the door I—Witness : I had no particular reason. It
was about five or six inches long, and as broad as my two
fingers . It was more of a wedge than a peg. I
had no trouble to make it. I got the wood out
of the cart-lodge. I made it about a week be-
fore the :Tuesday. I well remember fitting the peg on
the Monday and Tuesday nights. It was made of light
coloured wood, or • Mane of deal. It WAS longer than it is
now when I first made it. I shortened it to fit better.—
Coroner: When was this? Witness; After this job had
happened. On the Wednesday or Thursday afterwards I

dirtied the part Mat I Milnlemed.—Cornier : That wee after
Rub had hem Minable Mararly? Whore: Too, after he
had beam tabu fate anisaiiir.—Oareame: What did you do
with le ttfbewaai t Whams: I carried it away in my
peclest —Duns, : Did say gee lull yea to put M pwe
roam ? Whams : No. No oar MK me to de so, nor irk
myth* with it.—Omener : Did you:ever carry kis mane
pocket before? Winter: No—Rumination is Mid
mathmed : I ma ma I slept la the home e•
the Monday and Tenably night. My mama he
Mthe dem waythat so one wanted to come M.
a deer iate • grew, whisk Mr. Rusk had does ttR
than deb and whisk prnemilid mi 14M lato the mom
sad I Mane*, as be had dam up that door he meet roe
to ine iflte wanted anything out of the kitahies. 1 did nee
tell bias I had done up the door until Thmaday week, when
I saw him at the Bridewelk in the Jastierroom Mr. Rash
asked MIL pgrasastt many questions. He asked me if I gleaned
his boots ea Tuesday night. I said "Yes." He:saked what
time. I said, " Between live end six o'clock." He asked
me if Me kitchen-door could be opened, sad if any
oonld get in without my knowing it. I said " did el
think they coakt."—Coroser: Whea did you pat Mewed.
in the door on Timothy night? Witness: A lone thaehollare
I went to bed. I never medlar putting the wedge is ea
badly that the door might be opened.—Coraner : Now, have
Wh,ad any summation with say person about the wedge?
itless : Yes, I asked the teem-man to say that he had seen
the door dosesp with the mg.—Cerener : When we this ?
Witmer: Oa the Wednesday morning, shortly after my
matter was taken away.—Coroner : What was your reason
for asking him such a favour? Witness: The reema I had
for putting the question was, that if he stated he saw me put
the pig in , It would'yereen Mr. Raab..—Cornier : Did you I
show him the wedge ? Whams : I did.—Coronsr : Did he
see you fir the peg ? Witness : I do not know whether he
did.—Coroner: How would it screen Mr. Rush If he had
said be had seen you Sx the peg ? Witness : Became it was
thought be went lute the beck kitchen to get his hosts, and
I thought if he (the teammao) said he saw the peg fixed em
well as I, it would much assist him.— Dormer : But how
could his not getting the boots mem him ? Witness : Why,
if he had not got kis boots daring the night, it would have
serrned him.--Coroaer : How too ? Witness : Because he
hods% them. I had no conversation with Rush about the
mdse.—Coroner .No mammation at all ? Witness : When
he was going away in tt • rig be said, " Don't you go away,
I shall send tor you and thit lady " (meaning Mrs. James).
—The examination of Savory was very lengthened, but the
above are the main facts.—The Coroner here said that an ins•
peewee chums had transpired in the evidence, for it was
sow roved that the boots could have been removed.
Pd~arespsrimandent Witheford.—l have been to Potash
farm with Seem. I bad the wedge which I new produce, and
which Savory admitted he had made and used tor the pur-
pose of Detesting a door from the kitchen into a back kitchen.
I desired Savory to fix the wedge into the door in the
manner he had used it. He did so, and I being on the lame
aide, I placed my finger on the latch, and it opened imme-
diately without any diNculty It was put in a second time
by Savory, sod it was as easily opened on the other side. I
then silted Savory If that was his usual way of fastening it.
lie said, "Yes, it is." I remarked to him how ugly it
could be opened. He said, " 1 see now it can be opened
from the other side."
Policeman J. Howes said, on the 30th of Nov. I assisted
in the search of Potash farm. Amongst the things I searched
was a waiting-desk, In which I found a quantity of letters.
There was one dated April 28, 1848, signed J. B. Rush,
directed to J. B. Rush, jun., Potash-farm, Wymondham,
hearing London post-mark. There were expregjons in the
letter showing an ill-feeling towsycla Mr Jamy. Another
letter contained opprobrious epithets in reference to Mr.
Jerry. Other letters were found written in the same atyle,
all tending to show the feeling that existed towards Mt,
Jimmy. Could not induce the letters, having given them
into the hands of Cal, Mikes, the chief constable.
The inquiry was mist adjourned.

IRELAND.
Donis Dzc. 13.

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