The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-27 00:00:00

THE STEPNEY MURDER.

The following evidence was given after the termination of
our report yesterday :
Sergeant Dillon, K 19, said—On Friday, August 17, be
was called by a person named Emma to )4 O. 9, Omve.rd,
Mile-end. He there found Mr. Rose, Mr. Faith, Mr,
of the adjoin house, and got to
Whitaker, sad Mr. Biggs. In consequence of what they
said he ossed the wall
the back of the deceased's premises. back door was
shut, and on the latch. He entered the house accompanied
by Mr. Rose and his son. He found no marks o: violent
entry having been made The front door was locked and
latched. He saw no key in the door. Witness first ex-
amined the back parlour. The shutters were closed but
unfastened, and the window was raised four or five inches.
The shutters of the front parlour were open, and the cur-
tains drawn back. He then proceeded to the first Boor. The
back room wee full of paper hangings, and the front roomhad
a bed in it which did not appear to lave been recently slept is.
The right hand window blind was down, and the left draws
up. He then proceeded to the top floor. The door was
. When he had got to the last step of the sad
open
▪ on the knifing, he saw the damned in the rooming
dead on the floor. He left the deceased exactly se she was
until the doctor MOW. Mr. Faith went for the =neon,
Mr. Gill. The left•hand window in that room was open
about five or six inches. The right window wu closed, and
the blinds were up. After this he made en examination of
the premises. Outside the door of the room where deceased
was lying was a bloody footmark. There were nails in the
boot with which the mark had been made. la the room in
which the deceased was lying there was no candle, and he
saw no money there. In the find boor, between the bed
and the mattress, he found a gold mourning ring, bearing
the iscriptism, "Samuel Fawley, Faq., Jan., nee.- He
saw three halfpence in copper lying aa cair. He did
poi find any watch or jewellery, cheque, spoons, panni-
er's, sr lenses. He remained there until be was relieved
by other officers.
Crom-exansined by Mr. Wood—He saw the bloody foot.
mark directly he went upstairs, and before he entered the
room. He called the attention of Dr. Gill to it directly he
came. He only ornery( I owe footprint.
By the Magistrate—The footprint was that el a person
coining from the room.
Mr. Carryer, a partner in the brio who paid Mrs. Easley
the cheque, since found, was called. Hie Arm was that of
Bickering, °wryer. and Co., 4, ituffolketrast, Cambridge-
road. A portion of their business premises belonged to
Km Embry. He sew her on Nudity, the lath of August,
about 12 o'clock in the day. She was is her usual health.
The cheque (prodacod by Inspector Thornton) for 101. was
drawn by him. He paid it to the deceased on that day.
It bore date Aug. 14, but that was a mistake. He drew It
oa the 13th mad gays it to her on that day.
Min Elisabeth Paahley, of 16, Groveroad, meal
site the house of the deceased, and she knew Mrs Ymaley
well by sight. She last saw her alive on Monday, August
LS, about seven o'clock In the evening. She was sitting at
the first floor bedroom window. She wilted at shortly
bakes 12 o'clock at night that the shuttan wore not clewed.
'That eircomstanoo excited her attention, because it was Mrs.
Baselees habit to close them before dark. At daybreak on
the next morning she looked at the house again. The
shutters were in the same state, and of the blinds on the
Brat boor one was half up and the other down. There were
so blinds on this top boor. One of the windows was up a
little way, and the other closed On the Wednesday after
noon she saw a man kosiek at the door twice, and go away
without gaining admission. She had frequently seen people
come to the house, and Mrs. Embry was in the habit of
answering them from the window or from the area. When
persons she knew brought anything she would admit them.
The area was railed over, so that no one could get. down.
Croseexamitred by Mr. Wood—She bad sera Mn. Easley
ltt is people without calling upon them front the window ;
but she always looked out of tM window fiat.
Miss Elizabeth Franco. Muggaridge, of 17, Grove.road,
opposite Mrs. Emaley's, said that on Monday, the 13th of
August, about seven o'clock, she saw Mrs. Smiley sitting
at her first-floor bedroom window. She looked at the
house at ten or eleven o'clock the same night, sad observed
that it was exactly the same as before. (The evidence of
tlab witness confirmed that of Miss Pashley.)
William Smith, a youth in the einteLedif; Lined], of
No. 3, Prospect-row, Milo-end-rod, , said that
as Tuesday, August 14th, he took a panel to ra. Ernaley's
twit" sad knocked wavered times, but could not get ad-
milieu.
By Mr. Wood—He looked through the keyhole, but saw
no one. The book door must have been open, as he could
see into the back yard.
Mr. Biggs, of No. 21, Pollard'arow, the pastor of the
Apostolic Church, who acted as the amanuensis to Mrs.
Fawley, identified the lenses found in the shed by Sergeant
Thomas as those of Mrs. Einsley. Hu also identified a
pencil case produced by Inspector Thornton as having be-
longed to the deceased.
lira Elisabeth Ciotti', of It., Darrisleyatreet, Bothnia-
grew, mid she was niece of the late Mrs. Rowley, who
dined at her house on the 13th of August, and left at a
quarter to two. Mulleins was occasionally employed by her
seat. He came to witness's house to see Mrs. Ennley that
day. He cares fora lock to put on the door of one of Mrs.
Thaeley's houses. She also give him four or Iva keys. Her
east kept keys at witness's house for convooknoa Bana-
-1 jayetrost being her property. (The key produced by
Sergeant Tanner was one of those given to X WI by her
aunt. It was found in the house of the dacessiod.) The
spoons found by Sergeant Thomas in the shed she recog-
aimed as those of her aunt.
Mr. Gill, the soma eternised on a previous occasion,
was recalled. He said Its had examined the petrol case pro-
em/4 sad found the& then lad beta Maud spa it.
Craatiatnimai by Mr. Wood—Ms was et "taloa that II