The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-23 00:00:00

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OP A BOY AT
RRIPHTON.

The inquest on the body of the bey who was
found dead on the beach at Brightens, under the circum-
stances mentioned by us yeeteMay, was held on Tuesday
night.
John Stone, the boy's uncle, was called, and stated that
he was • farm labourer, and lived at 33, Thomm.street.
The deceased committed some fault about one o'clock on
Monday, and was punished by his grandmother by being
sent nietairs with • reprimand that he wn• to remain there
for the remainder of the day. About two o'clock, however,
be came down stein, apparently in • very healthy and
lively inudition, and left the house, to which he did ant
return. Several hours elapsed, and finding that he had not
made his appearance at the house up to an advanced hour,
his uncle and grandfather beams alarmed for his safety,
and instituted a series of diligent inquiries through the
neighbourhood. The only intelligesios they oould obtain
was that about 7 o'clock that evening he had been seen by
has uncle, Richard Stone, playing with some companions in
the direction of Carlton-bill, and having been re-
quested by his relative to go home be made no reply, but
ma minty. They then gave information at the Town Hall
it appeared from the evidence of the witness Stone that
the deceased was the illegitimate son of his (Stone's)
sister and a farm Labourer, at present supposed tole living
at Three Bridges, in the parish of Worth. For the last few
' years the maintenance of the lad devolved entirely on his
aged grandmother and uncle, and the father contributed
nothing whatever to his supporß
Mr. Yeofold, surgeou, ma& an examination of the body,
and found it veer cold and pallid, and the clothes worn by
the deceased quite wet and full of gravel and seaweed. A.
mucus slightly tinged with blood oozed from the mouth
and nostrils, and on the body were observed several
brunes, now of which, however, appeared larger than an
inch in circumference, and were dandy confined to the
akin. Sundry *heinous were found, especially on th,:=
and right forehead. These appeared to be the only
of external violence, and from an internal ennui.
nation the surgeon ascertained that the contents of
the chest, the windpipe, and air pessages, showed •
mucus froth, sightly tinged with blood ; those members,
together with the heart, contained no water, but were
congested, and an amount of dark liquid blood more than
usual was also found in them. He did not observe any
mark of constriction argued the neck. The face was
coveted more or lees with blood, which seemed to have
leaned from the DOSS. The eyelids were swollen, the eye•
balls being discoloured with extravaaated blood, and the
pupils very much dilated In the absence id any positive symp-
toms of widens external violence, coupled with the appear-
ances, both externally and internally, manifested by the
body, it was the opinion of Mr. Fanfold that the poor boy
mine by his death from asphyxia, or suffooation, caused by
immersion in the water, the bruises and bleeding from the
nine being probably the result of a fall on the leach stones.
He did not think, putting the drowning out of the question,
gat the bruises observed on the body would be of them.

IT WU PEACIiq

selves wale ant In caws death. In rep yto IL_ iartelhe.
not think that be bad any evidence whi& would lead ant
the °outwit's' that the boy was drat stunned sad t
thrown into the water.

THE BOLD I(I7ADEA

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TROWBULDGE, Wansinnar Erarnao.
Thie Morning, the Man who wee charged on hie
own confeeslon with the murder of Mr. Kent's child was
again brought up fur examination. The magistrates proem:
were G. O. Ludlow, Lett., the Rev. R. Crawley, and
W. iitenconda req. Osptain Meredith and Superintendents
Foley and Wolfe were in &Umlaute, and the bench 111111121110
, occupied by iudnential ladies and gentlenien of the neigh-
bourhood. Mr. Weil, solicitor, of Frame, attended to
watch the case on behalf of Mr. Kent. On the doors king
thrown open, the court was lafiandy crowded.
The prisoner since his last examination has perceptibly
improved in
~epprereaca, and entered the dock with a jauuty,
independent err.
Mr. Clark, clerk to lii m
to id Prisoner, on
. day wiesic you mon to order petrime mi-
asma' el your innoworges, charge. Have you goir year
etlegasis lame 7'

• 7 Mow -4 have INTIMINI to my brother at Portatromith,
sad remised an answer from him laying he would be b.irti
to-day, bat I have not sees him.
Mr. Glatt—What a his name, sad where does he live s!
Priscaser—His name is Christopher Gam air, and he is
living as butler with an, admiral at 13 Quaen'irterrase.
rioussit.

Mr. Ludlow—When did you write to him!
altaoser—On Mooday sir. I have got this briar truesVas. whisk proves that I was at Portsmouth when I my.
Clark lima Ned tBe toiowiogQ
"13. Quesistsemos,_ Portsmouth,

„A 17,-
”My dear Brother,—l received your kind letter yrter.
day,. by which I am truly tarry to hear of your being in
such trouble, but 1 hope by God's blessing you will be Libe-
rated, and then seek for work sad go hack to your own
place. I went to the pee Mali= yesterday, and saw
Mr. Superintendent Barr, the superintendent of police,
and I. liaMe seen him again to day. Ile rays that he has
made inquiries at the public-house, and they recollect your
sleeping there, and I well recollect that you MOO to
queen...terrace on the 29th of June last, and that is the led
tame I bare seen you.
.14. Barber wrote this morning by an
early post, and he is ptumg to write by this evening a post
again. The admiral desires me to write to hope that you
will soon have your liberty. With kind love, believe ins,
ever your affectionate brother,
" Castarorttna G.lOO.
" P.S. I believe the public.house is the George Inn, the
man's name is Tooker."

Bopariatendont Wolfe—l will put before Tour -worships
two lettere from Superintendent Barber, which have Levu
!waved.

Re►. R. Crawley—The prisoner does not appear to have
evidence. (To the prisoner) Have you any more

hisoeer—That letter is all I have, or. I expected .y
brother to be Imre.

iiTciiriiii;;;;ved the following letter :

" Anchor lon, Godaining„ August 16, 1860.
" Sir,—ln reply to a letter dated the 16th instep!, front
your police station, signed Edmund John ow, I beg to
say that I perfectly remember a man staying two nights at
my house, on a Saturday and a Sunday night.
" The circumstances mentioned in the letter I perfectly
remember to have transpired, but I could not at the present
time swear to the day of the month. To the best of Day re-
collection it must have been about the time mentionedia
your letter. I think it is possible I can ascertain the date
of the month he was at my bouss.—l remain, yours respect-
full7, " WILLIAM MABEL
To the Superintendent of Trowbridge Police."

A consultation ensued., during which it wee determined to
await the arrival of the next train from Salisbury, to see if
the prisoner's brother arrived. Ate quarter past 12 it was
found that no one connected with the cams had comes and
proceedings were returTsil..
. .

Superintendent Wolfe then produced two letters received
from Mr. Barber, formerly superintendent of the Salithery
police, now of the borough of Portsmouth, in reply to letters
from him. In effect, they confirmed the prisoner's statement
as to his being in Portsmouth at the time referred to.
Yr. Dunn then said—ln order that there Ray be no kind
mitippraboatoo on the point, I beg leave through you
to ask the er two or three questions.
Them rates having assented, the prisoner then said,
lin mower to Mr. Ludlow-1 have never sees Yr. Kent in
my lifa, noir any of his family, nor any of his servants. I
bad never been to Road In my life before I was appre-
hended. All that I told the pollee at Wolverton is untrue.
The Bar. R. Crawley—Thou what did you malts the
alatomote you did for
Primmer— I don't know what could possess me to do that,
but if 1 had not done it 1 must have throw' myself
on the line. My life ma • burden to me, and it ie eo still
Mr. Ludlow—Mr. Whicher ha. made inquiries in London
' in respect to yo ur wife and family in London, and he has
asosetained that she isliving with her mother there in a
most praiseworthy awl respectable manner, muiutaining
herself and your children. The insin nations you have thrown
out against her, therefore, are totally untros ; sad it is naly
just to her that this should be publicly stated. She states
that she is quite afraid to live with you, and will never live
with you again after your conduct. You have placed your-
self in your prevent position by your own voluntary state-
ment. You have given very great trouble, and caused great
expense, and it is with the greatest regret the magistrates
Mid that they are unable to maids you for your shameful
imposition. They have determined to pay your fare bark
to London, as your parish is Mt. George's, Weetiniuster,
and give you some food when you get there.
Directions were then given accordingly, and the privonei
was removed.

Respecting the murder itself, little if anything forthei
has transpired. The police still maintain surveillance ores
the hones, the men on duty being changed every eight
hours ; inquiries are doily being made on fresh points or
new suggestions by SuporintendAita Wolfe and Foley. !tn
Monday, the nurse, Elisabeth Gough, gave Mr. Kent not oe
to leave, alleging as • meson the uncomfortable position
she has recently occupied in the family, she having of late
been constantly watched, and none or the family have
been placed to 'lee? is her room. An application has been
made by Mr. Kent s solicitor for another inquest, but this
has been pronounced to be illegal. A formal application
has also been made for a special commision to inquire
into the whole circumstances anew, and a imighb?using

county court_ji•lge Las tendered his services as spacial coin-
miasmic". This has also been refused by government on
the ground that such a course was " unusual and impracti-
cable.' It is expected that as soon as Mrs. Kent has sorb-
Meetly recovered from her confinement she will be volun-
Maly examined by the magistrates.
On Monday last Superintendent Wolfe received a own-
munication from a labouring man in the south of Irelaod,
profaning to have assisted Constance Kent in committing
the murder, and stating that he bad the missing night-dress
in his puesetaion, which he would bring over on receipt of
money to enable him to do so. Of course after their labs
=pain= so shallow an imposture was readily detected.
As showing the necessity there is for • new and fuller
inquiry, we may state one or two circumstances which we
have =pertained to be correct, and which have, we believe,
never =en given before the magistrates or the police. The
girl, Emily Dail, who came to Mr. Kent's house at ten
minutes to seven on the mornii= of the murder to assist in
the household, went four times into the nurse's room, once
with a bath, ouue with hot and twice with cold water, in
the interval between the time when the nurse nays she went
to Mr. Kent's door the first time and the second. The
nurse did not say one word to her about the child being
gone, and she did not see her reading or praying. The
nuns explains this by saying that if she made confidants of
the girls they would not do their work. A man named Job
Mean, also, who works at a quarry near, heard Mr. Kent's
dog barking very only on the morning of the murder, and
remarked is his fellow-workman, " There must be some-
thing wrong at Mr. Kent's, the dog barks so."

Tan MURDER IN /RR QtYearr's PARK, EDIN-
DUROB.—The investigations of the criminal
both in the exitininetion of witnesses and in the search for
, the two privates still miming from Piershill Barracks—wen
continued during the whole of Tuesday, without, we believe,
any very tangible or satisfactory results being obtained. It
turns out that the four soldiers absent without leave on Ss-
turday night--Tanner and Quin who were apprehended iu
Campbell's Close on Sunday, and two others who have not
yet been fouud—were all privates, so that if, as some of
the witnesses at fint alleged, a " corporal" was seen with
the girl during any part of the fatal night, be must have
returned to the barracks, and he still to be found there. It
is now generally believed, however, that the story shout the
• corporal " was a mistake from the commencement. The
depositions taken included those of the servant girl
in Mr. Slater's house, several women connected with the
house in Campbell's-close in which Tanner and Quin were
arrested, one or two additional witnesses who hail seen the
deceased ill company with soldiers en &Slinky afternoon
and night, and several men of the 13th Light Dragoons, who
were out on pass on that evening. The possmortsm exami-
nation was commenced on Tuesday by Ike. Keiller and
Smith, but the identification of the body as that of the girl
seen in the Queen's Park and elsewhere with the soldiers on
Saturday night, being still incomplete, the medical exa-
mination has net hese formally asset, and nu report bas
yet been made to the authorities. The mystery which en-
velopes the whole case, and the inauner in which, it is en.
ilorstood the investigations of the rutlionties have hitherto
been baffled, have contributed to perpetuate, if not to In-
crease, the excitemeut which the first news of the tragedy
produced in the public need ; and the want, as is believed,
of any specific pm of as vet against the person la elm-
heir, Tanner has strongly awakenol public sitspirion aping
the two aheenteoi, and points to the importance of their
speedy appreheneiou.

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