The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-04 00:00:00

!VII ROAD MURDER.

lay the adieureed siaasination of Eliza-
beth 4:. °eh, Wsqpi tie load murder, was reeumea
before Ma John A.4111'1.1114 IVbush d magistrates. The
mut"' havviimi sag attsailed as se previous coca-
30.1 the mart was ayes wee ensedal than ever.
*on."( the rim** hobo at the asishbowhood mu-
psni worts. sad wield a lively istersathe tie
The yeieeher sat, as so pratiou• days, with Itatrirat=
so her left hand.
D tint Intros was
Witham &vino Ksa‘iosho .aid—l was Mesa yews al
Let July. I have Dow tone Was tram sshask war
liforeeeter. Ow the 19th of June Is Irs at Imes bola

sch,olforthel7olls4•7rhe little boy who wee situdered
was my brother. 1 eve ham last the Fridsy evening. at
o'clock. I west to boil at half.pset 10. 1 west uptake
dos,. hot nor meter Coustame left the room with me. I
slept .11 the ...mat door, and I slept in the mme room the
seat sight. 1 seat to sleep very soon after getting into
hod us /ribs eight. 1 was mot disturbed during th, night.
1 rom aloud o•cks-k. aid not wake dunes the night.
mom r,/ter 1 lot up 1 heard that my little brotloq was
miss'-ig. 1 searelitsi ..boot for him for some tame. end then
mut for erch, the police-oMoer, and afterwards for
Xi. Pare.cs, surgeoe„ who lives at Beckingtou, two aides
I
Oromeatiused— When 1 my I saw my 'mother, I mess
half.hrother. My ows mother is dird.
ICniel Obese szasaineal. mood --1 am a 101• Mod Sani"er,
heir: at Itecicingtos. 1 usemoomlly worked for Isr. Kent,
at bosom I west to work there on /ratty, the
Illth .4 June. I left there that day afloat half-past 7in the
sessiem, with the alma Holklisen. 1 did not see him lock
She pte. Mr. Kest was there at that time. 1 left by the
ipito leading from the lodge to the stable yard. I went
Mae seat morning at shout a quarter or ten minutes past
sin. 'The first pemon 1 saw was Holloway—the emend.
Holkh-n. About half poet rtes I beard of the little boy
being rnmsinz 1 .INI not 1.110 MU Kent drive away. I as-
Meted iu ocarina( round the premiess. I men alter maw
twe . n rurrytag something In their arms, which I after-
war.'. aerertaisd to he the little boy in the blanket. It woe
lakes to the house, and I followed. I saw the mane there
he the kitchen. 1 coked her about what time eh* saw
the &old last. She said about eleven o'clock the
seseog liwfore, and that she sumo! it about t o clock that
seershm. 1 mho' her whs. she thus did. She said she
west to ale.•p again, because elm thought Mrs. Kent had
bees and taken the child sway, having beard it cry.l
asked her if Mn. Kent had ever done so before, and ehie
seed abs heal not.

tstootipaa.nmsl by llr Ribtoo—l tins% know Where tho
ins wee kept ntght. It woe out lark 5 coakl roam
Awn the fr..nt prow... Any ate rim Imo% the plot to
H. "Raga not bow* to • the drawnitrooto

Be the Briah When 1 me the mars she was is the
ktkhen emoleo, talking 1.. Holkhaaa ; awl Shoe I lee her
talkies to the boy. I afterwards use Isar is the frost
pelt,. wises I sum uniting a searela I looked to see if
then were say foritniarts is the vied, the house, or any.
white near. I saw some footmarks Is the drawing vuorm
said told the sane so she seed, "Them it • polo-eines
to the hoer, 1 led better gourd tap Ides. This wee after Mr.
Mad west army to Trowbridge. I behave them was so is.
with themeless this time I did sot see the mum talking
Sassy Gee eacept the Inn Holloway. aid the probe-email I
did not see Mr. Kest any when shunt the premier at all.
Jules Holloway, • steipel-ksolciag lad. stoma 17 years of
age, suit —1 ale a clay Lebourer living at Beekingtoe. On
the filth of Jew I was in the ranee of Mr. Kest at Road.
• berm es arsieleat to the gardeser, and I also did the
general neigh work of the iletbee, such as classing the boots
mid kens.. I did mot sleep in the house, bat I wont in
the and took my meth there. I was there at
work on E y. the '29th of Jute. I left about 7 o'Llnek.
Belk:sus and I 1. ft together. I saw Holkham Web
She door. 1 thee writ home to Borkisgtoo. When
1 got to Kurd. ill house is the rletunley worm-
ing, I asw liolkham Mere. sad 1 west to the
Mables, and asked him what he bad to give me to do.
Me to:d nw to go isto the greenhorns and water the plants,
sad I wee' ma. It was them about battiest 6, and I got
the knife basket from on meet place, on the board in the
kitchen, and tarried it out into the shoe home. 1
took the knives out of Use basket, then took up the
hoots, and beim to clan the hoot.. I did not look
et any of the knives partoularly ; there was nothing any
if them that specially attracted my atteetMo. They were
al there as far as I saw. I did riot wont them. Holkham
then came Is, and as he wasted me to do something elm he
deemed the knives.

I hare bees caseated twice before. but
bare eel!, Lee ..worn owe. Yr. Slack sanitised me at
Beekitrzton. _ .

tt, -cumi:end-0e the previa= evening 1 had been using
the whm•lbarrow• and made mote foolenara.s by the drawing.
morn Oliver noticed them next morning. sod maid
hi me. —Sen.. one he. hen in hon." 1 thee told him that
they bad bets made in me the day before.
they
Nr. Itibtow—lte footmarks were nut in the way
toward. the

Juidiva Mimeos, Req., deposed—l am • surgeon living' at
Beckiugtoo. I have attended Mr. Rent's tastily for the
last three or foie years. Os Saturday, the 30th of June,
Meets— William Kent came to my home in • great hurry
and requested me to proceed to Road at once. He told me
kis brether had been found with his throat cut. I got to
the 1.1..1311P abort nine &cloak, and was first taken by
Muter Willi. in into the kitchen and then into the laundry.
Mr. Kent gave me the key of the laundry, sad I
west io aline. I fooled there on the table the body of the
deeemel, wmriped up in a blanket. The body was stained
with blood and with Mut soil from the place from which it
bed been taken. There were considerable steins of
Wood on the blanket, but I did not consider that it had cab- I
sorbed any very grout quantity. The child hada nightgown
ands flannel shirt ea; loth of thew were stained with blond.
I found • wound in the throat which severed the whole of
the structure of the seek down to the spine. The wound
apparel to have bees !wide horn the left to the right. It
=set have darn produced by a long anti broad instrument
which most have had • very sharp edge A coriderable
quantity of bleed haul flowed from the left angle of the wound
slows to the elbow. The tongue was protruiliog through
the lips, and the lips were of • very dark colour and Laid.
That was all the examiustios I made at that time. At •
reread examination I made before receiving au order from
the coroner, I found ie., small wands, one on the fore part
of the fore finger, and the other I can't exactly my
where. I afterwards found • stab on the left side.
It had been made through the clothes and penetrated
through the sheet and flannel shirt, and bail penetrated
more than bad way through the chest, and had paid
through the perieonlium, waited* the diaphragm of the
stomach. The wound was about ea inch and • half in
breadth. These were ell the marten( violence I observed. At
the request of the coroner I afterward, made a post mortem
emuniadion with dr. Stapleton of Trowbridge. I found in
the stomach very elicit remains of farinaceous matter, I mop-
pet (rum the previous meshes supper. As far as I was
able to judge, by s>Mllias the contents of the stomach, I
em
of opinion that no letdowns or other narcotic drug had
been elininistered to the deceased. I was informed that •
pill bad been gives to the child the night before, bat I saw
an trace of it; it bad preleably pseud into the bowels. I
led prYpored an aperient pill for the child the night before.
I should have expected that it would have operated six
hours after brim; taken, hut very probably it would take
eight or ten limn. There was a dark appearance
rowel the motitk„ which iedicateri that there had
been strung r e.ware upoe the mouth for a coo.
niderable time, and with a soft 'Wetmore. The time
might have bees from five to ten ruinutes. The wound
in the threat divided all the large arteries. At the time it
wee me impresaos that the throat wee out cut in the place
where the body wee found, because I saw no jet, of blood
near it. If die heart was besting when the throat was
oat the blood would spirt from the erteraa It has aims
warred to me that eirculatioa had been stopped by
peoware on the month before the throat was cut. In that
cop lie would have been abases extinct before the throat
woe tut. With regard to the stab is the side, I have no
doubt whatever that it was done after death, became there
was DO retraction of the parts each as would hive occurred,
and so flow of Wood. That wooed would hate required
enuselerible force to have inflicted it. The wounds in the
lend were very Milan. and in my *aloe were in.
dieted after death. When I new the child I think
it mud have been dead five or ex hours at the lead, and I
new it et nine o'clock. Retirees nine and ten o'clock I was
Mown into the metre by one of the ladle', and saw the
cet where the child wes stated to have slept. The bed was
CIVINT*I up by the sheet sod counterpane, and wee perfectly
month, sod the sheet woe tarried down am the coaaterpene.
The nurse was its the r• KM, sad told me she had found the
Muth... I then ea. them.
' .

erneeessmined hp ter. Ribtem--Ny elm iiiitret.ll St'
that the (+ll4 eras hat euffocated_ 011 Übe
awl that After that the thrust had est. I emu* soy
preitivele the the wuoteb had nothing to de with tits
death ee the • hail. I c,n't say it .as quite deed ethos the
yrnual to the tlarat Ina mikes& Theettwr woesdailhelleeedi
1,4 o-thoi4 to Ito entli the death, but I haws, ea %rear
refler••••n In my .1.1% toted, mote to a different sonehmioe.
I made up Ow pal green to dermal myself, sad and ft
br • mo.•.m:yr. I oney have sent other fuerheillie Ike
aseht by the rise titemeeptr. I found so %mei of op
pill to the stomach of this ehiliL If • 'sweetie had been
erlmtnt.tereot by mistake it week! have been abeoebed into
the system. If the aperwat pill had hem paved neto the
loom stomach it woudd sot imeemarily hare emoted be-
fore this. I should think that the appeareece shout the
swath could not have been attnbuted to the bed.elothee
reeling tato the mouth without •iolenon lam not sure
shut the sane but toll rue that to see the tadstewoe of
the child is the bed-cl.thee yea eteibl have to turn the
clothes hark..

By the • haineam— Whether Me mere as the mouth
wail the came al deeth se asst I memot say peatimiy. I
mu sashimi then meat hem hew miseisemere.
eagsso IlsedM4 chief esselmbb or Wilt.. wee
mammal —Om the lit Aspen *Mt to koad•hilkleme
meth Mr. Wolfe. I ash the rem*. is the . She
Mewed me the eel is *Ma the shil lot sleet bid
am Mal ea the perisse Might she I~d Mak •I Is the sheet
mid emeteepeee. sMd le l them is Mat Mete. Mhe Mel me
thel im the mersies she bed heed the Meet sad esesler-
pass tersod ohms.
Crow misetissi—l ewer* the ilormetiss kw the apple.
humus. rd the primer ; was set es the suippetim of •o•
ass I hem put geniis= le the Omer. *I I% u far tel
.1
/mow. hes always amemred them sashay awl ..mmtly.
The rimumem here mummies! Met s lir .ther sarstiste
bed Warmed hina that imports' hod bees made into the

prisoner's previous character, and the result hail been most
matidectorv.
It,. Setiodere here proposed to call Niel Maly Amelia
Kent, who was brought in by Mies Elizabeth Kent. The
are of the child is about five years., and on being brought
into court she appeared exosedi*v timid, and persisted'
tallies her heed away frees ►the bench. Sir John Awdry
Interrogated her with reference to the nature of an oath ;
but, instead of replng she began to cry. Some conversa-
tion then ensued with jeference to the propriety of con-
tinuing to examine her. Mr. Slack dated that when he
examined the child at Road, in reply to a question from
him, the little girl had told him she knew that if she told
• lie, sod shouM then die, she would go to hell. Her evi•
deuce was of importance, Mr. Saunders stated, on account
of her sleeping in Mr. and Mrs. Kent's bedroom, but her
answers to Yr. Slack having been satudectory, be did not
wish to prim the examination. It was eventually decided
that she should not be further questioned.
Miss Elisabeth Kent recalled, in reply to Mr. Saunders,
mid—On the Saturday after the murder 1 slept with Mrs.
Kept in her own bedroom. My sinters Mery Ana and Con-
stance slept together in the room above. The nuns slept
that night, we believe, with the two servant'.
Senth Kerslake, the cook, recalled, said—On the Satur-
day night, the night after the murder, I dept in my own
room; the nurse end housemaid also slept in my room; but
the housemaid and myself were in the room before the
nursemaid. She came shortly afterwards. I can't my how
tong ; it was not many minutes. I believe that it was about
half.pem 11 that we went to bed. We three all went up-
stein together, but I don't know where the nuns west to.
By Mr. Milton-1 don't know that she was in Mrs. Kent's
room assisting her to undress.
Miss teth Kest recalled—l think, as far as I can
remember, Mrs. Kest sad I went to bed about the mine
time on the Saturday night I don't remember if the nurse
assisted her to usdrees ea that otimision ; I believe she did.
The servants issual went to bed about the same time.
The court here adjourned for a few minutes. Meanwhile
the spectators who remained in court were rigorously
tog result et the day.
mi having returned, Mr.Ssuoders recalled
Alfred Lich, ch., polioe.coestable 30—I saw Mr. Kent drive
o from the home on the Saturday morning. Ido not
remember what time it was. 1 was shown into the drawing-
room, and looked foe foot•marks, but could not see any.
Crossexamined—l suppoee other perms' had been in the
drawing.room window before me.
`Sarah Con recalled—l was sent for this morning to put
the shutters to from outside the window, as they were
when I lowed them on the morning after the murder. I
could not do it this morning because of the rough wind.
By Mr. Milton-1 did it yesterday without any difficulty.
By the Bench—l don't know if it was the usual practice
to have the nurse's door ajar.
Superintendent Wolfe recalled—The witness Cox tried
this snorting to pet the shutters to; she alleged she
amid not do it bemoan cd the rough wind ; but the wind
wee sot the reel pnmestive.
By Mr. Itancia—la my preemie this morning an expe-
riment wee tried by a wawa, who will be a witness, as to
what she could see when losselieg on the bed.
Mrs. Kantrecalled, sad is answer to the bench maid —When
I went up to bed es the sight of the murder 1 shut the
scree's door. It was ward for the nurse to leave her door
open, in order that I might in my room hear the child
cry, if it did no, before I went to bed ; there was conso-
rt.* adthe slightest impropriety in her leaving the
open on that occasion.
By Mr. Hilton —I think, though I cannot recollect, that
the nurse assisted me to undress on the Saturday night of
the murder.

Miniiallinsore, wife of a police-constable, said she went
on the Saturday afternoon of the murder, about a o'clock, to
Read-bill House, for the purpose of examining the female
inmates. I went into the nursery, and I noticed that in
opening the door, if I gave the latch the second turn, it
made • none. Any one accustomed to the door might open
it without noise, perhaps, but not • stranger. The
hitch made a creaking noise,as if it were out
of order. I saw the none, nd told her she must
undress and be examined by me. I said to the nurse,
" Well, nurse, this is a very shocking thing about the
child. Can you give any account of it " She said, " Igot
up about 6 o'clock, and mimed the child from the cot." I
said. " Why did
.yott lie down again after miming the
boy!" She said, ' I thought he was with his miming, se
he generally went in there of • morning." She said, " This
is done through jealosny ; the little boy goes into his
mamma's room and tells everything." I 8•111, "No one
would murder the child for doing such • thing as that."
She said, " I really cannot tell." I then examined the other
inmates of the house. I examined the night dresses of the
ladies ; among the rest that of Miss Constance. I
rootnothing on it to lead to the discovery of the murder.
I then wen* town into the kitchen. The nurse came in
while I was there several times. The night dram of Miss
Constance, which I examined, appeared to have been worn
a week. I did not observe any difference in the amount of
wear between her's and the other young ladies. When in the
I said, "This is • shocking thing, and the whole house is
responsible for it." I said, The little boy _was not very well,
and he had some medicine given him." One of the men
who came in then said, " I have been opening the water.
closet ;" and the nurse said, " Have you fours ainthing
He said, "No ;" and she maid, " Nor will you." (The nurse
here leaned over aid spoke to her solicitor—this she did
several tunes.) On the 19th the prisoner was brought to
m4halerse in • trap, where she was to remain a hide tiros.
there she said, in answer to me, " I think some one
must have secreted themselves in the house and done it."
I said, " 1 don't think it was, how could they get in!" She
said, " I don't know anything about it—l can't say." I
said, " The cot being folded down like that I don't think
mines could have taken out the blanket." She said, "It
was a small blanket, and could he elided out from under-
neath." I again repeated that it was impossible for it to
have been taken out like that—that it was not to
be believed that one person only had done it. She said
" I don't know. I the not touch the cot, but it was as I
found it." I once asked her what she thought of Mir
Constance Kent, and she said, " I don't think that Misa
Constance could have done it." I asked her what she
thought of Master William doing it with Mee Constance,
and a• mid, " Oh, Master William is more fit for a girl
than a boy." She also said, "On the night of the murder
I slept more soundly than at any other time in consequence
of hiving had more work to do ; I had scrubbed out the
nursery.' I asked her how it was she slept so sound, and
she said they might have pot something to her nose to
CAW. her to sleep more sound that night. I told her there
was great responsibility on her part on account of the
child, and she mid, " I know it. I asked her if she
thought Mr. Kent did the murder. She said "No ; she
could not think for • moment that Mr. Kent did the
murder : he was too food of his children." I
told her that • stranger could not open the
door, as it made • noise in opening. She mid ,
persons &minimised to the door could have done it, but a '
stranger must have murdered the child. Mr. Foley gave
me the piste of flannel I produce ; since I saw it at Road-
house it has been washed. I received instructions from
Mr. Foley to do something with this flannel. I call this a
woman's chest flannel, which has apparently been turned
down over the stays, but it dues not seem to have been
made for that purpose, but from some other old garment.
It seems as if It had been worn out a little under the stays.
On Wednesday, the 9th of August, I weut to Road-hall-
home, and saw the cook and the nurse. The nurse came
into the kitchen while I was there, and laid, "Mrs. Dallimore,
what are you doing haler I said the gentleman will tell
me what I must do before I leave. Mr. Foley then came
into the kitchen sad said, " Mrs. Dallimore, will you try
on this piece of flannel on those two girls and the nurse."
They and I went upstairs, and I tried it on the cook and
housemaid, and it did not fit either of them. It was too
wide in the chest. I came down stairs and took the
nurse to her bedroom and tried it on in the same
way. 1 told her to pull off her things that I
might fit un this piece of flannel. She said, " It's
no
nee, if the flannel tile me that is no mason
why she should have done the murder. She took her stays
of, and I fitted it on. I mid, " You see, nurse, this flannel
exactly fits von, which it would not the other servante"
She said, "If it does, it is no reason why I should have
committed the murder." I mid, " Well, it might fit a great
many, it fits me ; but there is no one but you in the house
that it does that I have tittol it on." It did fit her
exactly. I went this morning, in company with Mr. Wolfe,
to Road. I went into the nurse's bedroom. Mr. Wolfe
was with me. In consequence of what Mr. Wolfe said to me,
I observed s cot and • bed. I got up en the bed and looked
across to the cot. Miss Elizabeth Kent brought • child
and put it into the cot, and covered it up in the usual way.
have been a nurse all my lifetime. 1 looked across and
saw nothing of the child, but • small portion 14 the pillow.
There is • partition across the cot which prevents any one
seeing into the out. I saw the blanket with which the
child was covered over. It was • yard and • half in length
and a yard in width. It would not admit of much tuck.
CIVIWPZIMiDetI-I did not take down in writing any of
the isagtheasil conversations I had with the prisoner. Last
week was the first time I mentioned this to any one. It
was the Wednesday after Trowbndge Fair that I fitted on
the thasel. I told the magistrate* of trying on the flannel.
I did not tell them all I have s.iol here to-day. I merely
told them that I tried it on and it fitted. I did not tell
them about this convermtion. It was after Miss Con-
stance was examined that I had fitted on the flannel.

Sir Joke Awtiry—ls Skied much use to you, Mr. Ribton!
It would be of amportaeoe is referenoe to any other person,
but not newel the primer, as the child was stolen from
her room, and wilting was more natural than for the person
who took the child to match up something else.
Mr. ltibtos—l thank you, sir, but lam informed that the
nurse never wore a linnet of this kind in her life.

CrunimialinsitiUS continned—Healthy youngiernalos ,lo
we .r things of that kind scene times. I do
(Lumina:, the witness bMne • nii.l,lle-aed women.) None
of the females is the house lad on chest flannels when I
exesalei them. Rim Kent owe • damsel jacket. It was
the yetameart child of Mn. Kent that wa• put into the not
this manning. Emily hale, Mr. Wolfe, Mrs. Kent, and
sariptiwen then in the room.
t Wolfe rmexamioed— Os the Ist of Aaron
I wee shown by the sone the situation of the an and of
bar eve bed. They were plasm! to-day in precisely the
she position ss that dean-o,rd My the aurae to use then.
Mn. Dalliance re-called and examined by the bench—
When I went to azarnine the nitres is "denims to the
flannel I went *Moat the aurae previously knowing that I
was about to 11.10111111 a• her, and I did not find her weatiog •
&tonal, nor say ether female in the house.
Mr. Clark was swore, and mid --1 am clerk to the masts.
init.. of the ?rewinding division. I ywattea, • statement
et the pebeser, statko by bar. "I na Lows sign sad west