The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-28 00:00:00

IMF to ham been dos* by sem* Mad el hammer. With 1
uggerd to the maim, his belief was that they were blood, but
tbay &obit be trom other ceases. He sad Mr. Odling
rod by • elletnic4l test if they wore vegetable or iron mould,
bat the. (+end they were 'either. Mr. Odling had takes
o pleat of the muslin 19 pat in distilled water, Means. to items
Woad it *wild disappear by being lei tin it for unte time.
Mr. Flync.—l have never men Manning, end
Alamo, seta Monday, the 13th. I saw her at
3, litsver•plarie. I beard on Saturday night, the 11th kir
Oat Mr. °Towner was aiming, and I went there ou Mon
day to Melaka afire Mu. Me,. Minting opened the door.
was secompeaied by a politest& in Wonted clothe I
mid I was • farad of Mr O'Counzir, and she asked me iu •
rhos was shoat a quitter to II the magaing. She desired
It to take • seat in the fv•mt parlour. I asked ter if the
lamer satthing of Mr. O'Cossor, and she said " No." I
slid it was very odd, and she maid, " Tee, k is very strange
was." She said that some friends at mine bed emu Ma
so ato hedge at nine o'clock on Thursday evesieg, and
Mosti^sed Mr. Yeating at one. She said he was very fickle
minded, as he 'aka came into her house and only stopped a
minute or two, that he would jump up abruptly and take
his bet. She said them w. m some friends of his at
Vauxhall, named Walsh ; that he bad gone once or
twice to that place. She said Mr. O'Connor was the
best fiiead she bad is Loudon. When she men-
tioned his name I observed a slight change in her
Imo, and I mind bar if she felt the room warm. Site said
vNo ;" that rho had been ill about six weeks ego, and she
died B.y the MO pals, at Ma same time putting her band
to her I rob ad. Nothing occurred to induce the limpid a
that O'Cooune was them at dta time. I was present at the
orniag of Mr. O'Connos's frank- because, having made
him • pretest of the cash-box, and knowing he kept his rail-
way strip in it. I was auxious to me it ; sod, having seen it
oyes, I cent to the sseistrotes on Wednesday and gave in-
flermstim. I knew Mr. O'Connor eke years in London,
bat I knew hint deo in Ireland. I have heard him speak of
Maria de It .ux, bat that was before her merrier. He epsbe
et her snore in • joking than affectionate tone. dome years
Macs Mr. O'Cmaor 'tad me he was worth 4,000!. or 5,000/.

Mr. P. Kessing —ln consequence of hearing dui' Mr.
O'Connor as miming I went, with Mr. Graham, on Sans
day, the 12th, to Kr. Manning's house, thinking it a likely
pleas to hear or kis. I knocked, and asked if Mr. O'Connor
did not dints there on Thursday, and Mrs. Manning answered
nos that he did not I was mu h surprised that she did not
Show any moiety upon hearing that Mr. O'Connor was =be-
init. I ask* lif the had not been to his lodgings at sic
o'eloek on Thursday, and she said not until 7 o'clock, and
that she Then went to inquire attar his health. I said that
perhaps Mr Manning could tell something of Mr. O'Connor,
sod she said that Manning was gone out to church.
The evidince being closed here,
The CrJ. net begged of the jury to dismiss from their
minds eventbit g they might have read on the subject of the
alleged motder, and to consider oaly the evidence. listing
referred to the venire of the wounds inflicted on the de-
ceased, and else to the secreted position of the body, he
thought that the jury would at once conclude that these
wounds must have been indicted by some other person UT
persons than the deceased himself. Then came the question
who the person or persons were that could have been in-
daced to take aw. y his life. lie referred particularly
to the evidence of Superintenaent Mosey, showing
Mrs. Manning to be in poomseion of railway shares
and Bank at England notes which were proved to have been
the proper yof the deceased. It was for the jury to decide
whether the ilseessed was murdered for the pupae of ob-
egiaing tbia peoputy, and whether there was any other per-
soa in the hone. at 1170. /1, Minvereplans, when the murder
was committed than Mr. as d Mrs. Manning, and whether,in
fact, there wrung auMcient evidence, looking particularly
to that of Mr. Massey, and to that which related to the pur-
chase et the shovel, to bring the guilty act home to these two
MIMS,
The room was then cleared (half-?ant 9 o'clock), and the
Jury, after deliberating for half an hour, came to the follow-
iog verdict : " We are unanimously of opinion that the de.
Nosed, Patrick O'Connor, has been brutally murdered by
Giorgi Fre lerick Manning and Maria Manning."