The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-24 00:00:00

MURDER IN Tf'lliSHl3l.

' Yesterday Serails Mimosa°, a Spaniard, was
brought before Mr. R. Graves and • full bench of magistrates
at the Higdon Petty &miens, Merged on suspicion of being
the murderer of Anastasia Trowbridge, the wife of George
Trowbridge, at Aahcombe-wood, in the pariah of Tolland
Royal, Wiltshire' on Thursday. the 3rd instant. The primmer
is wither over 6 feet 7 inches in height, of slender bußd,
with a dark complexion, and exhibiting a peculiar sz
aka of cunning on his countenance. He declarmtet7:-
self, in imperfect English, to be • Bombed ; that be bee
saved for some years in the army of the Queen of Spafa ,•
that he bee been travelling for some months in Wales ;and
and
that be obtained the clothes found upon him of a Pals, who
bad just mute from Boulogne.
Mr. George Chitty, solicitor, of Cann, nearShriftesbury,
amassed to watch the oneson behalf of the prisoner.
A letter received from the home secretary announced that
an interpreter would arrive on behalf of the prosseatica.
Mr. W. R. Steel, from the Spanish consulate-general in
London, was sworn as interpreter.
The prisoner was observed loitering about the locality in
which the murder was committed some days previous le'
the commission of the dreadful crime. The cottage is in a
lonely and sequestered situation, on the borders of Dorset-
shire, but jest within the county of Wilts. Oa the
morning of Thursday Trowbridge breakfasted with his
wife, and at 7 o'clock proceeded to his work, half a tone
distant. At 1 o'clock he returned to dinner. He found
the door apparently fastened, and cm looking through the
window he saw his wife lying deed on the floor, in the
midst of a pool of blood, with her heed shockingly muti-
lated end resting against the wall. Twn mate, three waia-
costs, a pair of leggings, a pair of busty, and en umbrella
bed been stolen. The clothes which Mannar) wee wearing
bed been proved to be those which bad b-en stolen from Trow-
bridge's cottage. The prisoner gave his name as Serafin
Manzamo, and in reply to the sergeant said he oases from
Boulogne. pointing to • figure 4 in • book Wiben milked the
day. Information having been forwarded to Riede& Super-
intendent Harris and Trowbridge, the husband of the mur-
dered woman, suberquextly proceeded to Lyndhurst, in
the New Forest, where the magistrates were in petty
gemstone, and Trowbridge there identified as hie pro-
pwty the hat, coat, boots, leggings, and umbrella
found in the prisoner's poesession. The coat was
a blue one, which Trowbridge had had presented
to him by the eturtaingiter Agricultural Society ; the buttons,
however, had been cut off. Stains of blond ware visible ea
the prisoner's clothes, which were forwarded to Mr. Mora-
via, the analytical chemist, for examination. Blood was
found on Maneano's trouser,, which he was wearing over
those which had been stolen, and on him shirt, which ap-
peared to have been partly washed ; and there was a recently
Inflicted wound on the middle anger of the man's right bead.
During the prisoner's journey through the New Forest, be
celled at a public-house kept by Milliard Martin, at Fawley,
and there mid the blue coat for Te. He had Bret requested to
be served with 3d. worth of bread.

If,. Heraparb, in his report, stated that there were on
the troupers which he bad impacted 12 distinct spots of blood,
which had sported upon the garment, and had not been
allowed to coagulate.
. . .

Mr. Cbitty mid, from the explanation of the prisoner. in-
timated to him by Mr. Steel, be believed that if hie client
were reminded he should be able to remove the su.spicien
from the prisoner to another person.
The reporters WM, compelled to leave Hindon in time for
the train yid Itsliabary shortly before the prooeedioge ter-
minated, bat it wee understood that the prisoner would be
tally committed for trial at the next Wiltshire maims.