The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-02 00:00:00

TIER ROAD MURDER.

The easainidsa el Itiaabotli Gough, charged
oe • warm& via** aware of Premeds fdaei 1. Beat, was
commend la the pailesceort Treadlehlee obartly after
shma YeWel4ll leenemm. The seemidesio prossat wars
so' Jobs AtmarY. H. CV G. wry., W, a I .1. P. 1e55r.....4.
r.....4. teem, sad the Rev. R. Craelry. Hr. T. W.
lisumirra. at Nth, Instructed by Mr. Slack, sprerod for
the petrecittios ; Mr. /Litotes, instructed by Mn.o Parnell
And Itryt,e. of London, appeorwl for the prir.ucr ; sod Mr.
Mho. of Bristol, toetro. led I. Mr. Doan. of Proms, lip.
pnart‘t to watch the ors co hsbaU 01 Mr. Kent
Tho beach was weespird by • Isms evaater of magietratee
from neldheamethes, sad other Wise sod putlemen.
Oaptain dlt
eredat Mai of the WOb ocestsbelery. sod
Nup.rimisdNos Ws, Poky, Abhei, sad Gould, were also
pews& Nearly twisty reportees wmierszeat, for whooe
areoeme•Meet • lasm ask h.el bees y fitted up; the
mart woo crowded with spect•tors, kencind. were co.•
grew"' oatakte.

- kir. Clark read the warrant of apprehonaion, charging
Flizabeth krugh for that she "(talon the !9th day of June
last wilfully end maliciously, and of umbers rdorethought,
kill sal molder Frames Saville Kent."

Mr. Hibbs" applied that witcessee should be soot out of
exert. which was doss,
Mr. Saunders mid be appeared charged with the duty of
bringing home, as be trusted he should, the offence charged
as the warrant to the prisoner at the bar. He believed he
should be able to put before them evidence which would
warrant them in committing her for trial at the anises of
the county. By Mr. Slack's seal and asiduity be wee
enabled to put this evidence before them, he having been ela-
psed in investigating themes on the part of the magistrates,
under the immediate sanction of the highest legal authority
in the land. The learned gentleman then proceeded at
great length to recapitulate the facts. After describing the
provisos steps in the inquiry, and saying that from first to
last there was not the shadow of a ground for the arrest of
Mine Coestance Kent, and that he believed she ought now
to go forth to the world without a shadow of suspicion
spinet her, he called atteotion to the fact that the appear-
ance of the neck had induced Mr. Parsons, the surgeon, to
believe that the wound on the neck was inflicted after
death. and was done after loath for the purpose of con-
cealing the fact that the child bad been previously
smothered. He proceeded to contend that the prisoner
moat have been at lent acemerery, se one person could nut
have removed the child from the bed and replaced the
..lotbes, and that two persons could not have entered the
bedroom without her connivance. A circumstance upon
whicia great Aram was laid, was, that she had told Mr.
Kent that the blanket was takes away with the child
before the deceased was brought in, and before she could
have seen that it was gone from the bed. The piece of
dined found with the child, also, he should show by the
evidence of the female smother, exactly fitted the
Dune's chest and corresponded with peculiarities on her
body. which it did not do with the person of any other
female in the house. He believed he should be able to show
that so great an amouut of probability existed that the
aurae was amenory to the murder se to induce the magi•
strata. to commit her for trial.

Mr. Meow szpreesed his surprise that not one new fact
had been adduced but those which the magistrates had
already comidend aad dispeed of, and called on the beach
sot to proceed with so frivolous a charge, unsupported by
may svidsoce.
Ths magistrates barite overruled this objection, and de-
termined to proceed,
Mr. Saunders called

Samuel Senn/ Kest—l live at Rood-hill Rome, sad am
solemn...eke of factories, and father of the murdered
child. Os /he 221 b of Joe last my family masted of my
ink Mary Asa Alice Kest, aged Mr; Elisabeth (eat,
yed 25; Cessions* Emily Kea, aged lb; William Seville
wt, 1.3; Mary Amelia Saville Kant, aged 5 ; the
Prussia Saville K eat, nut ,iniM 4; and Familial
Kart, 2 years; Macbeth Gough, neuseosaid; fisrolt
Om, ; sad lamb Kariba*, mak. Aftsrdsecrib-
hog the slisepiag swimsuit'. witness resonswi A drawls.
room is 4 the ann.'s bottoms; o porno§ to getto her
mom mast come across the From the stairoms to
my bedroom door is about 14 or . feat, sad from door to
dear on the landing is about eight or nine feet. *two
eider daughters slept is a room directly over mar ; Con-
moms is a roam as the seocodiloor, and mat the earrants'
room. William sleeps at the back. goadlull House
Asada by itself. Thws is a privy about perhaps
two hundred yards from the drowincroom going
rood the home. My darightsr Cossemise had
et
the limo of tho murder
jest maned from eehool, within
• few days. Os the Nth of Joss I wo• the MA down
elates. Before I west to bed 1 esambed the hams mid
food all the doors faet. 1 west ioto the drawing-room
There an three very huge heavy mob windows, divided in
the middle harisontolly ; then am also Ism heavy abutters,
is fear pretties. The Antigen an fostsord try • loose' bar,
shoot the width of my hood. Ima this moue shoat half-
wit sieves. When I left the room I looked sod bolted the
doer Tows is only owe dom. I left the key in the door.
I thou weed upstairs to bed. I soon west to sleep, and did
sat wake dories the sight. I slept very heavily. I awoke
shoat half•past saves. I heard so setae in the
might. I one asleep all the taw. Mn. Keel
arm into the ream after sow From the time
I pt into the room to the use 1 west to sleep was
sheet twisty manta/. I was awoke by the sane
flock* at the door. lira Kent was ties dremileg. I
shortly after west to Trowbridp enersh sf the pave.
As 1 reamed km* 1 met Mr. Pomo* about • mile mit of
Trowbridgs, who told me be was sorry to be the beam irf
W am, my little boy was toned with his throat cut.
After I cum back 1 mode a thorough irsainiyation of the
proorums. I did sot me anyttuag to load me to the mania
that violence had been used. Me boom could not ham
bass rotated except violence had been used. Trowbridge is
from 1401 about four miles sod a hell. Os the Aiturday
night Mr. Foley soot two pohcanen to my boom. They
arrived about 11. I did not let the police into the house
until 1 knew the inmates were all upstairs.
Mr. Standees having asked with what object the police
mate, Mr Ribero protested against the question, and it was
isadmisaihie.

Resumed-1 provided them with refreshment. I wite
the time in the -library. 1 went then out of the house.
Mr. Sawskm—With what object?
Mr. Itibtos—l object to that queetiou: first, on the ground
that it is irrelevant, sad then became it is nut at all im-
portant, unless—es I eansut imegine—it is for the purpose of
irculpating Mr. Kent.
A (Remedies haying mimed no the question,
The Chairman decided that the question misbt he put.
Witoese—l west out for the purgers of seeing that the
lights were all pat out. The police were at this time in the
kitchen. They could have gone from on. hitches to the
other, or out of the house, but not into the front of the
house. I am not quite sure if the door into the passage
wee or was not bolted. I am not quite sure if I locked the
purge dour • if I did, they could riot get into the front of
the house. About half-pat two one of the police knocked
at the door, and asked to be let out.
Another objection having been takes Mr. &Bin arose and
mid, on the porta( Mr. Kent, that he wee most anxious to
answer all questions which might be asked.
Examination continued--I locked the door that every-
thing might appear in its usual state in the house, as
though we police- had been on the premises I keep a full
grown Newfounillaod dog oo the premises, for the
tins of this house. Ori the night of the murder felrit
loose in the back .yari. I did not hear it bark that night.
I have occasionally been waked at night by the dog barking.
The dog does not usually hark at inmates of the house.
By the Bench—l did not go off to Trowbridge without
searching for the child. I searched the premises, and gave
°Mery to others to du so also. I had no reason for goieg to
Trowbridge, but that there was the nearest police.statiou.
My house is in Wiltshire; part of the grounds are in Somer-
set. There is a Bcenersetalaire policeman stationed at Road.
To go from the druisieg-room into the nursery you mast
go through my bedroom and out to the landing.
Crum-examined—l have given an account of there 'yenta
to the magistrates sod to Mr. Black. I don't recollect
telling these facts to the servants or anyone no the day
after the murder._ I pve the magistrate* sitting at the
Temperaneirhall, Rased, these statements, sot so fully, but
sobetantially the ism.. That was the Ent time I told these
particulars to anyone. I may have said to my owe family,
or to Mr. Stapleton, some of these particulars, or that no
one could have got in from the outside. I was is
emotes% eoninsumication with the police on thee. pointa
I del not exactly go round the premise to search for the
child. I desired the gardesen—there wen two there then -
to search for it. I only looked myself round the home and
the dewing roan widow. I did aid go out to search
myself, but went to give inetnictions to others. I did not
myself enandi became I was anxiossi to elm information to
Ur police at Trowbridge, thinking I eouM go gulches thee
say Nernst. I embed the servants to Isere* to see if ray
trace coiskl be found of the child, segyming it had bees
Wan away. The boric premises are very muck
sod very extensive and acceseible. At the hacker the
hare is a very large garden, and there is • field ad}oleing,
which at that time was of etaisdise gram, with the excep-
hoe ot a mall pews 'sited off for the cows. To got to
the fields belied you must go through the field of eluding
gear miler you go through the garden. If any masons hid
famed through the gra.' the track would have bees
vble. hut sot if they bad gone through the garden. I
told the Southwick_ policeman's wife, on my way to Trow-
bridge, that the child was tom I did not see the Road
policemas. I did ant know where he lived. The Ant per-
ms I saw on kering my gate. was Morgan, the penal cos.
.table, and I told him, and asked hie, to raise the alarm.
There wore sweeps is the boom the morning before the
murder. I did not see time. Have bad my dog two or
dine years ; he knew me, of course, retry well. Mr. Faley
with me that the police should come es the
arranged
y night. They CASIIO at 11 o'clock at night, sod
west fist into the library, the* into the kitchen. 1
have mimed, flume& Mr. Uses, my solicitor, to
allow a merest elms et the premium to be %hew I UAW
the psileeems la the kitties ; they Irma, nte, bed I dos%
tame if I told them I use going to belt them
to The deer Wee not aphasia from u
balled It. I did set go to bed, but remised is sly
Wry. I melted them brad sad cheese Red blow. I
most at heMpirt Moe le let them Mt. and they them mid
they had hiseshed. AU the trine) el the beam were dies
is fed, I bane When I west om into the prim as I did
is the inland. I sew so ore octal& Om of thelmihaeges
Mated is the hitches small b see I erne is sty Weyer I " .
bolted the deco es his ales. I reetecy they knew I dad so.
I serer had made any arrnegemest with the polies that I
should holt them into the lutchem I belted the deer WA

so ewe WAS toptet that they yew le the beset that if
say es* ems down Shin might to found es meg I
Seidl ley wife (sly that awn ia the home. I implied 01
theserstat• about . Knit qua/timid themes,
led we. She told in bow the Shiest were left is tits bid.
The moo reeisisedwith um • vauslit after tho marder. I
sated bra a few questions lame it at various times. I raid
Mr. liseww, a ethisitor, to &Wed to wet& tbe coos for se,
se dim woe • raped QM my in Wiliam bad dose it.
The door of the assay it *spathe say bedroom door, shout
tune (sot sway. Ilea elm cues to the bedroom door she
•aknt If the childree win is the roost. Yrs. Kett an-
swered, " Vilma de you mesa by chikina '—there is only
sae child."

MIT. tent -I have been married seven morseled had three
children at the time of the murder, four now. On the 29th
of June, under the direction of my medial adviser, Mr.
Parsons, I cared an aperient pill to be given to the deceased
about eight o'clook. About that time I saw him in bed.
He slept in a crib by himself The nursery is • moderate-
sited room ; I don't know the exact dimensions. A sheet,
blanket, and quilt usually covered the dimmed. The sheet
tweed over the quilt. I went into the room before nine,
while the muse wee at her supper. I man went
at 11 o'clock. I called bar to come up after me to
look at the comet, then visible. I, after the filet visit,
went to the dining-roots, and stayed till about 11 o'clock.
Mr. Kent went out to feed the dog ; the others bad all
gone to bed. About 11 I went upstairs to led. Isr the
nursery door ajar then, and I shut it. I manned the nurse
was inside. The door shuts without babe, bat the handle,
in turning it, makes • squeaking noise. Yr. Kent came to
bed shout • quarter-past 11. I was then out of the room.
and directly went in and did not leave the room again until
hall-peat the next waning. After going to bed I don't
know how long it was before I went to sleep. I woke fre-
quently during the aight--severall times, beams of the
state I was in at that time. My nights were very restless.
Something attracted my attention early in the morning. It
was just light, like the light of a dull morning, when I
heard • none. It sounded as if the drewing-teem shutters
were opened. I dad not call my husband's attention
to it. 1 can't say I was alarmed at it, because
I thought it was the servants. I did not hear the dog bark
that night ; he usually barks at strungers. At a quarter
past seven I looked at my husband's watch and commenced
getting up. Previous to that I beard no knock at the deco.
I think I should have heard an ordinary knock at the door.
The nurse knocked at the doer as I was dressing, and I
opened it. She said, " Are either of the children tanker
I was astonished at her asking for two. She said, "Master
Saville, is be not with you!" I mid, " °ready not." She
said, 'He i net in the nursery, m'am." I then went into
the nursery. I asked nurse if she bad left the their against
the crib, and she said "No." I sent her to deceased's
sisters to look for hint. She said she had missed him about
five o'clock. I told ber she ought to have come end told
me. She said she had not come, as she thought I had beard
it cry and came and fetched him. I " How dare you
say so! you know I could not have done it." Do-
ctored was a very heavy, Aro% large child,
nearly four years of age. The morning before nurse
had brought him to my door, and asked me to take him.
I told her to pat him down. I could not carry him. I had
told her, in the event d anything occurring to the children,
she was to came to ms—in case of their being ill, or any-
thing to make her uneasy. I would rather be called on
any trivial call, than not be at hand when I was wanted.
n I found be was gone, I was here, there, and every-
where, looking for him, and I saw the nurse, who told me
the drawing-roan window and door had been found open.
My husband was in bed. He did not rim until after I bed
told him the window or open. We were all in • state et
bewilderment, scam backwards and forwards from ram to
roma Before mukusband left, I wasaware that the blanket
bed been rhea with the child ; the nurse told me so. After
env husband bed led/, she came to me to help me dram
She did my Mir. She spoke shout the missing child, sad
abs said " revenge', eh, it's revenge." The nurse bad
told me that she wen light sleeper.
Croisexasithed—l have never taken the child from the
nnnie's room to ray bed while she was asleep. I may have
takes the child hem his sib early in the morning,bat not
without the mar n knew* ef it. When nurse knockd at
the door my briar' was I. bed. He was between sleeping
and waking. He was, I =ppm, awake before the knock
came. The muse was mare gat I had had vary bad
nights for some time pest. She told me next day she had
knocked at a quarter to 7. I eel remember saying to her
that I did sot weeder at my not kering her, bemuse I had
had such restless eaghis that I slept areadar ie the morn-
ings. I believe lAd sleep seendier theme* the looming.
I coal tell if I slept se long se en bear during tee algid
' without being dieturbed. It was before Mr. Kent left in
the morning that the muse told me the blanket wee
gale. I told hint just before he went to Trowbeidge,
when be CAM, to my door to tell as. be was
Ono. Ti the best of my belief she was mhisys
=latly kind to the child, and the child was very
her I was too mock agitated to notice if the
=was distressed. I can't tell bow long Mr. Kent
en gone before I herd the child was found. Mr.
Kart told me lint that the child was murdered ; they would
net tell me of it before. It was after the primmer knew
that the child bad been brought in dead that she said, " Oh,
ma'am, it's revenge." Ido not remember that I asked her
more Mout it then t she had been directed not to tell me
of it. Mr. Kent told me that the police were in the house
on the Saturday night. I saw the drawing. room window
opus I saw on the white covering to the carpet the marks
of two feet, in men's boots. All in the home saw them,
but they were considered of no consequence, as so many
c.c.rbad in and out of the window before that.
use examined the window Mt, and she told me
of the footsteps. I scolded the beeennesid bream she
did sot tell me that she found the window was open as
wan es she saw at. The In., Widnes after she woke about
five o'clock the bad gone to sleep aids. I did not see the
Carekiss the child, lint die told me she be done so.
ppeared very sorry and sled lemma he wee dead.
Pie-rainised—The dressed this a very lively, active,
cheerful little falba. I do not know of any one who
entertains revengeful feelings towards the family or the
deceased.

Mrs. Kest then expressed a wish to volunteer • statement
in with& she was supported by Mr. Edlin, of Bristol, Mr.
Kast's essamel. This was opposed by the prisoner's comes'
and by Mr. easeders, suggesting that the statement should be
teams by the magistrates in private. It wee eventually dr
aided that the statement should not be taken.
Barak COI —I catered Mr. Kent's service as housemaid
last April, sad am so still. The cook, Kerslake, slept I.
the same bed with me on the 29th of June. As was
my duty, I locked up myself the whole of the front part of
the bonne, leaving it secure. The cook fastened the back
portion of the house. I fastened up the house about nine
o'clock. I fastened both the wiodowahutters and door of
the drawing.rootn. I slept on the same floor next to Miss
Conetaoce. It was about • quarter to II when I west to
bed, sad about aquarter met I went to sleep, and did not
pwake all night. is • large Newfoundland dog ou the
beet that umelly harks at strangen. I did aot hear it
all night. Honed the drawl/trees dime • little way
epee. The top shutters were put to, sad the lower ones
were ajar. The window was • little way op. It was not
high enough to enable any Fenno to get eat. I was the
Ant to see the drawing-room window open. I did not ob-
serve any footmarks.
The question as to why she did not tell her fellow-ser-
vant that she had found the window open was objected
to by prisoner's counsel, who was supported by the bench.
Exatninatioa contioned—l had • nap wily I did not
tell them. (Altar some altercation between the barristers.)
! opened
am of the young ladies had been down end
the window to air the room. I have showed to the
police the exact position in Mike I found the shutters.
070111-0111111ibed—There is a man on each side of the hall.
door. I shut the doors of the dining-mom, drawing-room,
sad library I. did not look very carefully into the reams.
I did not look under the sofa or up the chimney. I bad
one mettle with tae. I have heard from the other servants
that Mr. Kent is in the habit of going round the house. I
have been examined on this matter four time. ; the last
time was by Mr. Mask—h• then examined me for about
three hours. I was examined by him about the nightdress
that was kat ; it was never found. The other
members of the family were also examined. Mr.
Meek was at the house every day for nearly •
week. There were two imoommied* moms in the house. I
did sot look very oarlly iato them. I thought when
I found the window open that on. of the young ladies bad
opened it the night before. I met the nurse coining down
Main, sad she told OS littairt Saville had been taken from
her room, and Yea I Mal bar the windows had been found
open.
Rreminined—My ematination bet on Mr. Slack was •
voluntary one. It we it master's own house that we were
examined. If say one had been locked into the drawing-
room Imust hers sem it.

On the saggestiou of Mr. &taxless the court rose a little
Wore 5 o'cloak, the adjoaraaassat being until this day at
11. a.m.

irraitoanctass Smola& —Yeeterdity afternoon
as adjourned vgrl wee held at the Three Crowns TIMM
North Woelwiey, Were Yr. Orbtar, Gamer for West
Kent, os the bib of Yr. Edwin Tbeam Smith, of
Brownlowstrest. Heltera, a sionildeatiel &resat for many
years to the Ares of Orrastry, Shepherd and Co. core
foams. of Seethi, who eamenietiod micas by
drowdog himself mai, Themes ea the Blaming of Friday,
21st September. From the &idioms it appeared that the
deemed left kis employariat as seed as the night of
Thursday, the fah di. -bat did sot Mara home, sad on
the following mse was obserred to be waadering
about North 111111 for some bows. flabasgeseitly •
man named Phillips sad other witnesses law the shored
walk deldantely lab the water from the shwa ead place
his heed coder water whilst is • 'Sending pontes. After
same delay Polies Ocaelishis Joshes,26l K, sad the pier
mad& at NorthWeehrish, get the dimmesdhoesthosivir sad
found him still iaastwediegpseitioawidt Weise, lentritader
the water. Medical saistsnos wee immediately eliedned,
hat life wee found to be =BOWL The *writ had tom ad-
jammed in alder to °kale evidence u to the state of the
diseessed'smind: and his two sons, employed as old= is
the City, were now examined, and stated that they had
both resided with the deamaed, at 10, Biosolowstreet,
Holborn. sad believed that be bad so partied & trouble ea
his mild, sod nothing was wrong with regard to his pa
canary affairs. The Coroner remarked upon the Wee,
calituu7 circumstance that the deceased appeared to hare
oome from Loudon to North Woolwich to commit suicide,
sad without see t motive. Police Sergeant Butcher
lasted that he had heir mashie to trace where the doomed
oa the alibt Woes the salable, whim he was absent
from home.
lewd <bo Mssed.s jury that relarossi an apes verdict of