The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-29 00:00:00

THE DOU.BLE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT
EDMONTON.

WORSHIP STREET.
astatze AND ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN A CIWRCIITARD.
• Heart Danes, a thic-set,
Ellisonbbily-dressed, young fellow,
en asrged before Mr. so with violently assaulting
, • air la attempt to rob.
Ilir. Franc Strane,g of No. I,Church Hill-road, Homer-
s As, stated last evenin I was proceeding unaccompoinied
ugh the Hackney churchyard ; it
me, but
was between 6
tit; o'clock. I did not observe anyone near
eddeely this person (the prisoner) stood close in front of
or and asked, ` Where are you going !" repli ed; "To
arenas ;" the next moment I was violently seized by the
tat sad became helpless ; I contrived, however, era"
at and then to make some sort of noise by trying to call
at sad Ifftsming, and then a gentleman ran up, on
sting whom the pfisoner released me from his grasp.
Mr. Elkton—Was he held until a policeman came up ?
hosecuto—Oh, no, sir ; he ran off instantly I gave in-
inution, and he was taken about 10 o'clock.
Mr. Ellison—Have you lost any property''
Proweator—Not any, sir.
Mr. Ellison—Do you feel the effects of the violence!
Prosecutor—Yes, severely, and am in great pain.
lb. Ellison—Now, are you sure, perfectly sure, that this
i the man!
Prosecutor—Quite, sir ; I swear to his identity.
Blackwell, 173 N, deposed—Last night I was in plain
Odes, and received information of this assault from the
prosecutor himself, be was greatly excited, but yet gave
tea clear account of the matter and description of the
the
pacer, whom, in company with Ridgway, Z.Y2 N, I went
:.search of and took in the neighbourhood of
gene Hack.
Mr. Eilison—Where is the gentleman who to
rosecidoes sanotance?
Constable—He promised to be here, sir, but is not—his
saie is Connor.
poisoner must be remanded.
Mt Ellison—Then the p
foe you (to prisoner) any questions to at& ?
Prisoner (coolly )—No ; but he and I are friends.
Mr. Ellison (astonisliedi—Friends ?
This was indignantly denied.
The prisoner MU remanded.
THAMES.
AUDACIOUS HORSE AND CART ROBBERY.
Jolt Erna, a notorious thief, aged 32, and described as
they dealer, was brought before Mr. Partridgve e, charged
oh stealing a horse, cart, and harness, and fi quarters
V cont. the property of Mr. Joseph Dyson, a baker and
ern dealer, of Plaistow, in Essex.
James Warner, a carman in the service of the prosecu-
te, said he was in charve of his master's horse and cart
.3 the High-street, Whitechapel, on Friday afternoon.
sae cart contained eight sacks of barley, two sacks of
ma, and two empty sacks. He polled up at a public-
' hose. and left his horse and cart in the street opposite
chile be went into the house to have some refreshment.
• ic was in the publichouse five minutes, and when he left
are horse and cart were gone. He gave information of his
Into the police and went in search of the horse and
art. On the same afternoon he found the prisoner driv-
ias the horse and cart in the Old Ford-road, Bow. lie
ht himself in front of the horse, and called upon the
peter to stop, which he answered with a defiant
lot, and made a blow at him with the butt end of a
14. He parried the blow, end the prisoner ran away.
le was loan brought back. The corn had been removed
inm the out. He asked the prisoner where he had de-
(wiled the ten sacks of corn, to which be replied, " If
!ciu will let me go I will tell you where and gave
is." He
skied to part with the prisoner and gave him into
actody.
Thomas Newland, bootmaker, of No. 15, Wilson-terrace,
an
Old Ford. said that he saw the prisoner running away at
till speed and stopped him. Ile detained him till a po-
liceman came.
The prisoner made no defence.
Mr. Partridge said there had been many similar horse
ad cart robberies, and that carmen should not leave their
othicles in the streets for a single minute without some
are in charge.
Re committed the prisoner for trial.
Philip Ward, a police-constable, No. 302 K, asked the
mgin rite to remand the prisoner. He wished, if poi-
' ithle, to trace the corn, which it was suspected had been
alien into the house of a notorious receiver in Bethnal-

;tot.
Mr. Putridge—There is no occasion to Tanana the
timner. It you find the corn produce it at the sessions.
It you discover the receiver bring him here.

•-- -
Rocarrtv OF £2W.—The London and County
balking Company has been in the habit of sending weekly
tht containing a quantity of silver coin from its branch
r.:l,raintree to the neighbouring town of Halstead. A few
can since the box was carried as usual to Halstead on an
maibus. It was left on the roof of the vehicle for a few
Unto., end when it was next looked for it was gone.
so Thursday, at the Halstead Petty Session, three men,
eame,l Isaac Dent, George Howard, and George Wicker,
were committed for trial on the charge of stealing the box
ied money. A witness, mooed John Stabling, deposed
its: Dent told him that he took box and visaed it to
the l, who woo proved to have been in the company of
Wicker on the afternoon of the robbery. The box was dis-
covered in the river l'olne ; but when found there was no-
in it. Another wan, named Alfred Bragg, who is
t.l.zexpected of being concerned in the robbery, has volun-
knly surrenderei himself, and was to be examined yes-
t Cay
A 8.-HOOT.MASTY,R DROWNTD.—Yesterday morn-
m3 as two lids were gathering willows by the side of the
river Caldew at the site of the old Corporation bay, near
tbl, city, they observed the body of a man in the water.
They gave the alarm, assistance was obtained, the police
Rte *era for, and the body was taken old of the river
d conveyed to the St. Stephen's Inn, James-stmt. The
way proved to be that of Mr. James Morrison, school-
11,,,ater at Ciimrnersdale. He had been last seen alive on
ednesday evening between 7 and 8 o'clock when he was
returning home from Carlisle. The evening was very
'my and wet, and part of the footpath in the
being
Rabies, along which he hail to pass
W
tented with water, he would find it necessary to
have the beaten track and pick his way between that and
die river Cahlew. The unfortunate man being a cripple,
would have great difficulty in making his way along ua the
horn, le the wind was blowing quite a gale at the time,
and it is conjectured that missing his comaehe lea gone
too near the stream, and had perhaps been thrown off his
41Anee by the wind, and stumbled into the river. The
(dele wait running in high flood at the time, and the
torts of self-preservation of a much stronger man
To must
hider the circumstances have proved unavailing. the
deceased death must have come very MOM Dir. James
Morison has long been well-known in Carlisle as a school-
lia‘ter. At one time, we believe, he taught the Latin
dais at the Mechanics' Institute ; and some years age he
hal a school of his own iii thin city. He would be Rb ut
4 Years of age. He leaves a widow and family to lament
hismelancholy end.—C,artiale Journal.

THE INQUESTS.—(THIS DAY.)
EDMONTON, f3areslax.
At 11 o'clock this forenoon the Co'roner for the
Ducthy of Lancaster, Mr. W. J. Payne, opened an inquiry
at the Cross Keys Inn, Lower Edmonton, relative to the
murder of Timothy Gudgeon and Elizabeth Gudgeon, by
their mother, Anne Gudgeon, who afterwards committed
suicide.
The jury, having been empanelled, proceeded to view
the bodies of the three deceased persons which lay in
the little parlour of the house where the tragedy
took place. It was remarked that the two children
WWII characterised by great placidity of countenance.
They appeared as if they bad never awakened out of the
quiet sleep in which they were murdered. Tim face of
the mother was quite blanched, and wore an expression of
pain and anxiety.
The first witness was William Gudgeon, husband of
the deceased woman, and father of the children.
He said as he was only at home ono day in the week, he
had not seen much of her ; but on Christmas •
Day she complained of being bad in her head and throat- ra.
When ho went to bed he noticed a change in her ea
manner, especially in the look of her eyes, and ga
spoke of it to his brothers. He fell asleep, and knew no Na
st
more till the murders had been committed.
se.
The girl Selina Gudgeon spoke also of a similar strange- lOD
nem, and said that her mother was fond of her children. tug
.
She described the circumstances of the murder with thril-
ling simplicity. St.
as.
A police-sergeant deposed that deceased was a very gL
decent respectable woman.
A rurgeon, to whom the deceased had been corn- ri.•
plaining of her throat, said she seemed to be at,
laboung under some temporary insanity. She complained ea
ri
of her throat, but there was nothing the matter with it. gt.
The jury returned a verdict "That Timothy George at.
Gudgeon and Elisabeth Gudgeon had been wilfully mur-
dered by Anne Gudgeon, and that Anne Gudgeon core- et.
witted suicide by cutting her throat while in a state of
unsound mind." ad
s.

FATAL LEAP FROM A WINDOW.

An inquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys, go
the Middlesex coroner, last night, at the London Hospital. 10
respecting the death of Samuel *William_Carms, aged 35 10
years. st.
Edward Saunder, a lad in the employment of the 9
London and North Western Railway Company, said that r:
on Saturday, the 15th inst., be saw the deceased standing fBt
on the ledge of a second floor window at the book- Bt.
ing office of the railway goods station at Hayden. la
square, Minories. He stood straight up, and then M.
jumped off the window ledge, and leaped on rt...
to a wooden bridge that was ten feet away from is
the window. When he reached the bridge his heel s
slipped and he fell from it and his head was it
dashed against the stone pavement underneath. He was le
picked up and carried to the hospital. The deceased had LO
evidently leaped from the window to the bridge, because rt:
it was a short cut to the railway. He must have been out st
of his senses when he did it. The distance between the ft
bridge and the pavement was over 20 feet. 94
's
-park
Charlotte Carets, 64, William-street, Regent, M
said that the deceased was a gentleman's servant. For II
some time past he had been out of employment. Witness 71,
did not believe that he leaped from the window for the s
purpose of committing suicide. 14
John Arnold, a railway emplo stated that on the day
ye,
in question he met the deceased on one of the staircase
landings in the booking-office. Witness told him that
there was no thoroughfare that way. He said that he t
ed at one of the 1
wanted to see a gentleman that was engag
offices in the building. lie then left. A short time after-
wards witness locked the door leading to the staircase.
The deceased must have slipped back and gone into the
building before vritnew locked the door.
The coroner said that the deceased had evidently leaped
from the window for the purpose of getting out of the
building when he found the door locked. It was stated
that the deceased had formerly been in the employ
of Messrs. Baxendale, and he no doubt called at
the station for the purpose of seeing a member of the
firm.
n, said that the deceased
Mr. R. Llewellyn, house surges
expired last Thursday from the effects of a wound to the
brain caused by the fall.
The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased lost his
life accidentally,in consequence of injuriesreceived through
leaping from a ceratin, window."

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.

SATURDAY, Damn= vr, 8 8-11.

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