The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-26 00:00:00

TEE EXPRESS, *EDNESDAY 'Aißit 1.6,

All whet ereember the sweets follow's' the murder it
Francis Saville Kent will he pr p.rd to Wage* that to the
at di nett..
~is des, is no matter it IlsrptiNh
1T"?.., we belies pretty well understood that the
aloes wit° true so strongly cemured for allargiag
Miss Kest before We magistrates were by so
lamas wlWag to admit that they bad failed in eagaoity,
although they were tumble to eddem in widest° the mr-
inunstences on white their sureisioes were founded. In the
course of the follow* year moms hint transpired of an
alleged eoefesaioe by ilitaKant to • relates, but for some
reason the suggestion of a fresh ism Lion at that period
was ant use while it wee thou ht dyeable to carry out.
goes afterwaide it was tomosred that X= Kest had beet
mat to a =est is Freon.
Miss Kest, who it Dow about 21 years of age, was dressed
is deep mounting, sad wore a hies veil which Fares a
s
-
ceded hie features. She appeared pale mod eorrewful, but
perfectly coomposed.
In the amuse of the owes, Yin Kist was oarreyed by
the °Moe to the Paddington statism of the Great Wasters
Railway, and conveyed by ha to Bwindte. At Sweden
it was beamed that she should remain during the night,
and this morning, she will be placed before the magi-
strates meting at Petty Billions, charged, on her own eon-
'maim, with the murder.

It will be remembered that the little boy, French Saville
Kest, whose murder excited at the time no profound
• secisatioa, was the son of Mr. F. S. Keat, • geeseiletnen who held the appointment of Isepeotor of Fam
tonm, and who resided at Road, • little village la the
Wbourhood of Frame Sawed. Early see morning
ild was mimed from his bed by Elisabeth Gough, the
eememaid, who had slept in the same room with him, sod
the whole country mud was scoured. At length the poor
little fellow's body was found wrapped in • hisaket and
stuffed down • skeet is the garde., the throat being cut
from ear to ear. Foe some tune suspicion fell upon persons
out of dome who were mid to be at enmity with Mr.
Kent's family, and this suspicion was strengthened
by the fact that none of the knives in use in the hour
hold were missing, and that on their being examined
inionzeozpically by • surgeon no trace of blood amid ha
discovered or any of them. Two pieces at paper, how-
ever, were found stained with blood, which bed been
thrust down the dont, and which proved to be portions of
the Times, which was regularly supplied to the family.
While so many doubts still hung over the matter. Inspector
Malabar, at the metropolitan detective force, was seat
dove to realm Inquiries. He serertaieed that Mr. Kent's
wife, the mother of the unfortuaste deceased child.
lived in the family as governess far thirteen years
darts' the lifetime of the first Mrs. Kent, end had
the entire charge of the children, the then Mm. Kent, the
mother of °metes& Kent, having for several years per
• to her death been affieded is her mind tied incapable
at attend* to the discharge of her household duties. Mr.
Kent was married to the second wife, who is • lady very re-
speotably coasected, sixties months after the death of
his first wife. It was also micertained that the grandmother
of Constance Kent was decidedly of WillOUlld mind, and that
ea wade had been twice coalfield is • Wades asylum. Miss
Knot, it further appeared, on one OCC4IO{OO, about four
yam previously, absecoded from home drained in boy's
clothes, with • younger brother of her owe. Three circum-
stances, while they sufficiently accounted for any 'anent/wi-
ggle of conduct on the part al Mos Kent, did not appear at
the time to justify Ineperitor Whistler in arresting her,
firmly persuaded as he was, as he afterwards stated to the
impetrate*, that it wee her heed that committed the
welder. Just at this times fact, however, izannpired which
induced him to sot with decision upon the matter. A bed-
gown holstein* to Miss Keel was missing, and she am
counted for it by saying that it had been
lost at the wash a week after the murder,
but the laundress denied ever having ONO it,
although it was entered is the book which she usually
received with the articles met to her. Upon this Mies
Kent was taken into custody, and it then trammed that
while one of the torrent maids was putting out the thing,
to be sent to the wash, Ries Kona directed her to go to
the kitchen to fetch her • glass of water. The ieference
drawn from this was that while she was absent Kim Kent
abstracted the miming bad gown immediately after it hid
been entered into the book. Rim Coast/Loco Kent was on
Friday, July 27, 1860, placed before the Wiltshire maps-
Orates on the charge of murdering her half-brother ; hat the
fade were so scanty ea to fail is eatisfyiag the beech of
magistraten, who came to the conclusion that the young
lady must be discharged, and that was the amuse adopted,
her father being bound over in his peesnesl recogni-
=lON to the unmet of 2004 for her appearance if
spits called upon to answer the charge which had bees pre-
tarred against her, la the course of the magisterial inquiry
coaaiderable pains had been taken for the purpose of pro-
ducing evidence of Miss Constance Kent's alunexpressed
dislike towards her deceased half-brother ; but though
duties the inquiry the polio* produced every tittle of *vi-
des°, bastion upon the matter from the statonenta of her
seboolmistress amid some of her schoolfellows, nothing
beyond • little childish jealousy could he shown. The
result arrived at by the magistrates showed the 'feeling of
the neighbourhood towards the young lady, whom they
believed innocent, and her discharge was received with sp.
phase from the proem present in the crowded court, it being
plurally felt that the commission of the crime wee attri-
butable to a seater relation than the halleister of the
murdered boy. The matter went on, the mystery being in-
creased if possible, until about the lush of August, when •
man having the appearance of • labourer oarrandered him-
self at the Wolverton railway station as the murderer of
the uchsppy boy. Ha was taken before the Buckingham-
shire magistrates, and remitted by them to the some of the
crime. On being brought before the bench in that district
be stated that he had committed the murder at the request
of Mr. Kent, who had promised him money but paid
him. It was clearly shown that the aelfaccused was
insane, and he was ultimately discharged. Popular feel-
ing, which bad run high against Mr. Kent, of course was
largely increased by the selfocausetion of this man. and the
motives which, as he stated, had led him to the corn-
minion of the murder, and more than one letter appeared
in certain journals pretending to draw the inevitable
deduction that Mr. Kent was the guilty party, tied it
is noticeable, considering the present condition of thing.,
that the when rejected hatred as • reason for the crime,
while the police readily adopted, as it now tures out to
have been, in great part, the real motive. Is the early
part of the following meth an inquiry was instituted to
which the police lent their countenance, and the gardener
and groom, and some of the other *eremite, accompanied
by Emily Doll. who was in the house on the morniog of the
murder, but who bad not then been examined, and .ngrir,
nee of the men who found the body of the child, proceeded
to Bath, where they were examined before Mr. Slack, •
local solicitor, the inquiry baring been, asit Wand out,
authorized, or rather permitted by the Home Secretary.
This investigation, however, was brought to a sudden
standstill by Mr. Kent refusing to allow hie family to
be examined, end some correspondence ensued upon the
matter, resulting in the application by Mr. Kent for a oom-
missioe, which wee refused, and Yr. Kent's solicitor special
ignored Mr. Slack's authority for the examioation, observing
that Mr. Slack might be actin "under the instructions of the
detective officer whose former proceedings in this case have
bow condemned by the almost unanimous voice of the
country." Mr. Kent, however, subeequeotly permitted the
examination, and several members of the family were
*remised, including Mr. am! Mrs. Keat, the examination
being conducted in private, and Mts. Kent being under
interrogatories for lire hours. A few days afterwards Mr.
Slack communicated the result of hie inquiries to the magis-
trates, and consequently thereon Elizabeth Gough,
the nursery maid, who had previously been in cue.
tody, was apprebeaded at her father's holm, at
laleworth, and conveyed to Devine At her examinatioe
before the magistrates,. the theory of the prosecution seems
to have been that the child was stabbed after death, in order to
colossi the fact that it had been previously smothered in
the bedclothes, and that the then accused person, the nurse-
maid, Elizabeth Cough, must have been at least an acme-
sou. It was put forward es • significant circumstance,
that she had told Mr. Kent that the blanket was taken

sway with thechild,andthai sbe ..LIT sobefore the body
ens brought in, and before she could have seen that it was !.
gone from the bed. A female searcher ratified that a
piece of flannel found with the child exactly fitted the
nurse's chest, and °ungraded with peculiarities on her
body, and not with any other person in the house. Several
*ruminations ensued, and the girl was all imately discharged,
the magistrates stating that her antecedents were very setts-
factory. The feeling that Mr. Kent bad been a participator
in the came 'Persona, it parable, by tree proceedings ; so
etreeg, indeed, was it, that even the local reporters intro-
duced coma rots upon the ease in their records of the pro-
ceedings. Early in November Mr. &radon, one of the
local • tropeued an inquiry, acting, as he stated,
with the know of the Home Secretary, and he elicited
several facts w hail not bees previously inquired into,
bet ea definite result was arrived at. Matters remained in
this condition until Hilary term, 1861, when the parties
who had interested themselves applied to the Court of
Queen's Bench to quash the original inquisition on the
i that the carer had directed the jury that
wast li not their provisos to ascertain who killed the
child, and that he neglected to make certain inquiries
suggested by the jury. There was also another objection
which was manly forma, but the result of the deliberation
of the judges woo to refuse to interfere. Subsequently Mr.
Kent resigned his office of inspector of factories ; the girl
Elliabsth Gough has by oommoe report emigrated to Ass-
tulle, &saltier,' married a wealthy sheep farmer ; and the
latest incident recorded was the alleged death of Mr. Kent
Irene% arse which the Bead murder her ore of the
wooden of the past, until the more immediate lifer were
bower to light which sorer an our Mort to-day.
It is nedeniood that Miss Constance Kent will be re-
moved from Swin3oo to Trowbridge at an early boar this
morning, and will there be brought before the magistrates
far soma formal rider* to be produced sufilciest to justify
s remand.

Home difficulty may yet be anserionced,mare than appears
at tint sight, is the grease of many of the witnesses, morn
especially the woman Comb, whose attendance it Might bo
Marsh to aware if she declined to come.
Looking at the animadversions that haws beau lately oast
I span the capacity of the police, it will be at toast 'Adidas.-
tory to lad that ose of the Scotland-yard detective officers
took a right view of the awe—although his couduct was
severely censured—whim he arrested Ibis Constance Kent.

PATINT-0/720A Mummy Soar► KaltentoTos.
—limber et Amhara for the area maids April a. 5,209.
Total asaibar also *caperlas of the masa free daily
(Mb 141y,1269), 916,472.

LAW IbYrEtzu;sialt:

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COURT OV BAIIKRUPTOIE.—.4Pas 25.
(Belore Yr. BapMrs Wiaskne, r Oemaitioner)
Ilarmw MUD.
The bankrupt was a wringer and retail chemist and
drecigistot Leather-lase. At the last mitres a 'relation
of creditors was pared to Wins the are or of court, end
the 'urination sitting was now adjured for that purpose.
On debts el 5,13001. it is expected that a divkiend of 10". in
the pound wilt be paid.
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Is U SIB YARDLEY NOWA CULLUM ILLILDISY. BAIT.
The bankrupt was described as of Fropell, Tasbridge.
wells. Tide was the 'roe's for examinaties and discharge,
iftar prign bad bun Me& At the sitting for dooms
debts to the amount of 3,5871. were proved.
Is the thessoe of amounts an adjournment was ordered.
Yr. Plum, for the amigo's', stated that measures were
is program for raisin a sum of mosey on the bankrupt's
real property, which woold eosble an offer to be made to
the creditor% and the rue to be taken out al
court. In the meantime it was proposed to have a
private sitting for the ezanalsatioa of the bankrupt, who
had only that day arrived in England, and earreedered to
the adjudioatios. The 'Militia an stated at about
15,0001.