The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-31 00:00:00

REANINATION OP PRE PRISONER.

Yesterday the prisoner Wilson was brought before Mr.
Ralston, the stipendiary magistrate at Liverpool. He hal
previously been taken to the hospital, in order to be identi-
fied, end having been neopisell, th 3 depositions of Mary
Parr, the servant, were taken down in writing. She said:—
I lived as servant with Mrs. Heurichson, at 20. Leveson-
street, Liverpool. Her husband is et sea. Mr. Wilson, who
is now present with the hat on, took lodgings at
er
Henriehson's for a month. He came on Tu y
night. My mistress went out next morning to the
market between 10 and 11. I was cleaning the front parlour.
My wishes had two children. The eldest was Henri George
Henricheon, and the younger was John Alfred Henricheon.
The younger wee three years old on St. Patrick's Day,
and the elder would have been five on the Sth May. The
children were left in the house with me when mistress went
to the market. They were in the frost parlour when my
mistress went oat, and she shut us up together. She
shut the prisoner is the back parlour. He came from
the back parlour to the frost a few minutes after my mistress
went out. He had a newspaper with him when he came in.
He asked me the price of a set of fire-irons, and of the fender,
and of the card tables. Ho hit the children on the head
with the newspaper in fun, and sent them out of the room ;
but the eldest opened the door again. The prisoner had the
tongs in his hand to ask the price of them, and I was clean-
ing the shovel. I don't remember him saying anything.
He then struck me with the tongs somewhere on the heed,
and knocked me down, and I don't remember anything more,
except I was lying there. The children were in the room
when he struck ; but when they went afterwards I don't
know I was by the fireside when he struck me. I remember
nothing afterwards. I had lived nearly three years with
Mrs. Hearichson. I had been at Mr. Aikin's office lately,
when I received 104 far Mrs. Hearielsoa. Mrr. Henrichron
carried a green puns. She wore a watch and a chain out.
side. I think the pares was opener worked than the one
now shown me. The watch, seals, and chain, now produced
are Mrs. lienrichaon's. The prisoner had no luggage
with him, but he said he was expecting it. A
note came to him that morning. He said it
was from his governor telling him he need not be in a hurry
to come to work. He must wait for his clothes. My mis-
tress wore her watch, but I don't know whether or not she
wore it that merning. She put it under my bed at night,
that I might see what time to get up to breakfast. The
prisoner had no money ; he borrowed sixpence from Mrs.
Hemichson. I got it from her when I got the note, The
prisoner borrowed three halfpence more from mi,tress to pay
the lad threepence. The prisoner only slept one night in
the house.
The prisoner was asked if he had any questions to put, and
he answered No !
The court was densely crowded. Mr. Rushton bad pre.
Timely sent to know from him whether or not ho desired
professional aseistanee. He replied to the effect that he
knew nobody. Mr. Rushton signified his inability to assign
him anyone, but it was ultimately settled that Mr. Yates,
attorney, should act for the seemed.
J. Hughes deposed to the effect that he was passing Love-
sou-street at the time of the occurrence, and he went into
the house, where he saw the bodies lying about. The
youngest child was lying in the back kitchen with ste throat
cut and quite dead.
Mr. Slater, surgeon, deposed that he was sent for to the
house is Leveeon-street, about 12 on Wednesday', where he
Isund that Mr. Martin, surgeon, had preceded him. He
saw Mrs. Hassidism, the tenant, and a child ; all of whom
were wounded severely. He ordered them to be taken to
the hospital.
E. McDermot, a labouring boy, deposed that he met the
Prisoner, who offered him three halfpence to carry a
letter to the house in Leveson-street, and to walk after him,
but not to come in till about 5 minutes after him. He did
so, and saw him there. He swore that the prisoner at the
bar was that man.
Marks, a constable, produced a letter which McDermot
thought wee the letter the prisoner had given him, though

he would not 'wear to it. This leder mu eaddremled to Wil-
son himself. Marks od several ainieles (among them
the letter) whist', he found in a ditch in Upper Parliament-
street. (Prisoner bad been ass run the ditch in question).
Mr. Pm, pawnbroker, Great Resew-street, deposed that
the primmer at the bar came to his house sad purchued a
pair of trousers, and changed his own there. He noticed
that those trousers were very wet up to the knee. He (the
prisoner) ewe 131. for the trousers which he purchased.
He swore that the imagers the prisoner now had on were
the very ones ha had sold him.
Worthington, a lab:neer, swore that on Wednesday, about
1 p.m., the prisoner had given him a pair of trousers (the
ones he bad t iten Off at Mr. Flu's) in Great Homer-West.
Mr. Samuel, pawnbroker, Groat Howard-strte., deposed
that the prisoner had been several times during the previous
day at his shop offeriag a gold watch for sale. Mr. Samuel
suspect. d, from the urgency with which he pressed the sale,
that the watch had not been honestly °trained, and asked
the man to walk with bins to the polieekifff e. Tips he con-
sented to do, and when he reached the tau his sexual
appearance raised the suspicion that be was the person for
whom such anxious search had been made. His dress was
changed, however. Instead of a hat he wore a cap. Ho
had a peir of now blue trousers on, new stockings, and a
new silk handkerchief in his pocket. His hair is cut
off straight behind, giving it the eppearacce of being
short. The prisoner answered c :telly the description given
of the murderer. He bad a wiled and confuted look, and
appeared somewhat in liquor. When asked if he had beta
driokine, he said he had taken a few pluses. He acknow-
ledged that he was at Tranmere on Tuesday ; and when
'eked where he was on Wednesday, he said he WWI about the
docks.
Mary G.,tt a washerwoman who bad b:en in the habit of
workirg for Mrs. Ilenrichson, said she saw a lodger there ota
the Tuesday, but she could not positively swear that the
prisoner was the man. She, hswev. r, swore that a hat
(produced by Tools, who bad found it at the prisoner's
locking, in PorterUreet), was the identical one which she
had seen at Mrs. Henricluonte.
Tuck, a constable, deposed to having found a shirt
speckled with blood at the house of Mrs. Wilson, a washer-
woman is Porter-street.
Mrs. Wilson deposed to having received it on Thursday
from Mrs. Coll;quer, who, in turn, swore that the prisoner,
who had lodged with her, had given it to her to be sent
to the wash.
Several other witnesses were examined, but their evidence
was unimportant.
The prisoner was remanded. The medical evidenoe will
he taken to-day, and the prisoner he again remanded, to
leave him at the disposal of the Coroner, who will investigate
the case on Monday.