The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

THB WOLVI2H4MPTON MURDER.

Yesterday the inquest on the body of the young
wow's, Harriet fieuar,who, es stated is our columns year
terday, wee ma dared on Saturday evades by her sweet-
heart, Oblkilla Christopher Robinson, in the house of Mr.
Josiah Fisher, of Sidney-street, in which they both lived,
wee opened by Mr. Coroner Phillips.
Mr. Bartlett, solicitor, watched the case for the peewees-
Moo, end Mr. Thos. Welker for the defame.
Emma Billets, servant to Mr. Isaiah Fisher, of the Quota
public-house, situated behind the residence of Mr. Josiah
Fisher, sworn—Between five and six o'clock or Saturday
afternoon she sew Robinson oomiag down stairs in Mr.
Josiah Fisher's house, with a moor having blood on it in
his head. Asked him what he had due with Mae dessemed?
He replied, "I have shot her." Called Mr. Beenett, a
neighbour, who came in. Whoa Robinson said he had shot
the clemisied, he painted to where she wee lyiag. At four
In the af torneou wituus went to the tuck of Mr. Josiah
Fisher's house. The deceased was crying, and Robinson
wee standing by her. Hell an hour altiereurds she went
aged" • deosued was still suing, and was cleaning keivesin
the blisk kitchen, Robinson standing seer her. Wheel
Robiason came down stairs he went into the back kitchen,
through the window uf which she sew him out birf throat
three times as he stood in front of a looking-slags that hung
es the beak kitchos well. He was then covered with blood.
Williams Bennett, mil matter, worn—Wass nail matter,
and livid fire doors from Mr. Josiah Fisher's house. Saw
deceased and 'labium' waking out or Friday as friendly
tutus. Had Dever beard them quarrel. Oa &Urdu, whiled
in his own house, at a little before • quarter to six, be heard
the report of • gun in the next yard, but thought nothing of
it. Almost immediately afterwards Sillistocalled out toluene
"Oh, Mr. Bennett, Charles has killed Harriet." Ran out
and saw Robinson standing alone by the book kitchen door,
and saying, " I've killed her ; I've killed bee." This he
mid after witness, seeing him bleeding outside the back
kitchen from a wound in his throat, had said," Ob,Charley,
what hays you done? " When Robineott said, " rye killed
her," he pointed with his thumb over hie shoulder to the
back kitchen, where the murdered woman was lyiag,es he
saw by looking through the back kitchen window. "Did
not fancy" going to the murderer or the murdered woman,
and so ran oil foe the surgeon. Came back with Mr. Bum-
men in four minutes.
Thomas Fallwood, • boy of eight years, deposed that
whilst be was playing tithe son of Mr. Irish Fisher, in the
garden behind Mr. Josiah Fisher's bolas at about four
o'clock, he saw Robinson attempt to kiln the &messed
as the was sweeping near to the back kitchen. She would
pot allow him, and pushed him away. He then gave her
a asvereeslap on the face, as though be wished to knock her
down. Robinson turned him out of the garden and bolted
the door. At about six o'clock Charles, the son of
loath, came to blur and said that Charles had struck
Harriet.
Mary Ann Lewis, married woman, saw Robinson leaning
outside the back-door with his throat cut end his hands iu
his pocket. Said to him, " Charles I what have you done"
Itobiueon made no reply. She then asked him where
Harriet was? Robinson did not reply, but turned his
eyes towards the back kitchen, the door of which was
partly open. Looked in and saw the deceased lying partly
op her, left aide, with • shockiug gash in her threat,
surrounded with blood, and quite dead. In Robinson''
bed-room she saw a gun that had jut been exploded reared
up against the table, en empty razoremse there, sod the stein
of • bloody Lend on the bed. Deceased wee a modest and
very respectable girl.
Henry George Wilson, a clerk, and friend of Robinson.
deposed that he was at Mr. Josiah Fisher's house in corn-
pony with Robinson seed the deceased from • quarter to 3
till half-past 4on Saturday afternoon. Durieg part of that
time Robinson was with him hi the garden, sod thedeosseed
at work in the house. Robinson said that the deceased wee
crying, but he did not know for what. He did not see
Heirloom' attempt to Mu her. Saw him sand away the boy
Fullwood several times. Robinson soused by hie eyes to
have teen drinking, but he was perfectly rational sod knew
in that he was about. lie seemed more than usually
morose. Did not know that they bad ever quarrelled. In
the peat three weeks Robinson seemed to have drunk mote
than usual. On Saturday afterecom hecomplef nod of being
drowsy sad sleepy, arid he (Wilson) recommended him to go
and wash, but he did not do so.
Josiah Fisher deposed that be was appointed a guardian
to the deceased under the Court of Chancery. Deceased
was his lint-cousin, sod by the will of his mother was en-
titled to considerable propeity when she became due. De-
oused,whilat she lived in his house u his servant, yet was
sot treated es a servant. She wee the sister of his son
Isaiah Fisher's wife. For two years Robinson bad been re-
garded as the deceaesil's suitor, and it wee expected that
they would ultimately be married. Six or seven weeks ago
thereema a slight quarrel between Robinson and the deceased.
Se tor wished him to go and see a niece of his (witness's), •
child who lay ill in the house, and he refused to do so, and
taking hold of Sugar by the throat squeezed it and hurt her.
lu consequence they did sot speak for a few days.
In February, In the middle of the night, Robison alarmed
the house by calling out that a strange man had entered it,
had come up stairs, but, followed by him, had finally left
the premises by the back-door. Witham got up, but found
the ibeck-door fastened. Robinson wee not then drunk ;
but he was drunk on Wednesday at midnight when he came
home sod abused him and lira. Fisher. Hie disposition
was morose and passionate. He drank, but could not be
regarded as a drunkard. He (witness) went out of town on
Saturday afternoon, leaviug the deceased in the house, and
Robinson and his friend Wilson in the garden. Whoa he
came home' shortly after six, he found the house filled sod
surrounded with people, the deco wed lying deed in
the scullery, and Robinson bleeding from wounds
in his throat, and resisting the people who were
holding him. When he went to him be became
calm, asked him to kiss him, and deeired that his brother
George might be sent for. Robinson slept in a room on
' one side end Mill Seeger in a room on the other aide of his
(witness's) bedroom. He never heard of or bad reason to
suspect spy improper intimacy between them.
Mr. Summers, surgeon, depleted to having been called in,
and having found the deceased lying dead in her blood from
a wooed in the throat that bad severed all the vessels sod
the windpipe back to the spine, but the body was quite
warm. Robinson was also bleeding from wounds io his
throat, and was violent, reducing, until Mr. Fisher came, to
have biz wounds dressed. Believed him to have been quite
rational when he cut deceased's throat.
Police-inspector Thompson deposed to findieg the gas,
the empty razor-case, end shot and ceps in the deceased's
bedroom, where the gun had been recently exploded. The
gun wee at full-Dock, and was loaded when he found it with
paper and powder.
Mr. Jackson, serum, thought that the would be
well enough to be in court in a fortnight ; and the inquiry
wee adjourned for that time.
The murderer now lice in the South Staffordshire Hoe-
nital, to which piece he was taken at ten on Saturday night.
Before he wee removed he walked from his owe room into
that of the deceased, but was brought back by a policeman.
Before getting again into bed he surveyed himself in the
looking glass, but made no remark. He captain's oiliest.

THE CHARGE OF WIFE.NUBDIE IN
SHEFFIELD.

At the Sheffield Town-hall, on Saturday, Thomas
Copestake, beerhonse keeper and ex-policeman, was
brought up on remand. charged with the wilful murder of
his wife, Elizabeth Copestake. The prisoner already
et►ads committed upon the oormser's inquisition on the
charge of manslaughter, and this inquiry wee to decide
whether or not he should be prosecuted on the c.pitil
charge. The bench committed the prisoner on the charge
of manslaughter.

SUSPICIOUS DARR OF DROWNING AT TOBIL—On
Friday morning last a youth mimed James Everett Powell. ;
• lithographic printer, of York, after setting • " trimmer,"ll
or fishing hos with several hooks, in the river Ouse at the /
above city on the previous evening, drew out his lies, and I
found attached to it • "take' ' which he had scarcely ,
looked for. This wee in the shape of the body of a man.
It was taken out of the river, and on Friday evening an
inquest held S. ioquire into the circumstances of death. j
There was no evidence to lead to the idsotification of the ,
body, which It was thought might have been in the water '
a week. Neither did the body bear any marks of violence,
but gave 'vide o» that death was the result of drown*.
Ode suspicions circumstance, however, promoted itself in
the fact that with the exception of his watch pocket
(which was empty) all the rest of the packets in the
deceased's clothes had been cut away. loquiqq slum thee
has led to the discovery of the fact that the deowed not
many days ago was drinking in • low part of the city, whim
be bad money in gold upon bins, but no trap has bean
obtaioed of the manner in which he got into the water.
The jury on Friday returned an open verdict. The I
demoted was apparently • working man, about 28 years
old, thick set, dark, sod there was as old mar o• the left
side of his mouth which had drives in the lip, causing the
wood front tooth to elm over it —Northam Daily
Express.
/SUICIDE OF A LADY.—On Saturday night Mr.
W. If. Phillips, one of the coroners for Staffordshire, held
an inquest on the body of Mrs. Isabel Moore, aged 36, who
died on the previous mooing from the efforts of poisos.
From the evidence adduced it appears that the deceased
(whose husband is in Australis) had been for some time
past living with the Mires Knowles, at Dixon's•greso. Os
Friday afternoon she left her home, sod purchased et two
chemists' shops four pickets of vermin powder. She
called at a public-bouse on the way home and &eked for
brandy, and upon being accommodated she was left aloes,
and it is supposed that she took the poison in the broody
i supplied. Upon arrivieg at her lodgings she admitted
I baring taken poison, and medical aid was at once seat km
I Yr. E. Turner, sargacio, arrived before the death of tam
unfortunate loay, but it wee found impossible S. avert the
impending fatality. After about hallow-hones agony
Mrs. Moore expistd from the effects of the poised. The
jury retuned • vimdiot to the effect that deceased bad caw
mittsd suicide by poison whilst in • stets of temporary ia•
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